Did you know about these?

Some of these planets are bizarre and not often talked about.  Many of us can name the planets in our solar system and the most unusual one might be Saturn in that it has very noticeable rings around it that seem to be held in place by gravity.  There are a lot of planets that astronomers have observed with the advent of The Hubble Space Telescope with very unusual properties.  Now here is a video about 10 of them that you may not even know about:

Space is unbelievably strange. You would be forgiven for thinking that every planet out there is similar, just a big ball of rock and gas, but planets are remarkably more unique than that. Here’s the top 10 strangest planets in the known universe, that seem like they belong in some bizarre science fiction series.

In addition to those listed in the video, there has been a lot of attention given to exoplanets lately, with the most famous one being discovered in 2015.  It is called kepler 452-b and astronomers think it may be similar to earth.

Here is an artist’s rendition of the exoplanet kepler 452-b which has made the most headlines this year

Here is a diagram of other possible exoplanet discoveries with a size comparison to Earth, Jupiter and Neptune:

The commenters on the thread have some interesting observations and theories:

Melinda H had this to say:

Intriguing how these different planets have different attributes — the ice planet burning was phenomenal — shows you how gravity can defy chemistry — the universe can work outside the laws of science — cool!!!

Commenter Leo had this expression about his thoughts:

This is a topic I have had much interest in for a long time. Thank you for the video, I just wanted to help all the people asking the same question how we know about planets in other galaxies is mostly due to cameras and computers. Of course not the kind of camera you have likely ever seen but since we have never even gotten drones out of our own galaxy we have developed computers that essentially guess what elements they are looking at (because frankly and most likely there are elements that we could not program since we have never seen) and we gather most of our information that way. However we do have drones in space that are intended to leave the galaxy eventually.  I hope that helps people but I summed this up if you want a more technical explanation you aught to use your internet for more than youtube.

We hope you like the video.

thanks to NASA for the pics