Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
30-11-2016
WEDEROM UFO ONTDEKT NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
WEDEROM UFO ONTDEKT NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
Een aantal Russische wetenschappers verklaarde jaren geleden al dat er veel meer UFO activiteit rondom onze zon plaatsvindt dan wij voor mogelijk houden.
Die UFO’s zijn voor ons uiteraard met het blote oog niet te zien, maar ze vertonen zich wel degelijk op de SOHO telescoopbeelden van NASA.
Ongeveer tien jaar geleden verklaarden twee Russische wetenschappers dat ze hadden ontdekt dat er op ieder gegeven moment zich honderden UFO’s ophouden in de buurt van onze zon.
Dat niet alleen, maar ook dat ze hun snelheid kunnen verhogen of verlagen zonder aanwijsbare reden en dat ze een rechthoekige draai kunnen maken met onvoorstelbare snelheden, iets dat voor een normaal ruimteschip onmogelijk zou zijn. Zeker voor de waargenomen ruimteschepen die minstens zo groot zijn als onze maan.
Door de jaren heen zijn er telkens nieuwe waarnemingen geweest, waarbij het lijkt alsof deze enorme UFO’s energie uit de zon tanken.
Nu duikt er weer een opname op van een UFO die als het ware lijkt weg te schieten van de zon.
De bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 zegt dat hij eigenlijk niet gelooft in de UFO/zon plasma/energie theorie, maar dat deze beelden hem toch aan het denken hebben gezet.
Op ieder gewenst moment van de dag is er eigenlijk wel wat te zien rondom de zon op de SOHO beelden van NASA.
Het volgende voorbeeld is gemaakt door Scott Waring van Ufo Sightings Daily voor wie iedere pixelafwijking in het beeld een UFO is, maar waar ook inderdaad recht boven de zon en rechtsonder vreemde objecten zijn te zien.
Er wordt op dit moment veel gesproken over een mogelijke nep buitenaardse invasie op aarde. Een soort holografisch spel door de elite, waarbij het lijkt alsof er een buitenaardse invasiemacht naar de aarde is gekomen om ons te koloniseren. Het idee erachter is dan om de al zo lang gewenste wereldregering te activeren, waarbij de mensheid als één geheel weerstand zal bieden tegen de indringers.
Echter, de activiteiten van vreemde objecten in de buurt van de zon heeft naar alle waarschijnlijkheid niets te maken met iets dat door mensenhanden is gemaakt, maar alles met buitenaardse beschavingen.
En omdat toeval niet bestaat, hebben we ook deze week weer een voorval van een grote UFO bij de zon die net als die in 2012 energie schijnt te tanken.
De opname lijkt in eerste instantie op een soort donkere planeet, gedeeltelijk verborgen achter de zon. Maar, even later is net zoals bij de vreemde grote UFO uit 2012 een soort slang te zien.
Iets dat lijkt op de verbinding tussen de UFO en de zon waarmee het mogelijk de nodige energie tankt.
Maar, NASA is ook dat soort opnames zat en dus gebeurt het volgende: De afbeelding hierna is vorig jaar genomen en afkomstig van één van de ruimtetelescopen van NASA en daarop zie je rechtsboven bij de zon een enorme driehoekige UFO.
Een dag later ziet hetzelfde beeld er als volgt uit. Er is door NASA een keurig plakkertje over de UFO geplaatst en niemand die nog wat ziet.
En dan gebeurt er nog iets enkele dagen geleden. Wederom is er op een foto van de NASA ruimtetelescopen iets opmerkelijks te zien, vlakbij de zon.
De beelden zien er als volgt uit:
Deze ontdekking is gedaan door Scott Waring, die zegt dat hij vaker dit soort grote vierkante ufo’s heeft ontdekt vlakbij de zon.
Waar het echter veel meer op lijkt, is dat we hier weer te maken hebben met één van de vele NASA plakkers en dat de echte UFO ergens daaronder zit verborgen.
Ook hier zie je weer zoals op eerdere afbeeldingen dat ook deze UFO als het ware energie opzuigt uit de zon.
Het bovenstaande wordt uitgebreid behandeld in onderstaande video van Secure Team, met daarnaast nog een aantal andere zeer interessante en mysterieuze zaken.
Ultra-diffuse galaxies are as faint as dwarf galaxies, but spread over an area the size of the Milky Way — with about 1/1000th the number of stars. A new simulation suggests many supernovas at the beginning of a galaxy's life can push the stars and dark matter outward to a great size. Two simulated ultra-diffuse galaxies are pictured here on top of a Hubble Space Telescope image of background galaxies.
Credit: Arianna Di Cintio, Chris Brook, NIHAO simulations and Hubble Space Telescope
Like ghosts, ultra-diffuse galaxies often float undetected in the night sky — stretching the size of the Milky Way, but containing only a dwarf galaxy's worth of stars. Now, a new simulation suggests their explosive origins, and hints that there may be many more than seen so far.
Researchers uncovered the first ultra-diffuse galaxy in 2015, and were puzzled by how the faint galaxy came to have such a large size with so few stars. Since then, they've spotted many more with the most sensitive telescopes, mostly in large clusters of many galaxies. But this new research suggests that internal dynamics in a forming galaxy, rather than processes happening within clusters, can blow a dwarf up to enormous, spread-out size — and thus they may pepper the universe even far from large clusters, hiding in plain sight because of their faintness.
The ultra-diffuse galaxy Dragonfly 17, shown in comparison to the large Andromeda galaxy and the elliptical dwarf galaxy NGC 205.
Credit: Schoening/Harvey/vanDokkum/Hubble Space Telescope
An international collaboration called NIHAO — the Numerical Investigation of a Hundred Astronomical Objects — simulated the formation of 100 galaxies in extreme detail, tracking the way gases, forming stars and dark matterinteracted within the systems. Within that 100, they found some that matched the profile of the newly discovered ultra-diffuse galaxies. So they worked backward to discern what had caused them — not big galaxies failing and growing faint, but dwarf galaxies stretched to an extraordinary size. [Galactic Evolution: How Galaxies are Classified by Type (Infographic)]
"Once stars explode supernovae, they release a lot of energy into the surrounding gas, and this gas can be expelled really, really fast," Arianna di Cintio, a researcher at University of Copenhagen's DARK Cosmology Center and lead author on the new work, told Space.com. If dwarf galaxies experience enough of these supernovas early on in their lives, she said, the galaxy can balloon outwards, borne on the outflows of gas.
"Basically, the dark-matter particles start flying outwards from the center of the galaxy, and this process happens for the stars as well," di Cintio said. "At the end of the day, you form a galaxy which has few stars, so it's a dwarf galaxy, but the stars have spread over a large, large surface — something similar to the Milky Way."
Thus, the galaxies' few million stars puff up to fill a space that could ordinarily host about 1,000 times that number.
This video from NIHAO (PI A.V. Macciò, NYUAD) shows a simulation of an ultra-diffuse galaxy's formation, depicting the fountains of gas launching out of the galaxy.
It's easier to find ultra-diffuse galaxies in big galaxy clusters because that's where the most powerful telescopes set their sights — for instance, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru telescope found 854 of them in the Coma Cluster, according to a statement by the university's Niels Bohr Institute. Just a few have been found so far floating on their own, di Cintio said.
The fact that the simulation created these familiar — albeit mysterious — structures is "a very, very nice confirmation of what we think is there — the current cosmological model," di Cintio said. "This effect of expansion of dark matter and stars, we knew that it existed for a few years, [but] no one connected it yet to ultra-diffuse galaxies because they weren't observed yet."
Some of the 854 ultra-diffuse galaxies found by the Subaru Telescope in the Coma galaxy cluster, about 300 million light-years away. Three hundred and thirty-two of them are Milky Way-size.
Credit: NAOJ
Di Cintio said the next steps are to try and verify more ultra-diffuse galaxies living on their own, outside of big clusters, and to measure their mass — potentially through gravitational lensing — to help verify that they're really dwarf-galaxy-mass. In general, further research will help researchers discover extremely faint, low-surface-brightness galaxies that may lurk in our telescopes' fields of view.
"So far, we were blind, in a certain sense, to these low-surface-brightness and ultra-diffuse galaxies," di Cintio said. "We may be looking around and finding thousands of galaxies that we didn't even think about yet."
The new work was detailed Nov. 29 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Massive 'Baby' Stars Are Born with Cosmic Fireworks
Massive 'Baby' Stars Are Born with Cosmic Fireworks
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
An artist's impression of an accretion burst around one of the universe's most massive stars. The bursts suggest that the large stars form along the same lines as their smaller siblings.
Credit: Deutsches SOFIA Institut (DSI)
The universe celebrates the birth of massive stars with cosmic fireworks, just as it does with its smaller siblings, a new study shows.
Stars the size of the sun produce outbursts as they interact with the disk of material around them, but larger stars shine so brightly that scientists thought their disks would burn away quickly. For the first time, astronomers have spotted periodic explosions in the material surrounding a massive star as it swallows a planet-size clump of gas from its disk, suggesting that these giant stars form the same way as their smaller counterparts.
"These outbursts, which are several orders of magnitude larger than their lower-mass siblings, can release about as much energy as our sun delivers in over 100,000 years," Alessio Caratti o Garatti, an astronomer at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland, said in a statement. Caratti o Garatti led a team that made observations from multiple instruments to study a massive young star. [The Biggest Star Mysteries Ever]
"Surprisingly, the fireworks are observed not just at the end of the lives of massive stars, as supernovae, but also at their birth!" he said.
A time-lapse movie
Stars form as gravity draws gas and dust together in space. For stars like the sun, the material flattens into an accretion disk, falling into the center, where the star is born. But the higher radiation produced by the largest stars, which can weigh more than 100 times the mass of the sun, was thought to burn away the disk around it, keeping material from falling inward and requiring another path to their birth.
Using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain and the California-based SOFIA Observatory, which is mounted on an airplane, the astronomers spotted explosive outbursts in the disk surrounding a massive star about 6,000 light-years from the sun. As the star swallowed an enormous gob of gas about twice as massive as Jupiter, it released bursts of energy revealed as a bright flare-up around the star. According to the researchers, the fireworks suggest that the material survived the destructive radiation previously thought to obliterate it to fall onto the large stars, echoing the process followed by smaller stellar objects.
"How accretion disks can survive around these massive stars is still a mystery," Caratti o Garatti said in the statement.
The disk that produces the fireworks makes star birth challenging to spot because the dense material lies between Earth and the star. Infrared telescopes such as Gemini can pierce through the cloud to spot what's happening at the center. Unlike their smaller siblings, the largest stars lie farther away from the sun, adding to the difficulty. And, compared to stars like the sun, the birth of massive stars is brief, lasting only about 100,000 years, according to Caratti o Garatti. In contrast, smaller stars like the sun can take hundreds of times longer to form.
"When we study the formation of higher-mass stars, it's like watching a time-lapse movie when compared to less-massive stars," Caratti o Garatti said. "Although the process for massive stars is fast and furious, it still takes tens of thousands of years."
Previous studies suggested that outbursts around other stars last only a few years. The team estimated that the burst they studied started about 16 months ago, and it is continuing to release energy weakly today, they said.
"While this research presents the strongest case yet for similar formation processes for low- and high-mass stars, there is still a lot to understand — especially whether planets can form in the same way around stars at both ends of the mass spectrum," team member Bringfried Stecklum, an astronomer at the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg in Germany, said in the statement.
The suncould be the star of some interstellar Clearasil commercial right now, because there’s barely a spot on it. According to NASA, our nearest star is looking so fresh and clean because it hit its lowest level of solar activity since 2011 — almost exactly five years ago.
On Monday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory posted a video of our squeaky-clean sun, and explained that it was on its way to solar minimum, a time in the sun’s roughly 11-year solar cycle when there are almost no sunspots. NASA describes it as a “pendulum-like pattern,” and notes that there have been very, very few sunspots over the past “several days.”
The last time the sun was this spotless was in 2011 in mid-November, during a stretch that lasted from the 14th to the 18th. A few years after that, the sun reached its most-recent peak of solar activity in early 2014.
NASA says the number of sunspots — normal, temporary blemishes on the star’s surface as a result of reduced surface temperature in that area — has been declining faster than they expected, though it doesn’t appear that the quicker rate will move up the solar cycle timeline. The sun is still expected to hit its true solar minimum in 2021.
The Sun is lookin' good.
Just because the sun is spot-free now, and headed towards an even cleaner future, doesn’t mean there won’t be some sunspot breakouts before then. In fact, they might be sprouting up with a vengeance. “No doubt more and larger sunspots will inevitably appear, but we’ll just have to wait and see,” NASA wrote in its blog post.
When T.S. Eliot wrote that, he was considering the end of WWI and the dissolution of his marriage and the Treaty of Versailles, he was not (consciously at least) contemplating physics-based simulator. But he almost certainly would have been enamored of the visual poetry that Universe Sandbox2puts on offer. It’s a worlds-building game, an attempt to take the Sim genre to its logical conclusion, but it’s also a way to craft a personal vision for theend of Earth. And it is a profound reminder that we exist at the mercy of larger forces.
“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”
The lifelike simulator allows users to inject carbon dioxide into Mars’ atmosphere to try to make life or reenact the Big Bang, or, and this feels so inevitable, crash shit into Earth to see what happens.
To describe the simulated destruction of Earth as satisfying is to undersell the delight of a child with a magnifying glass and some plastic soldiers. Or a skilled Mortal Kombatant given the go ahead to “Finish Him.” Here’s how it might go down if it was me, not God (or whatever), in charge….
Despite being extremely unlikely, the scenario that immediately springs to mindis the collision of Earth and the Moon. It’s a visit that would not end well for humanity.
Beyond being immediately catastrophic, the collision would fundamentally alter the earth’s rotation, as this GIF demonstrates. Consequently, every extant ecosystem would have its weather changed. Time, indeed, might run backwards. (Sure, but would broken coffee cups come back together?)
Roughly 17 hours from impact, the release of energy from impact has increased Earth’s surface temperature to 1657 degrees Celsius, according to the physics simulator (which allows you to track surface conditions of your experiments, including atmospheric measurements).
Earth’s a goner….
A similar possibility: Mars gets hit and pieces from that detonation rocket into Earth’s atmosphere….
Predictably, this is no better a scenario for Earth’s chances than contact by the Moon. Surface temperature of the Earth about 12 hours after impact is actually hotter, 2205 degrees Fahrenheit, and the result doesn’t look much more liveable than the post-Moon impact world.
Fortunately, that’s still pretty unlikely.
The luminosity of the Sun is a function of both its size (measured by radius) and the surface temperature. Astronomers suppose the Sun’s luminosity will increase by 1% every 100 million years.
A projection of the Earth after 1.5 billion years have passed and the Sun’s luminosity has increased by 15% shows things already getting hot:
The most widely-agreed-upon endpoint for Earth as a life-sustaining force (all other disaster scenarios notwithstanding) is the increasing luminosity of the Sun, which is expected to make Earth so hot as to be entirely unlivable in three billion years.
An analysis of the Earth at this point reveals a surface temperature of 101.9 degrees celsius, or just past the boiling point of water — consistent with projections that one of the first things to disappear from late-stage Earth will be the oceans.
The surface temperature of the earth has more than tripled, to 376 degrees Celsius—according to the simulation—while the Sun’s radius has expanded from the current 696,300 km to 702,020 km. This is consistent with predictions that at the three billion year point, Earth’s temperature will resemble Venus’s (with a present temperature of 462 degrees celsius)….
Another well-known end times prediction from scientists states that our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearest galaxy, Andromeda, will collide in about 4 billion years.
Supposing that we’ve already found a way to get off the burning rock Earth will have become and colonize Mars or a planet further on, scientists speculate that the merging galaxies will make life difficult by ejecting our Solar System into outer space or, at minimum, moving us further from the galactic core.
The goods news is that we probably won’t hit anything. Scientists actually expect this interaction to feature few real collisions because the amount of space between celestial bodies is vast. Still, things get iffy when supermassive black holes are in play.
Universe Sandbox2 is like a physics lesson on the ultimate meaninglessness of life. Perhaps the most nihilistic game on the market, it serves as a stark reminder that the Trump presidency will be nothing more than a galactic hiccup — barely worth worrying about at all.
Every high school physics student can ramble this off by memory: According to Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the speed of light is always the same; therefore the laws of physics exist and behave the same everywhere in the universe.
For a pair of physicists, that century-old notion simply reads: Challenge Accepted. João Magueijo from Imperial College London and Niayesh Afshordi of the Perimeter Institute in Canada proposed a new experiment proving Einstein wrong and demonstrating that the speed of light actually isn’t a constant. The pair thinks light may have moved faster in the past, around the time of Big Bang, and that it’s actually slowed down since.
The speed of light is an idea that scientists have pondered since the time of Aristotle, but it was Einstein who really gave this concept context for the modern era of physics with his infamous Theory of General Relativity. The assumption that the speed of light is a constant has been a proximal way to also assume the universe operates uniformly.
If the speed of light isn’t constant, however, it throws even the most basic laws of physics into question.
Magueijo and Afshordi think the speed of light might have been different in an infant universe that exhibited a more lumpy density. Historically, this was explained by inflation theory the universe rapidly expanded before slowing down and normalizing out to its current rate of growth. But if the speed of light was affected by this lumpiness, then perhaps it hasn’t been able to reach the edges of the ever-expanding universe and smooth things over yet.
The pair think the speed of light used to be faster than it is today and helped bridge the fringes of the universe with the insides. As the universe evened out and became more homogenous, the speed of light dropped. But if the edges of the universe are still composed of clumped up densities, they could facilitate a faster-than-expected speed of light.
This is all pretty fascinating, but it raises the more critical question: Should we even care? If Einstein is wrong, and the speed of light isn’t a constant, what exactly would that have to do with what we know about the universe?
In practical terms, obviously, this means nothing. The speed of light, where we are in the universe, will be basically the same for as long as the human species exists. We are nowhere near the point where we can develop modes of travel that rival the speed of light (although we are trying).
If that ever happens, then we might have reason to better understand the speed of light. If we master interstellar travel, that would give humans the operate to travel out to regions of the universe that possess lumpy densities. If we have spaceships that can move at the speed of light or even faster, then we’ll need to know what might happen to them should we venture out to those places where the laws of physics as we know them no longer function as we know them.
And that raises perhaps the most important ramification behind a variable speed of light. It throws everything we know about the physical world into disarray. If our most basic natural laws suddenly have exceptions, then everything has an exception, doesn’t it? Scientific research may feel like it has amounted to very little.
But a complete upheaval of our knowledge of physics would be equal parts fascinating and discouraging. Yes, we should care if Einstein was wrong about the speed of light, because the effects on how we investigate physics might not even be comprehensible to us at this point in time. And all this speculation is moot if Magueijo’s and Afshordi’s experiment can’t support their hypothesis. We’ll have to wait impatiently to see exactly what the pair find. They might be totally wrong. But if they’re not, the scientific community will have to come to grips with a world they actually know nothing about.
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
By Ian O'Neill, Seeker
Credit: ESA
Beyond Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in the solar system — but that doesn't mean we can simply move there and expect to live off the land.
Though the surface of Mars is more barren (and a lot more toxic) than the most arid desert on Earth, NASA has uncovered a vast underground supply of water ice that may, someday, be an oasis for future Mars explorers.
Key to our future Mars settlers' survival will be the utilization of resources already on the Red Planet, so the necessity of landing future Mars explorers near a known water resource is a no-brainer. Water isn't only a requirement for keeping astronauts alive, it's needed for fuel production and would sustain any burgeoning Martian agriculture. Put simply, unless we find Mars water and understand how to access it, our Mars colonization dreams are over. But the discovery of a vast reservoir of subsurface water ice by an orbiting NASA Mars satellite could represent a game-changer for the future of Mars colonization.
"This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice," said Jack Holt, of the University of Texas, in a statement.
The deposit was found beneath the famous Utopia Planitia, the Martian plain where NASA's Viking 2 robotic lander set down in 1976. Using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD), researchers discovered the huge slab of ice, ranging from 260 feet (80 meters) to 560 feet (170 meters) thick covering an area larger than the state of New Mexico. The deposit is 50-85 percent water ice mixed with dust and rocks.
Utopia is located halfway between Mars' north pole and equator, a region where water ice cannot currently persist on the surface. It is thought that the ice accumulated in the location when the planet was a lot more tilted than it is now. The Red Planet's tilt varies wildly over the course of its approximate 120,000 year cycles; its current axial tilt is around 25 degrees, but it can tilt as much as 60 degrees. This wild range causes significant climatic changes that forced the formation of ice from the poles to lower latitudes in the past.
"This deposit probably formed as snowfall accumulating into an ice sheet mixed with dust during a period in Mars history when the planet's axis was more tilted than it is today," said Cassie Stuurman, of the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas, Austin, and lead author of a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The subsurface reservoir at Utopia represents a climatic record of these climatic shifts, protected by a 1-10-meter-thick layer of Mars rock and regolith — Martian "soil" which is composed of the ground-up dusty remains of eons of meteorite impacts. This thin surface layer means the first human Mars explorers could relatively easily drill into the water ice deposit, either mining chunks of water ice for processing, or directly heating the layer and pumping out liquid water.
Of course, the presence of water ice will lead to the speculation of the possibility of Mars life. Could there have been pockets of slushy liquid water underground that allowed microbial life gain a foothold?
"Where water ice has been around for a long time, we just don't know whether there could have been enough liquid water at some point for supporting microbial life," Holt added.
Utopia has long been suspected as a location where water ice is hiding. Polygonal surface features that are commonly seen in the Canadian Arctic are an indicator of subsurface ice are also present in Utopia. However, this is the first time that the presence of subsurface ice has been confirmed in the region. There is also evidence of ancient river channels in the region (pictured top) where it is thought that subsurface ice melted and flowed.
"The ice deposits in Utopia Planitia aren't just an exploration resource, they're also one of the most accessible climate change records on Mars," said co-author Joe Levy of the University of Texas. "We don't understand fully why ice has built up in some areas of the Martian surface and not in others. Sampling and using this ice with a future mission could help keep astronauts alive, while also helping them unlock the secrets of Martian ice ages."
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
By Ian O'Neill, Seeker
Credit: ESA
Beyond Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in the solar system — but that doesn't mean we can simply move there and expect to live off the land.
Though the surface of Mars is more barren (and a lot more toxic) than the most arid desert on Earth, NASA has uncovered a vast underground supply of water ice that may, someday, be an oasis for future Mars explorers.
Key to our future Mars settlers' survival will be the utilization of resources already on the Red Planet, so the necessity of landing future Mars explorers near a known water resource is a no-brainer. Water isn't only a requirement for keeping astronauts alive, it's needed for fuel production and would sustain any burgeoning Martian agriculture. Put simply, unless we find Mars water and understand how to access it, our Mars colonization dreams are over. But the discovery of a vast reservoir of subsurface water ice by an orbiting NASA Mars satellite could represent a game-changer for the future of Mars colonization.
The European Southern Observatory’sVery Large Telescopemight have discovered the first evidence of something called “vacuum birefringence,” a mysterious quantum property scientists have been struggling to observe since it was first predicted more than 80 years ago. The findings, reported Wednesday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, illustrate an intense polarization of light around a dense, strongly magnetized neutron star — which researchers say is convincing evidence of the elusive, bizarre quantum effect.
Vacuum birefringence is a tricky thing to observe. Basically, astronomers think that a region of space with really, really ridiculously strong magnetic fields could actually alter the light that passes through it, like a prism — which usually means that a neutron star is involved.
Neutron stars are formidable things — they’re whats left from the core of an enormous star, exponentially bigger than our own, after it’s gone supernova and exploded. According to ESO, this means the stars’ magnetic fields are literally billions of times stronger than that of our own sun, which in turn transforms the nature of the empty space around them, making it no longer a true vacuum, and into a kind of prism.
Light polarisation around a neutron star.
Vacuum birefringence was first predicted in the 1930s by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg and his colleague Hans Heinrich Euler. While we’ve known that neutron stars are among the best places to look for the it, efforts to detect it never turned up anything of consequence until the team led by Italian physicist Roberto Mignani used the VLT to study RX J1856.5-3754, one of the neutron stars in a group called the Magnificent Seven. It’s the faintest celestial object ever measured in this way, and the researchers say the degree of linear polarization they observed makes vacuum birefringence the likely explanation.
“The high linear polarisation that we measured with the VLT cant be easily explained by our models unless the vacuum birefringence effects predicted by QED are included,” Mignani said in a news release.
QED is quantum electrodynamics, the quantum theory that photons and charged particles jump around and vanish, rather than remaining constant. In these spaces, extremely strong magnetic fields — like what’s being generated by RX J1856.5-3754 — can affect light polarization. The researchers believe findings like this open the door for not just future discoveries of vacuum birefringence, but also underscore the power of the VLT to potentially measure X-ray wavelengths.
The VLT is one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, but for future neutron star exploration the researchers already have their eye on the next generation of telescopes - namely, the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. Which, given the name, does seem like the logical choice.
Today we take a look at the top 5 mysterious alien and UFO sightings that have been caught on tape. This video was made in collaboration with FindingUFO and all 5 of these mysterious UFO sightings were from their channel. From a UFO caught on tape in front of a super moon to a UFO caught on camera flying under a drone, there have been some incredible instances in which UFOs and presumably aliens have been caught on tape.
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Our universe is a mysterious one. It is not currently accepted by general science that aliens have been visited Earth, however these top 5 videos of UFOs claim to show real life alien ships and they present evidence of the visitation of extraterrestrials. What do you think? Have aliens visited Earth? Has the alien invasion already begun?
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Over the last two and a half months, I have experienced two sightings on the gold coast and would like to communicate with others either here or elsewhere who may have seen the same thing.
The first sighting occured about two and a half months at about 10.15pm on a sunday night. I was on my front patio grabbing some fresh air, which faces an easterley direction, when a bright orange light caught my attention, coming out of the south. It appeared to be travelling at about 200-250 km’s an hr., at an elevation of approx 3000-4000 ft.
At first I thought it was an aircraft on fire, but as it got closer it appeared to be a round shape, with no discernible fueslage, no cabin lights, no nav lights, no rotors of any kind, and the colour was an incredibly bright orange, so bright in fact, that it reflected off the cloud bank directly behind it. Also I must stress that there was no sound whatsover from the ‘craft’ and also that it was a very quiet night with no wind. The area I live in is a very quiet residential suburb. It continued in a northerly direction until it became obvious that it was slowing down and in fact, it came to a complete stop. There was no hovering or sideways motion at this point as a helicopter might do, it stopped at a precise point and stayed there for about four or five minutes before it slowly took off again in a northerly direction and eventually disappeared.
The second sighting occurred about three weeks ago. I was sitting in my lounge room watching t.v. when I happened to look out my window, which faces a northerley direction, and coming out of the northern sky was an incredibly bright light, travellin at a speed a lot faster than the original object and a lot brighter. I called out to my wife, ‘it’s back again’, and we both ran out onto the front porch as the object came closer. as we both watched, the object slowed down and came to a complete stop in the sky, at a point very close to where the first object had stopped. the object seemed to be a lot closer than the first sighting, and again , the light was incredibly bright, this time however, it actually appeared to be a type of flame and actually appeared to be moving around the craft as a flame might move around in a light wind.
Unfortunately it came to a stop in such a position that a tree in my front yard stopped me getting a photograph of it. Again, it stopped for about four minutes, and waiting for it to move again, camera at the ready, we both observed it start to move very slowly, but unfortunately in a northerly direction. by the time I ran downstairs and out into the street, the object had dimmed greatly and even though I took a photo I doubt it would reveal anything.
As we both watched it move off into the northern sky, we were both amazed to see something fall off the craft, or possibly thrown out, which fell to earth at terminal speed and definitely appeared to be on fire. There were definitely flames and apparent burning debris coming from the falling object, and kept burning until it got closer to the surface, when it appeared to be extinguished. It definitely would have been over open ocean by this stage, somewhere north of Surfer’s and possibly near North Stradbroke or Moreton island.
MYSTERIOUS BOX CONTAINS DETAILED DRAWINGS OF WINGED ALIENS
A box has been found containing detailed drawings of alien beings, an unidentified flying object, and transcripts exploring the link between alien encounters and ancient religions. A user on Imgur posted a series of photos showing the contents of an old wooden box.
It appears to have belonged to a man named Daniel J. Christainsen who lived in Florida but was a native of the Netherlands. He may have been a WWII veteran—the box contained a blank paper with the Veterans Administration Medical Center header. He draws alien beings and describes them: “Every one had four faces and every one had four wings.” It is unclear whether his drawings relate to his own experiences or whether they are depictions of historical accounts
The musty box contains clues, but also raises many questions—it’s a mystery.
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Incredible UFO Sighting in St. Martin (With Real UFO Footage), Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Incredible UFO Sighting in St. Martin (With Real UFO Footage), Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 29, 2016 Location of sighting: St. Martin island Here is a rare island sighing by a surfer at St. Martin island. Its a UFO in the shape of a thick half disk. The wind sound very powerful, and yet this UFO is just hovering above him with pulsating lights. I just wish he had more footage of it. Only the last minute of the video has the sighting. Just goes to show, that UFOs come out in all kinds of weather. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
As a surfer, Jason had been living on the island of St. Martin in the caribbean in search of warm water waves. Over several days, he had a stretch of incredible UFO sightings. On one occasion, he took his iPad to the beach and did his best on getting actual evidence. The real authentic UFO footage is a bright light, hovering over the ocean pulsating. Clearly, it's not a plane (you'll see it zoomed in) and yet, it doesn't resemble a star. In this video, we show actual proof - video evidence of the UFO captured by Jason, along with him detailing the footage. Also, he discusses another incredible sighting he had just days after capturing this footage. You won't believe Jason's unreal UFO encounter!
How To Find An Alien Space Station On Google Sky Map. Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
How To Find An Alien Space Station On Google Sky Map. Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Nov 30, 2016 Location of discovery: Between IC 2031 and NGC 1475 1st method used: Google Sky map 2nd method used:Sky-Map.org Coordinates: 03 57 08.63,-07 11 26.2 While checking out Google sky I noticed something interesting. That every once in a while there was an unusual structure in space. These structures are usually balance and geometrical in shape, but sometimes rounded, with metallic tint to them. This particular one is cube, made up of smaller areas that are also cubes. Google Sky map was not as clear as I wanted, so I went to Sky-Map.org and found a similar sky map, but the quality of the detail is more focused. These are the photos above. Below are the photos from Google sky. The size of this space station is unknown since Google ruler is inaccurate in the sky version. However it looks Earth size or bigger in my opinion. Scott C. Waring Below are Google sky photos. Below the blue Base is another metallic gold base.
Watch Large Group Of UFOs Leaving From The Surface Of The Moon
Watch Large Group Of UFOs Leaving From The Surface Of The Moon
A video showing multiple tiny bead-like structures leaving the Moon’s bottom surface has received thousands of views and mixed reactions. The so-called large group of UFOs leaving the Moon looks very luminous.
Despite being considered as deceptive, many viewers still believe the video shows aliens departing from the surface of the Moon.
One viewer posted that those were extraterrestrial beings wanting to establish New World Order, but they lost hope and decided to go home because Donald Trump won the election.
Talia Adagio1 added that they looked like they were landing instead of leaving as there was the same effect in reverse on the right side.
Even former hacker Gary McKinnon has joined the debate saying that the video doesn’t show alien activity, but just an optical illusion.
He said that as more people get better telescopes more footage of objects leaving the moon being observed. However, this particular video looked like far too many, Gary explained. He concluded that it must be visual artifacting.
Photographer John Biondo agreed to Gary saying that the video does not show UFOs, but a phenomenon often seen at the Moon’s edge. John explained that the event is called Chromatic Aberration, which can also be seen more if the lens is out of focus, such as the video in question.
Another viewer said that it was just an optical illusion as a result of the high air humidity and distorted light from the moon or reflected bright objects in the distance on the earth.
Others are convinced the video shows alien UFOs. They explained that seeing fleets of UFOs in orbit or move around the moon horizon can happen more often if the edge of the moon is observed well enough.
Some UFO hunters noted that many Apollo astronauts have claimed they saw UFOs on and near the moon. They suggested that these space objects are a form of protection from future moon landing missions. They explained that the Earth’s natural satellite might be owned by an alien species that’s not keen on sharing.
Hundreds of People See Fleet Of UFOs In Multiple Cities Across Turkey
Hundreds of People See Fleet Of UFOs In Multiple Cities Across Turkey
A group of UFOs observed in the sky above Turkey and “#ufoattacktoturkey” trended on Twitter as sky watchers posted strange videos on the social media platform.
The fleet of UFOs composed of four to five lights was seen over households across the country.
A video of the event also posted to YouTube channel SecureTeam10. It has been viewed thousands of times in less than 24 hours.
The video channel said that the fleet of unidentified lights was spotted in several cities all over the country of Turkey, causing many people to panic.
At one point on November 27, the channel claimed the hashtag became the number one trending topic in the world.
Twitter users have left equally baffled by the images.
One user commented that it is a very compelling stuff as many photos were being posted.
Another one wrote UFO invasion happening in Turkey as unidentified flying objects were witnessed in many cities of the country.
Other users expressed fear and hoped that the entire thing was a joke.
No official confirmation yet on the strange lights, but there were suggestions that they could be drones.
UFO Researchers Spot Mysterious Object On A Comet’s Surface
UFO Researchers Spot Mysterious Object On A Comet’s Surface
An object that resembles a stealth fighter jet has been noticed on a comet in images snapped by a spaceship.
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Rosetta space probe to investigate Comet P67. It announced they had ended the mission of the lander in September.
Now, alien hunters claim the space probe came across alien technology on the ball of rock before the mission ended.
The discovery was made public by prolific UFO hunters who posted pictures from the Rosetta. They said that craft has a tail fin like a plane and sides similar to a stealth fighter jet.
The alien researchers believe that the so-called UFO on the rock is not part of the comet’s surface because of the object’s white color.
They speculated that the ESA used their Rosetta lander to take closer photos of the mysterious object. They think the ESA announcement of ending their mission because the lander no longer responds is a ruse to make the public believe.
They explained that ESA continues their mission but this time for extraterrestrial technology that can be retrieved and used, like the one in the photo.
Hundreds Of People Spot A UFO Across Florida Skies
Hundreds Of People Spot A UFO Across Florida Skies
More than a hundred people witnessed a massive, mysterious object flying across the sky from West to Florida Panhandle at around 11 pm on November 23. The unidentified flying object (UFO), according to the witnesses on Florida’s western coast, looked like a fireball. People living in the area thought aliens invaded them after seeing the strange bright light in the night sky.
Many people from Key West to the Florida Panhandle, who observed the UFO, reported the strange sighting to the local authorities as alien invasion speculation unfolded.
Meteorologist Josh Stone, who works in ABC7, described the light as bright as the sun with a little rumbling after it disappeared. Josh claimed that the North Point Police Department even caught the unusual event on their dashboard cameras.
Some residents have concluded that the rare fireball was a UFO controlled by space aliens. It seemed like a lot of paranoia in social media as some were declaring it was indeed an alien invasion.
Unidentified flying object (UFO) is generally defined as any apparent anomaly or event in the sky that can’t be identified as known phenomenon or object. However, sometimes a UFO becomes identifiable because of the low quality of evidence.
Lookin' Good, Mars! ExoMars' First High-Res Photos Are Incredible
Lookin' Good, Mars! ExoMars' First High-Res Photos Are Incredible
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
Behold! The European Space Agency's new Mars orbiter just sent back its first high-resolution images of the Red Planet, and the view is amazing.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) arrived at Mars on Oct. 19, when its companion spacecraft Schiaparelli crash-landed on the planet's surface. Since then, TGO has been circling Mars, testing out its machinery, and taking spectacularly sharp pictures of the landscape using its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS). ESA stitched together the best of these photos in a cool new flyover video.
"The first images we received are absolutely spectacular ― and it was only meant to be a test," Nicolas Thomas, CaSSIS team leader at the University of Bern's Center of Space and Habitability, said in a statement. [Photos: Europe's ExoMars Missions to Mars in Pictures]
Image of a 0.9 mile-size (1.4 kilometers) crater (left-center) on the rim of a larger crater near the Mars equator. It was acquired at 7.2 meters/pixel by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/CaSSIS/UniBE
These first images allowed ESA to test the camera's color- and stereo-imaging capabilities, which would allow CaSSIS to build 3D maps of the Martian surface using measurements with sound waves.
Though the color-imaging equipment was functioning as planned, the first photos appear black and white. That's because the areas photographed are dusty ― volcanic without much color to be seen. "We will have to wait a little until something colorful passes under the spacecraft," Thomas said.
The first stereo reconstruction of a small area in Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars, created by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The image gives an altitude map of the region with a resolution of less than 65 feet (20 meters).
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/CaSSIS/UniBE
TGO is currently orbiting Mars once every four days in a highly elliptical path. At its closest, the spacecraft flies within 155 miles (250 kilometers) of the ground. These close approaches are happening quickly before the orbiter raises its altitude to about 62,000 miles (100,000 km).
CaSSIS was up and running for two of these approaches during its testing phase and returned a total of 11 images. ESA then combined some of the new photos in the video above to simulate a flyover of Hebes Chasma, a 190-mile-long (310 km) canyon in the Martian surface.
"We saw Hebes Chasma at 2.8 meters per pixel," said Thomas. "That’s a bit like flying over Bern at 15,000 kilometers [9,300 miles] per hour and simultaneously getting sharp pictures of cars in Zürich."
A structure called Arsia Chasmata on the flanks of one of the large Martian volcanoes, Arsia Mons. This view was created by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The width of the image is around 16 miles (25 kilometers). The formation is volcanic in origin, and pit craters are visible.
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/CaSSIS/UniBE
After the botched landing of the Schiaparelli spacecraft in October, pressures have been high for the ExoMars team. "A lot of public attention has been on the failed landing of Schiaparelli, but TGO has been working really well, so we have been extremely busy in the past month," Thomas said.
"We were quite nervous but it looks as though almost everything functioned as we planned it. The resulting images are really sharp," Antoine Pommerol, a CaSSIS co-investigator at the Center of Space and Habitability in Bern, said in the same statement.
For the next few months, the team will continue to prepare CaSSIS for its prime mission. "The test was very successful but we have identified a couple of things that need to be improved in the onboard software and in the ground post-processing," Thomas said.
TGO will spend nine to 12 months "aerobraking," or slowing down to round out its elliptical orbit. Eventually, the orbiter will circle the planet at a constant altitude of about 250 miles (400 km). Its primary science mission is scheduled to begin by the end of 2017. Then TGO will begin studying gases in the Martian atmosphere.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
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