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Astronomers Uncover the Most Powerful “Odd Radio Circle” Ever Seen — And It Looks Like a Galactic Venn Diagram

Astronomers Uncover the Most Powerful “Odd Radio Circle” Ever Seen — And It Looks Like a Galactic Venn Diagram

A still image from the animation of RAD J131346.9+500320. Credit: RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory (India). When astronomers first started finding “odd radio circles,” or ORCs, they were baffled. These faint, ghostly rings of radio light seemed to float in deep space, surrounding galaxies like cosmic smoke rings. Now, scientists have discovered the most powerful and distant one yet, and this one …

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Citizen Scientists Spot a Perfect Extragalactic Venn Diagram

Citizen Scientists Spot a Perfect Extragalactic Venn Diagram

For lovers of cool astronomy and math, this finding is a real treat. Citizen astronomers stumbled upon not one but two rings of extragalactic radio signals crossing each other to form a near-perfect Venn diagram. A paper published October 2 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society identifies this strangely geometric object as an “odd radio circle” (ORC), vast …

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