{"id":32008,"date":"2025-07-27T22:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=32008"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:32:48","slug":"cosmic-objects-baffle-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2025\/07\/27\/cosmic-objects-baffle-astronomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of bizarre cosmic objects baffle astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212; Astronomers are researching two objects in space that are said to be rare and one of a kind.<\/p>\n<p>A team at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/news\/astronomers-discover-rare-distant-object-sync-neptune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Astrophysics<\/a> discovered a strange object way out past Neptune that\u2019s caught in an orbital dance with the distant planet.<\/p>\n<p>2020 VN40 is part of a family of distant solar system objects called <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/asset\/hubble\/trans-neptunian-object\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trans-Neptunian<\/a> objects. It&#8217;s the first-known object to orbit the Sun once for every ten orbits that Neptune makes.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t stay in this orbital pattern forever, it\u2019s giving astronomers a rare look at the complex gravitational forces shaping the solar system\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, astronomers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/greenbankobservatory.org\/front-page-news\/spaces-spinning-enigma-a-unicorn-object-defies-astrophysics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSF Green Bank Observatory<\/a>\u00a0have uncovered a truly bizarre cosmic object unlike anything seen before.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>CHIME was detected by two teams of researchers working independently of each other using different data sets.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Rosemary Pike, CfA (left), NSF\/AUI\/NSF NRAO\/P.Vosteen (right)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are researching two objects in space that are said to be rare and one of a kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2014,41,2016,15],"class_list":["post-32008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-vn40","tag-astronomy","tag-chime","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-vn40-chime.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32010,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32008\/revisions\/32010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}