Discovery of an Evaporated Planet That's Now Practically Metal

👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐EXCELLENT WORK!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPLANATION.

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Excellent visuals, thx for taking the time, Anton

NOT 'k t onian', it's pronounced 'k TH onian'... check the Wikipedia article you presented (slaps forehead)...
thanks otherwise for a great vid :)

I was so waiting for this discovery...

I really wish we had the speed to send something out extremely far out that we could start really seeing these planets and solar systems

You callin' this planet dense, pal?

I wonder if that's what a star core looks like.

I mean isn't iron the fusion limit for a G type star? If it werent for the insane lifespan of a white dwarf and the fact that most are probably still white hot, I bet that's what a white dwarf would look like when it finally cooled down. Like a metal planet. Like a star with the metallic remains of its binary still flying around it.

How cool would it be to have a knife made out of star core or cthonian steel?

So if you wanted to mine it, you would only need to... scratch the surface?

I wonder if Mercury is one of those types of planets?

IF we had a way to mine there, imagine all the precious minerals just for the excavating. But we would need anti grav tech.

Lets saw it in half and see what's in the middle/core.

I thought Mercury was the densest planet in the solar system.

I've wondered if Mercury is something similar.

Pensé que iba a estar en español como lo esta el titulo

Makes sense. Eventually the irradiated metal vibrates into a boiling pot of alloy soup and ignition begins. Then it's a star.

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I name it planet Led Zeppelin. Thanks Anton! Very interesting as always.

pluto mercury???

Metal Planet 🤘

Guys is this the fabled “metal asf”

Why am I hearing a German translation? How can I change that? That's horrible...

Name it Barathrum or Core Prime :)

Anton is it possible we've accidentally already seeded solar system with bacteria and it will completely cover everything at some point, evolving with radiation induced rapid mutations to survive for its unique conditions. I think as a test we should seed an asteroid with all kinds of earth life and then return to it in 10 years to check it out

I wondered what Jupiter's core looked like

If it's the most metal thing we have ever found then it needs to be named Iommi.

I know how to get the US to the moon first, again. We just tell the government they found oil on the moon. We'd be there in a week. 😉

Hey wonderful persib

That is where the autobots are from cybertron.

Damn. Time to call the forerunners

How can the density be determined to an accuracy of cubic centimeters, AND, how can you talk about the density of a distant planet without recognizing how impossible such a measurement would sound to a non-astronomer? You simply assert the density without any explanation. I'm sure there's a good technique for determining this, but you didn't even briefly mention it.

At some point Mercury had a gas atmosphere.

If my corpse landed on that planet would it be squished first or burnt to ashes?

cybertron?

I just tuned in to see how to pronounce Chthonian.

A heavy metal planet should be named Orion. One of Metallica's best songs.

Super interesting, as always Anton.

Perhaps it will turn out to be Vulcan.

as above, so below was said so based on the fact that life on earth is simply expanding the same way as all other matter in outer space. all formed and accumulated objects that get controlled by stars start up just like life on earth and eventually deform at their end stages.

Hotblack Desiato’s home planet.

Metal Planet sounds like a music festival for metalheads.

I was just thinking about this. Where gas giants are so close to a star to where the star blows the gas away from the planet

I love how the picture of the planet has only four pixels, and yet the cientists discover so many things 😅

My dad is an evaporating gas giant ffs - and yeah he's pretty metal that way ...

The universe looks more like Warhammer 40k every day. For the Emperor! Seems like planet type isn't correlated with density.

We found cybertron before gta6

Finally!