Two unusual stories of stars were in the news last week:
1. a pulsar discovered that doesn’t seem to have the right type of surface magnetic field for the way pulsars are normally meant to work. This means there is a bit of work to be done to see how this type of pulsar gets its power. (My comment: first alien artefact found?)
2. the Milky Way seems to have kinks in its arms, making it a bit more like a pinwheel than your usual Andromeda galaxy, curvy armed, classic shape. Other galaxies that look like this have been seen before, so this is not considered completely weird, apparently.
But – how does any galaxy get angles in arms like that? I would have thought that nature (and gravity in particular) loves circles and curves. Odd.
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