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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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...
11-06-2020
NASA sun observatory spies Comet Atlas in the solar wind. (Mercury, too!)
NASA sun observatory spies Comet Atlas in the solar wind. (Mercury, too!)
STEREO-A's view of the inner solar system between May 25 and June 1, 2020. Comet ATLAS streaks down across the screen as the planet Mercury enters at the left of the frame; meanwhile, the solar wind blows out from the sun on the left.
You'll need a minute to take it all in, there's a lot going on in this stunning view of the inner solar system, including a comet, Mercury and some solar weather.
First, let's get oriented. You're looking through the eyes of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory A, or STEREO-A. The spacecraft launched in 2006 with its now-silent twin to study the sun, in particular from angles we can't see from Earth. The spacecraft is about one-sixth of an orbit ahead (hence the A in its name) of Earth, with the sun off-screen to the left in the new images.
There's a lot of ambiance in the neighborhood. The pale haze gusting in from the left of the image is the solar wind, the charged particles that constantly stream out of the sun and across the solar system, creating the bubble Earth and its neighbors move through. And of course there are countless stars, some that appear to be standing on bright stalks (the streaks are just flukes in the image). Near the end of the loop, Mercury crosses into view from the left side of the image, moving across the background of stars, according to a NASA statement.
And STEREO-A's location was a perfect vantage point to catch sight of a comet that threw skywatchers into a frenzy this year, dubbed Comet ATLAS. Astronomers first spotted the object at the end of December, and soon identified it as a comet new to Earth's neighborhood. Skywatchers had high hopes Comet ATLAS would grow incredibly bright and put on a good show as it approached the sun.
Instead, Comet ATLAS began falling apart in April, to the disappointment of skywatchers. From STEREO-A's viewpoint, however, the comet's pieces remained close enough to each other to give the impression of a complete hunk of ice, and it's Comet ATLAS that streaks across the new animation from top to bottom. (The animation compiles images taken between May 25 and June 1.)
And out of frame, another spacecraft is also on the scene, the Solar Orbiter launched by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). That spacecraft, like STEREO-A, is designed to study the sun, but, through a stroke of good luck, Solar Orbiter's trajectory happened to align with that of Comet ATLAS and its tails.
Comet tails come in pairs: an ion tail created of charged particles that points away from the sun at all times and a dust tail of light-reflecting rubble. Solar Orbiter crossed the ion tail of ATLAS on May 31, as these images were being gathered, although the spacecraft is out of frame. The probe was due to cross the dust tail on June 6.
And conveniently, Solar Orbiter happens to be equipped with a few instruments that could take meaningful measurements of these tails. Although the spacecraft, which launched in February, wasn't due to begin its science work until later this month, mission personnel decided the comet was too tempting to pass up, and they arranged for four key instruments to start gathering observations early.
NASA and ESA have not yet announced whether those observations were successful — but at least STEREO-A snagged this awesome view.
Phobos looks like a Gobstopper in the new thermal imagery
Six views of the Martian moon Phobos captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter as of March 2020. The orbiter's THEMIS camera is used to measure temperature variations that suggest what kind of material the moon is made of. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/NAU)
New thermal imagery paints the Mars moon Phobos in a candy-colored light.
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2001, used its infrared camera to measure temperature variations on the 16-mile-wide (25 kilometers) Phobos at three different stages of illumination.
An image captured on Dec. 9 of last year shows Phobos in full sunlight, with a maximum measured temperature of 81 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius). A second shot, taken on Feb. 25 when the moon was in full eclipse, registered temperatures as low as minus 189 degrees F (minus 123 degrees C) — some of the lowest ever recorded on Phobos, Mars Odyssey team members said.
The third new image, taken on March 27 when Phobos was coming out of Mars' shadow, observed temperatures between those two extremes.
Lots of information about the moon can be gleaned from the thermal imagery, which NASA officials released Tuesday (June 9).
"We're seeing that the surface of Phobos is relatively uniform and made up of very fine-grained materials," Christopher Edwards of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, who leads the processing and analysis of the Phobos images, said in a statement.
"These observations are also helping to characterize the composition of Phobos," Edwards said. "Future observations will provide a more complete picture of the temperature extremes on the moon's surface."
A more complete picture could, in turn, help astronomers better understand the history of Phobos and Mars' other moon, the 8-mile-wide (13 km) Deimos. Some scientists think the satellites are captured asteroids, but others argue that they bothcoalesced from material blasted off the Red Planet's surface by powerful impacts.
Mars Odyssey's infrared camera is known as the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS for short. The newly released infrared imagery does not show Phobos as it would look to the human eye.
"All of the THEMIS infrared images are colorized to show temperature variations and are overlain on THEMIS visible-light images taken at the same time to show the geology of the surface," NASA officials wrote in the same statement. "The one exception is the eclipse image, which is computer-generated and shows what Phobos would have looked like if it wasn't in complete shadow."
Mars Odyssey is primarily devoted to studying the Red Planet's surface. But the probe has also studied Phobos in recent years, a target switch that requires flipping the probe upside-down.
Though Odyssey remains in good health, it's unclear how much longer the orbiter will continue doing its work (which also includes relaying communications between mission control on Earth and robots on the Martian surface, such as NASA's rover Curiosity). The 2021 federal budget request allocates just $1 million to the project next year, a more than 90% cut that, if enacted, would effectively end the Odyssey mission.
With many mysteries it seems that the more you learn, the less you know. That is certainly the case with the fast radio bursts which burst onto the astronomy scene just a few years ago as technological improvements aided in their discovery and the ability to see them as they happen rather than after the fact. Early reports showed them as one-off events, but the ability to trace some back to their home galaxies has uncovered so-called ‘repeaters’ which burst more than once. In February 2020, one repeater was discovered to maintain a regular 16-day schedule. Just months later, astronomers have found a second regular repeater – this one (named FRB 121102) on a strange 157-day schedule with 90 days of bursting followed by 67 days of silence. Does it take so much energy to burst that the star/black hole/alien/something else needs to rest?
I need a break
“Detecting a periodicity provides an important constraint on the origin of the bursts and the activity cycles could argue against a precessing neutron star.”
In a university of Manchester press release announcing the discovery, which came from the university’s Jodrell Bank observatory, Dr Kaustubh Rajwade – who led the research and was lead writer on the research paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – explains that this long 157-day schedule all but eliminates a precessing neutron star (a wobbly collapsed star too small to make a black hole) as a possible source. So what could it be? (Aliens? Please say aliens.) Well, this discovery only eliminates precessing neutron stars but it doesn’t affirm nor eliminate any others.
That’s means ‘aliens’ is still on the board, right?
As usual with these studies, the conclusion is that more studies are needed. However, there’s some good news about FRB 121102.
“Our best-fitting parameters suggest that the next two activity periods should occur in the MJD ranges 59002−59089 (2020 June 2 to 2020 August 28) and 59158–59246 (2020 November 5 to 2021 February 1).”
FRB 121102 is scheduled to start fast bursting again now and later this year. Coupled with the fact that astronomers now know exactly where to look, the team encourages any and all with the proper equipment to aim it at FRB 121102 to confirm or dispute their conclusion and, more importantly, to make new discoveries and conclusions.
Will any of them determine that aliens are creating the FRB 121102 bursts? It’s still on the board.
Secret Space Whistleblower Breaks Down in Tears… U.S. Missions To Distant Worlds Revealed!
Secret Space Whistleblower Breaks Down in Tears… U.S. Missions To Distant Worlds Revealed!
During his time within the secret programs, Emery Smith was sent on missions to distant worlds, through interplanetary portals. Despite months of planning and training with a qualified team, things do not always go as expected and accidents happen. He explains what the training is like, the steps taken to ensure the safety of the team, and some of the anomalous conditions he encountered during these off-planet missions.
Host George Noory Guest Speaker – Emery Smith
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Linda Moulton Howe: Secret Space Astronauts, Classified Missions
Linda Moulton Howe: Secret Space Astronauts, Classified Missions
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Linda Moulton Howe shared updates related to her report from last month on “secret astronaut” Jon Lavine. In her subsequent reality check efforts on many of Lavine’s claims, she discovered a number of fabrications. But in the face of contradictory facts, Lavine continued to insist his secret astronaut story was real, she noted. It’s possible, she concluded, that the “memory wipes” he claimed to have undergone, may have altered his accuracy or implanted him with false memories.
She spoke with John Greenewald, producer of The Black Vault, who detailed FOIA archives that describe how the CIA and MK-ULTRA had methods as far back as the 1950s to induce selective amnesia and insert false memories on personnel working on specific classified missions.
The Great Deception... From the Greys to the Space Brothers!
The Great Deception... From the Greys to the Space Brothers!
How long have these alleged extraterrestrials really been here on Earth? Some researchers have suggested that they started showing up during the 1940′s when specialised military tests were be carried out in regards to weapons. But the truth of the matter is… they have been here for a long long time, demonstrating a phenomenon that has been very little understood by our ancestors and even in modern day.
The only thing to have changed over time is their mask; how they want us to perceive them. Whatever we may perceive, is important to remember… they could be the masters of deception!
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300-Million-Year Old Wheel Discovered in a Coal Mine of Donetsk, Ukraine
300-Million-Year Old Wheel Discovered in a Coal Mine of Donetsk, Ukraine
In 2008, a curious find was discovered down a coal mine in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk named J3 ‘Sukhodolsky’ at a depth of 900 meters (2952.76 feet) from the surface.
As it could not be safely or successfully cut out due to the nature of the sandstone in which it was embedded, the mysterious artifact looking much like an ancient wheel remains in situ down the mine.
When geologically dated, the scholars refused to accept the results but it is known that archaeologists ignore any evidence that doesn't fit in to the system story of origin.
But Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester says: “Do we really know we were the first technological species on Earth?” - “We’ve had an industrial society for only about 300 years, but there’s been complex life on land for nearly 400 million years."
If humans went extinct today, Frank says, any future civilization that might arise on Earth millions of years hence might find it hard to recognize traces of human civilization. By the same token, if some earlier civilization existed on Earth millions of years ago, we might have trouble finding evidence of it.
Apart from the discovery of the old wheel, more 300-million-year old industrial artifacts have been found over the years. Such as the 300-million-year old doorknobs found In coal and the 300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok. So, I think it is certainly possible to detect an ancient industrial civilization in the geological record.
As time goes on, and coal mining, along with many other mining activities becomes more rapid and advanced in nature, it is simply a matter of time before even more mysterious and explainable artifacts will be found.
Subsequently allowing us to add it to the volume of research and artifacts which not only support our posit of lost civilization, but place human activities an impressive 300 million years back into earth’s history.
Really fast UFO filmed over Stoneville, NC 8-Jun-2020
Really fast UFO filmed over Stoneville, NC 8-Jun-2020
Our reader from Stoneville, North Carolina filmed this UFO from his backyard. This really fast unidentified flying object was making some kind of maneuvers. What do you think of it?
Date: 8th June 2020.
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AMAZING: UFOs flying in formation over Brentwood, Missouri | 2020
AMAZING: UFOs flying in formation over Brentwood, Missouri | 2020
Check out this amazing UFO capture. It looks like four UFOs were flying in formation but maybe it is just a one triangle-shaped craft. This happened over Brenton, Missouri on 8th March 2020 but it was released to MUFON’s website just a few hours ago.
Witness report:
4 points of light in formation with some rotation of lights. I had recently purchased a Night Vision Device. Went outside to gaze the night sky, within seconds noticed the objects in a pattern. Then i drop the NVD to to observe with my eyes, but could not see them. Then went back to NVD, then remembered that i could record it, and i did for 9 seconds.. Objects apeard to shift/rotate slightly as they moved out of sight.
The Milky Way’s giant gas bubbles were seen in visible light for the first time
The Milky Way’s giant gas bubbles were seen in visible light for the first time
The new technique could map the velocity of gas in the towering structures called Fermi bubbles
Giant bubbles of expanding gas that surround the Milky Way have been seen in visible light for the first time. The gas’s motion shifts the light’s wavelength, as depicted in this illustration. Emission from gas moving toward the solar system (bright spot at middle right) appears slightly bluer, while gas moving away appears redder.
Mysterious cosmic bubbles are being seen in a new light.
For the first time, scientists have observed visible light from the Fermi bubbles, enormous blobs of gas that sandwich the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. The newly spotted glow was emitted by hydrogen gas that was electrically charged, or ionized, within the bubbles. Astronomer Dhanesh Krishnarao of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and colleagues described the finding June 3 in a news conference at the American Astronomical Society virtual meeting and in a paper posted at arXiv.org on May 29.
Fermi Bubbles: Astronomers used the WHAM telescope to measure huge outflows of gas extending from the Milky Way's center known as the Fermi Bubbles. They were able to measure the velocity, density and pressure of the gas for the first time, confirming and extending previous measurements made by using a distant quasar as a light source to look through and measure the gas.
Credit: Dhanesh Krishnarao and NASA
Originally observed in 2010, the bubbles spew high-energy light known as gamma rays. The towering structures, each 25,000 light-years tall, are thought to be relics of an ancient outburst of gas from the galaxy’s center (SN: 11/9/10). But scientists don’t know the source. The outflow could have been the result of the black hole at the center of the galaxy messily gobbling up matter, or emissions caused by bursts of stars forming.
Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time measured the Fermi Bubbles in the visible light spectrum. The Fermi Bubbles are two enormous outflows of high-energy gas that emanate from the Milky Way and the finding refines our understanding of the properties of these mysterious blobs.
Within the bubbles, gas is expanding outward, its motion altering the apparent wavelength of its light. Material closer to the solar system is traveling toward it, appearing bluer, and more distant gas is moving away, appearing redder. The wavelength shift allowed the researchers to pinpoint the gas’s velocity at one location within the bubbles. Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, or WHAM, the researchers determined that the gas flowed outward at about 220 kilometers per second. The estimate agreed with an earlier measurement made using ultraviolet light.
By taking measurements in other locations, the researchers hope to more fully map out the velocity of the gas. “What that can tell us is how, over time, the energy output from the Fermi bubbles has changed. That’ll really be able to nail down more about the origin,” Krishnarao said.
The research team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Whitewater and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University measured the emission of light from hydrogen and nitrogen in the Fermi Bubbles at the same position as recent ultraviolet absorption measurements made by the Hubble Telescope.
"We combined those two measurements of emission and absorption to estimate the density, pressure and temperature of the ionized gas, and that lets us better understand where this gas is coming from," says Dhanesh Krishnarao, lead author of the new study and an astronomy graduate student at UW-Madison.
The researchers announced their findings June 3 at the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which was held virtually for the first time since 1899, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Extending 25,000 light years both above and below the center of the Milky Way, the Fermi Bubbles were discovered in 2010 by the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope. These faint but highly energetic outflows of gas are racing away from the center of the Milky Way at millions of miles per hour. But while the origin of the phenomenon has been inferred to date back several million years ago, the events that produced the bubbles remain a mystery.
Now, with new measurements of the density and pressure of the ionized gas, researchers can test models of the Fermi Bubbles against observations.
"The other significant thing is that we now have the possibility of measuring the density and pressure and the velocity structure in many locations," with the all-sky WHAM telescope, says Bob Benjamin, a professor of astronomy at UW-Whitewater and co-author of the study. "We can do an extensive mapping effort across the Fermi Bubbles above and below the plane of the galaxy to see if the models that people have developed are holding up. Because, unlike the ultraviolet data, we're not limited to just specific lines of sight."
Matt Haffner, professor of physics and astronomy at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a co-author of the report, says the work demonstrates the usefulness of the WHAM telescope, developed at UW-Madison, to tell us more about the workings of the Milky Way. The central region of our home galaxy has long been difficult to study because of gas blocking out view, but WHAM has provided new opportunities to gather the kind of information we have for distant galaxies.
"There are regions of the galaxy we can target with very sensitive instruments like WHAM to get this kind of new information toward the center that previously we are only able to do in the infrared and radio," says Haffner. "We can make comparisons to other galaxies by making the same kind of measurements towards the center of the Milky Way."
The Osprey backup sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. (Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)
NASA'sOSIRIS-REx spacecraft has taken its closest look yet at a potential sample site on asteroid Bennu.
The probe has been orbiting the asteroid since 2018 and has been preparing to collect a chunk of asteroid rock, which it will bring back to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx is set to take the sample from the site named Nightingale on Oct. 20, 2020, but on May 26 the spacecraft took a dive toward Osprey, the backup sample collection site for the mission. OSIRIS-REx dropped down to just 820 feet (250 meters) above the site, which is the closest the spacecraft has been to Osprey.
During the operation, the probe took 347 images from PolyCam, one of three cameras on the craft, which were stitched together into a mosaic to show the full site. In the mosaic picture, you can see Osprey located in the crater at the bottom of the image, right above the dark spot in the middle of the crater.
The purpose of this swooping maneuver was to provide high-resolution images that the OSIRIS-REx team could use to identify the best areas within Osprey for the spacecraft to take a sample should the procedure at Nightingale not work. Wherever the mission's sample comes from on Bennu the spacecraft will use its robotic arm known as TAGSAM (which stands for the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism). TAGSAM is made up of an 11-foot (3.4-meter) arm with three joints, a sampler head and pressurized nitrogen gas.
To sample Bennu, the spacecraft will descend toward the surface, unfold its arm, and briefly touch the sampler head to the asteroid's surface. The mechanism will release the nitrogen gas, which will rustle material on the asteroid's surface into the sampler head. Lastly, the spacecraft will photograph the sampler head to make sure that it collected enough material. (Scientists are aiming for at least 2.1 ounces, or 60 grams.)
By studying an asteroid like Bennu up close and bringing a piece home, scientists can better understand the early solar system, as such asteroids are remnants from this early cosmic time. In fact, some of the mineral fragments inside of the asteroid could be older than the solar system itself, according to NASA. This particular asteroid is not only especially old, but it's uniquely well-preserved so it could be an incredible resource for studying the formation of our solar system or even the origin of life.
A meteor lit up the night sky over Tennessee and neighboring states late Sunday (June 7), sparking 120 fireball sightings across 12 different states and Canada.
The fireball occurred at 9:42 p.m. EDT (0142 GMT) and blazed a trail over southern Ohio, according to a ground track by the American Meteor Society. It was visible for up to 3.5 seconds from as far south as South Carolina and as far north as Ontario, Canada, AMS reported.
A brilliant fireball lights up the night sky over Knoxville, Tennessee, in this cell phone video captured from a moving vehicle by witness Austin R. at 9:42 p.m. EDT on June 7, 2020 (0142 GMT June 8). (Image credit: Austin R./Amsmeteors.org ()
"Fireball caught over Knoxville, TN last night," AMS representatives wrote on Twitter alongside the video. "This fireball has been [seen] from IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV & Ontario!"
The video, which lasts about 2 seconds, was captured by witness Austin R. from a moving vehicle.
We're currently in between major meteor showers at the moment, with the Eta Aquarids of May behind us and August's Perseid meteor display still ahead. But there is still some general meteor activity to look out for. The AMS has a guide of current meteor forecasts from June 6 to June 12 here.
Editor's note:If you captured a photo or video of Sunday night's fireball over the U.S. and would like to share it with Space.com, let us know! Send images and comments in to spacephotos@space.com.
In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with the rest a mixture of dark matter and dark energy. But when cosmologists counted up everything they could see or measure at the time, they came up short. By a lot.
The sum of all the ordinary matter that cosmologists measured only added up to about half of the 5% what was supposed to be in the universe.
This is known as the "missing baryon problem" and for over 20 years, cosmologistslike us looked hard for this matter without success.
It took the discovery of a new celestial phenomenon and entirely new telescope technology, but earlier this year, our team finally found the missing matter.
Origin of the problem
Baryon is a classification for types of particles — sort of an umbrella term — that encompasses protons and neutrons, the building blocks of all the ordinary matter in the universe. Everything on the periodic table and pretty much anything that you think of as "stuff" is made of baryons.
Since the late 1970s, cosmologists have suspected that dark matter — an as of yet unknown type of matter that must exist to explain the gravitational patterns in space — makes up most of the matter of the universe with the rest being baryonic matter, but they didn't know the exact ratios. In 1997, three scientists from the University of California, San Diego, used the ratio of heavy hydrogen nuclei — hydrogen with an extra neutron — to normal hydrogen to estimate that baryons should make up about 5% of the mass-energy budget of the universe.
Yet while the ink was still drying on the publication, another trio of cosmologists raised a bright red flag. They reported that a direct measure of baryons in our present universe — determined through a census of stars, galaxies, and the gas within and around them — added up to only half of the predicted 5%.
This sparked the missing baryon problem. Provided the law of nature held that matter can be neither created nor destroyed, there were two possible explanations: Either the matter didn't exist and the math was wrong, or, the matter was out there hiding somewhere.
Remnants of the conditions in the early universe, like cosmic microwave background radiation, gave scientists a precise measure of the unverse's mass in baryons. (Image credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration)
Unsuccessful search
Astronomers across the globe took up the search and the first clue came a year later from theoretical cosmologists. Their computer simulations predicted that the majority of the missing matter was hiding in a low-density, million-degree hot plasma that permeated the universe. This was termed the "warm-hot intergalactic medium" and nicknamed "the WHIM." The WHIM, if it existed, would solve the missing baryon problem but at the time there was no way to confirm its existence.
In 2001, another piece of evidence in favor of the WHIM emerged. A second team confirmed the initial prediction of baryons making up 5% of the universe by looking at tiny temperature fluctuations in the universe's cosmic microwave background — essentially the leftover radiation from the Big Bang. With two separate confirmations of this number, the math had to be right and the WHIM seemed to be the answer. Now cosmologists just had to find this invisible plasma.
Over the past 20 years, we and many other teams of cosmologists and astronomers have brought nearly all of the Earth's greatest observatories to the hunt. There were some false alarms and tentative detections of warm-hot gas, but one of our teams eventually linked those to gas around galaxies. If the WHIM existed, it was too faint and diffuse to detect.
An unexpected solution in fast radio bursts
Fast radio bursts originate from galaxies millions and billions of light-years away and that distance is one of the reasons we can use them to find the missing baryons. (Image credit: ICRAR, CC BY-SA
In 2007, an entirely unanticipated opportunity appeared. Duncan Lorimer, an astronomer at the University of West Virginia, reported the serendipitous discovery of a cosmological phenomenon known as a fast radio burst (FRB). FRBs are extremely brief, highly energetic pulses of radio emissions. Cosmologists and astronomers still don't know what creates them, but they seem to come from galaxies far, far away.
As these bursts of radiation traverse the universe and pass through gasses and the theorized WHIM, they undergo something called dispersion.
The initial mysterious cause of these FRBs lasts for less a thousandth of a second and all the wavelengths start out in a tight clump. If someone was lucky enough — or unlucky enough — to be near the spot where an FRB was produced, all the wavelengths would hit them simultaneously.
But when radio waves pass through matter, they are briefly slowed down. The longer the wavelength, the more a radio wave "feels" the matter. Think of it like wind resistance. A bigger car feels more wind resistance than a smaller car.
The "wind resistance" effect on radio waves is incredibly small, but space is big. By the time an FRB has traveled millions or billions of light-years to reach Earth, dispersion has slowed the longer wavelengths so much that they arrive nearly a second later than the shorter wavelengths.
Therein lay the potential of FRBs to weigh the universe's baryons, an opportunity we recognized on the spot. By measuring the spread of different wavelengths within one FRB, we could calculate exactly how much matter — how many baryons — the radio waves passed through on their way to Earth.
At this point we were so close, but there was one final piece of information we needed. To precisely measure the baryon density, we needed to know where in the sky an FRB came from. If we knew the source galaxy, we would know how far the radio waves traveled. With that and the amount of dispersion they experienced, perhaps we could calculate how much matter they passed through on the way to Earth?
Unfortunately, the telescopes in 2007 weren't good enough to pinpoint exactly which galaxy — and therefore how far away — an FRB came from.
We knew what information would allow us to solve the problem, now we just had to wait for technology to develop enough to give us that data.
Technical innovation
It was 11 years until we were able to place — or localize — our first FRB. In August 2018, our collaborative project called CRAFT began using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in the outback of Western Australia to look for FRBs. This new telescope — which is run by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO — can watch huge portions of the sky, about 60 times the size of a full Moon, and it can simultaneously detect FRBs and pinpoint where in the sky they come from.
The technology and technique worked. We had measured the dispersion from an FRB and knew where it came from. But we needed to catch a few more of them in order to attain a statistically significant count of the baryons. So we waited and hoped space would send us some more FRBs.
By mid-July 2019, we had detected five more events — enough to perform the first search for the missing matter. Using the dispersion measures of these six FRBs, we were able to make a rough calculation of how much matter the radio waves passed through before reaching earth.
We were overcome by both amazement and reassurance the moment we saw the data fall right on the curve predicted by the 5% estimate. We had detected the missing baryons in full, solving this cosmological riddle and putting to rest two decades of searching.
This result, however, is only the first step. We were able to estimate the amount of baryons, but with only six data points, we can't yet build a comprehensive map of the missing baryons. We have proof the WHIM likely exists and have confirmed how much there is, but we don't know exactly how it is distributed. It is believed to be part of a vast filamentary network of gas that connects galaxies termed "the cosmic web," but with about 100 fast radio bursts cosmologists could start building an accurate map of this web.
This article was updated to indicate that Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, operates the new telescope.
Military On Alert Due To Another UFO Crash... This Time, Witnesses Got There First!
Military On Alert Due To Another UFO Crash... This Time, Witnesses Got There First!
It seems that extraterrestrial beings from other worlds took great interest in military tests. This interest may have led to the crash and recovery of two strange crafts, in the area. Investigators found beings of non-human characteristics. In addition, materials were found that left the witnesses stunned. Jaime Maussán travels to the places of these crashes to interview the renowned author and researcher Don Schmitt, who interviewed more than 150 direct and 600 indirect witnesses.
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There have been a number of UFO sightings over the years, and more people are being drawn to this topic. It has become a very hot topic, which seems to be exploding all over the world, where ever there is space. The weather patterns have been shown to have changed, and there is an increased UFO sighting from time to time.
There are many people who are just enjoying the mystery and unexplained incidents that come with this subject. Whether or not it is a normal phenomenon, we do not know. It could be something else.
We are talking about galaxies, stars, and distant remote planets, as well as our own planet. The stars are great for those who want to look at the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The light, like the light we see in the night sky, comes from these stars. We cannot find out how far away these stars are from us, because there is only one way to find out.
If a scientist found a way to determine the speed at which these stars move, he would have taken the power out of our lights, and none of us would see them at all. We would have no lights, except for the distant ones we see from time to time.
The skies are constantly being raked by UFOs, which has been going on for years. There are dozens of sightings of flying objects happening everyday, even throughout the day, and the governments cannot come up with any answers. There are some of them that we have reports of but cannot figure out what they are.
Maybe we should start with the military. If they can’t find out what they are doing, then how are we supposed to find out? They can not answer our questions, and it has been proven that aliens exist and they are watching us. Is that just some crazy conspiracy theory, or is there evidence of it?
The satellites in space to keep calling the earth, and if they can track their position in space, they can tell us if they are in the sky at all times. This gives us a clear view of these UFOs that are flying in our skies.
We see the strange things over the country and most of the time they don’t know why. Do we, the people, have a piece of the puzzle? I would think that we do, and we have seen a lot of strange things, and it has been confirmed that other nations have the ability to shoot down objects that are UFO’s.
To me, this formation represents the ending of a cycle because of the numerology involved. With this ending comes a decision point on what path to choose next. What do you think?
Beyond Belief TV Series Special… A former FBI special agent, John Desouza, may have been the real X-Files guy. He comes forward to reveal results from his investigations into paranormal phenomena, including UFO sightings and encounters with strange beings.
Even though he pushed to get to the heart of these happenings, he was met with an ever-strengthening shroud of secrecy, obscuring his work and discrediting witnesses. He explains key tactics used as part of this cover-up opera-tion, which are used in mainstream and social media whenever news of unusual events leak to the public. John DeSouza was an FBI Special Agent who maintained a Top Secret security clearance for over 25 years as he investigated paranormal experiences. During that time, he collected what he calls, the real-life X-FILES.
A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena.
It is easy to think that the latest UFO footage is going to be dull and boring. However, some people are starting to get more adventurous and take videos of UFO sightings that have actually shown a lot of detail.
The latest UFO videos that have surfaced include objects that have been turned into spherical and flying discs that were in motion when captured on video. These strange UFOs can also leave you scratching your head wondering just what the heck you are looking at.
If you are not afraid to ask for the latest UFO sighting or video of a UFO that you see it is vital that you do so. With today’s technology you may find that a photo or a video proves to be just as real as an eye-witness sighting. For instance, if a few thousand people saw a UFO at the same time then it would be hard to prove it was an accident without one of the witnesses to write down the UFO sighting at the exact moment of what they saw.
However, it is fun to take pictures of interesting things. You can take pictures of a UFO with a digital camera to add to your collection. There are tons of photos of UFO sightings around the world so don’t be shy to grab the camera and shoot!
Nowadays, with the new technologies we have we can get everything we want in photos from space. When the NASA photos were taken by their Hubble telescope they were blown up to great size and blown up like a poster on a wall. We can now zoom in on these things and make a wonderful slide show.
Nowadays, even the FAA has a webpage for videos of UFO sightings from the sky. This is also a great way to share your stories, pictures, and videos.
Since so many people are interested in UFO sightings, if you have a unique video of something strange and unexplained happen on the ground, you can submit your video to YouTube. This is a community based site that has a large community that can help you out.
You can also go to a UFO fan page and post your UFO sighting and get the word out to the masses. More people will see your video than if you just use YouTube alone.
Glowing White Orb Over Pennsylvania On June 3, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing White Orb Over Pennsylvania On June 3, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 3, 2020, 9:05pm EST
Location of sighting: Shamokin, Pennsylvania, USA
This is a great video from Pennsylvania this week. A powerful white glowing orb was seen in the sky at 9:05pm. The light doesn't match that of any aircraft I have ever seen and is way too powerful of a light to be a drone. The glowing orb reminds me of the UFO that was seen many years ago over the holy temple of Dome of Rock in Israel. The color, intensity and size are the same. Remarkable catch. Also has similarities to the WWII foo fighter orbs.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Was walking south around 1000 N Pearl St, Shamokin PA with my iPhone in my right hand, listening to music. As I was walking down the hill, near the tennis courts, I noticed a very bright white light very rapidly rise from the ground up into the air and stop for approx. 30 secs. At first, I thought I would just take a pic and continue walking, but I instead realized that what I was seeing wasn't normal so I recorded a short video. I zoomed in with the video app and then centered the object into the frame. It was mostly a bright, intense globe-like white light that flickered for a short time (as seen in the video), but it also flickered green/red for a few seconds. It slowly descended back towards the ground and disappeared. As luck would have it, I received a call I was expecting and the video app stopped. I also have a picture of the object taken right as it's descending. Air traffic is very rare in this town, and this object was definitely not a helicopter or plane.
Giant Triangle UFO Seen Flying Low Over New Jersey Neighborhood, Video, May 31, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Triangle UFO Seen Flying Low Over New Jersey Neighborhood, Video, May 31, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 31, 2020
Location of sighting: Winslow Township, New Jersey, USA
Watch this video and you will see three glowing lights pass above the eyewitness. The lights are in a triangle formation and could actually be one large craft. The UFO is cloaked and only these lights are visible. The lights may be windows into the ship and aliens may be watching from above, or they may be part of the propulsion system. Either way, this is some remarkable footage.
Scott C Waring - Taiwan
Below is a extreme close up of one of the three orbs seen in the video above.
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