Dramatic Changes That Await Our Universe Soon

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Buckle up for some cosmic gossip! So, word on the interstellar street is that our universe's got some serious makeover plans in the pipeline. Picture this: galaxies colliding, stars going supernova – it's like a celestial soap opera up there! And hey, Earth's not immune either – we're talking major shake-ups in our cosmic neighborhood. But don't freak out just yet, 'cause these changes are gonna take their sweet time, like cosmic slow-motion. So let's watch the universe do its thing – drama and all! ✨  Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV   Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en   Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00 Saturn's iconic rings will disappear in less than two years.

00:04 Soon, we won't be able to see Jupiter's great red spot.

00:07 Pluto's atmosphere might vanish any day now.

00:11 Even the universe itself could be slowly evaporating right at this moment.

00:16 But let me start from the very beginning.

00:18 Saturn's rings won't vanish forever, at least in the near future, but they will seemingly

00:23 disappear from view.

00:25 This phenomenon is caused by the planet's tilt as it orbits the Sun.

00:29 As a result, the eye-catching rings adorning the gas giant will get invisible to stargazers

00:35 in 2025.

00:37 This outrageous disappearance occurs because Saturn's thin rings turn edge-on.

00:42 It's like holding a sheet of paper horizontally at eye level parallel to the ground so that

00:47 only the edge of the paper can be seen.

00:50 Something similar happens to the gas giant's rings.

00:53 As the seasons on the planet progress, instead of the southern side of the rings tilted our

00:57 way, we start seeing the northern side.

01:00 But then the planet tilts again, revealing the southern side once again.

01:05 Such a ring-plane crossing happens every 15 years when our planet passes through the gas

01:09 giant's ring plane.

01:12 The last time this phenomenon occurred was in 2009.

01:15 Afterward, the rings gradually became visible again over the course of several months.

01:21 This time the rings will be on edge in March 2025.

01:25 Then they will slowly come back into view and disappear again in November of the same

01:29 year.

01:30 Soon after that, the rings will reappear, first becoming visible to the largest telescopes,

01:35 later for everyone else to see.

01:37 At the same time, further into the future, the rings might cease to exist for good.

01:43 Astronomers have concluded that Saturn's rings, which mostly consist of ice and rocky

01:47 dust from smashed asteroids, are younger than we thought.

01:51 They're losing tons and tons of mass per second all the time, and it's likely to

01:56 be a few hundred million years at most before they vanish completely.

02:00 Let's move to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.

02:04 This immense raging storm might stop spinning in the next 20 years.

02:08 The storm in question is larger than our planet.

02:11 It was first spotted in 1830, but observations from the 1600s mention the presence of a giant

02:17 spot on Jupiter too.

02:19 If it was the same Great Red Spot, then we can say that the storm has been raging for

02:24 centuries.

02:26 The storm's vortex has remained so powerful thanks to Jupiter's 300-400 mph jet streams.

02:34 But like any other storm, the Great Red can't keep raging forever.

02:38 It's been shrinking for a long time.

02:40 In a decade or two, it's predicted to turn into GRC, the Great Red Circle, and who knows,

02:46 maybe it will later turn into the GRM, the Great Red Memory.

02:51 In the late 1800s, the storm was more than 35,000 miles across, four times the diameter

02:58 of Earth.

02:59 But when Voyager 2 flew past Jupiter in 1979, the storm had already shrunk almost twice

03:05 its original size.

03:07 And this shrinking is still happening.

03:09 In 2017, the GRS spanned the width of a bit more than 10,150 miles, less than 1.3 times

03:17 the diameter of Earth.

03:20 Moving on, Pluto's atmosphere is going through a weird transformation.

03:25 This icy dwarf planet sitting over 3 billion miles away from Earth in the region of the

03:29 Kuiper Belt drew astronomers' attention in 2018 when it passed in front of a star.

03:35 With such a powerful source of light illuminating Pluto, researchers managed to examine the

03:40 dwarf planet and its atmosphere.

03:42 They came to a shocking conclusion that Pluto's atmosphere is refreezing back onto its surface

03:48 as the dwarf planet gets colder and colder.

03:52 Astronomers used several telescopes in different spots in the USA and Mexico to observe Pluto

03:58 and its thin atmosphere, which is mainly made of nitrogen.

04:02 This atmosphere is supported by the vapor pressure of ice on the surface of the dwarf

04:06 planet.

04:07 For around 25 years, Pluto has been moving further away from the Sun, and its surface

04:12 temperature has been gradually going down.

04:16 Pluto is really far from our star at the moment, but at one point it will start getting closer

04:21 in other regions of its incredibly huge orbit.

04:26 Besides Jupiter's great red spot, Saturn's rings, and Pluto's atmosphere, we're also

04:31 losing stars.

04:33 But stars don't vanish, right?

04:35 For thousands of years, scientists believed that lights in the sky were fixed and unchanging.

04:41 Even after they realized those lights were physical objects, just like the Sun, they

04:45 were still sure that stars went through major changes extremely slowly, on timescales of

04:50 millions and billions of years.

04:54 In reality though, the most massive stars, which can be hundreds of times heavier than

04:59 the Sun, can go through sudden catastrophic events.

05:03 For example, once they reach the ends of their lives, they pass away in blinding explosions

05:08 of supernovae, shining for months on end and visible across hundreds of millions of light

05:13 years.

05:15 But there are stars that seem to just wink out of visibility.

05:19 It should be impossible.

05:21 And over the past years, a group of researchers tried to figure out whether there's actually

05:25 a chance of such a phenomenon happening.

05:28 They started to compare data collected over decades of observations.

05:32 The project is called VASCO, the Vanishing and Appearing Sources During a Century of

05:37 Observations.

05:38 The scientists are interested in all kinds of disappearing objects, but they're hoping

05:43 to find a star that was steady and present for a long time, and then just vanished without

05:48 a trace.

05:49 Even if you point a super powerful telescope there, you'll still see nothing.

05:55 Our current understanding of space and its laws suggest that stars change very slowly

06:00 over long periods of time.

06:03 Dramatic disappearances are supposed to leave noticeable traces behind.

06:07 Of course, it doesn't mean that all stars should shine steadily.

06:10 The sky is filled with stars that change in brightness and pulsate.

06:15 But VASCO is about something very different.

06:18 They want to find something that goes from a completely steady star to vanishing entirely.

06:23 Such a phenomenon hasn't been documented yet, and such a discovery might lead to new

06:28 physics.

06:30 And now let's move on to the most disturbing part, the one about the evaporating universe.

06:35 According to a famous theory proposed by Stephen Hawking, black holes, the densest objects

06:41 in the universe, evaporate over time.

06:44 They lose mass in the form of bizarre radiation.

06:47 But a new study claims that Hawking radiation, or something very similar to it, might not

06:52 be limited to black holes.

06:54 It's likely to be everywhere, and it could mean that the universe is slowly but surely

06:59 evaporating right in front of our eyes.

07:03 Now Hawking radiation is something no one has ever observed, but theories and experiments

07:08 suggest that it can actually exist.

07:11 Let's see how it works.

07:13 There's a misconception that black holes are cosmic hoovers, slurping up everything

07:18 that comes too close with the help of their immense gravitational pull.

07:23 In reality though, black holes don't have more gravity than any other body of a similar

07:27 mass.

07:28 What they're famous for is their density, incredible amounts of mass packed into a tiny,

07:34 tiny space.

07:35 Within a certain proximity to such a dense object, gravitational pull becomes so powerful

07:40 that it becomes impossible to escape.

07:43 Even the speed of light in a vacuum is enough, and that's the fastest known thing in the

07:48 universe.

07:50 At the same time, anything massive or dense enough can produce a serious curvature of

07:54 space-time.

07:56 In simple words, the immense gravitational field of these objects makes space-time wrap

08:01 around them.

08:02 Even though black holes are the most extreme example, space-time also curves around other

08:07 super-dense objects, like white dwarfs, and neutron stars or galaxy clusters.

08:14 It means that any super-dense and supermassive object can have some sort of radiation similar

08:19 to Hawking radiation.

08:21 And after a very, very long period of time, it could lead to everything in the universe

08:26 evaporating, following the fate of old supermassive black holes.

08:32 If it turns out to be true, it will change our understanding not only of Hawking radiation,

08:37 but also our view of the universe, and its, and our future.

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