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Most powerful 'odd radio circle' to date is discovered

The most distant and most powerful 'odd radio circle' (ORC) known so far has been discovered by astronomers. These curious rings are a relatively new astronomical phenomenon, having been detected for the first time just six years...
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A still image from the animation of RAD J131346.9+500320.
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Most powerful 'odd radio circle' to date is discovered
This image, which combines infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope with submillimetre observations from the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), shows the doughnut-shaped torus and interconnected bubbles of dusty gas that surround the Butterfly Nebula’s central star. The torus is oriented vertically and nearly edge-on from our perspective, and it intersects with bubbles of gas enclosing the star. The bubbles appear bright red in this image, illuminated by the light from helium and
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Cosmic butterfly reveals clues to Earth's creation
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