The Planet Erased by Albert Einstein

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]How many planets [music] are in our solar system? In the 19th century, the answer was different. Scientists believed a planet was hiding right next to the sun, even closer than Mercury.

[00:00:08][music] Its name was Vulcan. It was meant to explain a strange anomaly in Mercury's [music] orbit, pulling it like an unseen mass. Astronomers claimed to see it during eclipses, [music] and it was officially written into textbooks.

[00:00:21]But then one man erased an entire planet with a single stroke of a pen, >> [music] >> Albert Einstein. He proved there was no hidden planet, only the bending of space and [music] time. The sun's colossal gravity was warping space so much that it caused [music] Mercury's path to shift. We had been chasing a ghost.

[00:00:39]Vulcan never existed. It faded into the dark [music] as the most famous phantom in the history of science.