The surface features of brown dwarfs – objects midway in mass between planets and stars – can’t be seen. But researchers have found a way to reveal Jupiter-like stripes and bands in the atmosphere of the closest brown dwarf, Luhman 16B. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/brown-dwarf-luhman-16b-jupiter-like-stripes…
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Now-dead radio telescope finds bizarre venomous-spider star
Data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope has revealed a bizarre new type of hybrid venomous spider star. Source: https://www.livescience.com/venemous-spider-hybrid-stars-discovered.html
‘Unluckiest burglars’ call police by mistake
A pair of would-be thieves ended up being arrested after accidentally phoning the police themselves. The bizarre incident, which took place on Wednesd… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/342770/unluckiest-burglars-call-police-by-mistake…
NYSE Abruptly Reverses Plan To Delist Three Chinese Telecoms
The New York Stock Exchange has abruptly reversed plans to delist three major Chinese telecommunications companies after consulting regulators about an investment ban ordered by President Donald Trump. From a report: Coming days before the companies were to be delisted — and just over two weeks before Trump is to leave the White House — the U-turn avoids a step that…
10 bizarre animal stories of 2020
2020 was a weird year, even in the animal kingdom. Source: https://www.livescience.com/strange-animal-behavior-2020.html
Video Taken By Pilots of What Could Be the Elusive Los Angeles Jet Pack Guy Emerges
We now have credible video of what appears to be the elusive “Jet Pack Guy” flying around at thousands of feet near Los Angeles International Airport. The Drive reports: The footage doesn’t come to us from some random Reddit board or YouTube channel, either. It was taken during an instructional flight from Sling Pilot Academy in the training area off Palos…
The bizarre reason Skittles taste different in the UK and the US
Once a popular ingredient, blackcurrants were ruthlessly eradicated from the US landscape after unwittingly assisting a crime against pine trees. Here’s the juicy backstory Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833132-800-the-bizarre-reason-skittles-taste-different-in-the-uk-and-the-us/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Microwave pulses caused bizarre ‘Havana syndrome,’ report suggests
A string of unexplained illnesses in Cuba, China and elsewhere was likely caused by directed, pulsed radio frequency energy, according to a government report. Source: https://www.livescience.com/havana-syndrome-caused-microwave-energy-government-report.html
There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system
Bizarre volcanoes that ooze ice magma or explode like geysers reveal the geological rumblings beneath other worlds. Some might even provide the spark for alien life Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833110-600-there-are-weird-volcanoes-everywhere-we-look-in-the-solar-system/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
To Explain Away Dark Matter, Gravity Would Have To Be Really Weird
To discard the theory of dark matter, “you’ll need to replace it with something even more bizarre: a force of gravity that, at some distances, pulls massive objects together and, at other distances, pushes them apart.” That’s how Science magazine describes a new study, adding that “The analysis underscores how hard it is to explain away dark matter” — even though…