
Images of two unique icy objects captured by ALMA
Takashi Shimonishi/Niigata University
Two strange icy objects in our galaxy look unlike anything astronomers have seen before, but they could be an entirely new type of star.
In 2021, Takashi Shimonishi and colleagues at Niigata University in Japan discovered what appeared to be two icy gas spheres in roughly the same part of the sky, far enough apart that they were unrelated to each other.
The properties of the object were puzzling. They looked like…
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