In the chaotic comfort of his barn studio in Southern Norway, painter Odd Nerdrum is working on a new image of the zaftig figure of a hermaphrodite destined for the Nerdrum Museum collection. His ...

"It was the missing key to unlock the secret of the Cloverleaf's formation." XMM-Newton, a European Space Agency and NASA-operated space telescope, has imaged a vast cosmic "Cloverleaf" to uncover ...

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Astronomers have discovered another mysterious and massive circle of radio light in space. The strange and vast circle of light is an example of an ORC (Odd Radio Circle), the origins of which are ...

to find something truly odd. Most astronomical phenomena, like asteroids, planets and black holes, are known. Even the pictures of baby galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope had some ...

Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum famously obsesses over his large-scale, classical works, often repainting his canvases over and over again with the help of a small band of apprentices. Working in ...