In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska made a presentation showing interesting things while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She began to see very strange shapes that could not easily fit into any known type of to-budget. Of those, labeled by Anna WTF?, Was a picture of a haunted …
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You can also find vortex rings wherever you have liquids. Now, scientists have found the art of the vortex interesting somewhere – inside a small column made of magnetic material, the gadolinium-cobalt intermetallic compound GDCO2. If you’ve seen smoke rings, or bubble rings under water, you’ve seen vortex rings: a …
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Dying giant star, not a peaceful event. It explodes its outer material in a tremendous explosion, irradiating the space with high-energy gamma radiation for many years. The empty space is not just exposed to this radiation. New research suggests that ancient trees on Earth may have evidence of celestial explosions. …
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A cloud of dust and gas revolving around the infant star system 1,300 light-years away, we are not yet like a disk forming a planet. It consists of three rings, wrapped around three stars – and all three rings have different directions, with the other two incorrectly connected. It is …
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It is summer on Saturn, and rarely have Earthlings had such a clear view of it. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a new image of the planet, showing its rings in stunningly clear detail. NASA called Saturn the “lord of the rings” in its recent announcement about the new …
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