UC-San Diego: Space Oddity - Uncovering the Origin of the Universe's Rare Radio Circles
January 09, 2024
January 09, 2024
LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news release:
It's not every day astronomers say, "What is that?" After all, most observed astronomical phenomena are known: stars, planets, black holes and galaxies. But in 2019 the newly completed ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) telescope picked up something no one had ever seen before: radio wave circles so large they contained entire gal . . .
It's not every day astronomers say, "What is that?" After all, most observed astronomical phenomena are known: stars, planets, black holes and galaxies. But in 2019 the newly completed ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) telescope picked up something no one had ever seen before: radio wave circles so large they contained entire gal . . .