Mystifies

At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the surface off the coast of Alaska, where the warm light of the Sun never penetrates, an NOAA Ocean Exploration remotely operated underwater vehicle came across a strange, golden orb.It was "tightly adhered" to a rock dotted with white sponges, measuring around 10 centimeters (4 inches) across with a hole in one side.It wasn't entirely clear what the mysterious orb might be. Initial suggestions from the researchers conducting the livestream of the dive included an egg casing from a…

Astronomers have discovered an unusually lonely galaxy, 3C 297, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the International Gemini Observatory. Located 9.2 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy appears to have assimilated its former companion galaxies, challenging current understanding of galaxy and galaxy cluster formation. Researchers suggest that 3C 297 could be a “fossil group,” the end stage of a galaxy merging with several others, making it the most distant fossil group discovered so far. Credit: X-ray:…