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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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...
28-01-2022
Scientists Puzzled by Weird “Strands” at the Center of Our Galaxy
Scientists Puzzled by Weird “Strands” at the Center of Our Galaxy
There are almost 1,000 of them — and we have no idea what they are made of and where they came from.
Image by Northwestern University/SAORO/Oxford University
Over the last 35 years, Northwestern University astronomy professor Farhad Yusef-Zadeh has been studying mysterious strands made up of cosmic ray electrons stretching up to 150 light years across the center of the Milky Way.
And now, with he help of his team, Yusef-Zadeh was able to find ten times more strands than previously discovered — which is striking, since we still have no idea what they are made of, nevermind where they came from.
Using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory MeerKAT telescope, the team was able to get a panoramic view of almost 1,000 of these mysterious filaments, as detailed in a new study accepted into The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
“We have studied individual filaments for a long time with a myopic view,” Yusef-Zadeh said in a statement. “Now, we finally see the big picture — a panoramic view filled with an abundance of filaments.”
Needless to say, it’s a significant moment in his career-long investigation.
“Just examining a few filaments makes it difficult to draw any real conclusion about what they are and where they came from,” he added. “This is a watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures.”
To create the panorama, the team stitched together 20 separate observations made over 200 hours by the MeerKAT observatory. The resulting image is awe-inspiring, and “like modern art,” according to Yusef-Zadeh.
Credit: Northwestern University/SAORO/Oxford University
Despite the advancements and an abundance of questions left to answer, the team is willing to make some educated guesses.
The variation in the radiation emitted by the filaments for instance suggest they aren’t the leftovers of supernovae, but rather the result of past activity of the supermassive black hole suspected to be at the center of our galaxy.
“This is the first time we have been able to study statistical characteristics of the filaments,” Yusef-Zadeh said in the statement. For instance, the team discovered that magnetic fields are being amplified along the strands.
They are also spaced apart from each other at exactly the same distances.
“We still don’t know why they come in clusters or understand how they separate, and we don’t know how these regular spacings happen,” Yusef-Zadeh said.
But getting a full understanding will require “more observations and theoretical analyses,” he said, a process that “takes time.”
“Every time we answer one question, multiple other questions arise,” he added.
The very real story of how UFOs shaped Middle East culture
The very real story of how UFOs shaped Middle East culture
From The Arabian Nights to alien ‘sightings’ over Dubai, the fantastical has a big impact.
Photo credit: SIDDHARTH SIVA
In late 2020, retired Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed became—for a brief time, at least—the most celebrated figure in the world of ufology. Already respected in aeronautics circles, Eshed shot to wider fame following an interview in Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, in which he claimed that aliens have not only visited Earth, but have joined humans in an inter-species “Galactic Federation.” As luck would have it, this headline-grabbing revelation coincided with the publication of Eshed’s as-told-to book The Universe Beyond the Horizon, which made similar claims. It’s unclear whether the disclosures made news on other planets.
At around the time Eshed was drip-feeding the world tales of interplanetary collaboration—coordinated, perhaps, from an underground base on Mars—the US Congress got in on the act, instructing the Pentagon to deliver a report on the 144 unresolved sightings of UFOs (or unidentified aerial phenomena—UAP—in the current parlance) recorded by the military since 2004. The paper, which came out in June, amounted to a series of observations which could be summed up as: dunno. Perhaps, as Eshed has suggested, the Federation is withholding full disclosure in order to avoid “mass hysteria.”
Believers, for their part, have remained unfazed by the lack of definitive answers, pointing to grainy military footage of inverted pyramids flitting across the sky, or dark blobs plunging into the sea, as evidence that the truth is not only out there, but right here. Even Dubai, not traditionally known as a destination for alien joyriders, was reportedly treated to a visitation in 2020, this time in the form of a huge saucer-shaped object hovering over the Arabian Gulf. As self-styled UFO-hunter Scott Waring put it in a subsequent blog: “looks like there is an alien base not far off the coast of Dubai.”
The 2016 sci-fi film Aerials, which depicts similar objects looming menacingly over Dubai, is said to be the first full-on alien-invasion movie shot in the UAE—possibly because the region as a whole has had more immediate conflicts on its mind. According to Dubai-based filmmaker S.A. Zaidi, however, his movie grows out of a longstanding, widespread regional interest in the subject. “I belonged to UFO clubs,” he says of his childhood. “I was a part of that geek culture.”
Zaidi is quick to add, though, that having a passion for science fiction does not make a person—or indeed a region—more inclined toward tin foil hats. He also objects to the idea that the Middle East’s supposed penchant for conspiracy theories—which he calls a “cultural stereotype”—transforms every errant weather balloon or odd-shaped cloud into a scene from Close Encounters. “After Aerials came out, my father kept asking me, ‘what do you think will happen if aliens actually land?’ I told him, ‘dad, I don’t know. It’s just a film.’”
That said, Dubai’s “UFO” was by no means the first in the region—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Morocco are just some of the places that have reported sightings over the years (albeit mostly debunkable). The most notorious incident occurred in 1976, when glowing, fast-moving objects appeared in the skies over Tehran, and were deemed threatening enough that fighter pilots scrambled to intercept them.
More recently, The Washington Post ran an article on how UFOs have become a “national security worry” in the US. “The question is, what is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?” said one former intelligence official in the piece, referring to the objects that have appeared on air-force pilots’ screens. Such comments may not point to mass hysteria, but they do suggest a kind of mass concern. As the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking put it: “meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”
The aliens in Zaidi’s film Aerials are not of the city-incinerating variety—partly because he lacked the budget for global annihilation, partly because he was more interested in building a subtle tension, and partly because he doesn’t necessarily buy into the idea that aliens would come here with the aim of stirring trouble. “I’m not sure a race that had the ability to travel all this way would do it just to say, ‘hey, I’m going to take this laser out and zap you,’” he says. “Maybe they just came because they were interested.”
Zaidi’s reluctance to venture into fire and brimstone territory was also a matter of what he describes as cultural sensitivity. “When we made Aerials, maybe the region wasn’t ready for something like Independence Day, you know, where the beam comes down on the White House,” he says. “We have local landmarks in the film, Emirates Towers and so on, but we were not going to shoot lasers down on them. We were not going to show Dubai getting destroyed.” He pauses and adds: “Then again, your imagination takes you there whether you want it or not.”
Dubai-based filmmaker S.A. Zaidi says his alien-invasion movie grew out of UFO “geek culture.”
Back to the future
The day German academic Jörg Matthias Determann landed in Doha, he felt as though he’d stepped onto a different planet. “You see all these glass towers rising out of the sand,” he says. “From the inside of these air-conditioned buildings, you look out at this hot, inhospitable environment, and you almost feel as though you are in a city on Mars, some kind of future habitat, these glass containers where the heat and dust storms are being kept out.”
Determann, a professor of history specializing in science, technology, and society at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, believes the Middle East’s reputation as a “very traditional, conservative place” does not take into account its appetite for extravagant ideas. “Look at Dubai, which is about to open a Museum of the Future,” he says. “There is a broad interest in futuristic mega-projects here, a commitment to try things that haven’t been tried before. And there is a long history of this—rulers wanting to leave gigantic legacies, going back to the Pharaohs. The Emirates Mars mission is another of these mega projects.”
In his latest book, Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World, Determann traces a line from groundbreaking astronomers in ancient Mesopotamia to the burgeoning interest in space exploration today. Along the way, he draws our attention to various cultural aspects that have made the Middle East fertile ground for stargazing, ranging from religion to commerce to the fantastical stories in One Thousand and One Nights (which became known as The Arabian Nights in English)—the latter of which, he says, could be seen as the root of it all.
It seems odd to think of The Arabian Nights as the starting point for regional futurism, given that its tales tend toward talking donkeys and vindictive demons rather than interstellar travel. Yet the collection has undoubtedly influenced generations of storytellers, who in turn have wielded an influence of their own. “No matter where you grew up, you couldn’t escape the power of these stories,” Determann says. “So you’ve always had these broadly speculative elements to culture here—you see it in the architecture, and in the science fiction I’ve had the pleasure of reading.”
Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, the Egyptian author of the dystopian novel Malaz: City of Resurrection, is currently working on a book about extremely unpleasant aliens touching down in the desert between Egypt and Libya. “I like imagining other worlds, life on other planets,” he says. “I read the stories in The Arabian Nights as a child and was fascinated by the magic, the heroes, the kingdoms. It created another world here in the Middle East. Anyone who wants to understand how to build fantasy worlds should read The Arabian Nights.”
Medieval folk tales, however, are not the only thing fueling imaginative storytelling in the region—or, for that matter, the willingness to accept that alien life forms may actually exist. In his book, Determann argues that Islamic beliefs—which accommodate ideas of multiple worlds and the existence of sentient, invisible beings—have played an important part, too. “To believe in the Quran,” he says, “is to believe that we are not alone.”
Following close behind religion, meanwhile, is the Middle East’s age-old role as a center for global trade. “Doha and Dubai are not so much desert cities as port cities—there’s a long tradition of going to distant shores,” Determann says. “This leads to stories of adventurers sailing off to strange lands, encountering strange creatures. You can see the movement of this over time: from seaport to airport, trading center to global aviation hub. The next step could be the spaceport. The urge to explore the unknown—that is something you can see here very clearly.”
Even the multicultural makeup of Gulf cities, Determann adds, leads back to this spirit of adventure and exploration. “One of the things I love about here is the coming together of so many cultures, like the cantina in Star Wars. There is an openness to the stranger, the alien.”
Ayham Jabr, “Damascus Under Siege”
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Battlefield Earth
If the idea of aliens flitting around our planet represents a kind of superstition, then there are strains of Middle East culture that foster this, too. “Many people believe in magic, its ability to affect lives,” says Al-Mahdi. “They’ll go to a man who they think will help them marry or divorce or have a child. They’ll take a piece of paper with the name of a loved one written on it, put it in water and drink it so they will be married. People really believe this stuff. It’s not fantasy, it’s something that exists. So, yes, a lot of people believe in aliens.”
Maybe so, but there is also a broad streak of pragmatism and skepticism here, epitomized by S.A. Zaidi’s aunt, who used to berate him for wasting his time reading stories with titles like Ray of Death. “She kept telling me I fantasize too much, go back to your schoolbooks,” he recalls. “This is not practical.” Then there are people like Syrian artist and filmmaker Ayham Jabr, for whom science fiction has a very practical purpose—namely, the idea that “fantasy can help the artist or writer to deliver his point.”
“Sci-fi provides a way to bypass censorship and address taboo subjects. You can present criticisms in a story about Mars, or about alien invaders, which gives you plausible deniability.”
As with many of his peers, Jabr got hooked on science fiction as a kid. “My family are artists, actors, screenwriters, so multiple cultures were in front of my eyes,” he says, going on to recall the fantasy TV shows he watched, the books he read, the tales of Pharaohs and kings. He has no time, though, for the conspiracy theorists and myth makers who occupy the margins of ufology. “There are so many fake, cheap stories, such as the one about the pyramids being used as fuel tanks for alien ships,” he says. “For some, this isn’t seen as fantasy but as theory.”
Religion, Jabr continues, also fired up his childhood imagination, though not always in a positive way. “My interest was coming from fear,” he says. “All these stories about the afterlife, Judgment Day, angels, and demons.” Fear is the prevailing emotion in Jabr’s Damascus Under Siege, a series of surreal collages that depict sinister-looking spacecraft either looming over the Syrian capital or shooting lasers into it—a representation of the country’s civil war rather than the prospect of an alien invasion.
“Science fiction provides a way to bypass censorship and address taboo subjects,” says Determann. “You could write a realistic story set in the present that criticizes authority, but that might get you into trouble. Or you can present the same criticisms in a story about a society on Mars, or about alien invaders, or about the future, which gives you plausible deniability.”
Al-Mahdi, too, admits to cloaking political and social provocations in fantasy. “I like to write post-apocalyptic novels, to imagine the collapse of what we have now and start anew—you can chop and change things however you like, and it is the same with alien invasions,” he says. “If you look closely, you’ll see I’m criticizing current regimes.”
Not all fantasies, however, fit this mold. It’s unlikely that the makers of the hammy 1959 Egyptian flick Journey to the Moon intended much more than a bit of harmless escapism. The same could be said of Rex Chouk, the Saudi artist whose works include trippy images of flying saucers hovering over the desert. As for the alien-invasion film Aerials, Zaidi says this: “I’d like to be able to say that we had underlying messages, but the reality is I’m just obsessed with UFOs.”
Ayham Jabr’s “The Guardian of Life”
(AYHAM JABR)
Brave new world
In 2007, former Syrian culture minister Riad Agha stood before a science fiction symposium in Damascus and delivered an address that, in its own way, provided a direct rebuttal to Zaidi’s skeptical aunt. “Man is an imaginative being,” Agha said to the assembled geeks. “The more he excels in imagining, the more he excels in innovation and invention.”
For Determann, the truth behind this statement is apparent in everything from Abu Dhabi’s futuristic Masdar City to the emerging Saudi-UAE space race. “There are three things you need before you can explore space,” he says. “You need knowledge and technology, you need money, and you need imagination. Before you go to Mars, you have to imagine going there.”
In fact, Determann continues, potential engineers and astronauts should be encouraged to immerse themselves in sci-fi. “There’s an idea that you can use space research to build a high-tech, knowledge-based economy, which the Emiratis have really bought into,” he says. “So if the aim is to inspire young people to go into space and contribute to that economy, we have to start early, building up the fascination long before they’re ready to study physics at university.”
Jasem Mutlaq, founder of the Ikarus Observatory in Kuwait, would likely agree. “It’s rare that you’ll find astronomers who are not fans of science fiction,” he says. “I grew up in the 80s watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. But the biggest impact of all was in 1997, when Contact was released. I was literally in tears when the movie was over. I’ve been hooked ever since.”
Like Mutlaq, Al-Mahdi grew up on a diet of science fiction, though his career took a different turn. “I wanted to be an astronaut, that was one of my childhood dreams,” he says with a laugh. “In high school I was good at chemistry and physics, but I liked poetry and literature more. I went to an engineering college, but then left for the faculty of the arts. So I was torn. In the end, I put both things together.”
Here, Mutlaq offers a word of caution. For him, the intermingling of science and science fiction is a positive thing, but not to the extent that it blurs the line between fantasy and reality. “Following the footsteps of Carl Sagan, I usually do not fall prey to conspiracy theories, especially those related to aliens roaming around,” he says. “While recent videos of UAP encounters are intriguing, they are not conclusive evidence for beings who traveled thousands of light years to go zipping over coastlines for a couple of seconds.”
And while Mutlaq will continue to gaze into the stars from his observatory, to read his sci-fi books, and abide by the moral standards of Captain Picard, he has learned to keep his own fantasies in check. “Alien life has yet to be proven scientifically, so we shouldn’t fall prey to our whims and wishes,” he says. “We ought to understand the universe as it is, not as what we aspire it to be.”
Hidden secrets? An ancient virus? Evidence for aliens? An alien's body? What secrets and mysteries are hidden in Siberia?
Aliens filmed on camera? Would you believe it? Scary and frightening shots taken by eyewitnesses that will make you goosebumps, it is unlikely that we are alone in this vast universe.
Did you know that in Siberia in recent years have found an ancient virus that has been frozen for the last 30,000 years and the most interesting thing is that here scientists come across scary and strange creatures, animals that are able to resurrect, even aliens.
This huge, cold area hides many mysteries, which Ayhan Infire will tell you about in the video below.
Meet Deep Prasad. Deep is a 26 year old self taught prodigy working on quantum computing and with a deep interest in UFO’s. In this video we discuss how he combines those interests by attempting to solve the schrodinger many body equation at scale with quantum computing; we also discuss quantum biology, quantum sensing and what, if anything, the aliens have planned for us.
Strange Light That Can Only Be Seen With Night Vision & V Shaped UFO Sighted Over A Town In Germany
Clip One : This was captured in Porter County in Indiana on January 9, 2022. This bizarre light can only be seem with the use of the night vision and when in normal mode it's invisible. The witness stated "We see them quite often with our night vision camera and have several posted on our channel. This video shows what the sky looks like when the night vision camera is switched to the dusk setting." Thanks to Contact at 110 UAP Sightings for allowing the use of his footage and to view the original:
Clip Two:This was sighted on January 24, 2022 at around 11:00am over Göppingen near Stuttgart in Germany at the train station. In this footage this looks like a V shaped or Boomerang shaped craft but what do you guys think?
Thanks to Saim for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original
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The Murchison Widefield Array captured the Milky Way in radio frequencies. The lowest frequencies are red, middle frequencies are green, and the highest are blue. The star icon shows the mysterious object.
(CNN)- While mapping radio waves across the universe, astronomers happened upon a celestial object releasing giant bursts of energy -- and it's unlike anything they've ever seen before.
The spinning space object, spotted in March 2018, beamed out radiation three times per hour. In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth, acting like a celestial lighthouse.
Astronomers think it might be a remnant of a collapsed star, either a dense neutron star or a dead white dwarf star, with a strong magnetic field -- or it could be something else entirely.
This image shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth, and the star icon marks the location of the unknown object.
A study on the discovery published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
"This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations," said lead study author Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, in a statement.
"That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there's nothing known in the sky that does that. And it's really quite close to us -- about 4,000 light-years away. It's in our galactic backyard."
Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O'Doherty made the unusual discovery while using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope in the outback of Western Australia.
"It's exciting that the source I identified last year has turned out to be such a peculiar object," O'Doherty said in a statement. "The MWA's wide field of view and extreme sensitivity are perfect for surveying the entire sky and detecting the unexpected."
What remains of a massive star's death
Flaring space objects that appear to turn on and off are known as transients.
"When studying transients, you're watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind," said study coauthor Gemma Anderson, ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist, in a statement. "'Slow transients' -- like supernovae -- might appear over the course of a few days and disappear after a few months. 'Fast transients' -- like a type of neutron star called a pulsar -- flash on and off within milliseconds or seconds."
This new, incredibly bright object, however, only turned on for about a minute every 18 minutes. The researchers said their observations might match up with the definition of an ultra-long period magnetar. Magnetars usually flare by the second, but this object takes longer.
This is an artist's impression of what the object might look like if it's a magnetar, or an incredibly magnetic neutron star.
"It's a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically," Hurley-Walker said. "But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn't expect them to be so bright. Somehow it's converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we've seen before."
The researchers will continue to monitor the object to see whether it turns back on, and in the meantime, they are searching for evidence of other similar objects.
"More detections will tell astronomers whether this was a rare one-off event or a vast new population we'd never noticed before," Hurley-Walker said.
“Spookachtig” ruimteobject zendt om de 18 minuten radiosignalen uit
Een Australische astronoom is bij het in kaart brengen van radiogolven in het heelal op een hemellichaam gebotst dat drie keer per uur enorme energiegolven uitstootte. Wetenschappers hadden zoiets nog nooit gezien. Nature publiceerde gisteren een studie over de verrassende ontdekking, die voorlopig een mysterie blijft.
Het tollende ruimteobject, dat in maart 2018 werd gespot, bleek om de 18 minuten ongeveer een minuut lang radiosignalen uit te zenden. Op die momenten was het de helderste bron van radiogolven die vanaf de aarde te zien was. “Een hemelse vuurtoren”, zo omschrijft CNN het.
Dit is een artistieke impressie van hoe het object eruit zou kunnen zien als het een magnetar is, of een ongelooflijk magnetische neutronenster.
Astrofysicus Natasha Hurley-Walker en haar team publiceerden de ontdekking in het gerenommeerde wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature, maar een sluitende verklaring ervoor vonden ze niet. “Dit object verscheen en verdween weer gedurende een paar uren tijdens onze waarnemingen”, zegt Hurley-Walker, die verbonden is aan de Curtin University in Australië. Flikkerende ruimteobjecten die aan en uit lijken te gaan, staan bekend als transiënten. Het geflikker kan in principe van een pulsar komen, een snel ronddraaiende neutronenster die in milliseconden of seconden aan en uit flitst. Of van een supernova, die een paar dagen te zien is en dan weer verdwijnt. Maar in dit geval flitste het hemellichaam elke 18 minuten aan en uit. “Dat was totaal onverwacht”, zegt Hurley-Walker. “Een beetje spookachtig ook voor een astronoom omdat, voor zover we weten, er niets aan de hemel is dat dit doet. En het is echt heel dicht bij ons, ongeveer 4.000 lichtjaar van ons. Dat is in onze galactische achtertuin.”
Het was Tyrone O’Doherty, doctoraatsstudent aan de Curtin University, die de ongewone ontdekking deed met de Murchison Widefield Array-telescoop (MWA), die opgesteld staat in de outback van deelstaat West-Australië. “Opwindend dat de bron die ik vorig jaar kon identificeren zo’n eigenaardig object blijkt te zijn”, zegt hij. “Het brede gezichtsveld en de extreme gevoeligheid van de MWA zijn perfect om de hele hemel in kaart te brengen en het onverwachte te detecteren.”
De Murchison Widefield Array legde de Melkweg vast in radiofrequenties. De laagste frequenties zijn rood, de middelste frequenties zijn groen en de hoogste zijn blauw. Het sterpictogram toont het mysterieuze object.
“Hij vond iets”, zegt Natasha Hurley-Walker, Doherty’s promotor van zijn doctoraatsthesis, over de ontdekking. Op beelden van de telescoop zien we in de melkweg een heldere stip die de locatie van het object markeert. “Net rechts daarvan is er een bron, en die is een superzwaar zwart gat dat stralen van radiogolven de ruimte inslingert met bijna de snelheid van het licht”, aldus Hurley-Wallker. “Toegegeven, dat is verder weg. Maar het geflikker dat we zagen is ongeveer net zo helder. Dat is dus echt extreem. En we hadden niet verwacht iets te vinden dat zo helder was. Op de een of andere manier zet het magnetische energie om in radiogolven, veel effectiever dan alles wat we eerder hebben gezien.”
Het gedrag van het object komt overeen met iets waarvan het bestaan wel is voorspeld, maar dat nooit is waargenomen: een soort langzaam draaiende neutronenster. Of het zou een overblijfsel kunnen zijn van een ingestorte ster die een dode witte dwergster met een sterk magnetisch veld werd, al is dat zeer onwaarschijnlijk. Wat het ook is, het is “echt extreme fysica”, volgens Hurley-Walker. “En het kan natuurlijk ook iets zijn waar we nog nooit aan hebben gedacht.
De onderzoekers zullen het object in de gaten blijven houden om te zien of het weer aangaat, en in de tussentijd zoeken ze naar bewijs voor andere soortgelijke objecten. “Meer detecties zullen astronomen vertellen of dit een zeldzame eenmalige gebeurtenis was of een grote nieuwe populatie die we nog nooit eerder hadden opgemerkt”, besluit Hurley-Walker.
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2 Blackhawks Escorting Glowing Orb in Durham, Connecticut! Video, Jan 21, 2022 UFO Sighting News
2 Blackhawks Escorting Glowing Orb in Durham, Connecticut! Video, Jan 21, 2022 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:January 21, 2022
Location of sighting: Durham, Connecticut, USA
Here we have two military helicopters escorting an unknown craft. The craft glows powerfully and appears to be orb shaped. This is a shocking encounter of both military and alien craft. It's not a typical meeting, this one is escorting the alien craft to the US military base nearby for some important conference. Most agreements made with aliens will involve trade...since technology is the most powerful commodity to the US military. Absolutely proof that the US military is working on an alliance with aliens.
The Milky Way is massive, but far more weighty is the volume of dark matter purported to pervade our home galaxy. And a pair of scientists have proposed that the cumulative force of dark matter in our galaxy is significant enough to affect interstellar spacecraft, according to a recent study shared on a preprint server.
While the study still requires peer review, it also says the Pioneer and New Horizons spacecraft were already affected, and so will planetary astronomy and astrophysics.
This could alter not only how we travel through deep space, but also how we study it.
Dark matter gravity on interstellar spacecraft
When an asteroid, comet, or even a spacecraft moves around the sun, our host star's gravity is the primary force in its motion. Out beyond Pluto, it's the entire solar system that serves as the main gravitational force. Even out in the Kuiper belt — the cloud of ancient primordial asteroids on the fringe of our solar system, any net-zero calculation of gravitational forces on a spacecraft is best calculated as a two-body problem: between the mass of the spacecraft, and that of the entire solar system. But all of that changes when you move too far away from the sun.
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If "an object is moving sufficiently far from the sun, then there is another gravitational force that can play an important role," wrote the authors of the study. The lead study author is Professor of Celestial Mechanics and Mathematics Edward A. Belbruno of Yeshiva University, who is also visiting research collaborator at Princeton University's department of astrophysical sciences. He worked in collaboration with NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green, co-lead author of the study who is due to retire early this year, according to a blog post from the agency. But together, Green and Belbruno analyzed a different force that comes into play for spacecraft that travel in interstellar space.
As you might guess, they found that this is the cumulative gravitational force of the Milky Way galaxy. But, surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of this force isn't generated by the disc, central bulge, and the stellar halo of our galaxy. While those are there, the primary force of gravitational attraction stems from dark matter. And, although "it is small," the collective force of all dark matter in our galaxy "can cumulatively add up and significantly affect the trajectory of motion over long periods of time."
An Interstellar Probe to analyze dark matter beyond the solar system
Ordinary, or "baryonic" matter comprises roughly 5% of the total energy of the observable universe, according to the study. Dark matter (non-baryonic matter), which we can't observe directly, comprises 25%. That's five times the energy — roughly the same difference in strength between the average human and a grizzly bear. Yikes! "The dark matter halo contains most of the mass of the Galaxy," wrote the study authors. "In the milky Way the dark matter is measured by observing the rotational circular motion of the Galaxy" around the galactic center, and measuring its velocity relative to radial distance has in the past revealed that the rotational speed of the galaxy "levels off" as you move away from the core. This is why even spacecraft as far away from the core as our solar system will be affected by the gravitational force of dark matter in our galaxy — just like everything else in the galaxy, almost independent of radial distance from the core.
"The existence of this force has many implications for planetary astronomy and astrophysics," since tracking the motion of alien worlds beyond our solar system has become a core practice of these fields. But, and perhaps most exhilarating to consider: "It may be possible to detect" this cumulative gravitational force of dark matter "on a proposed mission called Interstellar Probe", suggest the authors. There's a lot going on in space travel, especially with the James Webb Space Telescope's mounting success, not to mention SpaceX, NASA, and China. But on the macro-scale and the future awaiting us beyond the solar system, we're only just beginning.
METHANE has been detected on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus and the levels detected are consistent with that of microbes.
A new study suggests that this could be sign of life on Enceladus or just evidence of a chemical process we don't yet understand.
Saturn's Enceladus moon is thought to have a subsurface ocean
Credit: Getty - Contributor
Beneath the moon's icy surface, there's thought to be a salty subsurface ocean.
This water bursts through the icy crust sometimes in giant plumes.
Nasa, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency sent a space probe called Cassini to dive through these plumes.
This is how large amounts of methane were detected as well as other molecules like dihydrogen and carbon dioxide.
An illustration of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crustCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Researchers think Enceladus's seafloor could have hydrothermal vents similar to ones found on Earth.
We know that the Earthly hydrothermal vents are surrounded by microbes that consume dihydrogen and carbon dioxide and produce methane.
As part of a new experiment, a research team ran models to see what could be the most likely explanation for the large amounts of methane.
They planned out several different scenarios in which microbes would and wouldn't survive and compared them to the results the Cassini probe detected.
Saturn could have up to 82 moonsCredit: Getty - Contributor
Régis Ferrière, co-lead study author, said: "In summary, not only could we evaluate whether Cassini's observations are compatible with an environment habitable for life, but we could also make quantitative predictions about observations to be expected, should methanogenesis (by microbes) actually occur at Enceladus' seafloor.
"Obviously, we are not concluding that life exists in Enceladus' ocean.
"Rather, we wanted to understand how likely it would be that Enceladus' hydrothermal vents could be habitable to Earthlike microorganisms.
"Very likely, the Cassini data tell us, according to our models. And biological methanogenesis appears to be compatible with the data."
Astronomers will continue to research Saturn's Enceladus moon to find out more.
The full study has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Enceladus – the key facts
Here's what you need to know...
Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, with a diameter of 310 miles
It's roughly one-tenth the size of Saturn's largest moon, Titan
The moon is largely covered by fresh and clean ice, making it highly reflective
This also means it's very cold, with surface temperatures at noon reaching -198C
The moon was first discovered by British astronomer William Herschel on August 28, 1789
But we learned much more about it after Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft fly-bys. in the 1980s
In 2014, Nasa found evidence to suggest there was a large subsurface ocean of liquid water on Enceladus
And in 2018, scientists discovered complex macromolecular organics on the moon's jet plumes
This has given scientists hope for finding evidence of alien life on the moon
A Series Of Mysterious Cattle Killings Swept Through Argentina
A Series Of Mysterious Cattle Killings Swept Through Argentina
A series of mysterious killings of cattle on a farm in Argentina have raised fears that the Chupacabra may be behind these horrific murders.
According to local media reports, a curious incident occurred on the farm of the farmer Hugo Valenzuela, located near the city of Eskina. On three separate occasions in the past two months, he found cows slaughtered in an unusual way: their tongues, udders and reproductive organs were removed with uncanny precision.
“There are no signs of bleeding,” Valenzuela wonders. Longtime researchers will no doubt recognize these aspects of the case as classic signs of a cattle murder mystery. In this regard, the farmer also noted that no other animals approached the remains of the slaughtered cows and that there were no witnesses to the chilling killings, despite a neighbor who was only 1,300 feet from the scene of the attack.
“When it happens once or twice, you perceive it as something curious or strange,” the farmer reflects. However, initial bewilderment has turned to anger as he now hopes to get answers after losing his third cow in two months and resulting in significant financial damage.
Valenzuela is considering installing cameras to catch the perpetrator, or if another attack occurs.
While seasoned livestock mutilation investigators may speculate that some government conspiracy is behind the phenomenon, the farmer and others in the area point to a completely different suspect: the notorious chupacabra.
Their reasoning is that a man would not attack a cow in the way that Valenzuela’s cattle were killed, removing only some of the organs. The notorious blood-sucking cryptid was also charged with a similar string of murders in neighboring Chile last year.
While backward villagers blame the mythical Chupacabra for what is happening, this phenomenon goes far beyond the usual “terrestrial crimes” and “Chupacabra tricks” – organs are removed using high-tech tools, incisions are made on a living but immobilized animal, organs are taken from still living animals, but there is no blood, no noise.
These are not the tricks of the Chupacabra, this is the work of creatures for whom the suffering of an animal is nothing, especially since the same cases have happened to people.
Aliens Can Use Asteroids And Viruses In The War With Humans
Aliens Can Use Asteroids And Viruses In The War With Humans
Asteroids and viruses can be used as weapons by extraterrestrial civilizations that may seek to colonize the Earth in order to get all of its resources.
Such a statement, was made in an interview with The Sun Online by Professor Paul Springer from the US Air Force College in Alabama.
At the same time, he compared potential alien invaders with Europeans who came to the New World 300 years ago and actually exterminated the local inhabitants there.
So the aliens, in his opinion, can try to destroy earthlings in order to get the resources available on the planet.
Paul Springer is sure that any civilization acts solely in its own interests, which may not include good will, so you need to prepare for any scenario.
The specialist also explained that the alien invaders may have weapons that are much superior to the earth.
For example, they can use special lasers for pinpoint strikes against ground targets. Or they may have asteroid bombardment technology. Another option for the invaders is to spread viruses that act exclusively on people to cleanse the planet.
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UFO Researcher Found Huge Alien Base On Mars
UFO Researcher Found Huge Alien Base On Mars
According to him, NASA is hiding a mysterious building.UFO researcher Scott Waring continues to search for alien life in photographs of the surface of celestial bodies.
As stated by the Daily Star, he made a “new shocking discovery”: in his opinion, on the surface of Mars, it turns out that an alien base has been hiding for a long time, which extends for 25 kilometers.
“Found a 25-kilometer base on Mars. 25 kilometers, judging by the ruler on the map. It is located near the ridges of Sulci Gordii. NASA doesn’t want anyone to know about it,” Waring said on his Twitter page.
He claims to have gone through tens of thousands of photos and over 3 – 4 dozen indexes that he “didn’t even know existed”.
Scott explains he can see other less detailed structures that have been intentionally all blurred out, leaving just one.
He said: “I believe the person editing this photo, this particular photo, missed it on purpose because there are less detailed structures all around it that are blurred out.”
This is not the first alien base that Waring has allegedly found outside of Earth. Prior to this, a UFO hunter had already “found” such objects on the Moon, and shortly before that, he “discovered” a spaceship there as well.
There are very few people who think to help mankind without considering any profit in return. After great inventor Nikola Tesla, Baltimore engineer Otis T. Carr was the only person who believed in Tesla’s free energy concept. He wanted to create a spacecraft that would run on free energy and take humans to Moon and other planets. His friendship with Tesla lasted until his death in 1943. He was a protégé of Tesla who constructed a number of fully functional flying saucers in the late 1950s.
Carr was born in West Virginia in 1904. He left school at the age of 13 and self-educated himself. He met Tesla for the first time in Manhattan in 1925 while working as a hotel clerk. The two men talked about the developments in technology and discussed energy productions. Carr, who reportedly discovered free energy, was inspired by Tesla.
Otis Carr holding Utron Electric Accumulator, 1957.
During an interview with The New York Herald Tribune in 1911, Tesla said:
“My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and you would never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will through the air in any direction with perfect safety.”
Unfortunately, Tesla never had an opportunity to convert those ideas into a reality due to political and budget issues, but his disciple Carr claimed to have achieved harnessing power from gravity and built a spacecraft using it.
Schematic drawings for Otis T. Carr’s planned “Free Energy Research Institute” in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1958. Carr convinced investors to back him in his schemes to create Tesla-inspired flying saucers, antigravity devices, and free energy machines. Image credit: Rutgers University Press
In the 1950s, Carr was searching for investors for his saucers and free energy program. He became friends with a Baltimore man named Ralph Elsmo, who owned an advertising enterprise. After finding out about Carr’s ideas, Elsmo offered him a place to developing inventions using Tesla technology. Later, he set “OTC Enterprises, Inc.” In 1957, Carr was promoted by advertisers as the greatest scientist and was called a creator of the solution to power sources, free energy produced by the “Carrotto Gravity Motor.”
His most controversial invention was powered by the Utron Electric Accumulator, described as a fourth-dimensional space vehicle or the OTC-X1 spacecraft, in other words, a flying saucer.
Carr demonstrated his model of the spacecraft that he expected to fly to Moon
Carr could not have developed this technology if Tesla had not shared his ideas of antigravity propulsion with him years ago. In 1958, Carr claimed to have produced an anti-gravity technology that could be applied in a spacecraft. He asked for funding of around 20 million dollars to construct manufacturing facilities and build a machine (OTC-X1) that could fly to the Moon or any other planet in the solar system.
Prototype OTC-X1
He even approached the Pentagon and pitched them his OTC-X1 concept. Being interested, the Pentagon sent a team to investigate Carr’s offer. They visited his office in Baltimore and found his model useless. In 1958, the FBI started an investigation into Carr’s new spacecraft model, as they were concerned that it might attract the Soviet Union, but someone tipped them about criminal activity. They had reports of him selling some unregistered stock.
During a Project Camelot, Carr and technician Ralph Ring had been working closely on the design of flying saucers. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the two of them built a flying saucer powered by rotating electromagnets in conjunction with a number of small, ingenious capacitor-like devices called “Utrons.” They constructed several small-sized ships and a 45-foot craft that flew 10 miles at the speed of light.
“I was with two other engineers when we piloted the 45′ craft about ten miles. I thought it hadn’t moved – I thought it had failed. I was completely astonished when we realized that we had returned with samples of rocks and plants from our destination. It was a dramatic success. It was more like a kind of teleportation.”
“You must always work with Mother Nature. Force is never necessary. The laws of the physical universe are really very simple,” Ring said.
According to Carr, “Any vehicle accelerated to an axis rotation relative to its attractive inertial mass, immediately becomes activated by free-space-energy and acts as an independent force.”
On April 15, 1959, hundreds of people gathered in Oklahoma city for Otis Carr’s disk launch. They were invited to the launch of his 45 feet craft that would rise 400-600 feet in the air. However, the launch was postponed as Carr had been admitted into hospital, diagnosed with a lung hemorrhage.
Design of OTC-X1
Carr attracted the attention of World War II veteran US army officers Wayne Aho and Daniel Fry who accompanied him and helped his project to keep going. He claimed to launch for the Moon on December 7, 1959.
In 1947, Carr prepared the documentation, and later, in 1959, received a US patent No. 2.912.244 for a project of OTC-X1 spacecraft despite the fact that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had not recognized the idea of “perpetual motion machines” for a long time, and Carr’s device used just such a principle.
In 1960, Carr was found guilty of selling unregistered stock in Oklahoma and in January, he was charged in fraudulent of $50,000. He was sent to prison for 14 years and meanwhile, his lab was destroyed and all his prototypes were ceased by the government. His team members were asked not to make any contact with each other. After that, Carre lived in Pittsburgh until his death in 1982, continuing to try to interest investors in his technology.
Otis Carr was a victim like Tesla, who was left unnoticed and broke at the end of his life. People often talk about the intervention of the government and other forces opposing the advancement of Carr’s flying saucers. Besides, opponents of alternative energy regularly report fraud on the part of Carr.
At times, the field of Cryptozoology can be a violent one. Occasionally, a deadly one. With that said, let’s have a look at some of the most dangerous monsters out there.We’ll begin with the Nyalmo. You may not have heard of that one. It is, however, a form of Yeti (also known as the Abominable Snowman). The Nyalmo, though, is a creature that should not to be approached. As legendary cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans said: “The Nyalmo are real giants, between 4 and 5 m high, with enormous conical heads.” He continued: “They wander in parties among the eternal snows above 4000m. In such empty country it is hardly surprising that they should be carnivorous and even man-eating [italics mine].” Heuvelmans asked of the Nyalmo: “Do they really exist, or are they just a myth?” He admitted to having heard of accounts of Yetis with feet around 45 to 60 cm in length, but was careful to qualify this by stating that: “…the evidence is far too slender for us to draw any satisfactory conclusions. Possibly the Nyalmo are an invented addition based on the belief that yetis increase in size the higher you go.” Now, there is the equally dangerous beast, the Kushtaka.
(Nick Redfern)
What lurks in the mountains?
In 2014, one of the most intriguing Bigfoot-themed books was published. The author was Dennis Waller. The title of his book was In Search of the Kushtaka: Alaska’s Other Bigfoot. This is an excellent read for anyone fascinated by cryptozoology in general and Bigfoot in particular. Waller’s title is not your average Bigfoot book. And that’s not a bad thing at all. As the book demonstrates time and again, the Kushtaka phenomenon is not just strange. Simply put: it’s very often downright too strange. We never, ever, find a body. The beast is seemingly impervious to bullets. There are reports of the creatures vanishing before the witness – and by “vanishing” I do mean that literally. There is, however, something very strange about the Alaskan beast. It has astounding abilities, including the power to seemingly vanish (and reappear) at will, to shape-shift, to take on the guise of a deceased person, and to engage in telepathic communication. It can also manipulate space and time. Many might be inclined to relegate such tales and claims to the worlds of folklore and myth-making – and all without giving matters any degree of second thought.
(Nick Redfern)
On the road
Waller takes us on a fascinating journey that does not deny the legends and folklore that have become part of the Alaskan Bigfoot puzzle. It is, however, a journey that – to make its point – also encompasses science. On this latter issue, Waller delves deeply into the domain of String Theory, quantum physics, and multiple-dimensions. In other words, ancient legend may have been borne out of a science that – to a significant degree – still very much eludes us to this day. It’s also a science that spills over into the realms of Shamanic activity, altered states of mind, the afterlife, and creatures that very possibly feast on human life-energy [italics].
Now, it’s time to take a look at the Wendigo. A terrifying thing that appears prominently within the lore of the Algonquin people – the most widespread and populated of the Native American groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds – the Wendigo is an evil, cannibalistic, and rampaging creature with the ability to possess human sous and minds [italic mine], forcing them to do their dark bidding. Humans have the ability to transform into a Wendigo, especially if they have engaged in cannibalism. Notably, in centuries past, those who were suspected by the Algonquion of being Wendigos were decapitated after death, to prevent them from rising from the grave and going on slaughtering, people-eating rampages. Many of the reports of the Wendigo are focused around large forests, freezing cold and wintery environments, and dark woods. In light of that, there is a theory that the stories of the Wendigo are the result of (a) a distortion of real events, involving Native Americans who were forced to resort to cannibalism when food was scarce in the winter months; and (b) tales told to try and dissuade people from cannibalism, by making them think that eating human flesh would turn them into Wendigos. Now, let’s look at Bigfoot.
It’s not every day that a U.S. president makes comments and observations on Bigfoot. But, as incredible as it may sound, President Theodore Roosevelt may have done exactly that in the pages of his 1890 book, The Wilderness Hunter. The president, who was also a keen hunter and an avid outdoors-man, told a story that sounds eerily, and chillingly, like a close encounter with a killer-Bigfoot. An extract from his amazing, more than a century old, story follows: “Frontiersmen are not, as a rule, apt to be very superstitious. They lead lives too hard and practical, and have too little imagination in things spiritual and supernatural. I have heard but few ghost stories while living on the frontier, and those few were of a perfectly commonplace and conventional type. But I once listened to a goblin-story, which rather impressed me. A grizzled, weather beaten old mountain hunter, named Bauman who, born and had passed all of his life on the Frontier, told it the story to me. He must have believed what he said, for he could hardly repress a shudder at certain points of the tale; but he was of German ancestry, and in childhood had doubtless been saturated with all kinds of ghost and goblin lore.”
(Nick Redfern)
Roosevelt added: “So that many fearsome superstitions were latent in his mind; besides, he knew well the stories told by the Indian medicine men in their winter camps, of the snow-walkers, and the specters, [spirits, ghosts & apparitions] the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk. It may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend [italics mine], and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and still more in remembrance, weird and elfin traits to what was merely some abnormally wicked and cunning wild beast; but whether this was so or not, no man can say.” According to Roosevelt, the mysterious creature attacked Bauman’s friend and “…broke his neck by wrenching his head back with its fore paws, while it buried its teeth in his throat [italics mine]. It had not eaten the body, but apparently had romped and gamboled around it in uncouth, ferocious glee, occasionally rolling over and over it; and had then fled back into the soundless depths of the woods.”
Finally, we’re about to focus on a monster that first surfaced in very strange ways – and not too long ago: the Slenderman. Imagine the scene: it’s the dead of night and you are fast asleep. Suddenly, though, things change radically and you find yourself far from asleep: you are now wide awake but unable to move. You are completely paralyzed. You try and cry out but it’s no use. Your heart pounds and your head spins chaotically. Worse still, you see hunched over in the shadows of the bedroom an eight-to-nine-foot-tall, skinny and emaciated creature. It is dressed in an old-style black suit, has a pale face that lacks eyes, a nose, ears and a mouth. As for its arms and legs, they are almost like those of a spider: long, thin and spindly. Rubbery, octopus-like tentacles protrude from its torso; they wave and flicker ominously in your direction. To your horror, the night-fiend slowly moves toward you and leans over. Its foul breath makes you wretch. It whispers that you are about to die. Or, that it is coming to take your soul. Maybe you will be its eternal slave in its forested, ancient abode. Now in a state of complete terror, you finally manage to cry out and wake up in a cold sweat. The terrible thing is suddenly gone. You have just had a trauma- and fear-filled encounter with the Slenderman.
(Nick Redfern)
A modern day monster
The Slenderman had a strange start: he began “life” purely as an Internet creation, specifically the work of a man named Eric Knudsen. In June 2009, Knudsen, via the pseudonym of “Victor Surge,” uploaded a couple of doctored photos of the Slenderman to the forum of the Something Awful website. In no time at all, others began writing – and posting online – their very own tales of the Slenderman. Short stories, blogs, novels, online games, chat-rooms, and more soon followed. Then, something menacing and sinister happened: people, all across the world, began to see the Slenderman. Not just on the Internet, not in novels or in the pages of comic-books, but in their homes. In their bedrooms. In mysterious woods. In dreams that rapidly escalated into full-blown nightmares. The Slenderman came to life in the form of a Thought-Form. All of the five monsters above are very different creatures. There is, however, one connection between them all: they should be avoided at all costs.
Is there a lake under the South Pole on Mars? This has been debated since scientists first detected what they thought was a lake about a mile underneath the Martian south pole back in 2018, but the debates and theories have continued on to this day.
In 2020, it was reported that three additional salty lakes were found around the same area as the original South Pole one was detected. But the excitement turned to disappointment in August of 2021 when it was revealed that the “polar lakes” may have just been frozen clay.
And now, a new study conducted by planetary scientists from the University of Texas has claimed that the reflections of the radar images from the Martian South Pole may be nothing more than volcanic rock. In fact, the reflections from the South Pole are the same as those detected at volcanic plains in other locations on the Red Planet. Instead of there being a lake underneath the Martian South Pole, the authors of the study said that the volcanic rock claim is a “more plausible explanation”.
To test their theory, Cyril Grima put in an imaginary ice sheet across a radar map of the planet to see how the surface would look underneath a mile of ice. At that point, they compared the features with those detected underneath the polar cap. “For water to be sustained this close to the surface, you need both a very salty environment and a strong, locally generated heat source, but that doesn’t match what we know of this region,” he explained. His map was based on data collected over three years from a radar instrument called MARSIS on board the European Space Agency’s Mars Express.
The same thing has been detected here on Earth with rocks from iron-rich lava flows reflecting in a similar way to those at Mars’ volcanic plains.
While Mars may have had oceans many millions of years ago and could possibly still have pockets of water ice today, more research needs to be conducted. Isaac Smith, who is a Mars geophysicist at York University but was not involved with the study, gave his opinion about the new research, “I think the beauty of Grima’s finding is that while it knocks down the idea there might be liquid water under the planet’s south pole today,” he said that it “gives us really precise places to go look for evidence of ancient lakes and riverbeds and test hypotheses about the wider drying out of Mars’ climate over billions of years.”
Giant Elon Musk rocket is about to CRASH into the Moon after ‘7 years of chaos’
Giant Elon Musk rocket is about to CRASH into the Moon after ‘7 years of chaos’
Harry Pettit, Deputy Technology and Science Editor
A FOUR-TONNE chunk of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the Moon, according to online space junk trackers.
The out-of-control booster was launched from Florida in February 2015 as part of the rocket firm's first interplanetary mission.
ArsTechnica reports that the Falcon 9 second stage completed a long burn of its engines before deploying the NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory on a journey to a point more than 1 million km from Earth.
It did not have enough fuel left to take it back into Earth's atmosphere, leaving it on a chaotic orbit around our planet.
Now, space trackers have calculated that the rocket part's will intersect with the Moon at 2.58 kilometres per second within weeks.
The impact is estimated to occur on March 4, 2022, according to Bill Gray, who writes the popular Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects.
"This is the first unintentional case [of space junk hitting the Moon] of which I am aware," Gray wrote last week.
The astronomer recently put out a call to space-watchers to make observations of the booster to help refine his calculations.
What is SpaceX?
Here's what you need to know...
SpaceX is a cash-flushed rocket company that wants to take man to Mars.
It was set up by eccentric billionaire Elon Musk in 2002 and is based in Hawthorne, California.
SpaceX's first aim was to build rockets that can autonomously land back on Earth for refurbishment and re-use.
The technology makes launching and operating space flights more efficient, and therefore cheaper.
SpaceX currently uses its reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets to fly cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for Nasa.
It also carries satellites and other space tech into orbit for various government agencies and multinational companies.
The company took astronauts to the ISS for the first time in 2020 and flew its first all-civilian crew there a year later.
Future missions will fly tourists and astronauts to the Moon and Mars.
Musk has repeatedly said he believes humanity must colonise Mars to save itself from extinction.
He plans to get a SpaceX rocket to the Red Planet by 2027.
He's hoping to nail down the exact time of the crash ahead of schedule.
Unfortunately, it won't be possible to see the impact live as the tumbling rocket part is expected to hit the Moon's far side – the part that faces away from Earth.
Instead, astronomers will rely on images snapped by satellites including Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to view the aftermath of the crash.
By analysing the resulting crater, scientists hope to observe subsurface material ejected by the crash to shed light on the Moon's composition.
As part of its LCROSS mission, in 2009 Nasa deliberately smashed a rocket booster into the Moon in hopes of learning something from the debris it left behind.
"In essence, this is a "free" LCROSS… except we probably won't see the impact," Gray wrote.
SpaceX's 2015 mission, dubbed DSCOVR, was its first to leave Earth's orbit, meaning the rocket's second stage couldn't be directed into the atmosphere.
That tactic is regularly used by the company and Western space agencies to reduce debris by ensuring that it burns up as opposed to remaining in orbit.
A Falcon 9 lifts off from SpaceX’s Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on February 11, 2015Credit: SpaceX
In other news, Boeing has sunk $450million into a flying taxi startup that hopes to whisk passengers across cities by the end of the decade.
Personalised smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers this year.
Scientists are embarking on a mission to unravel the mystery behind dozens of grisly child mummies buried in an underground tomb in Sicily.
And, police have caught an Italian mafia henchman who'd be on the run for 20 years after spotting the fugitive on Google Maps.
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Op hol geslagen SpaceX-raket op ramkoers met de maan: “Eerste keer dat ruimteafval onbedoeld maan zal raken”
Een Falcon 9-raket van het Amerikaanse bedrijf SpaceX zweeft al zeven jaar “chaotisch” rond in de ruimte en ligt nu op ramkoers met de maan. Volgens experts zal de onvermijdelijke botsing over een paar weken plaatsvinden en zal ze niet vanop de aarde te zien zijn. Het is de eerste keer dat een stuk ruimteafval ongepland de maan zal raken, zegt data-analist Bill Gray.
Wat is er precies aan de hand en is de botsing gevaarlijk? Bekijk hier de uitleg van wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters:
De Falcon 9-raket werd in 2015 vanuit Florida gelanceerd als deel van de missie om een weersatelliet de ruimte in te sturen. Maar de tweede trap van de raket sloeg op hol. Die had niet voldoende brandstof om terug te keren naar de aarde, maar “had ook geen energie meer om te ontsnappen aan de zwaartekracht van het aarde-maan-systeem”, zegt meteoroloog Eric Berger op Ars Technica. “Vandaar dat ze sinds februari 2015 een enigszins chaotische baan volgt”, voegt Berger eraan toe.
Ruimtevaartspecialisten denken dat de rakettrap - zo’n vier ton ‘ruimteafval’ - binnen enkele weken de maan zal raken met een snelheid van ongeveer 2,58 km/s. Volgens data-analist Bill Gray zal de clash heel waarschijnlijk op 4 maart gebeuren aan de achterkant van de maan, ergens aan de evenaar. Om 7.25 uur ET, berekende hij, dat is 13.25 uur onze tijd. Volgens Gray kwam de rakettrap “op 5 januari al dicht bij de maan”, maar zal er “zeker een inslag zijn op 4 maart”. Voor zover Gray weet, zal het de eerste keer zijn dat een stuk ruimteafval de maan onbedoeld raakt. De exacte plaats waar de raket zal inslaan, blijft onduidelijk door kleine onvoorspelbare factoren, die de baan van de raket nog licht kunnen wijzigen.
Vanop onze planeet zullen we volgens Gray de clash niet kunnen waarnemen, omdat “het grootste deel van de maan in de weg zit”. En zelfs als de inslag aan ‘onze kant’ van de maan zou plaatsvinden, dan zal dat een paar dagen na nieuwe maan zijn. Bij nieuwe maan staan de zon en de maan op dezelfde positie ten opzichte van de aarde en kunnen wij de maan niet zien, enkel haar schaduwkant.
Ook Jonathan McDowell, een astrofysicus aan de Harvard Universiteit, meent dat de inslag op 4 maart zal plaatsvinden. Hij voegt eraan toe dat dit “geen big deal” is.
Toch hopen ruimtevaartliefhebbers wat te leren uit de crash van de rakettrap op de maan. Berger denkt dat dit mogelijk zal maken ondergronds materiaal te observeren dat door de impact aan de oppervlakte zal komen. Ook Gray “hoopt op een maaninslag”, zo zegt hij. “We weten al wat er gebeurt als afval de aarde raakt en daar valt niet veel van te leren.”
I found a monolith in an old NASA photo. This is from the Lunar Orbiter 1 mission frame 1038. Its from August of 1966, unmanned mission. The monolith sits at an angle and is pointed at an angle...which may mean its a triangle craft that was crashed landed on the surface of the moon. It's been intelligently made, therefore it has a purpose...most likely a structure or ship...or both. The object is huge, about .5km long.
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Thousands of Crows Take Flight Over Washington, Bad or Good Omen, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Thousands of Crows Take Flight Over Washington, Bad or Good Omen, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video:January 25, 2022
Location of event: Bothell Washington, USA
Two different eyewitness videos of thousands of crows were recorded yesterday. Crows are often seen as a symbol of death or doom. If you see a crow, it is a sign that someone close to you may soon die. A bad omen if you will. Maybe so, maybe there is something to superstition...a grain of truth that keeps it passed down. But lets face it, birds are sensitive feeling things far easier than us. If something were about to happen, something big, life changing, dramatic and frightening...its highly possible some animal species would know beforehand. This is what it looks like in Bothell, Washington this week, when thousands of crows took flight over the city. It may very well may be a warning of something to come. Only time will tell. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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