MERCURY : A PLANET THAT IS BLEEDING TO DEATH

追加: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]The relentless [music] radiation from solar winds is physically sandblasting atoms right off the planet's crust.

[00:00:07]This creates [music] a terrifying phenomenon.

[00:00:10]As Mercury orbits, it bleeds out a massive, glowing, yellow-orange tail of sodium gas.

[00:00:16]This tail stretches for over 15 million miles into the void.

[00:00:21]Mercury [music] is not just a planet. It is acting like a colossal iron core comet, desperately leaving [music] a trail of its own destruction.

[00:00:31]But the most unsettling fact about Mercury is that it is dying.

[00:00:36]Its massive iron core is slowly cooling.

[00:00:39]And as the core cools, the entire [music] planet is contracting.

[00:00:43]Mercury is actively crumpling in on itself, tearing its [music] own crust apart to form massive, jagged cliffs over a mile high.

[00:00:52]It is a freezing, boiling, bleeding world, and it is shrinking out of existence. Subscribe to AstroFledge before the universe swallows the rest of our secrets.