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**Copy edit:** PREVIEW: Colleague Bob Zimmerman comments on a spooky image of an apparent sphere of radio waves tens of thousands of light years distant. More later. **Corrections made:** - "COLLEAGUE" (fixed spelling) - "comments on a" (added "a") - "t

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Books, News, Society & Culture, Arts

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: Colleague Bob Zimmerman comments on a spooky image of an apparent sphere of radio waves tens of thousands of light years distant. More later.
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0:00.0

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0:53.6

It's about keeping

0:54.4

everything secure. This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman. A phenomenon,

1:01.6

a mystery, very compelling. A sphere of radio waves picked up by a radio telescope array in Australia.

1:12.5

Tens of thousands of light years away.

1:14.9

A perfect sphere.

1:17.0

Tens of light years across.

1:18.7

What is it?

1:20.3

Bob tells me, no one knows.

1:23.0

Take a look at it.

1:24.0

It's spooky.

1:26.0

It doesn't look consistent with artificial, but then again, does the

1:32.2

astronomer comment? But then again, radio waves emanating from what? Much more of this later tonight.

1:42.4

John, this is one of the strange things that astronomers sometimes discover they don't really understand.

1:47.0

In radio waves, using the Australian square kilometer array,

1:53.0

astronomers discovered serendipitously what appears to be a perfect sphere of radio emissions

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