{"id":11356,"date":"2021-04-30T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:55:37","slug":"another-new-orc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/30\/another-new-orc\/","title":{"rendered":"Another New ORC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5dbpea\/scientists-spot-yet-another-unexplained-ring-shaped-radio-structure-in-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from VICE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scientists Spot Yet Another Unexplained Ring-Shaped Radio Structure In Space<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A new Odd Radio Circle (ORC) appears to span a million light years, and contains a clue that could explain these ghostly structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/contributor\/becky-ferreira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Becky Ferreira<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Are Odd Radio Circles? With Prof. Ray Norris\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7WMPrecjHHg?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have spotted yet another bizarre, gigantic, and unexplained circle-shaped radio structure in outer space, a discovery that contributes to \u201cexciting times in astronomy,\u201d reports a new study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bubble is the latest example of an Odd Radio Circle (ORC), an aptly named type of spectral ring that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qj4z8w\/scientists-discover-unexplained-glowing-circles-of-energy-in-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debuted in a 2020 paper<\/a>\u00a0led by Western Sydney University astrophysicist Ray Norris. Norris and his colleagues detected four of these enormous circles eerily glowing in faint radio wavelengths far beyond our galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, scientists led by B\u00e4rbel Koribalski, a research scientist at CSIRO&#8217;s Australia Telescope National Facility, have discovered a fifth ORC that appears to span about one million light years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This structure, named ORC J0102\u20132450, also looks like it has an elliptical galaxy at its center, a feature it shares with two of the ORCs found by Norris\u2019 team. Koribalski and her co-authors, including Norris, said the presence of the galaxies is \u201cunlikely a coincidence\u201d and may help explain the origin of these ghostly rings, according to their forthcoming study in the&nbsp;<em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters<\/em>, which is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2104.13055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available on the preprint server<\/a>&nbsp;arXiv.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ORCs have flown under the radar for decades because they are extremely dim, but new and advanced radio telescopes, such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), are sensitive enough to spot the huge bubbles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5dbpea\/scientists-spot-yet-another-unexplained-ring-shaped-radio-structure-in-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at VICE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VICE Scientists Spot Yet Another Unexplained Ring-Shaped Radio Structure In Space A new Odd Radio Circle (ORC) appears to span a million light years, and contains a clue that could explain these ghostly structures. By\u00a0Becky Ferreira Scientists have spotted yet another bizarre, gigantic, and unexplained circle-shaped radio structure in outer space, a discovery that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}