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Scientists solve circle mystery

 In 2019, in Western Australia, the 36 coordinated radio telescopes of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) provided evidence of a series of large ghost-like circles of radio waves so huge that they included entire

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