i've been waiting for a whole life or
something like this
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i just wish i was like 20 or something
so that's my life to study them
first of all one of my colleagues anna
kabinska
noticed this little circle and a few
days later
another colleague found another one with
the knife and another one
and that was that's really exciting sort
of thing that an astronomer dreams of
the entire career is finding something
nobody's ever seen before
i wish i could come right now and say
well actually i know what they are and
they're this
and we can't we actually don't know we
really really don't know so my
guess we now think that they're quite a
long way away
about a billion light years away and we
think that they have a galaxy in the
middle of them
and we think something's gone off in
that guy some humongous explosion
and we think these circles may be an
expanding
spherical shock wave coming out of the
galaxy
that's my best guess but it is only a
guess
i think it's significant when you find
something that you weren't expecting
often its own opens up a whole new area
of understanding
um but you've actually got no way of
predicting what that's going to be
it might turn up some really new physics
i hope
it would be great when somebody has that
eureka moment and says hey
i realize this is what they are
so this was a continual journey of going
out to the universe
finding new stuff finding more about how
we came to be here
and also finding out about new physics
and you never know where that's going to
go
you know you look at the things we take
for granted electronics
radio signals wi-fi all those things
have their foundations and people doing
basic science
and going out and taking a look and
that's
ultimately the benefit to humankind