{"id":137266,"date":"2022-03-22T21:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/astronomers-reveal-best-image-yet-of-mysterious-odd-radio-circles-in-space"},"modified":"2022-03-22T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:02:59","slug":"astronomers-reveal-best-image-yet-of-mysterious-odd-radio-circles-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/astronomers-reveal-best-image-yet-of-mysterious-odd-radio-circles-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers reveal best image yet of mysterious odd radio circles in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-reveal-best-image-yet-of-mysterious-odd-radio-circles-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomy\u2019s newest mystery objects\u2060\u2014odd radio circles, or ORCs\u2060\u2014have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world\u2019s most capable radio telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>When first revealed in 2020 by the ASKAP <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radio\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/telescope\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">telescope<\/a>, owned and operated by Australia\u2019s national science agency CSIRO, odd radio circles quickly became objects of fascination. Theories on what causes them ranged from galactic shockwaves to the throats of wormholes.<\/p>\n<p>A new detailed image, captured by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory\u2019s MeerKAT radio telescope and published today in <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/i>, is providing researchers with more information to help narrow down those theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomy\u2019s newest mystery objects\u2060\u2014odd radio circles, or ORCs\u2060\u2014have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world\u2019s most capable radio telescopes. When first revealed in 2020 by the ASKAP radio telescope, owned and operated by Australia\u2019s national science agency CSIRO, odd radio circles quickly became objects of fascination. Theories on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137266","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}