UFO Appears And Disappears Over Brazil December 5, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Dec 5, 2016
Location of sighting: Brazil

Here is a video posted on Youtube by user Gagare1952. The video shows a UFO that is making a cloud trail. Its telepathic emotion sensors realised that someone had noticed it, so it immediately cloaked...as you see in the video below. 

Have you ever seen such a UFO in the sky, only to have it disappear with seconds of noticing it? Yes, you have, and so have most the population on Earth. Out of sight, out of mind. 
Scott C. Waring

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UFO Over Small City In Argentina Gets Locals Concerned, Dec 2, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Datum van de waarneming:  2 december 2016

Locatie van de waarneming:  Cerro Los Blanquitos, Argentinië 

Nieuws bron:  http://inexplicata.blogspot.tw

 

Deze gloeiende UFO is vergelijkbaar met zowel de UFO's gezien door duizenden over de bergen van Denver, Colorado en de UFO die werd gezien op een oude tempel van duizenden jaren oud, Koepel van de Rots, die ook werd gezien door duizenden. U kunt ze noemen engelen, maar ik noem ze een hoog ontwikkeld uitheemse soorten, die een positie die de mensheid kan een dag aandeel. 

Scott C. Waring

 

Inexplicata luidt als volgt: 

** Dit is niet de eerste keer dat Roberto Ruiz heeft een ervaring zoals die op donderdag, toen hij ging naar buiten om een storm te fotograferen. Bekijk de video**

 

Fotograaf Roberto Ruiz uit Jachal (San Juan Provincie) getuige van een lichtgevend object in de lucht boven zijn geboortestad op donderdagavond, toen hij ging met zijn collega Nito Martín om de storm te fotograferen.

 

Hun lenzen waren gericht op Cerro Los Blanquitos ongeveer tien uur 's avonds, wanneer een krachtige groenachtig licht zichtbaar op de bergkam werd. Volgens de ooggetuigen, het object verplaatst en later verdween achter de top.

 

Dit is de eerste keer dat de fotojournalist een soortgelijke ervaring heeft. In augustus 1984, Ruiz alleedly zag een UFO vanuit het raam van een vliegtuig waarop hij vloog.

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Planet Mars: It's Not Just a Rock, Enlightening Tour Of Mars, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: Nov 30, 2016
Maker of video: TheRealJimmyRoberts1 

This very enlightening video was made by TheRealJimmyRoberts1 of Youtube. He carefully takes us on a tour of Mars using NASA photos. He shows how NASA expertly hides the truth, by altering the photos, and how we can get it back into focus. Listen to him and at the end of the 38 minute video, you will better understand what we have been finding in Mars photos. 
Scott C. Waring

Video states:
38 Minutes that are guaranteed to change your perspective on the reality of both past and present life on Mars. The basics of "HOW, WHY and WHO" are covered here along with hundreds of telling images. This is not conspiracy theory. This is not the occult. This is reality and it is extremely important that we begin to understand our relationship to both the past and present inhabitants of the Red Planet. Why? Because evidence strongly indicates they were destroyed by nuclear explosions.

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UFO photographed over Georgia

Location: Hortense ga
Date: December 1, 2016
Submitted by Whitney

Witness report:

We was driving in the car, and I seen something in the sky with alot of lights on it and I told my sister to follow it, so we did. I took a picture of it and then it zoomed away! Soo freaky!

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UFO photographed over Cumbria, UK

Location: Cumbria, UK
Date: 26.11.16
Submitted by Melanie

Witness report:

Never really noticed anything. .was out walking in the fells..taking photos..wasn’t till looking at photos we noticed a mark on the picture. .wen blown the photo up..we think it looks like an u.f.o…..it looks very sharp and metallic. ..would love to see Wat it is. ..

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Port Macquarie UFO Sighting

Location: Port Macquarie Australia
Date: 1 November 2016
Submitted by Anon

Witness report:

Myself and 5 others were at a westward lookout facing mountain range, my eldest 17yr spotted something hovering, appeared to be jumping left to right rapidly, giving off white flash’s. Had the handy cam so these pics are only frame grabs. The battery went flat !!!! was a fully charged 2200mah charged 30mins prior, only just switched it on. We then saw a huge flash of white and it was gone

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Ancient Coin Of France Apparently Depicts An Unidentified Flying Saucer

Absolute proof of UFO sightings from hundreds of years ago has been found in a 17th-century French token, UFO hunters claimed.

The coin-like object, known as the ancient jeton, was used for counting. It reportedly depicts a strange-looking circular entity that looks like a classic flying saucer.

Some even went to speculate that it represents the wheel in the Book of Ezekiel of the Bible, which they believe the Bible’s tale of a UFO encounter. Some skeptics say that the object just represents a drifting mushroom or flower. Others say that it shows a shield.

Meanwhile, many UFO hunters say that the token is an evidence of frequent UFO sightings in ancient France. So numerous that French decided to inscribe such sightings on coins. The object is a French jeton minted somewhere from 1680 to 1856.

It has almost the same size of a U.S. quarter-dollar. It was used for educational purposes to help people count money, and sometimes, used as a substitute for money in playing games. It also looks like other jetons with different educational and religious designs.

Researchers found a Latin inscription that says OPPORTUNUS ADEST, which means “It is here at an opportune time.” The other side of it shows rain drenching a plant-like thing.

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UFO Expert Claims Government Withheld More Than Half of the Truth About Aliens and UFOs

A paranormal investigator made a claim that the British government has involvement in the cover-up of the truth about UFOs and aliens.

UFO expert Malcolm Robinson said intelligence that could clarify unsolved British mysteries involving UFOs and aliens had been withheld from public access.

Founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations, Mr. Robinson, has collected and examined UFO evidence for years. In 2015, he presented a collection of evidence containing detailed information about UFOs and aliens to Downing Street, requesting then Prime Minister David Cameron to open an inquiry. However, it failed to materialize.

He said governments in different parts of the world, including Britain, know far more than what they disclosed to the public for sure.

He claims that Nick Pope, the manager of the now defunct UFO desk, once told him that the government did not disclose even half of the truth.

According to documents obtained under Freedom of Information, the department and hotline for UFO sighting reports was shut down in 2009 for the reason that it no longer served a defense purpose and only taking away resources and staff to more significant defense-related activities. The documents further revealed the Ministry of Defence concluded that no UFO report in 50 years had evidence of a potential threat to the U.K.

Now, Mr. Robinson has called for the government to conduct an inquiry in several sightings, including police files from Bonnybridge Scotland. Robinson said that there were over 300 UFO sightings in the small town during the 1990s.

Mr. Robinson noted that about 95% of the sightings could be explained after checking with airports, the National Security Agency, the Ministry of Defence, and meteorological stations, but some 5% don’t have a rational explanation.

Earlier this year, many UFO conspiracy theorists claimed that some MoD UFO files which had been sent to the National Archives had been sent back for further censorship.

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Triangle-UFO in the sky above Winnipeg, Canada 26-Nov-2016

Here’s a new footage of a bright objects in triangular formation hovering in the sky above Winnipeg in Canada. This happened on 26th November 2016.

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UFOs have been on Earth for THOUSANDS of years as chilling 'alien SKULLS' discovered

CREEPY "alien skulls" have been found buried in the depths of an ancient cave – proving UFOS have been on Earth for "thousands of years".

By Henry Holloway 

UFO experts claim the odd objects – which do resemble extraterrestrials – are undoubtedly alien skeletons.

Pictures of the strange objects were revealed which show tiny, grey "bones" and "skulls" which appear to be from a creature about 2ft tall.

The skeletal remains were reportedly uncovered in a cave in the southern deserts of Peru.

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“The bodies look thousands of years old”

Scott C. Waring

Brian Foerester, of Hidden Inca Tours on YouTube, investigated the discovery and the find has stunned alien hunters.

Two pieces of skeletal remains from a pair of "grey aliens" were found.

The first was a fully formed "alien" about a foot tall, and the second was a skull from an alien who would have been around two foot tall.

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Prolific alien hunter Scott C Waring posted the find on blog UFO Sightings Daily.

He wrote: "The bodies look thousands of years old and they resemble an alien with a height of about one or two feet tall."

Waring added: "This is a short alien. So they are small, does that make them existing impossible?

"The shortest human in the world was 21 and a half inches. Did he exist? Of course he did, and of course intelligent aliens."

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Russia's secret UFO files: Soviet Union waged Cold War conflict with aliens

WHILE the Cold War waged, the Soviet Union was being menaced by mysterious alien spacecraft which shot down planes and burned military installations

By Henry Holloway 

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During the 1940s and 1950s UFO-mania gripped the US as reports of flying saucers, men in black and alien abductions filled newspaper pages.

But as alien encounters became a sideshow in the states, their communist enemies were also being rocked by mysterious encounters with UFOs.

Around the same time the Soviets also began to have increasing contact with apparent aliens and growing reports of spacecraft entering airspace over Russia.

Soviet-born UFO researcher and author Paul Stonehill told Daily Star Online: “The Soviets were shocked so many UFOs could penetrate their borders and basically just do what they wanted without any control from the Kremlin.

“There were many more cases of direct encounters than in the United States, and anything which was flying over the Soviet Union was very interested in secret military installations.”

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“The aliens would fight back and destroy whatever unit would shoot at them.”

Paul Stonehill

Throughout the Cold War and the space race Soviet forces frequently clashed with UFOs.

Mr Stonehill said: “The Kremlin was paranoid but they could not do anything about it.

“They tried on several occasions where orders were given out from on high to shoot down UFOs, or local commanders would take it upon themselves.

“However, it always ended badly for them.”

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The researcher, whose articles have been published in 11 languages, unearthed a culture of total secrecy over the phenomena in the Soviet Union.

Kremlin bigwigs would pass off any public reports of the phenomena as a “hoax perpetrated by the Western powers”.

A secret research programme called SETKA was established in 1977 after the Petrozavodsk incident in which 48 UFOs appeared in the atmosphere across the Soviet Union.

The incident came to a head in the industrial city of Petrozavodsk when a huge glowing object appeared overhead – seemingly beaming shafts of light towards the Earth.

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The aim of the programme was to work out what the UFOs were – with Soviet higher-ups acknowledging the craft could not be of Earth-bound origin.

Stonehill said much of the archives of the programme remain under lock and key, but he added it was passed down between the communist state’s top military minds and scientists.

Forms were also then handed to any soviet soldier, sailor or airmen who reported a UFO encounter for them to file fully detailed reports.

He said: “It was prolific enough to really make you wonder just how much the Soviets knew”.

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A bloody encounter between an alien craft and Soviet forces occurred in 1953 shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin.

The large UFO, initially thought by witnesses to be a “blimp of dirigible”, appeared above the Taiga in Siberia.

Soviet military chiefs dispatched a military special detachment to the area.

When they attempted to engage the craft with aircraft the three Soviet planes just “burned away”, says Mr Stonehill.

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A secret order was issued to Soviet forces during the mid-1960s giving Russian commanders strict instructions to “not shoot at UFOs, leave them alone”.

Mr Stonehill said: “The aliens would fight back and destroy whatever unit would shoot at them.

“They would disintegrate planes, and in some cases the UFOs also acted first.”

He added: “No government wants to be powerless in the face of a threat, and it got to the case of the Soviets being very scared.”

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But despite these violent clashes, he says most Soviet encounters were characterised by alien craft simply “observing” activity.

He said: “It was as if they were under a microscope. There were reports of UFOs present at most, if not all, of the Soviet space launches.

“The craft seemed to know about the space ports and the secret facilities.”

However, he added the motivations of whoever is piloting the UFOs remains a mystery.

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Mr Stonehill has spoken to former military intelligence personnel, government officials and Soviet scientists to reveal the depths of the Soviet UFO encounters.

He has had numerous books published on the subject such as Mysterious Sky: Soviet UFO Phenomenon, Soviet UFO Files and UFO Case Files of Russia.

His most recent publication deals with the related "USO encounters" in Soviet seas as the Russian navy encountered unexplained objects beneath the seas.

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Galactic 'Spiderweb' Has Unusual Feeding Habits

An artist's conception of the Spiderweb Galaxy, which is actually a massive collection of growing galaxies in the early universe. Protogalaxies are shown in white and pink, while the blue indicates the location of the carbon monoxide gas surrounding them.

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Like a spider devouring prey from its web, a mature young galaxy is devouring the recycled gas that surrounds it, rather than snacking on its neighbors.

"This is different from what we see in the nearby universe, where galaxies in clusters grow by cannibalizing other galaxies," lead study author Bjorn Emonts, a researcher at Spain's Center for Astrobiology, said in a statement from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). "In this cluster, a giant galaxy is growing by feeding on the soup of cold gas in which it is submerged."

Working with an international team of astronomers, Emonts made detailed observations of the Spiderweb Galaxy — which is actually a cluster of protogalaxies in the early universe — using the NRAO's Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s (CSIRO) Australia Telescope Compact Array. Rather than forming through collisions with other galaxies (the "cannibalizing" Emonts mentions), the researchers found that the massive galaxy at the heart of the cluster was slurping up cool gas between the infant galaxies. [The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought] 

"Cosmic Recycling"

The most massive galaxies in the universe form through a combination of rapid star formation and the cannibalization of other, smaller galaxies, but how much each process contributes in the building of super-galaxies has been an ongoing question.

"Extremely massive galaxies are seen in the young universe, but their presence is puzzling because we do not yet understand how they became so massive so quickly," said Nina Hatch, an astronomer at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. The research was published in the journal Science. Hatch, who was not involved in the study, authored an accompanying Perspectives article about the new research paper. "How do they get enough fuel to form stars so rapidly?"

In search of an answer, Emonts and his team turned to the Spiderweb Galaxy cluster, located 10 billion light-years from the sun. Because of the time it takes for light to travel across space, they are seeing the cluster as it was when the universe was less than 4 billion years of its 13.7-billion-year age. Like a giant spider web, the collection hosts a relatively mature galaxy at its center, surrounded by a web of diffuse ultraviolet light in which tens of smaller, fly-like galaxies are caught. Despite its young age, the central galaxy is one of the most massive galaxies in in the young universe, according to Hatch. 

In hopes of finding the gas that fuels the growth of galaxies in the Spiderweb, the researchers studied the gas around it, which serves as the building blocks for stars and galaxies. They found a cloud of gas roughly 100 billion times the mass of the sun that engulfed the growing galaxies. Previous work revealed that billions of young stars had lit up the Spiderweb, leading the researchers to conclude that the super-galaxy is growing directly from the cloud.

"This is a huge system, with this molecular gas [cloud] spanning three times the size of our own giant Milky Way," said co-author Preshanth Jagannathan, of the NRAO, in a statement from Spain's Center for Astrobiology.

"It appears that this whole system eventually will collapse into a single, gigantic galaxy," Jagannathan said.

In addition to its size, the cloud of gas is surprisingly cold.

"It's shocking how cold this gas must be — about minus 200 degrees Celsius (minus 350 degrees Fahrenheit)," study co-author Matthew Lehnert, a professor at the Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris, said in the same statement. "We expect a fiery process — lots of galaxies falling in and heating gas up. Therefore, we expected that all the cold gas would be locked up deep within the galaxies."

Instead, the cold cloud surrounded the protogalaxies, feeding their evolution. Its composition is also surprising. Observations revealed a large quantity of carbon monoxide, material forged in the heart of stars and released in their explosive deaths. Only a third of that material is locked up inside the galaxies, while the rest lies between them. Rather than consuming pristine gas, the Spiderweb Galaxy is relying on recycled material to fuel its growth. Still, its exact source remains a mystery.

"The carbon monoxide that we detected is a byproduct of previous stars, a form of cosmic recycling, but we cannot say for sure where the gas came from or how it accumulated in the cluster core," Emonts said. "To find out, we'd have to look even deeper into the universe's history."

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Swiss Finance Company Invests Big Shares in Mars One

 

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IN BRIEF

• The shareholders of a Swiss financial services company have agreed to a takeover bid of the Mars One space organization. Hopefully, the move will forward the company's big plans to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.
• Getting to the Red Planet is an expensive business, and the leading contenders are scrambling to acquire sufficient cash to underwrite their dreams.

Mars One consists of two entities: the Dutch not-for-profit Mars One Foundation and a British public limited company Mars One Ventures

FUNDING THE MISSIONS

Many Mars missions are facing a very blunt controversy: how much is it going to cost to send people up there to study and possibly colonize the Red Planet?

A contender in the Mars space race is Mars One, a space tech organization that originates in the Netherlands. The company has two direct arms: the Dutch non-profit Mars One Foundation, and the British public company in charge of monetization, Mars One Ventures. Now, the Ventures profit arm has announced an agreement with Swiss InFin Innovative Finance AG to a shares takeover bid.

Conceptual illustration of the Mars One habitats.

“The acquisition is now only pending approval by the board of Mars One Ventures,” the companies said in a joint announcement.

The finance takeover solidifies Mars One’s efforts to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet. On the Mars One website, they discussed their reliance on corporate investments and donations as a primary funding source. The space tech company did try to gain additional funding by pitching a television reality show about the missions to and life on Mars, but this was axed by their partner production company.

$PACE RACE

To get to the Red Planet is a big dream that needs to bring in big bucks. The different companies gearing up to get us there are funded in different ways.

NASA plans to bring astronauts to Mars itself by the 2030s. It’s funded by the US governmentusing federal revenue from income, corporate, and other taxes.

SpaceX receives most of its seed money from billionaire founder Elon Musk. It also gains much from its government subsidy, with an estimated $4.9 billion coming in for the space tech company and Musk’s electric car empire, Tesla. SpaceX has a more urgent timeline, and they plan to get millions of people up to the Martian “colonies” by 2024—just check out their new outline for a future “Mars-shot.”

Lockheed Martin, based in Maryland, is another privately-owned aerospace company with dreams of the Red Planet dancing through its head. Their Mars Base Camp, a collaboration with NASA, believes it can send astronauts to space by around 2028. It sources funds from its numerous corporate profits, together with investments.

While we’re not sure who can get us to Mars first, what’s certain is that it’s going to take a lot of money to do it.

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'SpaceShipTwo' Completes its First Successful Free-Flight

Amy Thompson

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, dubbed the VSS Unity, took to the skies over Mojave, California this morning to complete the craft’s first ever free-flight test. And preliminary data shows it was a huge success.

Today’s flight marked the fifth overall flight for the VSS Unity, which has the distinction of being the only spacecraft built by the company’s in-house manufacturing team — TheSpaceshipCompany — and the 218th flight for its mothership, the WhiteKnightTwo.

Earlier in the week, the duo joined forces to complete a fourth captive carry test. Following the pair’s second captive-carry test in September, engineers decided that all systems were performing as expected and the crew could move onto free-flight testing. The first two attempts (both in November) were thwarted due to weather and an unexpected anomaly, which prevented the crew from separating the two vehicles.

That was not the case today. Following takeoff, the pilots of both vehicles tested multiple onboard systems, ensuring they were ready (and able) to release the spacecraft. Once they received the green light from the control room, the VSS Unity was set free and coasted down to a gentle landing.

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Mission control reports all is going smoothly. Pilots conducting planned checks before release/glide of VSS Unity. #SpaceShipTwo

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During free-flight (also known as a glide test) testing, the two vehicles take off as a mated pair, with the SpaceShipTwo detaching from the WhiteKnightTwo during flight before gently gliding back to the runway. In-flight testing allows engineers thoroughly study how various systems on board the vehicles perform during flight.

The glide tests are not designed to go into space; however, they are a major step towards Virgin Galactic’s ultimate goal: launching people into space. Before that can happen, the aerospace company must first prove its vehicles are safe to carry human passengers. In order to do so, the company has to complete a lengthy testing process that includes captive-carry, free-flight, and rocket-powered tests.

The road to space. 

Rocket-powered testing was suspended following a tragic accident in 2014, when the first SpaceShipTwo crashed as a result of pilot error. The accident resulted in the death of one pilot, leaving a second injured.

Today’s successful free-flight test, was a crucial step to resuming rocket-powered flights.

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Release! VSS Unity has cleanly detached from WhiteKnightTwo, and is flying freely for the first time ever! #SpaceShipTwo

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Both vehicles are reported to have landed safely, and the team will now begin the tedious process of analyzing all the data collected during the test.

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VSS Unity has landed. Vehicle and crew are back safe and sound after a successful first glide test flight. #SpaceShipTwo

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Netflix A.I. Could Help NASA Search for Exoplanets

Amy Thompson

What do NASA and Netflix have in common? Probably more than you would think. Researchers have developed a technique that uses artificial intelligence to help them search for and identify stable planetary systems. The technique is based on learning algorithms used by the streaming giant to offer online recommendations. This new tool will be used in tandem with NASA’s fleet of planet-hunting telescopes to identify planets that could potentially support life.

“Machine learning offers a powerful way to tackle a problem in astrophysics, and that’s predicting whether planetary systems are stable,” Dan Tamayo, lead author of the research and a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Planetary Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough, explained in a news release.

As a form of artificial intelligence, machine learning enables computers to learn on their own, without having to be constantly fed data or programmed for a specific task. These types of advanced systems are specifically designed to learn and adapt on their own when exposed to different data.

Tamayo says the team’s technique is 1,000 times faster than traditional methods in predicting stability. The results are available online in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The team hopes the tool will be a valuable asset in astronomy, able to help scientists locate new planetary systems that could potentially hold life, as well as discern new information that would otherwise go undetected with current methods of observation.

Artist conception of NASA's TESS spacecraft. 

Tamayo explains that, currently, astronomers rely on multiple methods to detect exoplanets. However, these methods are only capable of providing information on a planet’s size and orbital period — neither of which affects stability.

Understanding how stable a system is will allow researchers to glean insights into how they formed and better assess a planet’s chances for hosting life.

With the technique developed by Tamayo and his team, astronomers will now be able to measure a planet’s mass and its orbit, which will come in handy when analyzing data from NASA’s upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The two-year mission will search for new exoplanets by focusing on the brightest stars in close proximity to our solar system and is set to launch next year.

“It could be a useful tool because predicting stability would allow us to learn more about the system, from the upper limits of mass to the eccentricities of these planets,” says Tamayo.

Photos via NASA (1, 2)

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Hubble Spies Distant Black Hole Voraciously Eating Host Galaxy

Amy Thompson

The Hubble Space Telescope just snapped an image of cosmic crime in process: a supermassive black hole slowly consuming its host galaxy.

This supermassive black hole is lurking in the heart of an elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4696, which is the largest galaxy in the massive Centaurus galaxy cluster about 150 million light-years from Earth. The new observations from Hubble reveal that the supermassive black hole at its center of NGC 4696 has shaped the otherwise typical elliptical galaxy into a cosmic question mark.

Black holes are well known as cosmic monsters, with centers of gravity so dense they gobble up anything that crosses their path. On the plus side, these stellar behemoths tend to be messy eaters, which often results in beautiful works of cosmic art.

The new images reveal spectacular bands of curling filaments, which are composed of dusty ionized hydrogen, spiraling out into interstellar space. Data collected shows that the supermassive black hole is responsible for the dusty tendrils and thread-like filaments we see. Like brush strokes on a cosmic painting, the black hole is painting the cosmos with material from its host.

A view of NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster. 

New research also suggests that the galaxy’s own supermassive black hole is also preventing the galaxy from creating new stars — meaning the galaxy is essentially dead. With no new stars being formed, once the black hole has consumed all of the surrounding galactic material, NGC 4696’s lights will go out forever.

Photos via NASA/ESA/Hubble, A. Fabian (1, 2)

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