Channel: Strange Mysteries

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Description: Go get your 50% off your first month of Keeps by going to keeps.com/StrangeMysteries 0:00 - Intro 01:11 - Sponsorship 02:46 - Rest of Video Enter an enormous star called VVV-WIT that is located closer to the center of The Milky Way, about 25 million light-years away from Planet Earth? Scientists have identified that its brightness is dimming down to about 3.3% of its maximum luster for several months before gradually returning to its previous luminosity. Yeah, this wasn’t just a momentary disappearance. This was a 200 day-long event that had scientists scratching their heads and blinking furiously in their own right. Why has VVV-WIT been disappearing on us and acting like an overworked husband when his young secretary is in town ? What out there is so large and enigmatically powerful that it almost completely blot out a star that is almost 100 times larger than our Sun? This video has been sponsored by Keeps. Music provided by Monstercat: Aleyum - Gazing At Space youtube.com/monstercat youtube.com/monstercatinstinct Thomas Vanz - Novae License Under CC 3.0 Only Modifications Include Using Snippets of Full Material as well as changes in speed vimeo.com/189562895 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA/Swift/N. Degenaar (Univ. of Michigan) (Image of Disc in Front of Star) Amanda Smith, University of Cambridge.