Meet Undead Stars - Part 2 / Vampire, Zombie & Monster Stars/ Nirks Halloween Special Astronomy Song

Visit our website: https://www.thenirks.com/donate Visit our Store: https://www.thenirks.com/shop It's Meet the Undead Stars Part 2! Join Vincent if you dare, to meet some of the scariest, creepiest stars in the universe! We'll meet vampire stars, Zombie Stars, stars that we're dead but reignited, Frankenstars, Transformer Stars, Magnetars, Failed Supernova and Kilonova! Enjoy an epic journey out into the cosmos with The Nirks! Explore the spooky side of the cosmos with Vincent and the Nirks! Please note: This video is a little spooky, so if you are sensitive or young, you may want to let your older siblings and parents watch it first to make sure it won’t scare you. ©September 2025 Goes to Eleven Media. All Rights Reserved. Verses: Sakurai’s Object I’m a strange star that was dead but is now alive I’m very old and had already evolved into the white dwarf phase of my life But, at the last minute I had an enormous energy burst Called a Very Late Thermal Pulse that put my death into reverse My shell reignited one last time and I swelled up into a red giant Which created a thick cocoon of dust around me because my shell flash was so violent My dust cloud is so thick that it blocks all visible light from me And now a bi-polar nebula is forming around me you see I’m known as the Demon Star, Algol is the name I take My name means demon head, like medusa with her head full of snakes My constant visible changes in brightness made me the Scariest star in your night sky In the constellation Perseus, I’m Medusa the Gorgon’s winking eye But not to fear, there is an explanation I’m an Eclipsing Binary star in a triple star system The regular eclipses of me and my companion make it look like I’m winking at you When my companion expanded to the larger star, I started stealing mass from it as any bad demon would do The case of the disappearing star, a real mystery for Sherlock Holms and Dr. Watson I was a Red Giant star called M31-2014-DS1 My brightness increased for a little while and then just faded away until I disappeared No explosion, I was just gone from all sight I fear The solution was uncovered, I’m an example of a failed supernova Instead of ending in a blaze of glory, I’m a collapsed stellar core My outer layers were ejected but I collapsed before I could explode And all that is left of my demise, is a dark and creepy black hole A white dwarf star with a strange nebula around me WD J005311 I’m blindingly bright and Hydrogen and Helium Free The product of an explosive merger between two super-dense white dwarf stars Leaving one rare abomination and burning up all of the hydrogen and helium of ours When we collided, we caused a supernova, but it didn’t destroy me Instead, I became a Frankenstar, brought back to life you see My two stars ended up fusing together, reigniting my core, wow! My merger allows me to fuse heavier elements like carbon and oxygen now They call me a cannibal because I’m eating my own planetary system But I’m just a hungry zombie star, that needs energy to go on I may have bit off more than I could chew, though My name is WD 0816-310 I ate a planet, and it was a tasty treat for this starving star But my actions left me with a nasty metallic debris scar My metal scar shows that a piece of planet I tried to eat didn’t agree with me It’s material only spread across part of my surface, instead of being absorbed completely SGR 0501+4516 a runaway Zombie star whose my origin is a mystery A neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, or Magnetar, that’s me In fact, my magnetic field is about a trillion times stronger than Earth’s can be Don’t get too close, I’m like a zombie death ray and could rip you apart piece by piece PSR J1023+0038 a transformer vampire pulsar My companion and I orbit each other every 4.8 hours A millisecond pulsar I produce both a radio beam and high energy winds My winds hold back the stream of gas that I’m siphoning from my companion But when that gas stream surges it creates an accretion disc around me This disc causes my radio beam to turn off, or at least be obscured you see I begin accelerating some of the gasses I’m stealing and eject them in 2 particle jets then When all the gases are gone, we start the process all over again CDP-29 2176 a Binary star system Two massive blue stars that will come to an epic end The smaller of us will feed on larger one’s atmosphere until an ultra-stripped supernova Then the resulting neutron star will do the same to the other blue star The leftover 2 neutron stars will then spiral towards each other Until they collide creating a spectacular explosion called a kilonova Kilonovas are like cosmic factories that churn out the heavy elements they disperse Through an epic explosion out into the universe ©September 2025 Goes to Eleven Media. All Rights Reserved.