What Are These Weird Rings In Space?
Over the past few years, astronomers have discovered their own kind of UFO called Odd Radio Circles, aka ORCs. They're a little too round, and a little too invisible at non-radio wavelengths, to immediately know what they are and what's causing them. Get your SciShow Real-Life Unicorns Sticker Pack here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow/products/real-life-unicorns-sticker-pack Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: Ray Norris interview Jordan Collier interview https://www.livescience.com/odd-radio-circle.html https://www.inverse.com/science/astronomers-capture-the-most-detailed-ever-image-of-bizarre-space-rings https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-discover-mysterious-circular-ring-likely-of-intergalactic-origin/ https://www.nist.gov/pml/sensor-science/what-synchrotron-radiation https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom/web/Ch5.html https://hal.science/hal-03585916/document https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.10669.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.14805.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8395-7 Images: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/513/1/1300/6553851 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/set-of-electromagnetic-spectrum-diagram-or-royalty-free-illustration/1311362176?phrase=electromagnetic+spectrum+radio&adppopup=true https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/9/4/83# https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-peek-inside-the-orion-nebula https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2173.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hercules-a.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ORC_J2103-6200_2022.gif https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/time-lapse-milky-way-over-the-mountain-top-stock-footage/522081140?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/empty-wafer-waffle-icecream-cone-isolated-on-white-royalty-free-image/1407178751?phrase=empty+waffle+cone&adppopup=true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_UwUuJFT3Q&ab_channel=JamesWebbSpaceTelescope%28JWST%29 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_82_is_a_starburst_galaxy_approximately_12_million_light-years_away_in_the_constellation_Ursa_Major._Original_from_NASA_._Digitally_enhanced_by_rawpixel._%2845448950435%29.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-captures-the-spectacular-galactic-merger-arp-220 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/space-travel-stars-stock-video-stock-footage/1361723239?adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmaalexander_synchrotron.png https://esahubble.org/images/heic0515a/ https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/9/4/83# https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M87_jet.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centaurus_A_galaxy.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cygnus_A_composite.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/bent-spacetime-warped-grid-wormhole-funnel-dimensional-stock-footage/1251622440?adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SKA_overview.jpg
