Meet the Exoplanets Part 3 – Extreme Worlds – A Song about outer space / Astronomy with The Nirks®
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Kids, Learn about outer space and astronomy with the Nirks! Vincent and the Nirks are back for their newest outer space adventure! It's time to Meet more Exoplanets! Exoplanets are planets that orbit other stars in solar systems beyond our own. And these exoplanets are Extreme! Join Vincent as he takes you way out into the cosmos to meet some of the strangest and most extreme planets discovered outside of our solar system! There are Super – Jupiters, Fiery Ice Planets, moon-forming planets and so much more! Please like and Share and Enjoy!
Lyrics:
Out Beyond the 8 planets that you already know
There are many more solar systems to explore and we should go
Different stars that have their own planets and their own solar systems
Would you like to go with me and see if we can meet some?
I’m exoplanet HD 100546 b
A Super-Jupiter Gas Giant planet that is one of the largest exoplanets you’ll meet
I orbit a star with a circumstellar disk, made up of gases, dust and debris
The material in these disks is what forms gas giant planets just like me
They call me the whiplash planet, HR 5183 b
A Super-Jupiter, 3 times the size of him, I have an eccentric 74-year egg-shaped orbit you see
I slingshot around my star, speeding up as I get closer and slowing down as I retreat
I’m a bit of a wrecking ball, because I wreak havoc on any regular orbiting planets I meet
CHORUS: Let’s Go Meet an exoplanet – they orbit other stars
Some are very similar, some very different from ours
Strange and mystical worlds with wonders beyond imagination
Let’s go find some Exoplanets and see if we can meet them
We may look like Earth and the Sun, but look closer and you will see
With my yellow main sequence star Kepler 452, I’m Kepler 452 b
I’m in the habitable zone of my star and could have liquid water on me
Which means, because I’m so similar to Earth, that there could be life on me
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My nickname is Hoth, like the ice world in Star Wars, I’m icy and rocky
I’m so cold that even my atmospheric gases freeze adding to my snowy surface
I’m too cold for life to survive on me so I orbit my cool red dwarf star quietly in the constellation Scorpius
1.8 days to orbit my star, A Hot-Jupiter Gas Giant, that’s me
1 side always day, one side always night I’m a tidally locked planet, named WASP-76 b
My hot temperatures on my day side are so extreme that they vaporize iron in my atmosphere
but when the vapor reaches my night side it cools and rains fiery iron down on this sphere
CHORUS
I defy the laws of physics with my burning ice! I’m Gliese 436 b
I have a scorching hot surface because I’m 15 times closer to my sun than Mercury
Oddly, My surface is mostly ice, but it’s on fire! How could that be?
My gravity is so strong that it compresses any water vapor back into ice on me
I’m hot, hot, hot – 7800 degrees – an Ultra-Hot Jupiter, KELT-9b!
I’m so close to my star that my surface sizzles and can be even hotter than some stars can be
I’m in a tidally locked 36-hour polar orbit around my star which looks like I’m orbiting vertically
And my fast-spinning star is boiling away my atmosphere by blasting me with heat and radiation constantly
CHORUS
Similar to Earth in age and size, I’m Gliese 1132b
So close to my star that it ripped and stole my atmosphere away from me
During my 1.6 day orbit, My star pulls and stretches me and causes violent volcanic activity
But I’m clever and I’m using the gases from the volcanoes to build a brand new atmosphere around me
One of the largest known exoplanets – A Super-Jupiter – I’m GQ Lupi b
I’m young and have a circumplanetary disc all around me
Also known as a “moon-forming disk” this is exciting to see
Because this is where the birth of new moons happens – they’ll form and then orbit me
The TOI-178 system – we move in almost perfect harmony
The outer 5 of our six planets exist in a resonance of 18:9:6:4:3
This means we orbit our orange star and line up with each other very regularly
For every 18 orbits I have, I have 9, I have 6, I have 4, and I have 3
Now you’ve met some exoplanets – they orbit other stars
In their very own solar systems far outside of ours
Strange and mystical worlds with wonders beyond imagination
Keep looking at the stars and maybe you’ll discover one
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