The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
13-11-2015
Bright UFO hovering above Arizona
Bright UFO hovering above Arizona
Here’s one interesting sighting of an bright object hovering in the sky above Bullhead City in Arizona. This happened on 30th October 2015.
Witness report:UFO observed for 30 minutes or More. Bright intense, changing lights, Changed into two objects than back to One. Witnessed for three nights in a row. My father was walking to the grocery store right down the street. He noticed a long bright light up on the mountain ridge to the West. He came in and got me and his girlfriend and we went out in the front yard to watch this strange light. It was there for a good 30 minutes or more, and for three nights we saw this. The unidentified objects most mysterious thing was that it would be a small white light and then all of a sudden get brighter and brighter to where it was blinding and we could hardly look at it. It would move up and down a little but mostly kept its path going slowly back and forth in a North and South direction. It would blink, change color to red, Disappear then reappear. A few times it changed from one object into two than back as one again. I have many short video recordings on my camera. Every time I try to submit them it knocks me offline. This is my forth attempt at submitting this so I am just going to attach one video and one picture. You can let me know if you would like to see the rest. To see everything this UFO was doing you would have to watch
all the videos. What is going on in Bullhead City ?? My father and I are very interested in finding out what that was we were watching for three days.
UFOs Have Allegedly Been Scanning Above The Martian Surface
UFOs Have Allegedly Been Scanning Above The Martian Surface
Extraterrestrial researchers – who have been claiming to have seen evidence of alien fossils, statues, buildings, ET beings, and other objects from the Red Planet – now claim to have finally found proof of alien craft.
Several pictures from NASA Curiosity rover allegedly show a four-wheel-drive droid that believed to be doing exploration on the surface and taking photos and rock samples.
In one of the pictures taken on November 3 and made available online by NASA on the next day, seems to show a dark object in the sky at the distance. When zoomed in, the photo reveals what looks like a flying saucer.
In different pictures captured on the same day, two dark objects allegedly appear in the sky. It seems that the two rear cameras of the Curiosity both caught the objects in different positions. Then a little earlier it took place again. Online alien chasers think that it is clear evidence that something is flying above Mars.
In a YouTube video of paranormal channel Streetcap1, it shows a separate image in November showing a third UFO during a sunset on the Red Planet. The UFO is thought to be tilted to an angle and looks like a drone.
However, skeptics suggested that inexplicable images in photographs do not automatically make them alien craft, and they could be just dirt on the lens.
(exclusive video)Colossal Green Fireball Captured While Dashing Over Thailand’s Sky
(exclusive video)Colossal Green Fireball Captured While Dashing Over Thailand’s Sky
A huge green fireball lit up Thailand’s sky on the 2nd of November, captivating the locals who were scared but at the same time intrigued by this spectacular phenomenon known as the Taurid meteor shower.
This year is expected to be a bit more special as the Taurids will be more active than usual, meaning that the meteorites will be more numerous and at the same time more enforced. This spectacular event happens when Earth passes through a large area containing debris left by Comet Encke. The shower peak is expected to run Nov. 5 through Nov. 12, but apparently Thailand had the privilege to be one of the first countries to witness it.
NASA scientist, Bill Cooke, gave an advice about when it’s the best time to experience this:
Taurid meteors can be seen any time the constellation Taurus is above the horizon during the months of September, October, and November. The best time to look for Taurids is after midnight, when Taurus is high in the sky, and when the sky is dark and clear, with no moonlight to mask the fainter meteors.
Hi, my name is Michael. I live in Pearland Texas, just on the outskirts of Houston. I had a strange sighting this past October 22nd. I’ve been looking for an explanation online somewhere but haven’t found anything close to what I saw, maybe you or one of your readers could shed some light on it.
About 8:30 am I was on my way home from dropping a friend off at work, I was turning from Interstate 45 onto Dixie Farm Rd, when I saw what initially looked like a plane, but I just can’t say that’s what it actually was, due to its strange appearance. It looked like a plane, only it was sort of fat in appearance, its wings were average size, but it had no windows, and I saw no engines. It was dull gray with a single blue stripe along the length of its body. I figured it had to be a blimp, only there were no tether wires or strings holding it in place. It was perfectly still and unwavering despite it being a very windy overcast day. It was very low to the ground, perhaps the length of three or four cars high. It was perfectly still and above a small mining facility.
To attach something like this to that machinery I’m sure would be dangerous and illegal. It was the same body length as it was high up from the ground (3-4 car lengths). I wanted to take a picture but due to the mining equipment, there is no place to pull over. I drove about two blocks down, made a u-turn and went back to see it again as it truly was an odd sight, but upon returning, it was gone. I just don’t see how it could disappear in the two minutes it took me to turn around and come back to where it was. I drove around to see if maybe it had floated off, thinking it had actually been a blimp after all, but it was nowhere to be seen. I’m not ready to say that it was extraterrestrial, but it definitely was a UFO. I live in between Hobby Airport and NASA so I guess anything is possible. I’m just really curious if anyone else saw it or something similar to it. µ
Los Angeles Examiner's photo of the Battle of Los Angeles via USC Libraries
Late last week, Angelenos were confused/awed/terrified by the sight of a mysterious streak of light illuminating the night sky across its entire length. For hours, no official explanation was offered, leading everyone in town to speculate wildly on Twitter about what it was. It turns out that it was the Navy testing their Trident II missile, which is used to deter nuclear attacks; to prevent the prying eyes of the Russians, the Navy released no details to the public prior to the launch. It was a reasonable, if not slightly off-putting explanation, but it didn't take long for people to cry conspiracy. Was it a comet? Was it an alien? What was the government hiding? We may never know, but for some conspiracy theorists, speculation will probably continue for years. And the Trident incident is not alone—Los Angeles actually has a rich history of unexplained phenomenon in its skies. Here's a rundown of LA's best UFO stories throughout history:
The Battle of Los Angeles
February 24 to 25, 1942 Sighting: In the midst of World War II, Los Angeles is put on a high-alert blackout one February evening when it's feared that an unidentified object in the sky is a Japanese aircraft. Anti-aircraft gunners anxiously await news of the impending danger, and when reports came in that an object has been spotted in the air near Santa Monica, the sky "erupted like a volcano" with gunfire. Three people die from falling shells and three others succumb to stress-induced heart attacks in the hour-long ordeal.
Reality: After the end of the war, the Japanese refuted claims that they had sent any planes into American airspace. In 1983, the Office of Air Force History offered a thorough report on the incident that stated a case of wartime nerves caused a chain reaction of shooting that lit up the sky for hours. The report found that the initial cause of the chaos was a weather balloon the Navy had spotted in the sky, mistaken for an enemy plane, and proceeded to bomb the hell out of. Once firing began, smoke from the 1,500 rounds of anti-aircraft artillery obscured the field of vision, and gun outposts up and down the coast responded by firing all they had at the sky.
Edwards Air Force Base
May 3, 1957 Sighting: While testing the landing gear on a new aircraft, crew members report seeing a saucer-like aircraft that hovered near them as they flew. They manage to capture both still images and motion pictures of the craft with the cameras they had been using to document the aircraft testing. Upon landing, the two crew members report the incident to Captain Gordon Cooper, showing him the film and photos. Understandably confused, Gordon informs the Pentagon of the incident and they tell him to send all original film and photos to Washington for analysis. The Pentagon does not follow up on the incident and the images are never seen again.
Reality: No official explanation was ever given for the sighting. Captain Gordon Cooper maintained for several years that the government regularly covers up UFO encounters. In his memoirs published in 2000, Cooper claimed to have seen many unidentified aircraft during his career. Six years after the incident at Edwards Air Force Base, Gordon became a flying object himself, orbiting Earth 22 times as an astronaut for the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission.
Orfeo Angelucci, Burbank
May 24, 1952 Sighting:Orfeo Angelucci, an assembly line worker at the Lockheed Martin plant in Burbank, makes contact with extra terrestrial beings on his drive home from work. According to Angelucci, a red, glowing oval appeared from the sky, emitting two globes of green lights that appeared in front of his car. From the balls of light, Angelucci hears a masculine voice speaking perfect English that calls him out of the car and offers up a mysterious drink in a crystal goblet. Angelucci is told his "higher vibrational perception" makes him one of three humans that the alien beings feel comfortable contacting. Over time, their relationship grows, as the beings took him in their craft for several journeys into the cosmos.
Reality: A sickly man from childhood, Angelucci moved to Los Angeles from Trenton, NJ because thunderstorms caused him mental anguish. On his way to LA, he was checked out by doctors at the Mayo Clinic and told to only engage in jobs that would not overwork his "weakened constitution." He then immediately takes a job working the graveyard shift at an airline assembly plant.
From his own, published account of the day he made contact with aliens:
After several cups of coffee and an exchange of good-natured banter with some of the customers, I left and went to my job at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation plant. Things went along well enough during the earlier part of the evening, but about 11 o'clock I began to feel ill. An odd prickling sensation was running through my hands and arms and up into the back of my neck. I had a slight heart palpitation and my nerves were on edge.
He drives home and sees aliens. Verdict? Switch to decaf, Orfeo.
Catalina Island UFOs
April 15, 1966 and December 29, 1968 Sighting: Catalina has become a small hotbed for alleged UFO sightings, enough to even support a guided UFO tour. The island's UFO-mania all started on the morning ofApril 15, 1966. At 9:45 am, in the skies above the Catalina Channel, a silver disc-like object is seen rocketing through the sky at an estimated speed of 170 mph. Grainy black and white footage is taken of the sighting.
In 1968, Paul Allione sees a set of bright lights in the sky in the same location as the 1966 sighting. The line of lights appear to tilt in the sky before stopping and hovering above the ocean.
Reality: After being inundated with calls from confused locals, the news reports that the mysterious moving lights in the sky was a weather balloon launched by two college students.
STERRENKUNDE Een rotsachtige planeet ter grootte van de aarde, op amper 39 lichtjaren - een steenworp, in astronomische termen - hier vandaan. GJ 1132b, in het sterrenstelsel Vela, zou volgens astronomen wel eens de belangrijkste exoplaneet zijn die tot nu toe werd ontdekt.
Deze buitenaardse wereld cirkelt rond een rode dwerg (een kleine, zwakke ster) en is ongeveer zestien procent groter dan onze aarde. Maar vooral bevindt hij zich drie keer dichterbij dan de dichtstbijzijnde aarde-achtige, rotsige planeet die tot nu toe gevonden was.
Op die afstand, zo hopen astronomen, zullen ze met behulp van telescopen de chemische stoffen in de atmosfeer van de planeet, de snelheid van de winden en de kleuren van de zonsondergangen zorgvuldig kunnen ontleden. En dat is dan weer beloftevol voor de toekomst, want die informatie kan wetenschappers helpen om te zoeken naar tekenen van leven op andere planeten.
'Deze planeet lijkt op de aarde, bevindt zich dichtbij, en zijn ster zal het onderzoek niet belemmeren'
Drake Deming, astronoom
De ster waarrond de nieuw ontdekte planeet zich beweegt, is maar een vijfde zo groot als de zon en dus ook veel koeler en zwakker. Maar GJ 1132b bevindt zich zo dicht bij zijn ster dat de oppervlaktetemperaturen oplopen tot 260 graden Celsius. De verschroeiende hitte maakt het onmogelijk dat er vloeibaar water op het oppervlak is - en dus dat er leven te vinden is. Maar wellicht is het er net niet heet genoeg om de atmosfeer weg te branden.
"Indien deze planeet een atmosfeer heeft, kunnen we mogelijk ook andere, koelere planeten met een atmosfeer vinden die rond kleine sterren draaien", zegt onderzoeker Zachory Berta-Thompson van het Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research aan MIT. "Die kunnen we dan doorzoeken op moleculen die ontstaan door leven."
Toekomstige missies
Volgens Drake Deming, astronoom aan de universiteit van Maryland, is GJ 1132b "wellicht de belangrijkste planeet ooit ontdekt buiten ons zonnestelsel". Zijn nabijheid en baan rond een rode dwerg zullen astronomen toelaten de planeet te bestuderen met een ongekende nauwkeurigheid. "Hij lijkt op de aarde, is dichtbij, en zijn ster zal het onderzoek niet belemmeren."
De planeet wordt ook een belangrijk doelwit voor toekomstige missies, waaronder de ruimtetelescoop James Webb die naar verwachting in 2018 gelanceerd wordt en de Giant Magellan-telescoop die in 2025 in werking treedt in Chili.
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Police Remains Clueless About the Appearance of Crop Circles On Wheat Fields In Argentina
Police Remains Clueless About the Appearance of Crop Circles On Wheat Fields In Argentina
Police investigators have no idea as to who or what is making a series of strange crop circles in Argentina.
The unusual pattern of wheat fields have appeared in the northern province of Salta in 2015, and the latest one was on a plantation in Chicoana.
Mercedes Casas, a crop circle investigator, said that the latest pattern has nine circles that begin big and get smaller until the last one.
The first circle has seven metres in diameter and gradually gets smaller until four metres with some interesting markings, Casas described. She added that lines connect the circles, approximately a metre wide and a few centimetres tall.
Another formation of crop circles appeared in Salta in February.
Mercedes believes humanoids designed these rings. These humanoids, according to Mercedes, are extra-terrestrial entities in the form of humans that appear tall and blonde.
A physics professor at Truman State University, Taner Edis, said these circles all fall within the range of hoaxes so far. Edis explains that he’s aware of claims of obscure natural causes or alien origin, but there’s no scientific evidence for such explanations.
Door de ontdekking van dit hemellichaam wordt er weer volop gespeculeerd over planeet X
Door de ontdekking van dit hemellichaam wordt er weer volop gespeculeerd over planeet X
Astronomen hebben een nieuw object ontdekt in ons zonnestelsel, dat drie keer verder van de aarde staat dan Pluto. “We weten niets over de omloopbaan van dit object,” zei Scott Sheppard van het Carnegie Institute of Washington. “We weten alleen dat het gaat om het meest afgelegen object in ons zonnestelsel.”
Het nieuwe object is V774104 gedoopt en staat op ongeveer 103 astronomische eenheden (afstand tussen de aarde en de zon) van de zon. De twee Pioneer-sondes, die sinds 1972 en 1973 door de ruimte reizen, staan op ongeveer dezelfde afstand van ons af.
Wetenschappers schatten dat het hemellichaam tussen de 500 en 1000 kilometer in doorsnee moet zijn. In de buurt van V774104 zijn nog meer hemellichamen aangetroffen. Omdat ze zo langzaam rond de zon draaien, zal het ongeveer een jaar duren voordat er meer bekend is over hun omloopbaan en herkomst.
Donkere rotsachtige planeet
Als ze richting Neptunus bewegen, zijn ze waarschijnlijk uit het binnenste deel van het zonnestelsel verstoten. Het is ook mogelijk dat ze uit de binnenste Oortwolk komen. Er zijn tot op heden maar twee objecten ontdekt die daar vandaan komen: dwergplaneet Sedna en 2012 VP113.
“Sedna en VP113 zijn de enige objecten in het nu bekende zonnestelsel met een omloopbaan die niet kan worden verklaard,” zei Michael Brown van het California Institute of Technology.
Eén mogelijke verklaring voor de vreemde omloopbaan van deze objecten is de aanwezigheid van een hele donkere rotsachtige planeet, die de objecten als een soort schaapsherder bij elkaar houdt.
Superaarde
Het is goed mogelijk dat voorbij Pluto nog een Neptunus-achtige planeet of superaarde staat die niet kan worden gedetecteerd met de huidige telescopen. Het is ook mogelijk dat de objecten zijn beïnvloed door een passerende ster.
Als blijkt dat de omloopbaan van de objecten niet wordt beïnvloed door bekende reuzenplaneten, zal worden gekeken of de banen kunnen worden gelinkt aan een nog onbekende reuzenplaneet in de buitenste regionen van ons zonnestelsel.
“Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. The plots of countless Hollywood blockbusters, bestselling books, and beloved TV shows revolve around conspiratorial shenanigans, and surprising numbers of people believe that the kinds of vast, insidious conspiracies that Mulder and Scully routinely unearthed on The X-Files are happening right now in the real world. Yet conspiracy theories are not a recent invention, and they are not always a harmless curiosity.
In “SUSPICIOUS MINDS: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories” (Bloomsbury / November 17, 2015 ), Rob Brotherton, a research psychologist and leading expert on the psychology of conspiracy theory, explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unprovable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain’s built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world. But conspiracy theories are not unique in eliciting our brain’s biases. From our love of heroic underdogs to our tendency to see hidden hands behind ambiguous events, the same mental quirks that make conspiracy theories appealing are constantly shaping how we think about the world. Most of the time our biases simply slip by unnoticed.
The fascinating psychology of conspiracy theories tells us a lot about how our minds are wired and, indeed, why we believe anything at all. Conspiracy theories are not some psychological aberration—they’re a predictable product of how brains work. And, of course, just because your brain’s biased doesn’t always mean you’re wrong. Sometimes conspiracies are real. Sometimes, paranoia is prudent.
Conspiracy theorists aren’t just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptiles secretly running society. According to Brotherton, we’re all conspiracy theorists—some of us just hide it better than others.
And here’s what people are saying about it…
“[Brotherton] casts doubt on the assumption that far-fetched beliefs are reserved for the simple-minded or the exceedingly paranoid…Although we like to think our judgments are based on evidence, Brotherton reveals that a host of psychological factors come into play whenever we choose what to believe.” –Scientific American
“The world of conspiracy theory is a minefield of manic personalities, but Brotherton uses a measured scientific tone to explain our more creative anxieties. His writing style is inviting and even cheeky, and the book is a page-turner. A thoughtful, general analysis of conspiracy theories arguing that belief in secret plots is neither new nor unusual but a time-tested part of the human experience.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Clearly written and with liberal use of humor and numerous examples from scholarly research, this title provides a valuable look at why conspiracy theories abound and why we should continually assess our thinking.” –Library Journal, starred review
“Over the course of this all-too-short book, Brotherton illustrates how incomplete, contradictory, coincidental, and incongruent information can allow people to see conspiracies and connections where there are none, due in part to the theories’ plausibility and humans’ innate desire for order, as well as a given individual’s understanding of how the world works. Put simply, people want to believe. Brotherton maintains an educational approach to the material, leading readers through the logic behind each concept as he explores subjects as diverse as the Illuminati, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (“not a very good fake”), the Kennedy assassination, and birthers. While Brotherton might not convince all believers to remove their tinfoil hats (a concept whose origin he explains), it’s sure to make readers question their worldview.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review”
This artist’s conception made by Dana Berry of SkyWorks and provided by NASA on Nov. 6, 2015 shows GJ 1132b, foreground, a rocky planet similar to the Earth in size and mass, orbiting a red dwarf star. The planet is 39 light-years away - within the atmospheric study range of the Hubble Space Telescope. "If we find this pretty hot planet has managed to hang onto its atmosphere over the billions of years it's been around, that bodes well for the long-term goal of studying cooler planets that could have life," said Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Zachory Berta-Thompson. (Dana Berry/SkyWorks/NASA via AP)
A small planet, just a bit bigger than Earth, has been spotted in our stellar neighborhood, just 39 light-years away.
Known as GJ 1132b, it is the closest rocky exoplanet to have ever been found, and astronomers say it could provide our most in-depth look yet at an alien world not so different than our own.
Drake Deming, an astronomer at the University of Maryland, was so excited about the findings, published this week in Nature, that he described the new world as "arguably the most important planet ever found outside the solar system" in an accompanying News and Views article.
The newly discovered planet is just 16 percent larger than Earth, and it is made of rock and metal like our own planet. However, scientists say it is not likely to host life as we know it.
Its small, dim, sun is just one-fifth the size of our own sun, but GJ 1132b circles it at a distance of just 1.4 million miles, completing a full orbit once every 1.6 Earth days. (For perspective, Mercury orbits the sun from a distance of 36 million miles.)
The exoplanet's close proximity to its host star keeps its temperature at a broiling 500 degrees Fahrenheit — or about as hot as the highest setting on your home oven, said Zachory Berta-Thompson, a post-doc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
At that temperature, liquid water cannot exist on the planet's surface, although scientists say it is likely the planet still has an atmosphere.
"Our best guess is that this planet looks like Venus," said Berta-Thompson, who was also the first author on the study. "But we won't have to guess for long. This is the first rocky planet for which we have the chance to go out and observe its atmosphere."
GJ 1132b was discovered with the help of the MEarth-South Observatory, a Harvard University lead array of eight 16-inch wide robotic telescopes stationed in the mountains of Chile. The array is specifically tasked with looking among nearby stars exoplanets that in some way resemble Earth.
"The idea is if we can find the planet in a small telescope, we can study it in much more detail with a large telescope," said Berta-Thompson.
The researchers first detected GJ 1132b in May 2014, when they noticed a telltale dip in the brightness of a small red dwarf star that suggests a planet had passed in front of it, blocking some of its light.
After confirming the finding with a smattering of other telescopes, the researchers proceeded to do a series of measurements and calculations to characterize the exoplanet.
By measuring how much the star dims each time the planet passes in front of it they were able to determine the planet is just a bit bigger than Earth.
By looking at the frequency of the dips in the star's brightness they could say with certainty that the planet orbits its sun once every 1.6 Earth days.
The orbital period of the planet can also be used to calculate how far the exoplanet is from its host star, which in turn helped the researchers estimate how much the planet is likely heated by its star.
And there's more.
Planets exert a slight gravitational pull on their host stars, causing them to wobble. By measuring how much a star wobbles, astronomers can determine an exoplanet's mass. Because they also know its size from looking at how much light it blocks, they can also figure out the planet's density.
"The mass was telling us that this planet is for the most part a big ball of rock and iron, and not just big puffy ball," Berta-Thompson said. "For example, we could have measured that the density was the same as a bag of feathers."
But Berta-Thompson said these initial investigations of the newly found planet are just the beginning of what he hopes will be a lot more study yet to come — especially once the powerful James Webb Space Telescope is launched in October 2018.
"We've come up with theories about rocky planets — how they formed, how they got into their current orbits, what physical processes occur on them — but we have not been able to test many of them," he said. "The discovery of this planet gives us the opportunity to switch our focus from imagining what is out there to testing our theories observationally."
Scientists have finally proven that our DNA has Telepathic abilities: Are we globally connected?
The structure of the DNA double helix. The atoms in the structure are colour-coded by element and the detailed structure of two base pairs are shown in the bottom right.
Scientists refer to it as Genetic ‘telepathy’ and it is a completely shocking new discovery.
Scientists firmly believe that have discovered a new detail about our DNA which points towards the fact that it has the ability to ‘link itself together’ when separated by distance, in other words, our DNA has the ability to communicate telepathically. But this was believed to be impossible according to many experts, but you know what they say, everything is impossible until it becomes possible.
According to tests published by the Journal of Physical Chemistry intact double-strand DNA has the mysterious ability to communicate at a distance telepathically meaning that it has the ability to identify certain similarities in other DNA stands even at a distance making it possible to congregate without physical contact.
In other words it means that just as friends which have similar interests hang out, tiny little bits of genetic material basically do the same congregating together.
The next big step? How to control telepathy?
According to the authors of the article that appeared in the ACS’ Journal, Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexi A. Kornyshev and their colleges,
“Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA.”
In the experiment, researchers placed fluorescently tagged DNA strands in water without proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment and observed it. Researchers were able to understand that identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences.
This incredible experiment might shed new light and help increase accuracy and efficiency of homologous recombination of genes which according to scientists, is a process that is responsible for DNA repair, evolution and genetic diversity.
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The hubble Space Telescope has found a set of enigmatic space objects that baffle scientists (VIDEO)
The hubble Space Telescope has found a set of enigmatic space objects that baffle scientists (VIDEO)
This finding is unprecedented, and remains an inexplicable enigma to science.
No, we are not talking about the alien megastructures that have everyone going berserk over the last couple of weeks. We are talking about unexplained, bizarre, fast-moving “ripples” spotted around a star located in the vicinity of our Solar System. These anomalous ripples have scientists scratching their heads, looking for an explanation that could shed light into what these enigmatic objects truly are. According to one of the researchers, Anthony Boccaletti, the finding is extremely weird and unexpected. The enigmatic objects were detected by analyzing images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2010 and 2011, and the Very Large Telescope, from the European Southern Observatory. Scientists were studying the disk of gas and dust surrounding the young star AU Microscopii for signs that reveal the presence of other planets. This red dwarf is located in the constellation Microscopium, composed mainly of low-energy star. “At least three of the features are moving so fast that they could well be escaping from the gravitational attraction of the star,” according to a news release.
While studying the data provided by the Hubble Space Telescope, experts have concluded that the mysterious undulating objects are moving at an astonishing speed of approximately 40,000 kilometers per hour.
“Everything about this find was pretty surprising,” said co-author Carol Grady. “And because nothing like this has been observed or predicted in theory, we can only hypothesize when it comes to what we are seeing and how it came about.”
While researchers are trying to understand what is causing these anomalous ripples, they say they are not caused by the collision of larger asteroid-like objects or other instabilities like anomalies in the star’s gravity.
“One explanation for the strange structure links them to the star’s flares. AU Mic is a star with high flaring activity — it often lets off huge and sudden bursts of energy from on or near its surface,” explains co-author Glenn Schneider of Steward Observatory, USA. “One of these flares could perhaps have triggered something on one of the planets — if there are planets — like a violent stripping of material which could now be propagating through the disc, propelled by the flare’s force.”
“It is very satisfying that SPHERE has proved to be very capable at studying discs like this in its first year of operation,” adds Jean-Luc Beuzit, who is both a co-author of the new study and also led the development of SPHERE itself.
In order to fully understand deep space anomalies like this, scientists say they need to continue observing AU Mic’s behavior to understand and answers the mysteries surrounding the star. Some astronomers believe that these anomalies may have been produced by a large explosion in a nearby planet.
This research was presented in a paper entitled “Fast-Moving Structures in the Debris Disk Around AU Microscopii”, to appear in the journal Nature on 8 October 2015.
The data were gathered by Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)
NASA: Earth’s magnetic poles are ‘switching’ with catastrophic consequences for humanity
NASA: Earth’s magnetic poles are ‘switching’ with catastrophic consequences for humanity
THE Earth could be left powerless to defend against blasts of solar radiation from the Sun for up to 200 YEARS, leaving us at risk from skin cancer and worldwide electronic communication blackouts, NASA scientists have warned.
The Earth's magnetic field (left) would be gone, leaving us at the mercy of solar flares
The US space agency confirmed fears that we may be heading towards an extraordinary event, which would see compasses point SOUTH if the magnetic poles shift.
Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said when the switch does take place, the Earth's magnetic field which prevents the Sun's dangerous radiation getting through, would be neutralised for around 200 years.
He revealed the detail during an historic announcement about how Mars lost 99% of its atmosphere and its oceans that could have housed early life.
Michael Myer, lead scientist for the NASA Mars mission, added that the Sun had been much more powerful in the early stages of the solar system when Mars had been continually blasted, and, even then the process had taken billions of years and still one per cent of its atmosphere remains.
However, scientists admit that 200 years without a magnetic shield to defend against the Sun's solar storms, which cause the amazing northern lights on earth as the rays hit the magnetic shield, would have implications for us.
The magnetic shield is our first line of defence against harmful UV rays, and any thinning of the atmosphere could increase the risk from skin cancer.
Without a magnetic field, or with a significantly reduced one it could destroy global communications facilities, power supplies, and even lead to fires and rioting on the streets, according to some researchers.
There are even doom-mongers have predicted that a swap of the magnetic poles from north to south would shift the continents so fiercely it would trigger mass earthquakes, rapid climate change, extinctions and global destruction.
Geologists have said the shift event has happened a number of times in Earth's history - with the last one 780,000 years ago during the stone age.
Alan Thompson, head of geomagnetism at the British Geological Survey, said during previous flips: "no worldwide shifting of continents or other planet-wide disasters occurred, as geoscientists can testify to from fossil and other records."
Earthquakes aside, there is a scientific belief that as we head towards a reversal - which could be less than 1,000 years away, Earth's magnetic field will dangerously weaken leaving us at the mercy of solar storms when radiation and X-rays are ejected from the Sun towards our planet.
This autumn www.express.co.uk reported how there are fears if there is another major solar flare as powerful as the last recorded strongest in Victorian times, trillions of pounds of damage could be done to the economy by power and communication blackouts.
The most dramatic changes that occur when the poles reverse is a very large decrease of the total field intensity
Jean-Pierre Valet, who conducts research on geomagnetic reversals at the Institute of Earth Physics
But it is scientifically accepted out magnetic field has significantly weaker over the past 160 years and it is believed this could mean we are heading for the next big polar reversal, which could happen any time between 1,000 to 10,000 years to finish.
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Solar flares cause the beautiful Northern Lights but we are currently protected by the magnosphere
When the polar shift happens the Earth will have no magnetic field for about 200 years.
Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Geologic records show hundreds of pole reversals have occurred through Earth's history.
It is caused by patches of iron atoms in our liquid outer core getting reverse-aligned, as if they were small magnets oriented in the opposite direction to others around them.
If reversed ions expand to the stage they out power the others, the Earth's overall magnetic field "flips".
Jean-Pierre Valet, who conducts research on geomagnetic reversals at the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris, said: "The most dramatic changes that occur when the poles reverse is a very large decrease of the total field intensity."
Monika Korte, the scientific director of the Niemegk Geomagnetic Observatory at GFZ Potsdam in Germany, said: "It's not a sudden flip, but a slow process, during which the field strength becomes weak, very probably the field becomes more complex and might show more than two poles for a while, and then builds up in strength and [aligns] in the opposite direction."
When the magnetic field gets weakest, as ours should continue to do so, is when we are at most risk from solar flares.
Amazing Aurora Pictures from Alaska
Keen snapper Nolan Nitschke travelled to Alaska from his home in Bishop, California, after he and his friends worked out the time of year most likely to see the best aurora activity. And they werent let down - as the amazing array of colours danced across the Alaskan skies in a theatrical performance locals described as the most spectacular they had seen in over 30 years. Nolan and his pals spent the night photographing the stunning sights throughout a strong solar storm which he described as almost like tentacles uncontrollably waving through the air.
John Tarduno, professor of geophysics at the University of Rochester, said: "Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occasionally occur on the Sun, and sometimes hurtle directly toward Earth.
"Some of the particles associated with CMEs can be blocked by Earth's magnetic field. With a weak field, this shielding is less efficient."
Other experts aren't convinced that there's a connection between pole reversals and species extinctions. "Even if the field becomes very weak, at the Earth's surface we are shielded from radiation by the atmosphere. Similarly as we cannot see or feel the presence of the geomagnetic field now, we most likely would not notice any significant change from a reversal," Ms Korte said.
One thing is clear though another flip WILL happen at some stage and our magnetic field has already weakened.
It is believed a growing patch of reverse-alignment in the liquid core beneath Brazil and the South Atlantic is responsible.
Mr Tarduno said: "(It) has been decreasing for at least 160 years at an alarming rate, leading some to speculate that we are heading toward a reversal."
L'un des cas les plus célèbres de la littérature ufologique, l'enlèvement de Betty et Barney Hill en 1961 au New Hampshire, va être adapté pour la première fois sur grand écran.
C’est un scoop un peu faisandé que nous a resservi la presse tabloïd britannique le week-end dernier : la « carte des étoiles » de Betty et Barney Hill prouverait que ce couple a bien été enlevé par des extraterrestres en 1961… Le statisticien David Saunders a analysé cette carte stellaire et démontré qu’elle contient des informations astronomiques très précises dont l’auteur, Betty Hill, ne pouvait pas avoir connaissance au début des années 60. C’est parfaitement exact au détail près que le professeur Saunders est parvenu à cette conclusion dans les années 70 ! Pourquoi The Mirror et The Express, des quotidiens anglais à grand tirage, ont-t-il exhumé ce récit qui compte parmi les plus célèbres de l’ufologie sans qu’aucun élément nouveau ne le justifie ? Mystère.
Il y a pourtant une actualité récente qui pourrait expliquer ce regain d’intérêt pour cette affaire mais le journal n’en touche pas mot : l’aventure de Betty et Barney Hill va être adaptée pour la première fois au cinéma. Et ce n’est que justice car ce cas est un classique de l’ufologie moderne.
PETITS GRIS, MISSING TIME, EXAMENS MÉDICAUX
Le 19 septembre 1961, Betty et Barney Hill, un couple mixte du New-Hampshire, auraient été enlevés par des extraterrestres pendant leur retour en voiture d’un voyage au Canada. Tous les éléments caractéristiques des « abductions », le terme introduit en français par l’ufologue et ancienne journaliste de Paris Match Marie-Thérèse de Brosses pour qualifier les enlèvements attribués aux extraterrestres, sont déjà présents: expériences médicales étranges et terrifiantes, présence des « petits gris », ces prétendus aliens que l’on retrouve dans une majorité d’abductions, missing time, une période de temps oubliée par les témoins, et l’hypnose qui révèle les évènements survenus pendant ce « temps manquant » etc.
Betty et Barney Hill qui montre son dessin représentant l'OVNI a bord duquel ils auraient été enlevés.DR
Outre le récit sous hypnose relaté séparément par les deux époux et enregistré par le psychiatre Benjamin Simon, sceptique mais convaincu de la sincérité de ses patients, l’aventure de Betty et Barney Hill est étayée par quelques éléments matériels : -Des éraflures sur la carrosserie de la voiture du couple. -Une étrange poudre rose sur la robe de Betty Hill analysée à plusieurs repris avec des résultats intrigants mais non concluants (des particules métalliques et une substance organique qui n’a pu être identifiée avec certitude).
Mais le fait le plus troublant est une carte stellaire dessinée par Betty Hill sous hypnose reproduisant celle que lui aurait montrée l’un des occupants de l’OVNI, le « leader » selon elle. La carte est censée indiquer le système solaire d’où proviendrait le vaisseau ainsi que plusieurs « routes » spatiales utilisées pour des échanges commerciaux entre différentes civilisations.
Dans un premier temps, les astronomes n’ont pas pris la carte au sérieux. Mais, en 1966, Marjorie Fish, une institutrice et astronome amateur passionnée d’ufologie a reconstitué dans un modèle tridimensionnel bricolé avec des fils et des perles fantaisie la carte de Betty Hill en supposant que l’un des points indiqués était la Terre. Et, après plusieurs tentatives, la jeune femme a fini par déterminer que le système binaire Zeti Reticuli (composé de deux étoiles) correspondait à merveille à la carte dessinée sous hypnose par Betty Hill. Bien sûr, le travail de Marjorie Fish n’a pas fait l’unanimité. Mais elle a aussi reçu le soutien de chercheurs sérieux comme David Saunders, ancien membre « dissident » de la commission scientifique Condon sur les OVNIs, celui-là même qui est remis à l’honneur par la presse anglaise…
LE PSYCHIATRE DE HARVARD JOHN MACK MET SA CARRIÈRE EN PÉRIL EN ÉTUDIANT LES ABDUCTÉS
Depuis, les grandes lignes du scénario de l’enlèvement de Betty et Barney Hill se sont retrouvés dans des milliers de témoignages étudiés par des ufologues plus ou moins sérieux en employant la méthode du psychiatre Benjamin Simon, l’hypnose qui permet de faire émerger les souvenirs refoulés des enlèvements. Budd Hopkins, David Hopkins et surtout John Mack sont les plus célèbres représentants de ce nouveau champ de recherche popularisé en France par Marie-Thérèse de Brosses et, depuis quelques années, par le grand reporter Stéphane Allix. Le Dr. John Mack, décédé en 2004, écrivain et professeur à la Harvard Medical School, a mis sa carrière en danger quand il a commencé à travailler sur ce sujet scabreux. Après avoir entendu des centaines d’abductés supposés, il a conclu que ses patients n’étaient pas psychotiques mais bel et bien victimes d’une forme de stress post-traumatique. Selon lui, leurs récits aussi incroyables qu’ils puissent paraître sont le produit d’une expérience objective dont la nature reste à déterminer.
Malgré les dizaines de livres consacrés à l’abduction de Betty et Barney Hill, ce cas historique n’a guère inspiré les producteurs. Seul un téléfilm tourné en 1975, « The UFO Incident », « La nuit des extraterrestres » en français, assez fidèle au récit des Hill, a été réalisé.
De façon générale, malgré la richesse du matériau, peu de cas ufologiques « authentiques » ont été adaptés au cinéma si l’on excepte le chef d’oeuvre de Spielberg, « Rencontres du 3ème type » dont le scénario, écrit en collaboration avec l’ufologue Alan Hynek, est nourri de témoignages réels.
En 1989, est sorti le film « Communion », avec Christopher Walken, adapté du livre autobiographique de l’écrivain de SF, Whitley Strieber, qui retrace ses expériences avec des entités non-humaines.
« Fire in The Sky » (1993) est l’adaptation d’un autre cas ufologique célèbre, l’enlèvement du bûcheron Travis Walton.
Plus récemment, « Dark Skies », en 2013, relate sur un mode horrifique mais sans grand souci d’exactitude la terreur d’une famille en proie à des tentatives d’enlèvements extraterrestres.
On peut donc espérer que la mise en chantier du film adapté de l’aventure des époux Hill marquera le début d’une union potentiellement prometteuse entre le cinéma et l’ufologie.
« Captured ! », du nom du livre des ufologues Stanton et Kathleen Marden consacré à l’abduction des Hill, sera produit par Bryce Zabel, à l’origine de la franchise « The Maze Runner » (« Le labyrinthe »). Pour le magazine Variety, la femme de Bryce Zabel, la productrice et scénariste Jackie Zabel, souligne les aspects particulièrement intéressants de ce cas: « Les Hill étaient un couple mixte alors que des lois ségrégationnistes étaient encore en vigueur aux Etats-Unis. Ils vivaient à deux pas d’une base militaire qui abritait des armes nucléaires. Ce qu’ils savaient et les raisons pour lesquelles ils ont été visés forment la trame d’un film phénoménal. » C’est tout ce que l’on peut souhaiter…
Les scientifiques de la NASA vont examiner des peintures datant de 10.000 ans, découvertes en Inde. Certains historiens respectés pensent que les hommes des cavernes ont pu réaliser ces dessins, suite à une rencontre avec des aliens. Les énigmatiques images semblent représenter des créatures humanoïdes étranges sans traits sur visage et avec des "scaphandres" et disques volants. Le département d'Etat de l'archéologie et de la culture a demandé à l'Organisation indienne de recherche spatiale et l'agence spatiale américaine de les aider dans cette recherche. L’archéologue indien, JR Bhagat, a déclaré que les disques volants, ayant trois pieds et une antenne en forme d’éventail, ressemblent aux ovnis représentés dans les films modernes.
Il a déclaré : « Les peintures sont réalisées à l’aide de couleurs naturelles, s’étant à peine détérioré au fil des années… On y voit des êtres portant des combinaisons spatiales… Les résultats suggèrent que les humains ont peut-être vu ou imaginé, dans des temps préhistoriques, des êtres en provenance d'autres planètes… Des recherches approfondies sont nécessaires pour plus de résultats... L’Inde ne possède actuellement pas un tel expert qui pourrait offrir des éclaircissements sur le sujet. » La Nasa a suggéré étrangers pourraient vivre sur Mars en ce moment après avoir découvert l'eau courante sur la planète rouge. Pluton et la lune de Jupiter Europa ont également été suggéré que possible ET cachettes. Mais presque la moitié des Britanniques estiment petits hommes verts ont déjà visité la Terre.
UFOs May Be Poltergeist Events, According to New Parapsychological Hypothesis
UFOs May Be Poltergeist Events, According to New Parapsychological Hypothesis
On a recent episode of Coast to Coast AM, host George Knapp interviewed Dr. Eric Ouellet, professor of Defense Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, about the idea of UFOs being poltergeist events. Quellet outlined his new hypothesis, which posits that UFOs could very well be manifestations of psychic forces humans are projecting onto the world around them. The hypothesis is the culmination of years of parapsychological research into poltergeists which shows that there seems to be a pattern to the activity. Ouellet applied this parapsychological methodology to historical waves of UFO activity and discovered notable similarities.
“We may be the ones causing some of the UFO events,” Quellet concluded.
Quellet believes societal discord may have caused humans to manifest these UFOs the same way that emotionally turbulent humans may create poltergeist type events and other psi phenomenon like hauntings. The parapsychologist went further to suggest that throughout human history, a vast number of paranormal sightings may be explainable as psychic projections shared through telepathic means. However, he did not suggest that ET visitations and psi projections are mutually exclusive. Furthermore, Quellet noted the prevalence of electromagnetic fluctuations in many UFO sightings, suggesting that there may be simultaneous extraterrestrial discharges that cause humans to hallucinate and give shape (flying saucers, triangles, etc.) to inchoate energy forms.
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Astronomers are freaking out over this newly discovered Earth-sized planet — and for good reason
Astronomers are freaking out over this newly discovered Earth-sized planet — and for good reason
By Jessica Orwig | Business Insider
(Dana Berry) A newly discovered exoplanet has a lot of astronomers excited, and for good reason.
The exoplanet, dubbed GJ 1132b, is about the size of Earth and lives in a solar system roughly 39 light-years from Earth, a team of scientists reported in the November 12, 2015, issue of the journalNature.
Furthermore, the exoplanet is the closest rocky Earth-sized exoplanet ever discovered, by far.
The next closest is about three times farther away.
GJ 1132b's size and distance are what have astronomers like Drake Deming at the University of Maryland — who was not part of the study — saying that this planet is "arguably the most important planet ever found outside the solar system," he told The Guardian.
The reason is because GJ 1132b is close enough for astronomers to point their telescopes at it and sniff out any traces of an atmosphere.
Atmospheric signatures of life
Studying the atmospheres of exoplanets for signs of life is the next big step in the search for extraterrestrial life beyond our solar system.
But it's an extremely difficult project because most Earth-sized planets — the exoplanets that astrobiologists think are most likely to harbor life — are too distant to study in any detail.
One of the ways astronomers determine the chemical composition of gases on planets in our own solar system is by studying the light passing through their atmospheric layers, like Earth's shown in the photo below with our crescent moon in the foreground:
Thomson Reuters) Chemical compounds and molecules interact differently with different energies of light, and, as a result, each molecule leaves a unique fingerprint that scientists can see when they map out the light over what is called a spectrum.
But when an object is hundreds of light-years away, it's nearly impossible to differentiate the light that's passing through an exoplanet's atmosphere from the light that's emanating from the larger, brighter host star.
A significant stepping stone
Now, GJ 1132b has changed that, offering astronomers a perfect specimen to test their instruments and methods for detecting life.
(NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center) "It's nearby, it's Earth-like, and its star won't interfere," Deming told The Guardian.
This newly discovered exoplanet is, however, just a stepping stone.
The possibility of finding life on it is practically zero. GJ 1132b might be only 16% larger than Earth, but it's surface temperature is a balmy 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Our ultimate goal is to find a twin Earth, but along the way we've found a twin Venus," David Charbonneau, a co-author on the new paper and an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a press release. "We suspect it will have a Venus-like atmosphere, too, and if it does we can't wait to get a whiff."
The reason for these toasty temperatures is because GJ 1132b sits just 1.4 million miles from its host star — 26 times closer than Mercury is to our sun.
It takes just 1.6 days for GJ 1132b to complete a single orbit around its star, which is very different from our sun.
The most common star in the galaxy
The star is what is called a red dwarf, which astronomers suspect is the most common star throughout our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Red-dwarf stars are cooler, smaller, and dimmer than our sun. The one that GJ 1132b is orbiting is about one-fifth the size of our sun and only emits about 1/200th the amount of light.
Here's a diagram comparing, to scale, the size of our sun with a red dwarf (second from the left) and Jupiter (far right):
(Uploaded by Esmera en on Wikipedia)
Just because they're different from our sun, however, doesn't mean life couldn't spawn around them. It just means that the habitable zone — the region in space where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface — is closer to the star than it is for our sun.
Some astronomers estimate that red-dwarf stars comprise 75% of all stars in the galaxy. This means that most of the exoplanets in our galaxy are likely orbiting red-dwarfs.
Whether any of those planets are habitable, however, is a subject of intense debate, which is why the discovery of GJ 1132b is so exciting. And while GJ 1132b is not likely habitable, it's possible that it has some neighbors that are.
To first spot GJ 1132b as it passed in front of the star, scientists used the MEarth-South array, a group of telescopes at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
Now that they know it's there, the researchers have requested time on the Hubble Space Telescope (which observes the same type of light we see with our eyes) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (which observes longer wavelengths than Hubble, in the infrared range) to study GJ 1132b more fully.
With the viewing powers of Hubble and Spitzer combined, the scientists could get a much broader spectrum of light to study even more chemical compounds than they otherwise would with just one of the telescopes.
La théorie n'est pas nouvelle mais, depuis quelques mois, les indices s'accumulent. Le manteau terrestre pourrait bien abriter un gigantesque réservoir d'eau, jusqu'à trois fois plus vaste que l'ensemble des océans de notre belle planète bleue. Tout a commencé en mars dernier avec l'annonce de la découverte d'un diamant marron sans grande valeur marchande mais suffisamment spécial pour mériter une publication dans la revue Nature. En effet, après avoir étudié sous toutes les coutures ce caillou des profondeurs ramené à la surface par un volcan brésilien, une équipe scientifique dirigée par Graham Pearson, de l'université d'Alberta au Canada, y a décelé la toute première inclusion naturelle de ringwoodite d'origine terrestre. Un minéral que l'on avait jusqu'ici retrouvé dans des météorites et produit en laboratoire, mais dont on ne faisait que soupçonner très vivement la présence dans les profondeurs de la Terre.
Pourquoi cette intuition ? Parce que la ringwoodite n'est rien d'autre que de l'olivine - le principal minéral du manteau terrestre - soumise à des conditions de température et de pression élevées telles que celles qui s'exercent entre environ 520 et 660 kilomètres de profondeur en direction du centre de la Terre, dans une sorte de zone de transition entre le manteau supérieur et le manteau inférieur de la planète. Or, la particularité remarquable de cette ringwoodite est qu'elle tend naturellement à piéger l'eau en son sein, non à l'état de liquide, de gaz ou de glace, mais sous la forme d'ions hydroxydes. D'ailleurs, après analyse de leur précieux échantillon, les chercheurs ont confirmé que celui-ci contenait bien environ 1,5 % d'eau. Autrement dit, même si ce pourcentage ne peut en aucun cas être généralisé, cela démontrait premièrement qu'il y avait bien quelque part de la ringwoodite dans le manteau terrestre et, deuxièmement, que celle-ci pouvait contenir une quantité d'eau significative. L'hypothèse d'un réservoir d'eau gigantesque dans le manteau terrestre en sortait donc considérablement renforcée...
Ondes sismiques et roches humides
Forte de ce résultat, une autre équipe de chercheurs américains, conduite par Steven Jacobsen de l'université Northwestern de l'Illinois et Brandon Schmandt de l'université du Nouveau-Mexique, a tenté à son tour d'éclairer la question en étudiant le comportement des ondes sismiques qui font sonner la Terre comme une cloche, pendant plusieurs jours, après un tremblement de terre. Car lorsque ces ondes rencontrent des roches humides, elles ralentissent, et c'est là quelque chose que les scientifiques savent mesurer. Mais quel rapport avec l'eau piégée dans la ringwoodite puisque celle-ci n'est pas sous la forme liquide ? C'est que, grâce à des expérimentations menées en laboratoire, Steven Jacobsen est préalablement parvenu à montrer que, dans des conditions de pression et de température comparables à celles qui s'exercent à la limite entre la zone de transition et le manteau inférieur de la Terre, la fameuse roche est contrainte de restituer l'ensemble de son eau.
C'est donc là, à environ 700 kilomètres de profondeur, que se situerait ce qui pourrait être la plus grande réserve d'eau de la planète. Et, après une analyse minutieuse des données recueillies par EarthScope USArray - un réseau de 2 000 sismographes répartis sur le sol des États-Unis - lors de 500 tremblements de terre, les chercheurs en sont convaincus. Les enregistrements semblent bien corroborer cette idée (article paru dans la revue Science). Grâce à ces recherches, les scientifiques espèrent maintenant parvenir à mieux comprendre le cycle de l'eau sur notre planète mais aussi comment se sont formés nos océans. Toute l'eau de la Terre, si nécessaire à la vie, pourrait bien ne pas provenir uniquement des comètes...
Extraordinary Discovery at the Bosnian Pyramids: Researchers uncover more underground tunnels connected to the Pyramids
Extraordinary Discovery at the Bosnian Pyramids: Researchers uncover more underground tunnels connected to the Pyramids
Researchers at the Bosnian Pyramid complex have discovered a second level of tunnels located below the underground labyrinth.
Dr Osmanagic, the principal Investigator and discoverer of the Bosnian Pyramids has discovered the entrance to a second level of tunnels which are located below the Underground Labyrinth of Ravne in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina in September 2015. The set of complex tunnels was discovered twenty meters below the existing first level of tunnels what have been excavated for nearly ten years.
According to reports from Bosnia and Herzegovina, then newly found entrance shows nearly identical materials to those found at the Ravne labyrinth: River conglomerate.
The second level of tunnels or “Ravne 2” as it has been called by Dr Osmanagic are sealed off just as the Ravne tunnels. The material used to fill the tunnels is identical to that found in the upper levels of the labyrinth. According to research, the energy properties of the Underground Labyrinth are identical to those recorded on the pyramids of Visoko which has led researchers to believe there is a strong relationship between the two.
According to Dr Osmanagic and his team, over 1.7 kilometers of the labyrinth have been cleared so far but the journey to clear out the entire tunnel complex will surely take more time.
According to reports from Visoko, the discovery of the second level of tunnels have given the Bosnian Pyramid complex a whole other dimension. Researchers believe that vertical tunnels could have been constructed in the past in order to connect both levels. Wit winter approaching quickly, the team plans to start excavations by Spring 2016.
We look forward to see what mysteries the newly found tunnels will uncover and we are sure that with the newly found tunnels, interest in the Bosnian Pyramid will rise more than ever.
The Bosnian Pyramids
According to researchers around the world and the Head of Anthropology at the American University in Bosnia-Herzegovina Dr. Semir Osmanagić, Ph.D. The Bosnian Pyramids located near the town of Visoko, northwest of Sarajevo are the oldest man-made Pyramids that have been discovered on our Planet. Dr. Semir Osmanagić and his team have spent over 340.000 man-hours in archaeological excavation, sample testing and radiocarbon dating in the period from 2005 to 2013. The Pyramid of the Sun, with its 220 meters height, exceeds the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which measures 147 meters (height). But what we find mind-blowing is the fact that the Pyramid’s orientation to the North is accurate with an error of 0 degrees, 0 minutes and 12 seconds. Incredible precision, and this is where the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun has an incredible fact in common with the Great Pyramid of Egypt. The great Pyramid of Egypt resides at the intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude, the exact center of all the land mass in the world. Also each of the four sides aligns almost precisely with the four points of the compass. So we have precision in Egypt that is almost equal to precision found in Bosnia. But how can this be? These two ancient civilizations were not connected.
These strange geometrical shapes were first sighted in 2005 when Dr. Osmanagić traveled to the town of Visoko, and these strange-looking hills caught his attention, when you actually travel to the area, these geometrical shapes clearly stand out from the rest and our very difficult to miss.
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