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Impossible Lemon Shaped Carbon Planet Shouldn't Exist

2025-12-26 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a strange lemon shaped planet with weird atmosphere Links: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae157c/pdf https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/512/2/2446/6542453?login=false #pulsar #planet #science Other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TiE9MVprBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtDYEY2yiQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjxemQkyl1Y 0:00: This planet makes no sense (intro & why it breaks planet-formation models) 1:20: What is a pulsar planet? (neutron stars, millisecond pulsars, extreme environment) 3:40: Insane orbit and lemon shape (7.8-hour year, tidal distortion, winds) 5:40: A carbon-only atmosphere (C2, C3 molecules, almost no oxygen or nitrogen) 8:10: Why no formation model works 10:40: Other bizarre pulsar planets (first exoplanets, diamond-like worlds) 12:40: How could this form? Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@AxionSmurf 2025-12-25

when life hands you lemon shaped planets, make molecular carbon...ade.

464 24 replies
@BlueberryM-887 2025-12-26

This is the closest to a flat earth we will ever get

272 27 replies
@MidnightRaine 2025-12-26

Jupiter sized diamond orbiting so close to an angry neutron star that it's gravitationally distorted into the shape of a lemon has to be one of the coolest things I've heard about in astronomy for some time. Always gets me exited when the real world shows us something that sounds like it's from science fiction.

161 11 replies
@MMAneuver 2025-12-26

This planet is...in... unacceptable condition!!!! UNACCEPTABLE!!! 🍋

160 7 replies
@GentleReader01 2025-12-26

Hey, Larry Niven did a first draft of this in his Known Space stories. The planet Jinx has a spherical atmosphere but an egg-shaped world thanks to massive tidal forces esrly on. The poles stick out into vacuum, the equator has an atmosphere several times denser than Earth’s. Fun stuff. Leave it to the universe to do a much weirder version.

60 34 replies
@bgg-jp5ei 2025-12-26

Happy Christmas all.

60 2 replies
@SwissZiggy 2025-12-26

Planet "Rugby"

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@Alondro77 2025-12-26

Planet Lemongrab is UNACCEPTABLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!!! 40 YEARS DUNGEON, NO TRIAL!!!

14 1 replies
@andyjudd9686 2025-12-26

Why does Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy come to mind from the title?😂

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@felixar90 2025-12-27

9:15 An extremely old planet orbiting a pulsar and a white dwarf? Sounds like the devil himself might be chained inside that planet…

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