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One ring to rule them all... August 21, 2020 12:59 pm hank

Google “Odd Radio Circles – ORCs” , the net is filled with articles and pictures.

A new discovery by radio astronomers over just the last few months has started to reveal mysterious circular objects at immense extragalactic distances, visible only at radio wavelengths. They seem to be centered on very distant galaxies. Explosion features?
Gravitational Lensing Artifacts? Deep Space Crop Circles? The mother of all industrial accidents?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_radio_circle

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/odd-radio-circles-08632.html

“Anything which is not forbidden is mandatory.”

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  • Hate to burst your bubble, but... by Vitruvius 2020-08-24 02:57:59
    • That dot wasn't a star. It was a galaxy. They are the mother of bursting bubbles. by hank 2020-08-24 04:11:24
      • They could be either. by Vitruvius 2020-08-24 15:33:51
    • "And in the darkness bind them" by podrock 2020-08-21 19:54:35

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