{"id":221942,"date":"2025-09-16T03:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/observations-investigate-the-nature-of-a-newly-discovered-odd-radio-circle"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:24:37","slug":"observations-investigate-the-nature-of-a-newly-discovered-odd-radio-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/observations-investigate-the-nature-of-a-newly-discovered-odd-radio-circle","title":{"rendered":"Observations investigate the nature of a newly discovered odd radio circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/observations-investigate-the-nature-of-a-newly-discovered-odd-radio-circle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and elsewhere have conducted radio spectropolarimetric observations of a recently identified odd radio circle designated ORC J0356\u20134216. Results of the observational campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.04981\" target=\"_blank\">presented<\/a> Sept. 5 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> pre-print server, shed more light on the nature of this object.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called odd radio circles (ORCs) are mysterious gigantic rings of radio waves and their origin is still unexplained. They are highly circular and bright along the edges at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radio+wavelengths\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radio wavelengths<\/a> but they cannot be observed at visible, infrared or X-ray wavelengths. To date, only a few objects of this type have been identified, hence very little is known about their nature.<\/p>\n<p>ORC J0356\u20134216 was identified in October 2023 with the MeerKAT radio telescope and shortly after its discovery, a group of astronomers led by Ruhr University Bochum\u2019s Sam Taziaux, performed radio spectropolarimetry of this source using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT to investigate its properties and nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and elsewhere have conducted radio spectropolarimetric observations of a recently identified odd radio circle designated ORC J0356\u20134216. Results of the observational campaign, presented Sept. 5 on the arXiv pre-print server, shed more light on the nature of this object. The so-called odd radio circles (ORCs) are mysterious gigantic [\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-221942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221942","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=221942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}