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Australia scientists find ‘spooky’ spinning object in Milky Way

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Australia scientists find ‘spooky’ spinning object in Milky Way

Australian scientists say they’ve discovered an unknown spinning object in the Milky Way, which they claim is unlike anything they’ve seen before.

The object – originally discovered by a college student – has been observed to release huge bursts of radio energy every 18 minutes for a full minute.

Objects that generate pulses of energy in the universe are often recorded. But researchers say something that opens for a minute is very unusual.

The team is working to learn more.

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The object was first discovered by Curtin University honours student Tyrone O’Doherty using a telescope and new technology he developed in outback Western Australia known as the Murchison Widefield Array.

Mr O’Doherty was part of a team led by astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).

“During our observations, [it] appeared and disappeared for hours,” she said in an ICRAR media release documenting the discovery.

“It was totally unexpected. For astronomers, it’s kind of creepy because there’s nothing known to do this in the sky.”
Objects in the universe that turn on and off aren’t new to astronomers — they call them “transients.”

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But ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist Gemma Anderson, Ph.D., was quoted in the press release as saying a celestial body that turned on for a full minute was “really weird.”

ICRAR added that after going back years of data, the team was able to determine that the object was about 4,000 light-years from Earth, was very bright and had an extremely strong magnetic field.

Theories about what the object might have been like include a neutron star or a white dwarf — a term used for the remnants of a collapsed star. However, most of the findings remain a mystery.

“More detections will tell astronomers whether this is a rare one-off event or a large new population that we haven’t noticed before,” said Dr Hurley-Walker. “I’m looking forward to learning about this object and then expanding the search to find more.”

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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