Space Events We Will See In Our Life?!

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]every rare space event we'll actually see before we die. Unless you get hit by a car or have a heart attack or get struck by lightning or shake of a a vending machine and it falls on on you and crushes you or have a brain aneurysm or drown or fall into a pit of lava or or cartoonishly have a piano that's getting lifted off of a third story balcony snap and then fall on top of you crushing you >> these dates.

[00:00:25]Well, why is that important? Usually, we look up at the night sky and see an absolutely still peaceful picture. It feels like the >> All right, I've watched Riddle for a few years now, and it's upsetting me that I now know what he looks like, cuz this is not what I assumed he looked like.

[00:00:40]>> Well, why is that important? Usually, we look up at the night sky and see an absolutely still, peaceful picture. It feels like the universe has hit pause, but that's a grand illusion. Right now, for example, an asteroid the size of a skyscraper is hurtling towards us at breakneck speed. In a neighboring constellation, a dead star has reached critical mass and is about to light up the sky with a thermonuclear explosion.

[00:01:07]Meanwhile, our very own moon is about to take >> Yeah, it is wild that things are so far away in cosmic scale that some of the stars that we see like shining brightly don't exist anymore. Not many, right?

[00:01:21]It's not like, oh, it's like every star in the night sky doesn't exist. But like a star that's 500 light years away could have exploded and we just don't know.

[00:01:29]>> A brutal hit and we'll watch the flash.

[00:01:32]>> What? Cuz it takes 500 years for the light to get to you. It takes eight light. Is it eight or 15 light minutes for the sun to get to Earth? Like if the sun exploded right now, you wouldn't know for eight minutes >> in real time. The craziest part, these main shows won't happen in some abstract future, but right within our lifetimes.

[00:01:57]To see the first one, you won't even have to wait decades or even years because it's happening right now in 2026.

[00:02:06]If you look at the constellation Corona Borealis, you'll see a bright new star.

[00:02:12]It shines almost as bright as Polaris.

[00:02:14]>> Yo, I'm goated. I'm goated at spotting planets in the sky now. I mean, looking up cuz I use that app on my phone all the time, that starlight [ __ ] where you could just see like where the moon is or sky view. I don't have the premium version. Like I'm looking at the satellite right now or the International Space Station.

[00:02:35]Oh, Orion's right above me. Even though just yesterday there was no visible star there at all, it seems like the night sky has simply been adorned with another bright little dot. But don't let that fool you. Hidden behind this steady light is the epicenter of a colossal catastrophe in the T corona borealis system. A super dense little white dwarf orbits in tandem with a massive red giant. They're so close to each other that for decades the dwarf's gravity has been >> chat. You are unlocking me and he's telling me something that's very complicated and I need to pay attention.

[00:03:13]Can we lock in?

[00:03:13]>> Don't let that fool you. There was no visible star there at all. It seems like the night sky has simply been adorned with another bright little dot. But don't let that fool you. Hidden behind this steady light is the epicenter of a colossal catastrophe. In the T corona borealis system, a super dense little white dwarf orbits in tandem with a massive red giant. They're so close to each other that for decades, the dwarf's gravity has been siphoning off its neighbors gas. All this hydrogen accumulates on the dwarf's surface.

[00:03:51]Temperature and pressure build up until they reach a critical point. The outcome is predictable. A massive thermonuclear explosion.

[00:04:01]>> Wait, so this star in the sky that we're seeing super bright right now is a star that recent not recently exploded and recently the light is finally hitting Earth. What looks from Earth like a mere twinkling little star is actually an expanding wall of plasma heated to millions of degrees. But here's the most fascinating part. The explosion itself occurred 3,000 years ago.

[00:04:28]>> Yo, see that's like that's what I find so cool about like looking up at the night sky is most of the light that you're seeing is from before you were born. I think it's really fun to find a star that has light that is as old as or is as many light years away as you are old because if you find like say you're like 20 and you find a star that's 20 light years away that means that the light that you're seeing is from when you were born, right? Yeah. If you like I'm 24.

[00:05:04]If I see a star that's 24 light years away, the light that I'm seeing right now is from the year that I was born.

[00:05:10]>> Took that light all this time to cross the void and reach us here today. Soon, this light will fade, and the dwarf will go back to doing its devouring work in the dark. But cosmic events don't just change the night sky. True darkness will descend upon Earth in broad daylight in August 2027.

[00:05:34]The sun will go out. It sounds like a regular solar eclipse. An amusing astronomical.

[00:05:41]>> When was that [ __ ] When everybody was just staring at the sun and going blind because they weren't paying attention to like all the scientists on the news going, "Don't stare directly at the sun.

[00:05:52]You need the glasses."

[00:05:54]Like it was like 2019 or some [ __ ] People were just like staring at the sun. Oh my god. I remember I had those glasses on. I was like, "Yo, this shit's lame." lasting a couple of minutes, but this time the mechanics of the cosmos will align with eerie perfection. The sun will go out for an incredible 6 minutes and 23 seconds. It'll be the longest remaining total eclipse of the entire century. On that exact day, the moon >> wait of the entire century. We won't have another one until like after we're all dead.

[00:06:28]>> Will approach the Earth to its closest possible distance, becoming massive in our sky. Meanwhile, the Earth will move away from the Sun to its farthest possible distance. As a result, the giant lunar disc will easily cover up our tiny star with room to spare. Such a perfect alignment of orbits is an incredible rarity. A pitch black shadow nearly 300 K. Yo, I can't imagine being like a caveman in in a time of a total like solar eclipse. Like, you had to think the world was ending right now.

[00:07:08]You had to be like, if you were smart enough to talk but not smart enough to understand that [ __ ] you had to be like, "Oh no, it's Do birds get confused? How do other animals interact with solar eclipses?"

[00:07:23]Because I like like what is uh I'm assuming birds get quiet and they like go to sleep or they hide like something's wrong. How do other animals react to solar eclipses? Oh, many animals treat sudden darkness as twilight triggering evening routines. So it kind of fast forwards them to thinking they just think it's night.

[00:07:46]Like if it if you have a total solar eclipse at 2 p.m. they just go, "Oh, it's time for bed.

[00:07:52]Oh, >> kome walk.

[00:07:54]>> That day went by quick.

[00:07:55]>> I will slice across the planet from southern Spain to Yemen.

[00:07:59]>> They fall asleep for two minutes.

[00:08:03]Wake up again.

[00:08:04]>> It'll plunge the Egyptian pyramids in Luxor into darkness and sweep directly over Mecca. What's more, the shadow will race across the planet at a terrifying speed of around 2,500 km hour. You couldn't outrun this darkness even on a Boeing passenger jet plane. But 6 minutes later, light will return. Of course, as eerie as an eclipse might seem, it's an entirely and completely safe phenomenon. One that astronomers can predict down to the second. The problem is there are things in space whose orbits are much more.

[00:08:42]>> Like I love that is this I this isn't like an edited photo, right? This is a real image from the desert with like a crazy camera lens. I don't think this is AI. It's just like wild exposure. Yeah.

[00:08:56]Like if you even with your iPhone, if you could go if you could if you live in a state with like very little light pollution, you could go outside, set your phone facing the uh the sky and you could turn the like light exposure to like 30 seconds and you'll see [ __ ] not this detailed, but you'll see stars that you've never even seen before.

[00:09:17]>> Space whose orbits are much more difficult to predict. And just a year and a half later, in April of 2029, an asteroid the size of a skyscraper will approach the Earth. And it's heading straight in.

[00:09:31]>> When a year and a half later, in April of 2029, an asteroid the size of a skyscraper will approach the Earth. And it's heading straight into our satellite zone.

[00:09:45]April 13th, 2029.

[00:09:48]>> Wow, dude. 2029. I got kicked out mid-ranked game. That would be really shitty.

[00:09:53]>> Apous, an asteroid.

[00:09:54]>> Dude, what the [ __ ] >> The size of the Empire State Building will fly by Earth. In the early 2000s, astronomers seriously considered the chance of it colliding with our planet.

[00:10:05]An impact of that force would wipe an entire continent off the face of the planet. But then, thankfully, the calculations were refined. There will be no collision, but it'll pass at a distance of just 32,000 km. That's 12 times closer than the moon. Apous will dive even closer than our ring of weather and communication satellites that are flying around up there orbiting the Earth. And amazingly, in Europe and Africa, you'll be able to see it with your naked eye just by looking up. A glowing dot sliding rapidly across the night sky. At the moment of closest approach, Apous won't just fly by. Earth is a gravitational heavy weight. When the asteroid enters our zone of influence, the planet's tidal forces will literally begin tearing it apart.

[00:11:00]Gravity will pull on the near side of Apous much harder than on the far side.

[00:11:05]This will trigger massive asteroid quakes or should we call them Apous quakes. Anyway, Earth will warp the shape of this rock as well as alter its rotation and permanently rewrite its orbit. But objects without Earth's immense mass and lacking a dense atmosphere don't stand a chance, which is exactly what our moon is going to experience firsthand in 2032.

[00:11:33]>> Oh my god, the moon's going to get struck next. Oh no. For months, astronomers monitored the asteroid.

[00:11:41]>> What about NASA's plan to have a a whole [ __ ] moon base >> 2024? Why?

[00:11:47]>> It's going to delay it.

[00:11:48]>> R4. The probability of this 60 m wide rock crashing into the moon in December.

[00:11:55]>> Not the moon.

[00:11:56]>> We do need the moon though. If the moon didn't exist, that would be bad.

[00:12:00]>> Was 4.3%.

[00:12:02]For orbital mechanics, that's a critical threat level. The moon has no dense atmosphere to tear the object apart. A rock weighing hundreds of thousands of tons would slam into the surface at full speed. The explosions >> What does that [ __ ] do though? Like is that going to alter like the moon's rotation around the Earth? Probably not.

[00:12:23]I feel like it would just be like a nuclear bomb going off.

[00:12:25]>> Energy would be around 15 megat tons, hundreds of times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

[00:12:32]>> Okay. Okay. So, a few nuclear bombs. The blast would kick up a cloud of debris that could be fatal to lunar orbiting satellites. New radar data from groundbased observatories have allowed us to rewrite the trajectory. The impact is cancelled. Unfortunately, >> yo, see, like I kind of want an asteroid to hit the moon or some [ __ ] you know?

[00:12:55]Like if I'm able to see that on like a crazy satellite or something, I feel like that would be awesome. Don't hit Earth. I don't want an asteroid to hit Earth, bro. Oh my god. Okay, an asteroid hits the [ __ ] moon, chat, it knocks out a satellite. Is that like, what do you mean? What the [ __ ] Why is that a big deal? You guys are freaking out. If all it does is knock out a satellite, is that that bad?

[00:13:16]>> In my opinion, cuz that would have been >> Bro hates the moon. Yo, you know why the moon looks like [ __ ] Swiss cheese?

[00:13:22]Because [ __ ] hits it all the time.

[00:13:24]>> Cuz that would have been so cool. In December 2032, the >> It's not some smooth Q ball. These are all [ __ ] craters. asteroid will miss the moon by a mere 21,000 km. By cosmic standards, that's just a hair's breath away. But orbital mechanics do >> Yo, how fast would something have to hit the moon? Say this is Earth. This is the moon.

[00:13:50]How fast would something have to hit the moon to where it gets pushed into Earth?

[00:13:54]How big would it have to be? Like another moon or could it just be like a fat ass asteroid? Say like a fat ass asteroid hits the moon towards Earth.

[00:14:03]Will it just get closer?

[00:14:04]>> Work flawlessly. There will be no collision. We can calm.

[00:14:08]>> That's impossible. It's not impossible.

[00:14:11]>> And sadly watch the rock fly back away into the darkness. But as it fades away, the night sky is already thankful. your forehead. Ban that guy >> fully preparing an entirely different this time incredibly bright spectacle for us.

[00:14:28]On this day, you'll look up and see a blood red giant dominating the sky.

[00:14:34]It'll shine so incredibly brightly that it'll start casting its own shadows on Earth. It might seem to you like a supernova exploded out there in space somewhere or some other mysterious threat is heading our way, but there's no need to panic. It's our neighbor Mars deciding to break with the usual distance and get up close and personal with the Earth. Normally Mar >> Hey, okay. Okay, now we're talking. Am I going to see some crazy Mars [ __ ] hangs out about 225 million km away from us, sometimes retreating as far as 400 million, but this time it'll reach the closest point to the sun in its orbit right as the Earth flies directly between them. The distance will shrink four-fold, collapsing to a mere 55.9 million km. In cosmic terms, that's practically just an arm's length away.

[00:15:31]This will >> What? How big will it be in the sky though?

[00:15:34]>> Be the historical record of the century.

[00:15:37]The last time Mars came this close was back in 2003 in August 2050.

[00:15:43]>> Acting like is that's the next time.

[00:15:45]>> You won't need billion dollar orbital telescopes through the cheapest of amateur telescopes. You won't just see a tiny little red dot, but the whole shebang. The angry red planet in all its glory.

[00:15:59]>> I still need a [ __ ] telescope though.

[00:16:02]I don't know. I mean, >> complete with it.

[00:16:04]>> Billionaire, by the way, bro, not a billionaire. Number one. Number two.

[00:16:09]Number two. Yeah, I could buy a [ __ ] telescope. Do I want to learn how to use a telescope? No. I've had a telescope.

[00:16:14]Brooke got me a moon telescope. W Brooke. But, but that shit's hard to use.

[00:16:20]>> Ice caps and global dust storms. This close encounter with Mars will be the main astronomical event of 2050. But 11, >> bro, 2050? I'm We're all going to be unk bro. Oh my god. At that point, >> 10 years later, >> y'all think you y'all think it's going to be 2050 and you're going to be watching the news and they're going to say Mars is as close to Earth as possible. And at this point, you haven't watched Joe Bart in 10 years, 20 years.

[00:16:45]Do you think you're going to be like, "Damn, I remember when I saw this on a Riddle video Joe Bart reacted to." Nope.

[00:16:51]>> The sky will present us with >> You'll probably have a weird You're not going to remember this day. You'll have a weird deja vu moment. That's what's gonna happen because you're gonna be, "Dude, this is literally 24 years from now." 24 years from now, you're gonna go, "That sounds familiar." And you're not going to know why.

[00:17:07]>> With another epic >> and then like a brain worm, I'm going to seep in. I'm going to go remember comeback. One humanity has been waiting for for over half a >> likemegle >> century. Can you guess? Yeah, that's right. Al's comet in the summer of >> Oh, I'm excited for this. Wait, I'm actually excited for this.

[00:17:28]>> 2061.

[00:17:34]>> I mean, we're really banking. I live that long, bro. I'd be 59. Like, 2061, bro. I What? I'm I'm supposed to be looking forward to that. I mean, half of us will be dead. Like, >> I comet will appear again in the night sky. And this ain't just any old flying chunk of ice. It's the first comet in history to prove the universe runs >> saying yo y'all will be old as [ __ ] 2061 HAVE YO Y EVERYBODY'S GOING TO HAVE [ __ ] YO YOU'RE GOING TO BE YOU'RE going to be old as [ __ ] You're going to have a pension. YOU HAVE A WIFE AND kids bro.

[00:18:09]OH MY GOD.

[00:18:10]>> On a very strict schedule. So why and how did it become the most famous comet in history? Well in this case at least size really isn't that important. It became famous because it helped humanity stop fearing the heavens.

[00:18:29]>> I got to do math on this chatter that might end up getting banned. They just said they're going to be 42 in 2061. If they're going to be 42 in 2061, that that doesn't math out. That doesn't math out. That's not How old How old are they right now? If they just said they're going to be If they just said they're going to be [ __ ] 42 in 201, bro is not 7 years old. Bro is not 7 years old.

[00:18:51]There's actually Oh my god, he's a spammer. Yo, if this Yo, there's no way.

[00:18:57]There's no There's actually no way. No, he created his account in 2022. He did not create his account when he was three. This guy is a liar. This guy is a liar, bro. Macaroni, man. Get the [ __ ] out of here, bro. Get the [ __ ] out of here, bro.

[00:19:13]>> Until the 18th century, comets were considered harbingers of the apocalypse.

[00:19:18]They appeared out of nowhere. and sowed panic in the streets. But astronomer Edmund Haley destroyed that fear with math. That's right. He proved that these objects that had so terrified Europeans for centuries, they weren't different omens of doom, but the very same rocks returning again and again on a clockwork schedule. Haley's comet, tethered to the sun by an invisible gravitational chain, comes for a return visit every 76 years.

[00:19:50]And by the way, it's the only comet that a human being has the chance of seeing twice in their lifetime. During its last visit in 1986, it was frankly disappointing. Earth and the comet were unfortunately on opposite sides of the sun on that pass at a massive distance from each other. So for most people on Earth, the legendary comet looked like a tiny blurry little gray smudge. People had run out and bought binoculars in droves, but even >> oh my god, they didn't get to see a day of. It was just disappointing.

[00:20:24]>> Then seeing anything impressive was difficult to put it mildly. But in July 2061, orbital mechanics will give us some >> yippee payback. We'll be on the same side of our >> Oh my god. Only 25 years away. Only a quarter of a century. our star.

[00:20:44]>> Only more than my entire lifetime that I've been alive.

[00:20:48]>> At the perfect distance, we'll finally be able to see that magnificently bright tail in all its glory. By the way, that tail is actually the comet boiling alive. As it approaches the sun, this 15 km wide chunk of dirty ice will be roasting in the vacuum of space.

[00:21:06]>> No, I just got sad. No, I just got sad.

[00:21:09]Nope, I just got sad. Oh my god. Because I was thinking if I'm alive, the people in my life that I love right now, a lot of them won't be. Oh my god. See, no.

[00:21:17]This is getting me a note. And now I'm sad. And now I'm sad. See? Oh yeah, I get to see Hel's comment. And all of our parents will probably be dead. So that'll be great. So yeah, >> it'll shed millions of tons of matter, fly past us, and dive back into the darkness until 21 >> hour. Yes. Hour. Likely. Your parents are probably in their 50s.

[00:21:39]>> 34. It'll leave behind nothing but a long trail of dust.

[00:21:45]So Haley's Comet is a quiet, predictable show.

[00:21:49]>> 30s mods, can we check that guy?

[00:21:51]>> Oh, just ice melting in the void. But for the next item on our calendar, we'll switch genres to something that will show us true primal fury.

[00:22:03]In 2083, a new star will suddenly flare up there in the skies above the Earth.

[00:22:09]It'll appear out of nowhere and in a matter of days become the brightest point in the night sky, outshining >> when I am not m I am certainly not making it to this date. Yo, we still got we still got four minutes left in the video. He's going to say in 2093, brother >> in 2083 a new star will suddenly flare up there in the skies above the earth.

[00:22:37]It'll appear out of nowhere and in a matter of days >> 81. Bro, if I'm alive in 2083, my ass is not walking outside to go see this. I'm going to be trapped in an old person home because my kids will hate me and I'm going to be playing checkers with a random [ __ ] old man that smells of piss and lemonade >> become the brightest point in the night sky outshining Sirius and Venus for a few weeks. This light will alter the familiar p >> Jinxy.

[00:23:06]I somehow get trapped in the same old person home as Jinxy. I don't I don't hear from Jinxy for 40 years randomly.

[00:23:13]I'm in his old old person. I'm playing I'm I'm shaking playing checkers.

[00:23:19]I make a move. He's right across from me. He tells me his name's Nick. Nothing nothing concerning, right? I make a move. He goes right. I go, "What?" Snaps snaps me back in. Jungle >> pattern of the constellations. You might think it's a supernova, the death throws of a giant star. But this isn't the death of one star. No, this is the catastrophic head-on collision between two. Right now, the V Sugjitti system is a pair of dim stars locked in a gravitational death grip. A dead white dwarf is literally sucking the plasma out of its neighbor. Because of this, they're rapidly losing orbital speed and spiraling towards each other. This is going to be so cool. In 2083, the distance between them will drop to zero.

[00:24:14]The white dwarf will plunge into the core of its neighbor. This isn't just a collision. It's a fatal merger that will trigger a ginormous thermonuclear explosion. Eventually, the glow will gradually fade, leaving behind one star instead of two. This is the largest catastrophe of our century that we'll be able to see with our naked eye. Or hopefully you have too. But even this merger of two stars pales in comparison to the event awaiting us next.

[00:24:53]I I can't talk. I'll call you in 5 minutes. In March 2092, THOSE WHO POINT >> YO 20 THERE'S A FLY IN MY ROOM. 2092 >> their telescopes at Jupiter will see something un >> 2092 I am not There's no world I lived in 90. There's no world I lived in 90.

[00:25:12]I'm giving myself at best the age my grandpa died. I'm going like 83. I think like I think realistically like 72. Joe, you're rich. Yeah. I also smoke weed and get high every day. I think I'm going to have a heart attack at like 64. I think like I think I I think I'm randomly barbecuing outside on a on a spring day.

[00:25:31]flipping Bergs that I can't eat still because I've alpha gal 30 years later.

[00:25:40]I face plant right into the [ __ ] I face plant right into the grill, right?

[00:25:45]The propane tank explodes and it triggers like a Final Destination like death coming for me type movie scene.

[00:25:54]>> Thinkable face plant right into the grill. The planet's four largest moons will disappear, merging into a single gleaming point.

[00:26:03]>> And then my outro music plays >> after the thermonuclear explosion of the Sitti. You might think we're going to witness another massive cosmic collision, but this time there will be no catastrophes. This will be the universe gifting us with a mathematically perfect optical illusion.

[00:26:24]Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Kalisto orbit Jupiter on the same plane. In 2092, Earth will pass perfectly through the plane of their orbit.

[00:26:34]>> In 2092, they're going to have VR goon masks. I don't think anyone is going to give a [ __ ] about this in uh what 64 years or 65 years.

[00:26:48]>> Orbital rhythms will align in an exceedingly rare parade. Some of the moons will pass directly in front of Jupiter.

[00:26:55]>> What age will you stop streaming? Don't know.

[00:26:57]>> Uh >> I already cut back to like five days a week. Next year probably like four days a week. Then I'll kind of just the year after that maybe like whatever I want.

[00:27:05]>> There's disc blending in.

[00:27:06]>> No real timeline, but it'll probably be like a slow cut back. I don't think I'd ever do just hard stop. You know what I mean? I don't like when YouTubers go crank out content, crank out done, you know? It would be like I post a little less. Post a little less. You know how I did it on TikTok where it was like I used to post five days a week, then it was three, then it was four. Or then it was three, then it was two, then it was one, then it was one every other day, then it was one every So it' be like over a span of like, you know, years >> into its clouds. Well, the others will vanish.

[00:27:33]>> I'm not saying two years, chat. Oh my god, I hate when you guys ask me this because you guys just tweak out every time. Oh no.

[00:27:39]Oh no.

[00:27:40]>> Into the giant black.

[00:27:42]>> Don't worry, Chad. I'll I'll sell to a private equity group and then replace myself with a somebody that looks kind of like me.

[00:27:48]>> Shadow behind the planet. Even better, the moons will begin to eclipse one another. Massive Ganymede will cast its shadow directly onto the ice of Europa, blocking its light for the Earthly observer. This deceptive geometry will only last a couple of hours. Then the moons will emerge from the shadows and the Jupiter system will return to its usual state.

[00:28:14]We might actually witness with [ __ ] piece of [ __ ] WA.

[00:28:20]>> Right now, above us, there are >> Yo, I'm liking this new riddle.

[00:28:24]>> events already set in motion, some unfolding slowly, some building towards moments we might actually witness within our lifetimes. The sky is not static.

[00:28:36]It's a timeline and it's moving. All it asks is that we remember to glance skyward. By the way, if you're enjoying this new format, I'd be absolutely del.

[00:28:49]>> I am. I was a little thrown back. I was a little thrown back initially, but I like it.

[00:28:54]>> Delighted if you subscribed.

[00:28:56]>> I will. I will, Mr. Riddle. Huh?

[00:28:59]>> Turn on notifications. Drop a like.

[00:29:02]>> I don't know about that. I did drop a like, though.

[00:29:03]>> Of course. Let me know what you think in the comments. Your support really does motivate me to keep creating and to keep making these videos better. See you in the next one, >> dude. W Riddle, man. Glad to see that agent 47 took a turn for science. Is that like the first video he showed his face? Holy, he resed his channel. Holy revive.

[00:29:29]Holy revive. Riddle. My god. Holy revive. Back to Andrew K views. Geez. I remember I used to watch them all the time. What if Titanoboa snake didn't go extinct? I remember I would watch these dude. Oh my god, that's like peak co.

[00:29:44]What if a nuclear bomb detonated in the Mariana's trench? Now imagine your grandpa had blue balls. Now imagine your grandpa has blue balls, he says in the riddle voice. Let's lock in next video.