Jupiter Just Got Slammed by Something so Big We Saw it From Earth (Video)

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Jupiter just got slammed by something so big we saw it from Earth

It’s bright, it’s white and fortunately it’s very far away from here.

The apparent moment of impact on the solar system’s largest world.

Ethan Chappel

An amateur astronomer caught something spectacular with a backyard telescope Wednesday when he recorded a bright flash on the surface of Jupiter. The biggest planet in the solar system routinely delivers stunning pictures, like those snapped by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, but the unexpected flash has astronomers excited at the possibility of a meteor impact.

Ethan Chappel pointed his telescope at the gas giant planet at just the right time, capturing the white spot seen on the lower left side of the planet in the above images on Aug. 7.

While it has yet to be confirmed by a second observer, it looks like a large asteroid crashing into the gas giant planet. The flash is brief and quickly fades away, boosting the idea that it was likely caused by an impact.

“Another impact on Jupiter today!” astronomer Dr. Heidi B. Hammel wrote on Twitter. “A bolide (meteor) and not likely to leave dark debris like SL9 did 25 years ago.”

SL9 is Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which famously impacted Jupiter in 1994. Hammel led the team that used the Hubble Space Telescope to study the impact and how the planet’s gassy atmosphere responded.

Something remarkable to consider is that the apparent size of the flash is almost the size of Earth, which is tiny next to the giant gas planet. For reference, about three Earths could fit inside Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, which is also visible.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that whatever hit Jupiter was the size of a planet, just that the collision looks to have released a lot of explosive energy. Sky and Telescope’s Bob King says, if confirmed, this would be the seventh recorded impact of Jupiter since Shoemaker-Levy and the first in over two years.

Better to keep all that asteroid traffic directed in the outer solar system, we’ve had enough space rock scares here in the past month.

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10-08-2019 om 12:27 geschreven door peter  

Alien Buildings Found In Crater On Moon In NASA Index! Can We Take It Over? UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Aug 9, 2019
Location of discovery: Earths moon, Dionysius crater
NASA Source: 

• http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/443
  

I found a lot of alien structures, some are buildings and others appear to be landed ships. The structures are all silver metallic objects with shiny white reflective windows. These buildings are very old, but out in the vacuum of space structures can remain intact for millions of years. 

I imagine that one of these structures would easily be taken over by a group of human traveling to the moon and would make a great starting point for someone like Jeff Bezos space exploration program Blue Origins. The structure are right there, ripe for the taking, and waiting for new occupants and with the alien tech inside they should have power for hundreds of years. Can you see it? Blue Origins Space City at Dionysius crater becoming the next vacation resort. 
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10-08-2019 om 12:15 geschreven door peter  

Asteroid 2019 MO exploded in our atmosphere with an energy of about 3 to 5 kilotons of TNT. Such events happen once or twice yearly, astronomers say. Most are unexpected, but this space rock was detected hours before it struck.

The small, harmless, 4-meter near-Earth asteroid – now designated 2019 MO – created this bright flash when it struck Earth’s atmosphere on June 22, 2019, over the Caribbean.

Images via RAMMB/CIRA/Colorado State University.

Scientists have confirmed a meteor impact with Earth’s atmosphere over the Caribbean last weekend. The bright flash was detected by by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite and other meteorological satellites, showing the event occurred on Saturday, June 22, 2019, at around 5:25 p.m. EDT (21:25 UTC) some 170 miles (274 km) south of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Peter Brown, a meteor expert from University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada, said that an infrasound station located in Bermuda did detect airwaves produced by the space rock’s impact in the atmosphere. The object is believed to have been a small asteroid, and it was unusual in that it was detected prior to its impact – in the hours before – by the Atlas (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) in Hawaii. Brown said the impact was:

… consistent with 3 to 5 kilotons (of energy).

By contrast, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, exploded with an energy of about 15 kilotons of TNT. Both the energy released, as well as the observations made from the Atlas Observatory, suggest the June 22 space rock was about 13 feet (4 meters) in diameter. Originally designated A10eoM1, the rock has now been designated as asteroid 2019 MO.

Ernesto Guido@comets77

Just released MPEC with official designation (2019 MO) for A10eoM1 (that impacted earth's atmosphere around
June 22 21:30 UTC) http://bit.ly/2X71XkN  & http://bit.ly/2X7Os48  #asteroids #astronomy cc @pgbrown @Yeqzids @fallingstarIfA @frankie57pr

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Although small space rocks and fragments rain down on Earth’s atmosphere continuously, experts at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies say that large events such as the one on June 22 occur about once or twice a year. Earth’s atmosphere does its job in protecting us in these cases, causing drag or friction that disintegrates most of these small objects before they strike the ground (although a few do strike, and more fall into the ocean). Read more: Whoa! 26 atom-bomb-scale asteroid impacts since 2000

Tony Dunn@tony873004

Earth got hit a few days ago by newly-discovered asteroid 2019 MO.@pgbrown has more graphics.

Here is a simulation of this event.

http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/simulations/1561486999460_2019%20MO_collision.html …
An article by Brian Skiffhttps://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2019/06/small-asteroid-neocp-a10eom1-impacted.html …

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After analyzing the satellite images, expert meteor photographer Frankie Lucena commented:

Looks to be a mighty impressive event, for sure.

Some satellite images show the bright flash produced by the meteor, and seconds later, a line of its dissipating smoke trail.

Asteroid 2019 MO is believed to have had an orbit outside that of Earth and extending almost to Jupiter’s orbit.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

According to Italian amateur astronomer Ernesto Guido, this is only the fourth time in history that an impacting object was observed prior to atmospheric entry.

• Bottom line: Asteroid 2019 MO exploded in Earth’s atmosphere on June 22, 2019, with an energy equivalent to about 3 to 5 kilotons of TNT. Such events happen unexpectedly, once or twice yearly, astronomers say. This one was unusual in that the asteroid was detected in the hours before it struck.

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10-08-2019 om 01:34 geschreven door peter  

10-08-2019 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

A UFO The Size Of Planet Earth Seen Hovering Near Saturn

By Arjun Walia

The pictures NASA got back from the Voyager mission to Saturn in 1980 were apparently so mind-altering that they locked them up–at least that’s what retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Bob Dean said in this lecture. He also showed numerous photographs from the Apollo missions that were never released to the public. You can view some of those photographs here. Multiple governments, like Russia, have been calling for an international investigation as to where photographs, footage and Moon rocks disappeared to.

The picture above does not come from Dean, it comes from one of his good friends Norman Bergrun, a scientist and engineer who was part of NASA’s voyager program. He worked at NASA for decades at the Ames Research Centre. He also worked at Lockheed Martin where he managed the Polaris missile tests. Unfortunately, he recently passed. You can view his obituary here.

He is a legend for going public.

Luminous Source

What is the picture of? It’s a “luminous source,” that comes from Bergrun’s Book, “The Ringmakers of Saturn.” He had to go through a lot of trouble to publish it, and had to leave the country in order to do so, as Dean explained in the lecture linked above.

According to Bergrun, there are several large craft “proliferating” out around Saturn and its moons. His book goes into much greater detail, and although it’s hard to find and costs thousands of dollars, it is linked online, here.

Frustrated By Non-Disclosure

According to Dean, Bergrun got frustrated later in life that the decision was made not to tell the public what they had photographed at Saturn. My previous article Long-Time Nasa Scientist Blows The Whistle On Tall Black Extraterrestrial Beings describes Bergrun exposing the existence of what he calls extraterrestrial ‘vehicles’ that were responsible for making the rings around Saturn.

In a rare interview he gave with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot (below), he expressed his great concern of the UFO cover-up and stated with enthusiasm that “people have got to be made aware that those things are real.” I’ve presented this video in multiple articles, but anytime you mention him, you must  present this interview !

The Takeaway

In his book, Norman makes it a clear point to emphasize that these objects have probably been around much longer than we have. He also states that if there was any ill intent towards our planet, something probably would have happened by now and there is a reason that these objects (which he stated are intelligently controlled, not by us) have not come in close proximity to our planet. By coming closer than they already are they may, and already probably do have some effects on our own weather. This is something Norman also mentions in his book.

A lot of ridicule and fear exists behind this topic, and today it’s no longer taboo as mainstream disclosure has begun. We are becoming more aware, and despite mainstream media and the global elite having a lot to lose from the disclosure of this type of information (propulsion systems, oil, etc..), the truth is leaking out. It’s a field filled with information and disinformation, so one has to be cautious and remain skeptical. At the end of the day, we know that we are not alone, and it has huge implications for all areas of humanity–not the least of which is that it will ultimately force humanity to look within.

More awareness of this presence is coinciding with a massive ‘spiritual’ awakening that’s happening on the planet, and this is not by coincidence. It seems that a growing awareness of what’s out there will serve to help humanity better understand itself.

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09-08-2019 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

We Could Be Witnessing the Death of a Tectonic Plate, Says Earth Scientist

By Laura Geggel

The Juan de Fuca tectonic plate runs along the western coast of the United States.

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A gaping hole in a dying tectonic plate beneath the ocean along the West Coast of the United States may be wreaking havoc at Earth's surface, but not in a way most people might expect.

This gash is so big it may trigger earthquakes off the coast of Northern California and could explain why central Oregon has volcanoes, a new study found.

The researchers in the new study aren't the first to suggest that the Michigan-size Juan de Fuca (pronounced "wahn de fyoo-kuh") plate has a tear. But thanks to a new, detailed dataset, they're the first to say so with certainty. [The Science of Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift (Infographic)]

"Where other people had debated whether or not it [the tear] was there, we can pretty confidently say that it's real," study lead researcher William Hawley, a doctoral student in the Earth and Planetary Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, told Live Science.

The Juan de Fuca plate is long, stretching about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) along the Pacific Northwest coast, from Vancouver Island, Canada, to Cape Mendocino, California. "No part of it is above the water. It's a total oceanic plate" that's subducting, or diving beneath another plate, in this case the North American plate (a continental plate), Hawley said.

From 2011 to 2015, scientists boated out over different parts of the Juan de Fuca plate, dropped ocean-bottom seismometers underwater and let these sensors collect seismic data from earthquakes all over the world for a year.

(Image credit: William Hawley)

When the year was up, the researchers returned, fished up the seismometers and uploaded the data, which allowed them to create a tomography, or layout, of the plate. Then, they deployed the devices to other spots on the plate. "It was an enormous community effort," Hawley said.

The data from these seismometers showed how seismic waves traveled through the plate, which, in turn, revealed information about the plate's composition and varying temperatures. One region under central Oregon showed a gap in high-velocity seismic waves, which Hawley interpreted to be the hole.

But why does this hole exist? Hawley and study co-researcher Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, hypothesized that there is a weak zone in the Juan de Fuca plate that exists because the plate formed at two overlapping ridge segments. As this weakened zone of the oceanic plate goes under the continental plate, it unzips from the bottom up (from the underside upward), creating a gash.

"This tearing may eventually cause the plate to fragment, and what is left of the small pieces of the plate will attach to other plates nearby," the researchers wrote in the study. In other words, "we're witnessing the death of a plate," but it will take at least a few million years to die, Hawley said.

(Image credit: Shutterstock)

Hawley and Allen estimated that the hole is located at a depth of between 155 and 60 miles (250 and 100 km). The tear itself, which is narrower on top and widens with depth, is about 120 miles (200 km) wide. [Hidden Undersea Mountains Uncovered with Satellites (Photos)]

Moreover, it appears that material is getting pushed up through the tear, which may have led to the formation of the volcanoes in central Oregon's High Lava Plains about 17 million years ago, Hawley noted. In fact, it's incredible how many geographical and seismic features in the Pacific Northwest fit into the researchers' hypothesis, he said.

"The story links the hole in the tomography with this known weak zone in a plate and with a series of volcanic centers in Oregon and with a series of earthquakes and faults off the coast of Northern California," Hawley said.

The research is a "thought-provoking idea paper," said Ray Wells, a research geologist emeritus with the U.S. Geological Survey in Portland, Oregon, who was not involved with the study.

"I'm happy to see more data indicating a hole in the Juan de Fuca plate," Wells told Live Science in an email. "The coincidence of the hole with the location of a subducted zone of weakness in the Juan de Fuca plate is interesting and could help to produce a tear."

The study was published online July 11 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

• In Photos: The UK's Geologic Wonders
• Photos: Fiery Lava from Kilauea Volcano Erupts on Hawaii's Big Island
• Mount Etna: Photos of the Largest Active Volcano in Europe

Originally published on Live Science.

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09-08-2019 om 23:35 geschreven door peter  

OVER a million alien enthusiasts recently signed up to a Facebook event to storm Area 51 — the secretive US military base believed by some to hold the wreckage of crashed UFOs.

But if Brits want to don tin foil hats and look for evidence of extraterrestrials in the UK, where should they go?

The Facebook plan to storm the American base to “see them aliens” began as a joke which is now being taken seriously — deadly seriously.

Not only did Facebook pull down the page, the Air Force issued a chilling warning to potential raiders that: “The US Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.”

It’s not known exactly what secrets the shadowy base has that authorities are desperate to defend.

Ufologists — who study unidentified flying objects — believe the site holds alien spacecraft being studied for their technology, a claim famously repeated by a former engineer at the site, Bob Lazar.

But conspiracy theorists in the UK don’t need to look as far afield as the States for mysterious government facilities linked with UFOs.

Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project in the 1990s, looking into reports of flying saucers, crop circles, and even abductions. 

Here he reveals the secret spots that might be “Britain’s Area 51”. 

UFO investigation centre

RAF Rudloe Manor, Wiltshire

• Theory: Alien technology being kept in secret underground lab

For years, conspiracy theorists believed the government was hiding something at RAF Rudloe Manor in Corsham, Wiltshire.

And to some extent, they were right — documents made public in 2010 admitted that the base WAS used in UFO investigations.

That’s because Rudloe Manor was home to the Flying Complaints Flight, a unit of the RAF Police which gathered reports of UFO sightings from RAF bases and passed them to the MoD HQ.

And the secret site came under even more scrutiny when it was revealed there was a vast network of underground tunnels beneath the base.

Ufologists had suspected this for years but instead of the tunnels being used to hide alien technology they were nuclear bomb shelters.

The vast subterranean bunkers would be where government ministers and royals would’ve been evacuated to if there was a nuclear strike on Britain.

Even though Rudloe Manor was closed in 2000, it still attracts conspiracy theorists — some have been arrested by MoD Police for breaking in.

Nick himself had a brush with the authorities when he was filming a documentary there with presenter Giorgio Tsoukalos a few years ago.

He said: “As a former MoD employee I didn’t feel it was appropriate for me to approach the site, so Giorgio went alone.

“Within moments, military police turned up and halted filming, further fuelling the conspiracy theories.”

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RAF Rudloe Manor, which closed in 2000, was the UK’s centre for UFO investigations

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The subterranean facilities are connected to a labyrinth of secret bunkers

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The Operations Room at Rudloe Manor in 1943

UFO project HQ

Ministry of Defence Main Building, London

• Theory: UFO investigations team officially shutdown but still running in secret

Inside Room 8245 in the MoD Main Building in Whitehall, the government’s main UFO project looked into the strange reports of flying saucers around the UK.

In the 50 years the project ran until 2009, around 12,000 cases were looked into by the team.

Although most were debunked, around five per cent of the cases couldn’t be explained.

And although the project was officially closed down a decade ago, Nick believes it still operating but now in secret.

He claims a source in the MoD told him Americans were now running the project.

And another told him investigations have just moved to a new part of the building where the investigators are jokingly referred to as Mulder and Scully.

Nick even says protesters have already turned up at the site to demand answers in October 1995.

He said: “It wasn’t quite on the scale of what’s threatened for Area 51.

“Around 20 people assembled outside Parliament and then marched over to Main Building, waving signs that said ‘UFOs are real’, before handing in a letter demanding an end to UFO secrecy.

“I’d left the UFO project by then, but they somehow got hold of my new phone number and I had to meet them and formally take possession of their letter.”

Britain’s X-Files

The National Archives, Kew

• Theory: Sensitive documents about aliens kept secret after sham public release

The UK’s National Archives in Kew are the final repository of the MoD’s real-life X-Files.

Last year, declassified files there showed the government had spent 50 years looking into UFOs in the hope we could steal alien technology to develop super weapons during the Cold War.

The once-secret files showed UFOs were real and being taken seriously.

They also detailed near misses between RAF aircraft and UFOs which posed a dangerous threat to the crew’s safety.

The first load of these files was made public in the National Archives in 2008 — and Nick was enlisted to help with their publicity.

And over the next 11 years, more and more information came out, but some files were still redacted.

This made some people think the government was holding information back.

But Nick says: “The blacked-out material is often just names and addresses of UFO witnesses, withheld to protect people’s privacy.

“If people could see the uncensored files, all people will find out is that Mr Smith of 22 Acacia Avenue saw a UFO while out walking his dog sometime back in 1985!”

The National Archives near Kew, where all the UFO files are kept

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It took 11 years to make all the files public – with the most recent only released in April this year

Secret weapons research centre

RAE Farnborough, Hampshire

• Theory: Site of ‘alien abductions’ is primary location where alien tech would be kept

The Royal Aerospace Establishment at Farnborough, Hampshire has previously been called Britain’s Area 51.

RAE Farnborough was originally set up as an aircraft and weapons research facility at the turn of the twentieth century and closed in the late 1980s.

In 2015, a lengthy report by conspiracy theorists claimed the site was well-connected to UFO sightings — and even alien abductions.

Rumours persist, and Farnborough is currently home to QinetiQ, a defence technology company that researches and develops cutting-edge equipment including weapons, robotics and space-related tech.

And Nick says if the UK ever did get hold of extraterrestrial tech, it probably would’ve been sent to Farnborough for study.

But he also wants to pour cold water on the claims that the site ever did have alien tech — as he had a close relationship with someone who knew for a fact there were no UFO weapons there.

Nick said: “I’m sceptical about this, for a very good reason — one that’s generated a few conspiracy theories.

“My late father, Dr. Geoffrey Pope, was the Director of RAE Farnborough, before ending his MoD career as the Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser.”

“As he once joked: ‘If there was spaceship in a hangar somewhere in the UK, it would have been my hangar!'”

The sci-fi aircraft factory

BAE Warton, Lancashire

• Theory: Next-generation aircraft developed from UFOs

BAE Systems is one of the world’s biggest defence companies and Warton is its manufacturing and testing facility.

It’s the birthplace of some of the most innovative fighter jets ever made, including the Typhoon and the Tornado.

But multiple conspiracy theorists say they’ve seen UFOs flying over the airfield, sparking rumours of alien technology at the site.

In fact, the MoD even had to officially deny that it had been testing its new unmanned aircraft, Taranis, after a UFO was blamed for the destruction of a wind turbine.

And Nick says you only have to look at the development of cutting-edge aircraft to be confident BAE Warton has technology the public don’t know about.

He said: “People would be staggered if they knew how long ago stealth technology was being developed, many years before anything was officially acknowledged.

“The RAF’s proposed Tempest aircraft – BAE Systems is one of the partners – will be armed with lasers and hypersonic weapons, and accompanied by a drone swarm.

“If this is the stuff they’re telling you about, what aren’t they telling you?”

BAE Systems’ testing facilities in Warton has been the source of many supposed UFO sightings

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09-08-2019 om 23:20 geschreven door peter  

Life May Be Common in the Milky Way, Thanks to Comet Swapping

By Mike Wall 

And Earth may be one of the primary donor worlds.

An artist's illustration of a massive impact on earth. Some single-celled organisms may be able to survive extreme impacts such as these, scientists say.

(Image: © Don Davis/NASA)

Life has had plenty of opportunities to spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy over the eons, a recent study suggests — and our own Earth may be one of the key dispersal points.

The sun's random motion through space has brought it close to many other stars over the past 4.6 billion years. These close encounters likely jostle far-flung comets free from both systems, sending them careening toward the passing star, said study author Robert Zubrin, president of the Colorado-based company Pioneer Astronautics.

This "comet swapping" is probably responsible for many of Earth's past mass extinctions, Zubrin found. But the phenomenon has also likely aided life in the bigger picture, helping it hop from island to island across the vast ocean of space, he said.

• Related: 7 Theories on the Origin of Life

"It's a mechanism whereby life could have been delivered to us, and whereby we have probably delivered life to lots of other places over the past 3.5 billion years," Zubrin told Space.com. "And if you simply extrapolate off of that and say, 'Everybody's doing this,' you've got the galaxy as a supercritical reactor, saturating itself with life."

This conclusion is based on some straightforward calculations, which take into account the average stellar density in the sun's neighborhood (0.003 stars per cubic light-year), the sun's velocity relative to this star field (about 22,370 mph, or 36,000 km/h) and the makeup of the Milky Way's stellar population (about 75% small, dim red dwarfs, for example).

Zubrin also assumed that other stars harbor huge comet repositories on their outskirts, like our own sun's Oort Cloud. The extent of the Oort Cloud is unknown; its outer edge is estimated to lie anywhere between 30,000 and 100,000 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. (1 AU is the average Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)

Zubrin employed a relatively conservative size estimate, setting our Oort Cloud's radius at 40,000 AU. He then used that figure to estimate the average radii of other star types' Oort Clouds. Red dwarfs, for example, should be able to hold onto comets out to about 20,000 AU, he determined.

It's unclear how many comets lie in the Oort Cloud. Zubrin assumed a population of 1 trillion — an estimate that's thrown around frequently — and therefore arrived at a density of four comets per 1,000 cubic AU.

The sun can gravitationally capture another star's Oort Cloud object if it gets within 10 AU of that object, Zubrin determined. So, there could be a lot of captures per stellar encounter. For example, say the sun gets within 20,000 AU of another star. The sun would carve a roughly 20,000-AU path through that alien Oort Cloud, potentially capturing 25,000 objects (assuming alien Oort Clouds also harbor about four objects per 1,000 cubic AU.)

These captured bodies would come barreling toward the inner solar system, drawn by the sun's powerful gravitational tug. And some of our Oort Cloud objects would do the same, in the other direction.

• Related: 10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life

"The great majority of impacts caused by disrupted objects would no doubt be delivered to gas-giants type planets," Zubrin wrote in the study, which was published in June in the International Journal of Astrobiology. "However, with such a large number of objects released per pass, Earth-sized worlds would likely be impacted as well."

The numbers are different for stars of different sizes, because they have stronger or weaker gravitational pulls depending on their masses. A red dwarf with 30% the mass of the sun, for example, would have to get within 3 AU of another star's Oort Cloud object to snag it, Zubrin found.

He used all of this information (and more) to calculate the frequency of close stellar encounters, and to get a handle on their consequences. And the results were striking, if you'll pardon the pun.

He found that our sun has had about 47 close stellar encounters per billion years over the course of its 4.6-billion-year life, with about half of those flybys involving red dwarfs. That works out to about one encounter every 21 million years. 

This latter figure is intriguingly close to the inferred periodicity of mass extinctions here on Earth, which seem to occur every 20 million to 40 million years. Scientists have proposed that comet impacts are dealing these death blows, and have therefore come up with possible mechanisms that could send these icy wanderers screaming toward Earth at regular intervals.

For example, some researchers have posited that the sun has an undiscovered companion, dubbed Nemesis, which jostles our Oort Cloud every 26 million years or so. Others think this destabilization comes courtesy of a disk of galactic dark matter, which our solar system travels through on a similar timescale.

But Zubrin's work fingers alien comets, not those native to our own solar system, as the primary agents of destruction. 

His calculations also suggest that solar systems frequently trade material via such comet bombardments. For example, dust blasted off Earth by impacts can be pushed outward by sunlight pressure at 67,000 mph (108,000 km/h), Zubrin wrote — considerably faster than two stars are moving relative to each other in a typical close encounter. 

That means microbes could make the jump from our system to a temporary neighbor. And they could do so relatively quickly, avoiding extensive exposure to damaging deep-space radiation. (The idea that life has hopped from world to world, and perhaps even from solar system to solar system, is known as panspermia. There are multiple variants. For example, some scientists think Earth life was seeded intentionally by intelligent aliens — a concept known as directed panspermia.)

"Furthermore, even if ejected material fails to hit the passing solar system, it could become captured in the home solar system’s Oort Cloud," Zubrin wrote. "Such material, as well as dust particles containing microbes previously driven outward by the pressure of sunlight, could be stored for long periods in Oort Cloud objects in deep freeze under effective ice shielding until a subsequent encounter with a different passing stellar system causes it to be released and transferred at that time."

Our sun is more massive than 90% of the stars in the Milky Way, so our Oort Cloud is more extensive than most. This means that we've been the dominant donor in most stellar encounters, delivering about three times more cometary bombardments on other solar systems than we ourselves receive, Zubrin said. 

The overall implication of these results is exciting for astrobiologists, and anyone else who hopes Earth life isn't alone in the universe.

"The galaxy has been seeded with life, if from no other source than the Earth," Zubrin said.

• Could Life on Earth Have Come from Another Star System?
• Wipeout: History's Most Mysterious Extinctions
• For Close-Knit Planets, Sharing Life Could Be Easy
• Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook. 

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09-08-2019 om 22:47 geschreven door peter  

Dark matter could predate Big Bang, says new study

BY JORDAN STRICKLER 

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09-08-2019 om 21:51 geschreven door peter  

Physicists are a step closer to a theory of quantum gravity

BY ROB LEA 

New research centering around the Unruh effect has created a set of necessary conditions that theories of quantum gravity must meet.

Quantum physics has, since its development in the early years of the 20th century, become one of the most successful and well-evidenced areas of science. But, despite all of its successes and experimental triumphs, there is a shadow that hangs over it. 

Despite successfully integrating electromagnetic, the weak and strong nuclear forces — three of the four fundamental forces — quantum physics is yet to find a place for gravity. 

As such, it cannot link with one of physics other great triumphs, that of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Thus, physicists are currently working hard to develop a quantum theory of gravity. 

Now researchers led by the SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati), the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo — have identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect.

Any new theory of physics must factor in this effect — this means quantum gravity theories too, must have a place for the Unruh effect and its predictions (which are detailed below). 

The new study — published in the journal Physical Review Letters — provides a solid theoretical framework to discuss modifications to the Unruh effect caused by the microstructure of space-time.

Eduardo Martin-Martinez, an assistant professor in Waterloo’s Department of Applied Mathematics, elaborates on the team’s work: “What we’ve done is analyzed the conditions to have Unruh effect and found that contrary to an extended belief in a big part of the community thermal response for particle detectors can happen without a thermal state.”

The team’s findings of importance because the Unruh effect exists in the boundary between quantum field theory and general relativity, and quantum gravity, which we are yet to understand.

“So, if someone wants to develop a theory of what’s going on beyond what we know of quantum field theory and relativity, they need to guarantee they satisfy the conditions we identify in their low energy limits.”

What is the Unruh effect?

The Unruh effect was first described by Stephen Fulling in 1973, followed by Paul Davies in 1975 and William G Unruh — after whom it was named — in 1976.

 It predicts that an observer in a non-inertial reference frame — one that is accelerating — would observe photons and other particles in a seemingly empty space while another person who is inertial would see a vacuum in that same area.

In other words; a consequence of the Unruh effect is that the nature of a vacuum in the universe is dependant on the path taken through it.

As an analogy, consider a universe with a constant temperature of zero and in which, no heat arises from the effects of friction or kinetic energy contributions. A still thermometer would have its mercury-level sat permanently at zero.

But the Unruh effect posits that if that thermometer was waved from side-to-side, the temperature measured would no longer be zero. The temperature measured would be proportional to the acceleration that the thermometer undergoes.

Raúl Carballo-Rubio, a postdoctoral researcher at SISSA, Italy, explains further: “Inertial and accelerated observers do not agree on the meaning of ‘empty space.

 “What an inertial observer carrying a particle detector identifies as a vacuum is not experienced as such by an observer accelerating through that same vacuum. The accelerated detector will find particles in thermal equilibrium, like a hot gas.”

He further explains that as a result of this, it is reasonable to expect that any new physics that modifies the structure of quantum field theory at short distances, would induce deviations from this law. 

Carballo-Rubio continues: “While probably anyone would agree that these deviations must be present, there is no consensus on whether these deviations would be large or small in a given theoretical framework. 

“This is precisely the issue that we wanted to understand.”

Defining the conditions theories of quantum gravity must satisfy

The researchers analyzed the mathematical structure of the correlations of a quantum field in frameworks beyond standard quantum field theory. 

The result of this analysis was then used to identify the three necessary conditions that are sufficient to preserve the Unruh effect. 

Low-energy predictions of quantum gravity theories can be constructed from the results. The findings of this research provide the tools necessary to make these predictions in a broad spectrum of situations.

Having been able to determine how the Unruh effect is modified by alterations of the structure of quantum field theory, as well as the relative importance of these modifications, the researchers believe the study provides a solid theoretical framework to discuss and perhaps test this particular aspect as one of the possible phenomenological manifestations of quantum gravity. 

This is particularly important and appropriates even if the effect has not yet been measured experimentally, as it is expected to be verified in the not so distant future.

Original research: 

• https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.041601

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09-08-2019 om 21:47 geschreven door peter  

Grootste surveytelescoop ter wereld schiet indrukwekkende beelden van ‘kosmische zeemeeuw’  - HLN.be

Bron: ESO

De VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is momenteel de grootste surveytelescoop ter wereld, en in staat om alles wat zich in de hemel afspeelt, in zichtbaar licht waar te nemen. Dat demonstreert de telescoop met deze indrukwekkende foto. De ‘hemelse vogel’ die daarop straalt, bestaat uit een mengsel van gloeiende gaswolken, donkere stofbanen en heldere sterren.

Nieuwe sterren worden geboren uit samentrekkende gas- en stofwolken en de straling van de jonge sterren geeft de wolken prachtige kleuren. Het licht dat niet wordt uitgestraald door het geïoniseerde gas rondom de sterren, wordt weerkaatst door sterren in de omgeving.

Kan jij de zeemeeuw spotten?

•  Ahoy maatjes! Ruimtepiraat teistert de sterrenhemel

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09-08-2019 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

Are Alien Messages Encoded in our DNA?

Are we alone in the universe? This is a question most people have pondered at one time or another.

Since the distances between us and the nearest habitable planets can only be measured in light years, direct proof of alien life will remain incredibly difficult to come by. The SETI project has been searching for radio signals beamed out into space by aliens, but so far this quest has proved fruitless. If we one day develop warp drive, or if other intelligent life forms discover it, perhaps a visitation will take place that settles the question once and for all.

But then again, perhaps aliens already have visited here in the past. Or maybe they’re visiting right now and have been doing so all along. But for reasons we cannot fathom, they’re either unable or unwilling to contact us openly. If that is the case, they may have left coded information behind somewhere announcing their presence, waiting for us to become advanced enough to find it and correctly interpret its meaning.

If extraterrestrials have left behind some hidden but decipherable proof of their existence, to test our intelligence and level of scientific advancement, they might have left it inside the cells of our body – in our DNA, the ultimate building block of life on Earth.

Some researchers believe data revealing the truth about our origins and about our connection to alien life can in fact be found by searching within. They posit that human beings were created as biological mirror images of our progenitors, a superior extraterrestrial civilization that paved the way for our existence millions of years ago.

This is a provocative thesis, to be sure. If true, it would give a whole new meaning to the Biblical phrase “for you were made in my image.” Under this scenario, the voice of God might actually have been the voice of a scientific genius from another planet.

We might expect the discussion of such a concept to be confined to the fringes of the alternative science milieu, or to be incorporated into the plotline of a science fiction show or movie. But surprisingly, the idea is being taken seriously in at least one bastion of mainstream astronomical science.

A Biological SETI

In 2013, two scientists affiliated with the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute in Kazakhstan published an article in the journal Icarus suggesting that the search for extraterrestrial life should be expanded to include a survey of human DNA.

Physicist Vladimir Sherbak and astrobiologist Maxim Makukov are convinced we’ve been genetically engineered by beings from another star system. These founders may have done so directly while visiting here hundreds of millions of years ago. Or, they may have sent an information-packed signal into space that reached Earth and somehow triggered alterations in our DNA. Or, they may have seeded our planet from space with alien genetic material that evolved elsewhere (presumably on their planet of origin).

The latter thesis is known as panspermia, and it has attracted the support of some influential scientists, including by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA molecule. Makukov and shCherbak believe this is the most likely alternative, and that our creators intentionally chose Earth as a landing site for their genetic payload.

 “Once fixed, the code [in our DNA] might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales,” the two scientists from Kazakhstan wrote in Icarus. “Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature.”

Makukov and shCherbak say human DNA looks as though it has been created with mathematical precision. “Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language. Furthermore, it includes the use of decimal notation and logical transformations that are accurate and systematic.”

In support of their imaginative theory, Makukov and shCherbak have spotted a specific repeating numerical pattern in the human genetic code. By looking closely at the various mathematical ratios, fractions and constants that show up in calculations and measurements of human DNA, they’ve uncovered multiple instances where the number ‘37’ seems to play a prominent role . In their Icarus research paper, the scientists listed nine instances where the number ‘37’ could be derived by performing calculations somehow related to DNA’s chemical structure, and they calculated the odds of that happening by random at 10 trillion to one against.

“It was clear right away that the code has a non-random structure,” Makukov told an interviewer. “The patterns that we describe are not simply non-random. They have some features that, at least from our point of view, were very hard to ascribe to natural processes.”

Expressed in the metric system, the normal body temperature of a human being is 37 degrees Celsius . And according to the latest estimates, there are approximately 37 trillion cells in the human body . So even outside its inclusion in our DNA, the number ‘37’ does help define who we are in some fundamental ways. This is just as we might expect, if that number were included in DNA as a sign.

Evolution or Panspermia? Why Not Both?   

The two Kazakhstan scientists are not the first to note certain patterns or regularities in DNA that may be difficult to fit in a Darwinian evolutionary framework. Hardcore Darwinists refuse to accept this, and they have a tendency to reflexively dismiss skeptics as Intelligent Design advocates, conflating their objections with Creationist religious beliefs.

But these tactics have not stopped people with legitimate scientific credentials from asking hard questions about the conventional story of evolution, or from offering alternative ideas to explain the origin and development of life on Earth. Creationists aren’t the only ones expressing doubts about the ability of Darwinism or neo-Darwinism to explain every aspect of our development as a species.

In fact, there is nothing in the Makukov and shCherbak hypothesis that is incompatible with the principles of evolution, not even the Darwinian version. Even if this planet was somehow helped along on the path to producing intelligent life, evolutionary factors may still have been active contributors to the production of the final result. The creation of life on Earth may have involved both natural processes and outside intervention, the latter helping to shape the course of evolution without replacing it.

One thing is for sure, and that is that we really know very little for certain about the origin of life on this planet. There are many mysteries and contradictions in our evolutionary history that are yet to be unraveled.

• Top image: Did alien’s code our DNA? Credit: Oleksandr / Adobe Stock

By Nathan Falde

[Ancient Origins]

09-08-2019 om 18:56 geschreven door peter  

09-08-2019 om 18:23 geschreven door peter  

INTERESSANT DIMENSIEVRAAGSTUK VOOR ZEER SLIMME LEZERS

We weten dat we beschikken over zeer slimme lezers die soms met verbazingwekkende dingen komen. 

Zo ook nu, maar nu is er hulp nodig van anderen om een revolutionaire theorie een stap verder te brengen.

Het is geen gemakkelijke kost en zal menigeen boven de pet gaan. Desondanks, mochten er lezers zijn die behulpzaam kunnen zijn bij het uitwerken bij het verdere traject, laat ons alsjeblieft weten via redactie(apenstaart)niburu.co (geschreven als normaal emailadres).

Beste Niburu redactie, 

Alles bevindt zich in twee dimensies: een bewegende en een stilstaande dimensie. Beide dimensies hebben omgekeerde eigenschappen, zijn reciprook, zeg maar zijn x en 1/x In beide dimensies is voortplanten, propagatie, van elektrische signalen mogelijk. Tot op heden maakt men alleen gebruik van propagatie in de bewegende dimensie, dit zijn de em-golven.

Nog niet ontdekt is propagatie in de stilstaande dimensie. Deze zien eruit als pulsen in het audio gebied en worden (voorlopig) me-pulsen genoemd. Hersengolven lijken hierop. Nikola Tesla maakte hier al gebruik van, met wat hij dacht, zijn telecommunicatie met mars. 

Tussen alle twee vaste punten met een zelfde afstand is een zelfde vaste tijd. Deze tijd is de tijd dat licht erover doet om deze afstand te overbruggen. Deze vaste tijd s zoals wij dit waarnemen, is in de omgekeerde vaste dimensie een trilling, is 1/s Dit bepaalt de selectiviteit van het signaal, net als dit het geval is bij elektromagnetische golven. 

em-golven bewegen van binnen naar buiten
me-pulsen bewegen van buiten naar binnen 

Mijn vraag aan jullie is, weten jullie iemand binnen jullie netwerk, die hier eens op een verstandige manier naar zou kunnen en willen kijken. 

Dit verklaart waarom nog steeds geen buitenaardse intelligente signalen zijn ontvangen. Er wordt alleen maar gekeken naar em-golven. 

Deze me-pulsen bevinden zich in de vaste dimensie. Hebben als groot voordeel, kunnen zeer grote afstanden overbruggen zonder noemenswaardige tijdsvertraging en kunnen bijna oneindig veel data bevatten. Hiermee vergeleken zijn de tot nu toe gebruikte elektromagnetische golven primitief en inferieur. 

Dit is een puls waarmee 1E30 data mee te coderen is. Puls breedte is 0,002 sec. ! (klik op plaatje voor grotere afbeelding)

Heb deze pulsen bij toeval ontdekt, mede op aanwijzingen van Nikola Tesla. Volgens hem zouden er elektrische signalen bestaan die omgekeerde eigenschappen zouden hebben als elektromagnetische golven. Hier werkte hij zelf ook mee. Omdat bekend is hoe em-golven werken kun je uitzoeken hoe omgekeerde elektrische signalen eruit zouden kunnen zien, en hoe dit verder allemaal werkt. Bijzonder is dat me-pulsen in een kooi van Faraday te meten zijn, een geheel afgesloten blikken doos, ook doos in doos en al af niet aan aarde, dit maakt allemaal niet uit. De toegepaste sensor zijn twee vaste punten, in de stilstaande dimensie, zoals eerder is beschreven. 

Deze sensor heeft iets elektrische lading nodig om te kunnen functioneren en mag niet belast worden. De afstand tussen deze twee vaste punten ligt rond de 830 nanometer, dit bepaalt de selectiviteit. Dit komt overeen met de golflengte van infrarode straling, toeval? Zeer veel verschillende signalen zijn hier mee te meten. Met ongeveer 50% van alle sensoren zijn signalen te meten. 

Omdat deze te meten zijn, moet er ook een manier zijn om deze te genereren. Na wat speurwerk is ontdekt hoe dit werkt. Verplaatsen van elektronen binnen een geleider geeft em-golven. Elektronen uit een geleider laten wegvloeien geeft me-pulsen. Bijvoorbeeld: een Teslaspoel genereert me-pulsen. Is aan een kant niet aangesloten en werkt ook in een kooi van Faraday, een doos. 

Heb destijds een demonstratie gegeven op het kennispark bij de UTwente. Naar aanleiding hiervan is contact gezocht met afdelingen en wetenschappers. 

Hier heeft men inderdaad op gereageerd. Probleem was dat dit nieuwe elementaire wetenschap betreft, en dit eerst wetenschappelijk, wiskundig, aangetoond en bewezen zou moeten worden, ook voordat met hier praktisch mee aan de gang zou kunnen gaan. Omdat wetenschappers razend druk zijn en een eigen agenda hebben, zou ik dit zelf moeten uitzoeken, en hier moet ik passen, dat red ik niet. Ben geen Maxwell. En voor verder onderzoek heb je toch een plek aan een universiteit nodig. 

Verder heb ik contact gezocht met Innovation Lab TU Eindhoven, maar nog geen reactie terug gehad. Volgens mij zien ze water branden als ze dit horen. 

Als het klopt wat hier beschreven is, heeft dat nogal wat consequenties.

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09-08-2019 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Ufo Sightings: the Ultimate Convenience!

The New Fuss About Ufo Sightings

Surprisingly, some sites appear to get a strong knowledge of the bizarre nature of the phenomena and a couple well-placed sources of information. The source states it has been foggy for the previous 3 days in the region. The CIA files contain a succinct overview of the events and can be considered on the agency’s website. Meditative images are also consciously utilised in yoga, as an example, to focus the mind to be able to yield a particular spiritual outcome. Within seconds the 2 objects place a tremendous distance between themselves. The objects appear at various occasions and at distinct points. There are lots of strange artifacts on earth and very frankly I didn’t expect to find one.

UFOs aren’t so hampered. The UFO looks like it’s been seen by plenty of individuals. There isn’t a great deal of in between when it has to do with UFOs.

With the numbers of UFO sightings increasing each calendar year, it’s important that you know just where to report a UFO sighting and what information will be necessary as a way to report it successfully. Usually once you speak about UFO sightings, most folks feel that I mistook it for something else or they may think that it is merely a crap. UFO sightings aren’t a modern phenomenon, they’re not a US-only phenomenon. During February in Minnesota, for instance, only 69 UFO sightings are reported since the start of the 21st century. Recently, among the most renowned mass sightings was the Phoenix Lights.

Ufo Sightings – Dead or Alive?

Project Blue Book provides a helpful example. Clearly, fake stories appear to find the most positive attention should they promise something spectacular. History has proven they need to. Science isn’t so superficial. Someone has to cover science and every previous scientist. Mimicking science isn’t the exact same as doing science. Actually, scientists and a great deal of non-believers make no fuss about expressing their scepticism in regards to extrasensory perception.

What the In-Crowd Won’t Tell You About Ufo Sightings

Extrasensory perception is used for several reasons like holistic wellbeing and energy healing methods to list a few. For that reason, it IS reality. Because of the remoteness of the area, their existence was considered to be a myth for many decades. There’s very little doubt that the world wide web has played a part in the development of UFO reports lately, though most can be explained by natural or human-caused phenomena. So, there’s no need to be concerned about the 156,353 UFO sightings and warnings. Despite the fact that there are plenty of questions regarding the JFK assassination, it is a prime example of individuals attempting to earn sense about something which you can’t make sense of. My issue with channels that concentrate on conspiracy theories, is that so a lot of them just state things as a fact rather than presenting it as a potential outcome.

Ufo Sightings for Dummies

The processing capability to create an entire universe would be enough to predict the future outcomes of such rules. UFO sighting levels depend on not only the presence of unrecognizable objects, but in addition, naturally, on the probability of actually reporting such observations. The growth of social media means that now, everybody has a voice. The trend is tough to notice in the beginning, mostly because there only a couple of dozen reports each month for a lot of the 20th century. The coming shift, or ascension because it’s called, will be a lot more subtle in nature than you could think.

Source: 

• http://footageofufos.com/2019/08/ufo-sightings-the-ultimate-convenience/

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09-08-2019 om 18:07 geschreven door peter  

09-08-2019 om 17:54 geschreven door peter  

Dead planets send out 'zombie' radio waves by forming a magnetic circuit with their star and these signals can be detected on Earth, scientists discover

• When stars like the sun expand they can strip planets down to just their cores
• These dead worlds for a magnetic circuit with their star and emit radio waves
• Researchers calculated how long these planetary corpses could survive for
• Some may last for a billion years meaning some should be detectable from Earth

By IAN RANDALL FOR MAILONLINE

Dead men don't tell tales — but dead planets may, with researchers planning to hunt for their corpse-like cores based on the radio signals they emit.

When stars like the sun get old and burn all their fuel, they expand into red giants before shedding their outer layers and then collapsing into a so-called white dwarf. 

In the process, any orbiting worlds get their surface and upper layers flayed off — leaving behind a small, dead, remnant core. One day, this will be Earth's fate.

In the meantime, however, researchers from the UK and the US have determined the best white dwarf stars to study in the hope of finding such dead planets.

The metallic cores of these dead worlds form a magnetic circuit with their host star, emitting radiation that should be detectable from the Earth. 

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Dead men don't tell tales — but dead planets may, with researchers planning to hunt for their corpse-like cores based on the radio signals they emit. Pictured, an artist's impression of the surviving core of a 'dead' planet orbiting a white dwarf

Astrophysicists Dimitri Veras of the University of Warwick and Alexander Wolszczan of the Pennsylvania State University assessed the likelihood of planets surviving long enough for us to spot them after their star transitioned into a white dwarf.

From their models, the duo found that some planetary cores could survive for more than 100 million years — and, in some cases, even for as long as a billion years.

Lasting this long, they say, means that we have a chance of being able to spot some of these dead worlds from the Earth — a feat the pair hope to accomplish from Puerto Rico's Arecibo observatory and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

'We will use the results of this work as guidelines for designs of radio searches for planetary cores around white dwarfs,' said Professor Wolszczan.

'Given the existing evidence for a presence of planetary debris around many of them, we think that our chances for exciting discoveries are quite good.'

The dead planets should be detectable because their metallic remains and the white dwarf star they orbit can form a type of magnetic circuit that emits radio waves.

In fact, this same induction effect can be seen in our solar system, in which Jupiter and its moon Io for a circuit of their own. 

'There is a sweet spot for detecting these planetary cores: a core too close to the white dwarf would be destroyed by tidal forces, and a core too far away would not be detectable,' said Dr Veras.

'Also, if the magnetic field is too strong, it would push the core into the white dwarf, destroying it.'

The dead planets should be detectable because their metallic remains and the white dwarf star they orbit can form a type of magnetic circuit that emits radio waves. Pictured, an artist's impression of a white dwarf star sitting at the heart of a dead planetary system 

Given these limits, the researchers are only planning to look for planets around white dwarfs with relatively weaker magnetic fields and that orbit at distances between three times the sun's radius and the distance between the Sun and Mercury.

'Nobody has ever found just the bare core of a major planet before, nor a major planet only through monitoring magnetic signatures, nor a major planet around a white dwarf,' Dr Veras added.

'Therefore, a discovery here would represent "firsts" in three different senses for planetary systems.'

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EARTH WHEN THE SUN DIES?

Five billion years from now, it's said the sun will have grown into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size. 

Eventually, it will eject gas and dust to create an 'envelope' accounting for as much as half its mass.

The core will become a tiny white dwarf star. This will shine for thousands of years, illuminating the envelope to create a ring-shaped planetary nebula.

Five billion years from now, it's said the sun will have grown into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size (file photo) 

While this metamorphosis will change the solar system, scientists are unsure what will happen to the third rock from the sun.

We already know that our sun will be bigger and brighter, so that it will probably destroy any form of life on our planet.

But whether the Earth's rocky core will survive is uncertain. 

A discovery would also help reveal the history of these star systems,' said Dr Veras.

'For a core to have reached that stage it would have been violently stripped of its atmosphere and mantle at some point and then thrown towards the white dwarf.'

'Such a core might also provide a glimpse into our own distant future, and how the solar system will eventually evolve.'

• The full findings of the study were published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 

Read more:

• Survivability of radio-loud planetary cores orbiting white dwarfs | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic

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09-08-2019 om 12:50 geschreven door peter  

While most astronomers are looking for signs of life on other planets, a few on the apocalyptic side are looking for signs of dead stars and dead planets in an attempt to look into Earth’s hopefully far-off future. What they have found so far is mysterious zombie signals coming from these planets that are no more than giant balls of metal orbiting dead white dwarfs. What is making these strange zombie sounds? Are they calling around the universe for brains?

lumina_obscura / Pixabay

“Nobody has ever found just the bare core of a major planet before, nor a major planet only through monitoring magnetic signatures, nor a major planet around a white dwarf.”

That is, nobody before Dr. Dimitri Veras from the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics and his team in May of 2019 discovered SDSS J1228+1040 – a white dwarf star (a dead star with no fusion occurring) located about 411 lights years away. According to the press release announcing their new study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, they also found the remains of one planet. Specifically, the rock orbiting SDSS J1228+1040 appears to be the core of the planet – what’s left after the dying star stripped it of its atmosphere and outer layers, leaving just a cold mass of hardened metals.

It’s a zombie planet … not a planet of zombies

They also discovered something else – a radio signal coming from the zombie planet. Based on a similar signal coming from Jupiter and its moon Io, they determined that the white dwarf and the planet core formed a unipolar inductor circuit with the metallic core acting as a conductor. The radiation from the unipolar inductor circuit forms radio waves which can be picked up by radio telescopes on Earth. Why is this a big deal?

“There is a sweet spot for detecting these planetary cores: a core too close to the white dwarf would be destroyed by tidal forces, and a core too far away would not be detectable. Also, if the magnetic field is too strong, it would push the core into the white dwarf, destroying it. Hence, we should only look for planets around those white dwarfs with weaker magnetic fields at a separation between about 3 solar radii and the Mercury-Sun distance.”

Veras points out that astronomers now have an excellent tool for finding other dead planets. And why is THAT a big deal?

“A discovery would also help reveal the history of these star systems, because for a core to have reached that stage it would have been violently stripped of its atmosphere and mantle at some point and then thrown towards the white dwarf. Such a core might also provide a glimpse into our own distant future, and how the solar system will eventually evolve.”

Yep. Looking at SDSS J1228+1040 and its signal-sending zombie planet are a look into our future. How far into our future? That depends on us (oh boy) and the lifespan of our sun, which is estimated to be about five billion more years. What this new discovery does tell Veras is how long a dead Earth will continue to exist and send its own zombie signals to other galaxies … one billion years.

Which do you think will come first … the end of the Sun or the end of the Earth? Don’t bother betting – there won’t be any bookies left anyway.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

09-08-2019 om 12:23 geschreven door peter  

We’ve all read the endless headlines. Millions of people may or may not be “storming” Area 51 next month only to find impenetrable roadblocks manned by heavily armed private security forces equipped with gear we didn’t even know existed. Regardless of what becomes of the “Storm Area 51” phenomenon, the highly classified United States Air Force research and testing facility located deep within the Nevada desert has become somewhat of a cause célèbre. 

Companies large and small and celebrities from all walks of public life are jumping on the social media bandwagon to try and attach their name to the event which, if nothing else, has provided the year’s best memes and reminded us just how soullessly devoid of a sense of humor the Armed Forces are. But hey, maybe that’s their job.

There’s nothing funny about the business of killing people.

Case in point: declassified documents from the CIA’s CREST database were unearthed recently revealing the great lengths the USAF went to in an attempt to lure the nation’s best mindsto the desolate Area 51 facility. The documents were dug up by government accountability and transparency advocates MuckRock who regularly publish declassified FBI and CIA files. 

The documents detail the difficulties the Air Force faced in both attracting and retaining personnel during the OXCART program, the above top secret research project which led to experimental aircraft such as the A-12 OXCART and its successor, the SR-71 Blackbird. That project required the extraordinary talents of the nation’s best aerospace engineers – engineers who weren’t too keen on moving to a remote facility in the middle of the scorching, desolate Nevada desert.

The internal CIA memo describes how the Air Force struggled to keep its best scientists for various reasons, although those who remained at the base did so solely to avoid taking their children out of school or avoid selling their houses during low-demand times:

That memo goes on to describe the Air Force’s attempts to avoid a “mass exodus” of scientists and engineers fed up with the bleak living and working conditions, noting that “personnel problems at Area 51 and throughout the OXCART project continue to be a point of issue”:

To help attract and retain the personnel necessary to keep the OXCART program running, the CIA put together a list of selling points which could be pitched to prospective Area 51 employees. These include descriptions of Las Vegas as “an affluent metropolis” full of “high-priced homes” and “a population as transient as a desert thunderstorm.” Sign me up!

For the Area 51 base itself, the CIA recommended promoting it to USAF staff by advertising free lodging and meals, television, air conditioning, and, I kid you not, “pies and cakes”:

Head over to MuckRock to read the whole trove of documents for yourself.

The USAF’s personnel retention campaign must have worked, because the CIA was able to successfully develop the A-12 and SR-71, two of the world’s most advanced spy aircraft. To this day, the SR-71 holds the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft and is likely the cause of many UFO sightings and much misinformation as the USAF and CIA worked to keep their most advanced aircraft in the dark.

Forget seeing them aliens. When we storm Area 51 next month, let’s go for the real prize: America’s unsung heroes, the pies and cakes of Area 51.

Let’s see them pies and cakes.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

09-08-2019 om 11:46 geschreven door peter  

UFOs Caught Visiting The Space Station, Close Up, High Detail! Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 12, 2019

Location of sighting: Space Station

This is one of the most extraordinary UFOs I have ever seen at the space station. Youtube user Tom Brown caught something on the space station live cam that is mind blowing. Two triangle UFOs move upward and within view of the camera, at that point the UFOs realise that they have been seen and move away, vanishing into the darkness of space. The camera also notices the UFOs and tries to move away from that location. UFOs often move in pairs, I have seen orbs in pairs move like this, but never triangle UFOs and never this close with such amazing detail. And we see each one is a different color, one red larger craft and one smaller grey-brown craft. These are 100% alien craft watching over the space station. 

Scott Waring-Taiwan

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09-08-2019 om 11:20 geschreven door peter