Impossible to explain: mysteries of space

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) have compiled a list of astronomical phenomena observed in the solar system that are completely impossible to explain …

These facts have been verified many times, and there is no need to doubt their reality. Yes, only they do not fit into the existing picture of the world. And this means that either we do not quite correctly understand the laws of nature, or … someone is constantly changing these very laws.

Here are some examples:

Who accelerates space probes

In 1989, the Galileo research vehicle set off on a long journey to Jupiter. In order to give it the desired speed, scientists used a "gravity assist". The probe approached the Earth twice so that the force of the planet's gravity could "push" it, giving it additional acceleration. But after the maneuvers, the Galileo's speed turned out to be higher than the calculated one.

The technique has been worked out, and before all the devices were accelerated normally. Then the scientists had to send three more research stations into deep space. The NEAR probe went to the asteroid Eros, Rosetta flew to study the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, and Cassini went to Saturn. All of them performed a gravitational maneuver in the same way, and for all the final speed turned out to be greater than the calculated one - this indicator was seriously monitored by scientists after the anomaly with the Galileo was noticed.

There was no explanation for what was happening. But for some reason, all the vehicles sent to other planets after Cassini did not receive a strange additional acceleration during the gravitational maneuver. So what was this “something” in the period from 1989 (Galileo) to 1997 (Cassini) that gave all probes that went into deep space an additional acceleration?

Scientists are still making a helpless gesture: who needed to "push" the four satellites? In ufological circles, a version even arose that a certain Higher intelligence decided that it would be necessary to help earthlings explore the solar system.

Now this effect is not observed, and it is not known whether it will manifest itself ever again.

Why does the Earth run away from the sun?

Scientists have long learned to measure the distance from our planet to the star. Now it is considered equal to 149,597,870 kilometers. It used to be believed that it is unchanging. But in 2004, Russian astronomers discovered that the Earth is moving away from the Sun by about 15 centimeters a year - this is 100 times more than the measurement error.

What is happening that was previously described only in science fiction novels: the planet set off on a "free voyage"? The nature of the journey that has begun is still unknown. Of course, if the rate of removal does not change, then hundreds of millions of years will pass before we move away from the Sun so much that the planet will freeze. But suddenly the speed will increase. Or, on the contrary, will the Earth begin to approach the luminary?

So far, no one knows what will happen next.

Who does not let the "pioneers" go abroad

The American probes Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 were launched in 1972 and 1983, respectively. By now, they should have already flown out of the solar system. However, at a certain moment, both one and the other, for some unknown reason, began to change their trajectory, as if an unknown force did not want to let them go too far.

Pioneer-10 has already deviated four hundred thousand kilometers from the calculated trajectory. "Pioneer-11" exactly repeats the path of its brother. There are many versions: the influence of the solar wind, fuel leakage, programming errors. But they are all not very convincing, since both ships, launched at an interval of 11 years, behave the same.

If you do not take into account the intrigues of aliens or a divine plan not to let people out of the solar system, then perhaps the influence of the mysterious dark matter is manifested here. Or are there some gravitational effects unknown to us? Or maybe we don't know how the solar system works?

What lurks at the edge of our system

Far, far beyond the dwarf planet Pluto, there is a mysterious asteroid Sedna, one of the largest in our system. In addition, Sedna is considered the reddest object in our system - it is even redder than Mars. Why is unknown.

But the main mystery lies elsewhere. It makes a full circle around the Sun in 10 thousand years. Moreover, it turns in a very elongated orbit. Either this asteroid flew to us from another star system, or maybe, as some astronomers believe, it was knocked out of a circular orbit by the gravitational pull of some large object. Which one? Astronomers have no way of detecting it.

Why are solar eclipses so perfect?

In our system, the sizes of the Sun and the Moon, as well as the distance from the Earth to the Moon and to the Sun, are chosen in a very original way. If we observe a solar eclipse from our planet (by the way, the only one where there is intelligent life), then the disk of Selena perfectly evenly covers the disk of the star - their sizes coincide exactly.

If the Moon was a little smaller or was further from the Earth, then we would never have had total solar eclipses. Accident? Something I can't believe …

Why do we live so close to our luminary?

In all the star systems studied by astronomers, the planets are located according to the same ranking: the larger the planet, the closer it is to the star. In our solar system, the giants - Saturn and Jupiter - are located in the middle, letting in the "kids" - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Why this happened is unknown.

If we had the same world order as in the vicinity of all other stars, then the Earth would be somewhere in the region of today's Saturn. And there is hellish cold and no conditions for intelligent life.

Dark matter

All galaxies in our Universe revolve at high speed around one center. But when scientists calculated the total masses of galaxies, it turned out that they are too light. And according to the laws of physics, this whole carousel would have broken long ago. However, it does not break.

To explain what is happening, scientists have come up with a hypothesis that there is some dark matter in the Universe that cannot be seen. But astronomers have not yet imagined what it is and how to touch it. It is only known that its mass is 90% of the mass of the Universe. And this means that we know what kind of world surrounds us, by only one tenth.

Life on Mars

The search for organic matter on the Red Planet began in 1976 - the American Viking vehicles landed there. They had to conduct a series of experiments with the aim of either confirming or refuting the hypothesis about the habitability of the planet. The results turned out to be contradictory: on the one hand, methane was detected in the atmosphere of Mars - obviously of biogenic origin, but not a single organic molecule was identified.

The strange results of the experiments were attributed to the chemical composition of the Martian soil and decided that there was still no life on the Red Planet. However, a number of other studies suggest that there was once moisture on the surface of Mars, which again speaks in favor of the existence of life. According to some, we can talk about underground life forms.

What riddles are not worth a damn?