Cool!! I wonder if any algebra was involved in this discovery? New Kind of Cosmic Object Discovered
A multinational team of astronomers has discovered an entirely new kind of cosmic object. The small, highly compressed neutron stars, named Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), are likely related to pulsars.
Neutron stars are the staggeringly dense cores of massive stars left behind after supernova explosions. The objects contain one and a half times the mass of our own sun packed into a space the size of a large city.
"These [new objects] are basically a new type of neutron star, but we're not exactly sure how they fit together with the other types," said astronomer Ingrid Stairs, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
"They are clearly related to radio pulsars somehow, but we'll need more research [to understand the relation]."
As always, I am in awe of how busy god has been the past 6,000 years. Via National Geographic News
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Beautiful, and oddly reminiscent of Pharyngula's
Argonauta nodosa
Almost makes me believe in fractals.
You're right- it does look like a sea creature.
It's a GALAÇTIC CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!
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