PARABNORMAL NEWS — Astronomers are researching two objects in space that are said to be rare and one of a kind.
A team at the Center for Astrophysics discovered a strange object way out past Neptune that’s caught in an orbital dance with the distant planet.
2020 VN40 is part of a family of distant solar system objects called Trans-Neptunian objects. It’s the first-known object to orbit the Sun once for every ten orbits that Neptune makes.
Found during a sky survey in Hawaii, this tiny world follows a steep, tilted path, moving in a way scientists have never seen before. Even if 2020 VN40 won’t stay in this orbital pattern forever, it’s giving astronomers a rare look at the complex gravitational forces shaping the solar system’s edge.
Meanwhile, astronomers at the NSF Green Bank Observatory have uncovered a truly bizarre cosmic object unlike anything seen before.
CHIME J1634+44 is one of the rarest types of known stars. Located several thousand light-years away, only a dozen of these strange, flickering sources known as long-period transients have ever been found in the galaxy. This one stands out though because instead of slowing down as most space objects do, it appears to be spinning faster.
CHIME was detected by two teams of researchers working independently of each other using different data sets.
Photos: Rosemary Pike, CfA (left), NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P.Vosteen (right)
