{"id":125160,"date":"2025-05-23T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125160\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:50:12","slug":"scientists-are-baffled-after-discovering-a-perfect-sphere-emitting-radio-signals-from-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125160\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are BAFFLED after discovering a perfect sphere emitting radio signals from deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like an alien<\/a>\u00a0world, or a floating snow globe suspended in space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At first glance it could even be a cue ball on a snooker table.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this perfect sphere, hiding in our Milky Way galaxy trillions of miles away, is leaving scientists baffled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mysterious round object with ‘remarkable circular symmetry’ is\u00a0defying current space theories, making its origin and nature unclear.<\/p>\n

Picked up by Australia’s ASKAP telescope, researchers think it is probably expanding, although it is invisible to the naked eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They have named it Teleios which comes from ancient Greek and means ‘complete’ or ‘perfect’ due to its stunning shape.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Located in our galaxy, Teleios could be up to 157 light-years in diameter.<\/p>\n

‘The most obvious characteristic of Teleios is its remarkable circular symmetry, coupled with a low surface brightness,’ say the international team of researchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An alien world? The perfect space sphere could be up to 157 light-years in diameter – that’s the distance light travels in 157 years!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Zoomed-out radio wave image from the research paper shows the sphere between 20:00 and 10:00 right ascension<\/p>\n

Teleios was discovered using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP),\u00a0an array of radio telescopes located in Western Australia’s remote desert.<\/p>\n

It is either 7,100 or 25,100 light years away from Earth (2.2 or 7.7 kiloparsecs away), the researchers estimate \u2013 equating to thousands of trillions of miles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What’s weird is Teleios is only visible in radio waves, which are the longest wavelength part of the electromagnetic spectrum.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0Teleios can’t be viewed in X-rays, infrared light or visible light, meaning we couldn’t see it even if we were able to get close to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Teleios [is] named from the Greek \u03a4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u0269\u03bf\u03c3 (‘perfect’) for its near-perfectly circular shape,’\u00a0the experts say in a piece for The Conversation<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘This unique object has never been seen in any wavelength, including visible light, demonstrating ASKAP’s incredible ability to discover new objects.’\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

While the academics don’t know exactly what the space sphere is or how it formed, they do have a few solid theories.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It could be a ‘supernova remnant’ \u2013 the debris left behind after a supernova, composed largely of elements such as carbon, oxygen, neon and silicon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Researchers say: ‘The most obvious characteristic of Teleios is its remarkable circular symmetry’<\/p>\n

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Teleios was discovered using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), an array of radio telescopes located in Western Australia’s remote desert<\/p>\n

What we know about\u00a0Teleios <\/p>\n