{"id":109727,"date":"2020-07-09T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronomers-detect-unexpected-class-of-mysterious-circular-objects-in-space"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T23:05:39","slug":"astronomers-detect-unexpected-class-of-mysterious-circular-objects-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronomers-detect-unexpected-class-of-mysterious-circular-objects-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Detect Unexpected Class of Mysterious Circular Objects in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-detect-unexpected-class-of-mysterious-circular-objects-in-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although we usually have a pretty good handle on all the different kinds of blips and blobs detected by our telescopes, it would be unwise to assume we\u2019ve seen everything there is to see out there in the big, wide Universe. Case in point: a new kind of signal spotted by radio telescopes, which has astronomers scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Four of these strange objects have been detected. All of them are circular in shape, and three are particularly bright around the edges \u2014 like a ring, or a bubble that is more opaque around the edges.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers led by astrophysicist Ray Norris of Western Sydney University in Australia has nicknamed them ORCs \u2014 short for \u201cOdd Radio Circles\u201d \u2014 in a new paper posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.14805\">arXiv<\/a> and submitted to <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em>, where it awaits peer review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we usually have a pretty good handle on all the different kinds of blips and blobs detected by our telescopes, it would be unwise to assume we\u2019ve seen everything there is to see out there in the big, wide Universe. Case in point: a new kind of signal spotted by radio telescopes, which has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}