Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
28-05-2022
'DEUR' OP MARS BLIJKT EEN STUK KLEINER TE ZIJN DAN GEDACHT
'DEUR' OP MARS BLIJKT EEN STUK KLEINER TE ZIJN DAN GEDACHT
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het is eerder een hondenluik, zo grapt NASA.
De foto zorgde de afgelopen weken voor behoorlijk wat vermaak én een groot aantal wilde verhalen. We hebben het natuurlijk over de foto die Marsrover Curiosity begin deze maand maakte van een heuveltje dat gerekend kan worden tot Mount Sharp; een 5,5 kilometer hoge berg in het hart van de Gale-krater op Mars. In dat heuveltje bleek zich een breuk te vinden die wel heel sterk op een ‘deur’ leek.
Speculatie De foto ging viraal en was de aanleiding voor tal van speculaties. Sommigen vroegen zich af of dit dan de plek was waar de Marsmannetjes zich schuilhielden. Anderen speculeerden druk over de vraag waar de deuropening naartoe leidde; was het misschien een portal naar New York of Narnia?
Meer informatie En zo gebeurde wat zo vaak gebeurt als we iets geks op buitenaardse foto’s zien; onze verbeeldingskracht sloeg op hol. Dat is ook NASA niet onopgemerkt gebleven, want enkele dagen later voelde de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie – eigenaar van fotograaf Curiosity – zich gedwongen om toch nog eens wat achtergrondinformatie bij de foto te verstrekken.
Hondenluik Zo heeft NASA bijvoorbeeld bekend gemaakt hoe groot de deur is. En dat blijkt toch een beetje tegen te vallen. Zo is de deur volgens NASA slechts 30 centimeter hoog en 40 centimeter breed. “Qua grootte vergelijkbaar met een hondenluik.”
Natuurlijke oorsprong Eventuele nieuwe speculaties over Marskabouters worden overigens door NASA ook direct de kop ingedrukt. Zo benadrukt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie dat we hier te maken hebben met een natuurlijke breuk. “Dit soort open breuken komt zowel op aarde als op Mars veelvuldig voor,” aldus de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie.
Nieuwe beelden Daarnaast heeft NASA ook een aantal nieuwe (3D-)beelden van ‘het hondenluik’ vrijgegeven.
Enkele nieuwe beelden van de heuvel waarin een deur-achtige breuk is gespot.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Hoewel het idee dat Marsmannetjes de ‘deur’ zorgvuldig in de heuvel hebben uitgehouwen nu dus dnitief de prullenbak in kan, wil dat zeker niet zeggen dat we het hele idee van leven op Mars overboord kunnen gooien. Sterker nog: zelfs NASA acht het zeer waarschijnlijk dat er in ieder geval ooit leven op de rode planeet is geweest. Waar Mars tegenwoordig droog en koud is, zou de planeet in het verleden nat en warm – en dus een stuk aantrekkelijker voor leven – zijn geweest. Marsrover Curiosity onderzoekt in de Gale-krater – die in warmere en vochtigere tijden een compleet meer moet hebben geherbergd – naar meer informatie over die overgang van nat naar droog. En elders op Mars wordt met het Marswagentje Perseverance zelfs specifiek gezocht naar sporen van (vergaan) Martiaans leven. Vooralsnog zonder resultaat, maar zo blijft de spreekwoordelijke deur – als het om leven op Mars gaat – voorlopig toch op een kier staan.
“Wind-Ruffled Waves, Foam and Wave Shadows, Above Natural Blue Seawater.” This is how we’ll Spot Exoplanets With Oceans
“Wind-Ruffled Waves, Foam and Wave Shadows, Above Natural Blue Seawater.” This is how we’ll Spot Exoplanets With Oceans
Our planet’s oceans generate tell-tale light signatures when sunlight reflects off them. Exoplanets with significant ocean coverage may do the same. Can we use the Earth’s reflectance signatures to identify other Earth-like worlds with large oceans?
We should be able to, eventually.
A new study examined light signatures reflecting off of Earth’s oceans and explored their flux and polarization. The researchers modelled two Earths: a dry planet and a wet planet with Earth-like clouds and atmosphere. Then they simulated how light would reflect from those planets in different conditions. They found that only an ocean can cause the polarization of light to dip in specific ways.
The study is titled “Ocean signatures in the total flux and polarization spectra of Earth-like exoplanets.” The journal Astronomy and Astrophysics will publish it, but it’s currently available online at the pre-press site arxiv.org. The authors are V.J.H. Trees and D.M. Stam. Trees is from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, and Stam is from the Delft University of Technology.
Scientists have found water vapour on exoplanets, but it’s detected spectroscopically when the planet is in front of its star and the starlight passes through the atmosphere. Those observations revealed the molecular signature of water, but there’s currently no way of knowing if there’s an ocean. “… actual observations of liquid water oceans are only possible using a direct detection of the starlight that is reflected by the planet,” the paper states.
Some scientific estimates show that up to one-quarter of known exoplanets have oceans, though much of that water may be in subsurface oceans. In our Solar System, only planet Earth has surface oceans. Multiple moons in the Solar System have subsurface oceans, and some of the dwarf planets probably do too.
An artist’s view of countless exoplanets. Some of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve discovered should have oceans. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We’re not close to detecting subsurface oceans on exomoons, but as telescope technology advances, we may be able to detect oceans on planets similar to Earth. As the authors of this paper write, “Numerical simulations of starlight that is reflected by Earth-like exoplanets predict habitability signatures that can be searched for with future telescopes.”
The researchers computed three things in their numerical exoplanet simulations: total flux (F), polarized flux (Q) and degree of polarization (Ps). They modelled the oceans in a particular way. “The oceans consist of Fresnel reflecting surfaces with wind-ruffled waves, foam and wave shadows, above natural blue seawater,” they explain. Fresnel reflecting is when the reflected light is in the same plane as the incident light. It’s also called parallel polarization, named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel. He invented a lens used in lighthouses that focuses light into a narrower beam.
Measuring the polarization of light from oceans is important because starlight isn’t expected to be polarized. Also, while light signals degrade with distance, the degree of polarization doesn’t. Unfortunately, astronomers can’t measure ocean-reflected polarization yet. “Current ground-based and space-based telescopes are not capable of measuring the polarized light that is reflected by Earth-like exoplanets,” the authors explain.
But that will change.
The upcoming European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), and the Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), a space telescope concept being developed by NASA, will both be able to measure polarized light. Numerical models like the ones in this study will be used to design the instruments and observation procedures needed to sense the polarization of light reflected by exo-oceans.
One of the main takeaways from this work concerns the degree of polarization or Ps. The image below compares the Ps for cloud-free dry planets vs cloud-free ocean planets.
This figure from the study compares the degree of polarization of reflected starlight from cloud-free dry planets vs. cloud-free ocean planets. In the left column, as is surface albedo, where 0.0 and 0.1 are dark surfaces and 0.8 is a bright surface. In the right column, v is wind speed. 13 m/s is about 47 km/h, and 1 m/s is about 3.6 km/h. Each separately coloured line is a different phase angle. Image Credit: Trees and Stam, 2022.
The main takeaway is that Ps only dips in certain circumstances, which can be measured. As the authors point out, “Dips in Ps are only observed for ocean planets and only when the glint is cloud-free.” That’s a simplified summary of their results, but it shows that they’re onto something.
If—or hopefully when—we discover an exoplanet with an ocean, it’ll be a landmark event. The space science community is pretty confident they’re out there and hold a strong possibility of supporting life. Hints of exo-oceans turn up when scientists measure an exoplanet’s density vs its size. But as it stands, there’s no way of knowing for sure if we’re detecting a surface ocean.
These researchers have been working on the problem of detecting exo-oceans for a while now and have published other papers tackling the issue. If their simulations are correct, we may be developing a reliable way of detecting ocean worlds at great distances. The E-ELT is due to see first light around 2027 and it will be capable of detecting polarized starlight reflected from oceans.
Maybe we’ll have our first confirmed ocean exoplanet not too long after.
New Linda Moulton Howe: UFO Disclosure Intel! What Was 1949 Project Aquarius's Mission with 'Alien Creatures'?
New Linda Moulton Howe: UFO Disclosure Intel! What Was 1949 Project Aquarius's Mission with 'Alien Creatures'?
Topics: What was 1949 Project Aquarius’s mission with ‘Alien creatures’? Nature article: “New Targets in Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Planets of Binary Stars As Homes for Alien Life” – “Nearly half of Sun-like stars are binary. According to new research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars.
This points to new targets in the search for extraterrestrial life forms.” Binary stars mentioned by Betty and Barney Hill TOP SECRET – Project Aquarius documents – project initiated by Eisenhower & MJ-12 – pilot flying over the Cascade Mountains spots 9 UFOs
- “extraterrestrial craft crashed in the desert of New Mexico…4 non-humans recovered” – “another crash in 1949..partially recovered by military” – “alien from planet in Zeta Reticuli system” – “project code named Grudge, Sign & Blue Book”
- “mysterious craft at Hill AFB in Utah..inside were what looked like hockey pucks levitating.” – ”aircraft was a technological marvel” – “MJ-12 decided Air Force should end their investigation” – “we must continue to track and observer the aliens” – sub-projects under project Aquarius: Bando, Sigma, Snowbird,
Guy catches huge structure in crater on Moon by accident, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Guy catches huge structure in crater on Moon by accident, Video,UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 23, 2022
Location of sighting: Earths moon
Here is an awesome shot of the moon using a telescope. The youtuber Video Adventures was recording a casual video of the moon, but at the 55 second mark a crater appears with a triangle structure at its center. You would think that enough, but its not, as I looked closer, I noticed there is a shadow below the triangle. The object is about 200-400 meters above the floor of the crater! Absolutly awesome raw footage of a UFO in a crater.
UAP Seen Over Chicago, Illinois O'hare Airport On May 26, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UAP Seen Over Chicago, Illinois O'hare Airport On May 26, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 26, 2022
Location of sighting: Chicago, Illinois, USA
The eyewitness said he looked up and saw this white object moving across the sky coming from the O'Hare Airport in the evening. When I looked closely at his video, I saw other white objects in it, so this looks like a whole fleet. This one white UAP is closer than the others. Its white, oval and cloud like because white is the color that the semi cloaked craft take on when in the sky, so they are easily seen when the sky is blue in a sky with few clouds.
'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon video of unidentified object, May 27, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon video of unidentified object, May 27, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of Meeting:May 26, 2022 Location of announcement: US Pentagon
Date of UFO video being seen: Jan 2021
Now I have reported again and again these metallic spheres on my website. I would estimate over 400 reports of such objects, one of which was recent where I reported half a dozen metallic spheres over California on Google Earth map...yet the video I made goes ignored by the press. Each time I report a sphere UFO, regardless of its source, quality of video or evidence...it goes ignored by world news. For some unknown reason, a sphere UFO has no appeal to the press. Thats fine. I even stood two meters from a sphere UFO on the 8th floor roof of my apartments in Taipei a few years ago. Even if the press ignores such UFOs, I sure as hell wont and the public still takes them very seriously. Sphere UFOs are being considered by the US House Subcommittee and therefore are 100% proof that such UFOs not only exist, but are seen as a threat to US national security. I will put a video of similar UFOs I found on Google Earth and kept for over ten years before I released the info this year to the public.
Now the Pentagon is being pushed by some US gov officials to come clean about the existence of UFOs and intelligent alien species. This will never happen. Why? There are rules in place that will protect the government from such leaks. Anything that is the smallest little threat to National Security...is kept secret forever! Thus, the Pentagon tries to go through the motions (acting) like they want transparency, however they do not. They are only drip feeding you bits of nothing, which the public laps up and shows excitement for...so you think you have something big, but it's only a crumb of info from the whole pie they hide from you.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
News states:
'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon official shows video of unidentified object Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shows declassified video of an unidentified object during a House subcommittee hearing on "unidentified aerial phenomena," popularly known as UFOs.
Swarm reveals mysterious magnetic waves across Earth’s outer core
Swarm reveals mysterious magnetic waves across Earth’s outer core
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s outer core every seven years.
This fascinating finding opens a new window into a world we can never see. This mysterious wave oscillates every seven years and propagates westward at up to 1500 kilometers a year.
Magnetic waves are likely to be triggered by disturbances deep within the Earth's fluid core, possibly related to buoyancy plumes. Each wave is specified by its period and typical length-scale, and the period depends on characteristics of the forces at play. For magneto-Coriolis waves, the period is indicative of the intensity of the magnetic field within the core.
The research team suggests that other such waves are likely to exist, probably with longer periods – but their discovery relies on more research.
Former Area 51 engineer reveals, “In terms of technology, we are working with an alien race.”
Former Area 51 engineer reveals, “In terms of technology, we are working with an alien race.”
A 71-year-old retired engineer has indicated on several occasions throughout his career that he formerly worked for Area 51. In recent interviews, he has revealed that he was there when an extraterrestrial who was being held there was really brought up.
Bill Uhouse was the engineer described before, and as you can see straight away, he knows a lot about what goes on behind the closed doors of Area 51.
He spoke out on several occasions about the extraterrestrial housed there known as “JRod,” but he never received the respect he earnt, and when he passed back in 2009, this planet lost one of the biggest whistleblowers of all time.
A vast subterranean system consisting of extraterrestrial technology can be seen in this image he posted. Area 51 engineers labor diligently to reverse engineer any piece of alien technology they can get their hands on.
The aliens are identified as EBEs, or Extraterrestrial Biological Entities, according to Bill, and a huge percent of them are not humanoid.
The Greys, Tall Northern aliens, and Reptilians are the ones we know about. The Greys are also divided into three groups based on their size: tall Greys, little Greys, and medium Greys.
Bill mentioned in his most recent interview that we had a peace pact between the United States and the United Nations that’s been signed during President Eisenhower’s presidency, which is why we keep them hidden while acquiring more sophisticated technology on a regular basis.
Researchers uncovered ancient urban centres on forested mounds in the Bolivian Amazon Basin.
Credit: Roland Seitre/Nature Picture Library
Mysterious mounds in the southwest corner of the Amazon Basin were once the site of ancient urban settlements, scientists have discovered. Using a remote-sensing technology to map the terrain from the air, they found that, starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and lived in densely populated centres, featuring 22-metre-tall earthen pyramids, that were encircled by kilometres of elevated roadways.
The complexity of these settlements is “mind blowing”, says team member Heiko Prümers, an archaeologist at the German Archaeological Institute headquartered in Berlin.
“This is the first clear evidence that there were urban societies in this part of the Amazon Basin,” says Jonas Gregorio de Souza, an archaeologist at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. The study adds to a growing body of research indicating that the Amazon — long thought to have been pristine wilderness before the arrival of Europeans — was home to advanced societies well before that. The discovery was published on 25 May in Nature1.
A shift in thinking
Humans have lived in the Amazon Basin — a vast river-drainage system roughly the size of the continental United States — for around 10,000 years . Researchers thought that before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century, all Amazonians lived in small, nomadic tribes that had little impact on the world around them. And although early European visitors described a landscape filled with towns and villages, later explorers were unable to find these sites.
Source: Ref. 1
By the twentieth century, archaeologists had yet to confirm the rumours, and argued that the Amazon’s nutrient-poor soil was unable to support large-scale agriculture, and that it would have prevented tropical civilizations — similar to those found in central America and southeast Asia — from arising in the Amazon. By the 2000s, however, archaeological opinion was beginning to shift. Some researchers suggested2 that unusually high concentrations of domesticated plants, along with patches of unusually nutrient-rich soil that could have been created by people, might indicate that ancient Amazonians had indeed shaped their environment.
The hypothesis gained steam when, in 2018, archaeologists reported3 hundreds of large, geometric mounds that had been uncovered because of deforestation in the southern Amazon rainforest. These structures hinted at ancient organized societies capable of thriving in one location for years — but direct evidence of settlements was lacking.
In 1999, Prümers began studying a set of mounds in the Bolivian part of the Amazon Basin, outside the thick rainforest. There, a multitude of tree-covered mounds rise above a lowland area that floods during the rainy season.
Previous digs had revealed that these ‘forest islands’ contained traces of human habitation, including the remains of the mysterious Casarabe culture, which appeared around AD 500. During one excavation, Prümers and his colleagues realized that they had found what looked like a wall, indicating that a permanent settlement had once occupied the area. The researchers also found graves, platforms and other indications of a complex society. But dense vegetation made it difficult for them to use conventional methods to survey the site.
What lies beneath
By the 2010s, a technique called lidar — a remote-sensing technology that uses lasers to generate a 3D image of the ground below — had come into vogue with archaeologists. In 2012, a lidar survey of a valley in Honduras helped lead to the rediscovery of an ancient pre-Columbian city rumoured to exist in the area. The jungle had completely overtaken the settlement since it was abandoned in the fifteenth century, making it all but impossible to see from the air without lidar.
Prümers and his colleagues took advantage of lidar in 2019, when they flew a helicopter equipped with the technology over six areas near sites confirmed to have been occupied by the Casarabe people. The team got more than it bargained for, with lidar revealing the size and shape of 26 settlements, including 11 the researchers hadn’t been looking for — a monumental task that would have taken 400 years to survey by conventional means, Prümers says.
Two of the urban centres each covered an area of more than 100 hectares — three times the size of Vatican City. The lidar images revealed walled compounds with broad terraces rising 6 metres above the ground. Conical pyramids made of earth towered above one end of the terraces (see ‘The settlement beneath’). People probably lived in the areas around the terraces and travelled along the causeways that connected the sites to one another.
“We have this image of Amazonia as a green desert — devoid of any type of culture,” Prümers says. But given that civilizations rose and thrived in other tropical areas, he notes, “Why shouldn’t something like that exist here?”
Mysteries remain
Why these settlements were abandoned after 900 years is still a mystery. Radiocarbon dating has revealed that the Casarabe disappeared around 1400.
Prümers points out that lidar images revealed reservoirs in the settlements, perhaps indicating that this part of the world wasn’t always wet — an environmental shift that might have driven people away. However, consistent pollen records reveal4 that maize (corn) was grown in the area continuously for thousands of years, indicating sustainable agricultural practices.
At the very least, the discovery of long-lost Amazonian societies “changes the general perspective people have of Amazonian archaeology”, says Eduardo Neves, an archaeologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Present-day logging and farming in the Amazon Basin are almost certainly destroying important archaeological sites that have yet to be discovered, he says, but a growing interest in Amazonian archaeology could lead to the protection of vulnerable places.
These discoveries also counter the narrative that Indigenous peoples were passive inhabitants of the Amazon Basin before the arrival of Europeans. “The people who lived there changed the landscape forever,” Neves says.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01458-9
UPDATES & CORRECTIONS
Correction 26 May 2022: An earlier version of this story said that there are hundreds of tree-covered mounds rising above a lowland area in the Bolivian Amazon. Some estimates suggest there are many more than that.
References
Prümers, H., Betancourt, C. J., Iriarte, J., Robinson, M. & Schaich, M. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04780-4 (2022).
The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies
The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies
Did this grow from the merger of little black holes to a giant supermassive object called Sagittarius A*? The network of radio observatories that made this image possible includes the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, co-owned and co-operated by ESO is a partner on behalf of its member states in Europe.
We all know that a humongous black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. It’s called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short) and it has the mass of 4 million suns. We’ve got to see a radio image of it a few weeks back, showing its accretion disk. So, we know it’s there. Astronomers can chart its actions as it gobbles up matter occasionally and they can see how it affects nearby stars. What astronomers are still trying to understand is how Sgr A* formed.
The answer looks like it involves smaller black holes, especially ones from so-called dwarf galaxies. According to a paper published this past week in The Astrophysical Journal by astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, there’s a whole treasury of them out there. These things are sitting inside many dwarfs and may provide a missing link to the growth of supermassive black holes in larger galaxies.
Massive (and Supermassive) Black Holes and their Lairs
So, let’s dig into this a big more, starting with supermassive black holes. They lurk in the hearts of many, many galaxies. These monsters have millions or billions of solar masses. How did they get to be so big? The answer involves a topic that we see across astronomy and planetary science: hierarchical models. That’s a fancy way of saying that big things are created from smaller things. For example, planets get started as dust grains that stick together to make rocks that slam together to make asteroids that collide to create planetesimals that glom onto each other to make planets.
Galaxy formation has its own hierarchical model, too. What creates one of those stellar cities? Galaxies like the Milky Way started out as a collection of gas in the early Universe. That gas formed stars, which evolved, died, and spread their materials out to help create new generations of stars (and their planets). In many senses, dwarf galaxies are more like the primordial galaxies than they are the evolved spirals and ellipticals. Okay, so we simplified things here to give a look at a complex topic that takes up entire textbooks. And, that’s even before we get to galaxy mergers.
Growing a Big Galaxy from Little Ones
Let’s look at the Milky Way’s past more closely. It has an extensive merger history, going back billions of years. It started as an infant (maybe it was a dwarf) some 14 billion years ago. Other little ones merged with it. Eventually, we got the home galaxy we all know and love today. (And let’s not forget that it will, in fact, merge with the Andromeda Galaxy in a few billion years.)
So, those little guys that merged to make the current Milky Way; chances are good some were dwarfs. They’re the little cousins of the big spirals and ellipticals. A typical one has maybe a thousand to a billion stars and sports an irregular shape. Their stars are what astronomers call “metal-poor” (meaning they’re mostly hydrogen and helium). And, these weird little galaxies swarm around some larger ones like fireflies. Sometimes they even get caught and swallowed up.
The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in Gaia’s all-sky view. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
The Milky Way has about 20 or so of them orbiting around it. One—the Sagittarius Dwarf—is getting interacting and getting cannibalized as you read this. It’s made the trip through our galaxy numerous times. It seems that dwarf galaxies like this one could have what’s called “growing black holes” as part of their structures. How do we know this? Astronomers found ways to survey the nearby Universe to look for candidate dwarf galaxies with such growing black holes.
Finding Black Holes in All the Small Places
The North Carolina team actually found a number of such dwarfs. It all began when they posed the question: where do supermassive black holes come from? The answer seems to be they grow by collisions with other black holes. That makes sense in a hierarchical model way.
Small stellar-mass black holes could collide, particularly in crowded environments (like a dwarf galaxy or a thickly settled cluster). Eventually, they form more-massive ones. Such “growing black holes” are seen in big, bright galaxies, but what about the dwarfs? Could they have them? If they do, how abundant are they in such small galaxies? And, could they be key to understanding the growth of supermassive black holes?
To get answers to all those questions, a team led by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members Sheila Kannappan and Mugdha Polimera got to work. They analyzed galaxy data from several surveys to hunt for evidence of growing black holes. The team looked for bright emissions like those you’d see indicating star formation or around black hole accretion disks.
Their data came from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, plus the REsolved Spectroscopy of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) and Environmental COntext Catalog (ECO). They found evidence of growing black holes in a significant percentage of dwarf galaxies. These galaxies sometimes get “tossed out” of surveys of brighter, bigger galaxies because their emissions aren’t (or weren’t) well-understood. It turns out, they are a treasure trove for black hole research.
Bright Emissions Reveal Black Holes
The clue was in the strong emissions the regions around those black holes give off. Kannappan compared this black hole discovery to a familiar source of light here in some places on Earth. “Just like fireflies, we see black holes only when they’re lit up—when they’re growing—and the lit-up ones give us a clue to how many we can’t see,” she said. Essentially, Kannapan and the team are talking about dwarf galaxies with active black holes at their hearts (in other words, active galactic nuclei).
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. (Original image by NASA & ESA/Hubble, artistic conception of a black hole with jet by M. Polimera.)
Of course, there are other reasons why a dwarf galaxy could have strong emissions. For example, the dwarfs could have massive spurts of star formation going on. That activity causes bright spectral emissions, too. “We all got nervous,” Polimera said. “The first question to my mind was: Have we missed a way in which extreme star formation alone could explain these galaxies?”
Polimera spent years researching any alternative explanations for these dwarf galaxy AGNs. After excluding all the other possibilities, growing black holes fit the data the best.
Implications for Growing Black Hole Monsters
The discovery of growing black holes in dwarf galaxies brings us back to the Milky Way and its central black hole. Based on the implications of the North Carolina research, Sgr A* very likely grew as our galaxy did. Not only did its past mergers mingle stars, but each dwarf could also have brought along its own growing black hole. They had to go somewhere, right? So, why wouldn’t they gravitate (excuse the pun) to each other to add to the greatness of Sgr A*?
“The black holes we’ve found are the basic building blocks of supermassive black holes like the one in our own Milky Way,” Kannappan said. “There’s so much we want to learn about them.”
UFO Witnessed And REC By Three Different People Miles Apart In the State Of Missouri
Cylinder or Cigar shaped UFO witnessed and recorded by three different people miles apart in the state of Missouri
Cigar Shaped UFO Seen On The TV Show Catfish & Cylindrical Object Sighted Over Massachusetts
Clip one comes from the MTV show Catfish and this black cylindrical shaped UFO was spotted in an insert of season 8, episode 49. This is timelapped footage but i felt that we should take a look at it as it doesn't seem to be a blimp or balloon and i wonder if the people at Catfish spotted this?
To view the original clip: This was in season 8, episode 49 at the 21:08 mark. Thanks to MTV & The guys at Catfish.
Thanks to Victor Escobedo for spotting this...
Clip two was sighted over Norwood in Massachusetts on May 20, 2022 and the witness stated the following " I recorded it during my lunch break last Friday and the clouds weren’t anything special at all when I recorded this actually. I’m that weirdo who is just always randomly filming the sky no matter how uninteresting it may look. Lol. But yesterday I kept getting weather alerts and was so badly hoping for something exciting to happen but the storms didn’t hit where I was. There was a tornado warning for somewhere in Maine all day yesterday, thought that was interesting. I took this video of the clouds then messed w/ the exposure. I don’t know how to circle the spot I’m trying to show you on a video… but it’s on the right hand side of the screen, down by where the tree is, in between two branches."
Thanks to Jillian for allowing me the use of her footage and to view the original:
Hey, I found this is an old NASA index and its a photo taken from the Shuttle Endeavour from the STS113 mission. That was a mission to take support replacement crew to the space station and bring some important parts of the station up. The mission didn't mention any satellites at all, so i know its not a satellite. This object is very strange looking and seems to be following and observing the space shuttle.
Its funny isn't it? How so much evidence exists about UFOs existing, even in the NASA index itself and yet, so much of the public is still wears a blindfold when it comes to the subject and the US gov is the one still holding it there. Trust me, the best is yet to come.
UFO In Thunderstorm, Julbach, Germany May 20, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO In Thunderstorm, Julbach, Germany May 20, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:May 20, 2022
Location of sighting: Julbach, Germany
Now its not the first time I have ever seen such entities. These kind of entities are energy entities. They don't need a ship to travel it and are only visible at night. Usually they travel in groups, but sometimes they read a persons thoughts who see them and they will travel over the person for a while before leaving. This one is very energized from the static electricity in the air from the storm. It seems to feed on it, returning to the storm to get some more, then leave, and repeating.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I witnessed strange balls or beams of light during a ride back home. i stopped my motorbike to, turned off the lights and it was almost completely dark. a thunderstorm was coming and i thought, it might have been some reflections from somewhere, but even with a strong torch, i should have seen some beam from the ground.
A Lost Primeval World Has Been Found in a Giant South China Sinkhole!
A Lost Primeval World Has Been Found in a Giant South China Sinkhole!
Chinese explorers have discovered a lost world in an exceptionally deep and large sinkhole in south China. And in this ancient subterranean space they expect to find flora and fauna unknown to science.
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, caused by bedrock collapsing in karst terrain that exposes groundwater channels. When we read the word cenote it's normally followed up with a story about Aztec or Maya bodies and artifacts. This is because Mexico and Central America virtually float on underground rivers with thousands of cenotes peppering the landscape. However, this sinkhole story is from China, where an enormous karst sinkhole has recently been discovered containing its own untouched primeval ecosystem.
The 630-foot-deep sinkhole in China with primeval forest in its depths.
Karst terrain describes a landscape where the surface can be dissolved by groundwater circulating through soluble salt beds and carbonate rocks like gypsum and limestone. In China, cenotes are called tiankeng (heavenly pit), and a lost world has been found in a hitherto unknown sink hole near Ping'e village in the county of Leye, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Central China, according to LiveScience.
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region borders Vietnam and is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site . The area is known for its stalactites and stalagmite riddled caves, charging rivers, and towering tooth-like karst formations, and countless sinkholes. According to the Xinhua news agency the latest south China sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep and the interior measures 1,004 feet (306 meters) long and 492 feet (150 meters) wide. This is about half the depth of the deepest water-filled sinkhole on the planet, the El Zacatón sinkhole in northeast Mexico , which is 335 meters (1099 feet) deep.
Exploring Worlds Lost In Time
According to Newsweek this is the 30th sinkhole discovered in this area of China. George Veni, the US executive director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI), told Live Science the discovery “is no surprise.” Southern China is “karst topography,” said the cave specialist, and he added that the entire region is a “landscape prone to dramatic sinkholes and otherworldly caves.”
Veni explained that rainwater is slightly acidic and that it picks up carbon dioxide as it runs through the soil, becoming even more acidic. It permeates cracks in the bedrock and wears away tunnels which over time create chambers. When these spaces get big enough they collapse and create sinkholes, like the one recently discovered in China. However, where most of the Mexican sinkholes are full of water, the Chinese speleologists and spelunkers discovered ancient trees measuring 131 feet (40 meters) tall in the latest China sinkhole.
People walk across a bridge in the man-made woods in Kashgar, China, which are said to increase drought when non-indigenous trees are used.
Expedition leader, Chen Lixin, told Xinhua that the dense undergrowth on the sinkhole floor was as high as a person's shoulders. And so bizarre was this lost space that Lixin added that he wouldn't be surprised to learn “there are species found in these caves that have never been reported or described by science.” Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of Karst Geology, said the bottom of the sinkhole “seemed like another world.”
Botanists around the world will be waiting with bated breath for news of new tree species, and any such discoveries will perhaps shift focus from China's current íssues with trees. The Gobi Desert and other arid regions in China are expanding because of overgrazing that has depleted border vegetation allowing wind and gravity to erode soils. In response, China has planted 66 billion trees in the past four decades as part of its fight against expanding deserts. Covering an area the size of Ireland every year, these new trees have successfully slowed down China′s deserts.
Notwithstanding, Troy Sternberg, a geographer at the University of Oxford, UK, says “it’s kind of foolish to plant trees in a desert” and that this will worsen water scarcity . A 2019 Nature article explains that most of the billions of trees planted in China “are not native to the regions where they have been planted and they use a lot of water.” This in effect compounds the negative effects of global warming by reducing the available water for human consumption.
Top image: An aerial photo of the giant China sinkhole or tiankeng at Leye-Fengshan Global Geopark, in south China's Guangxi Province, which was huge and is home to an amazing primeval forest. Source: Zhou Hua / Xinhua
70-YEAR-OLD ASTRONOMY PHOTOS MAY BE CLUES TO ALIEN VISITORS — STUDY
70-YEAR-OLD ASTRONOMY PHOTOS MAY BE CLUES TO ALIEN VISITORS — STUDY
The plates, taken prior to the launch of Sputnik, show satellite-like objects near Earth.
ON A SERIES of 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they’ve found something weird: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.
“We found one image where nine stars were out there, and they vanished. And they are not there half an hour earlier, and they are not there six days later,” says Beatriz Villarroel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. “And you wonder, ‘Is this real?’”
There isn’t any readily available astronomical explanation for what these vanishing points of light, which the researchers call transients, might be. The dots might be defects in the photographic emulsions or image artifacts from when astronomers first scanned the plates. But in a series of recent papers, Villarroel and a small team of astronomers have been more seriously probing the possibility that the flashes might be something more exciting — extraterrestrial objects.
A shiny, spinning object passing by Earth would leave a line of dots in a long-exposure image of the night sky. Asteroids or meteors aren’t likely to look like that — most asteroids are dark, and meteors are moving so fast they’d look like streaks. And, most intriguingly for the researchers, there weren’t any satellites in the night sky when the images were taken, as all the plates were before the launch of Sputnik.
Still, Villarroel and colleagues haven’t ruled out Earthly explanations for these tantalizing dots. And there’s a long history of events associated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) fizzling out under closer scrutiny.
WHAT THEY FOUND — The disappearing dots that got Villarroel so excited first showed up as part of a search for more mundane astronomical phenomena. There are a number of things in the universe that will shine brightly for a short period and disappear again, like supernovae, actively feeding black holes, flaring stars, and more. But searching for these transient objects is nearly impossible today because of the thousands of satellites and millions of pieces of space debris in orbit around Earth, many of which appear as momentary flashes of light in photos of the night sky.
“The whole sky is filled with multiple transients today from all the space debris,” Villarroel says.
So she and other astronomers turned to photos of the night sky taken before the satellite era. Beginning in the late 19th century, astronomers have undertaken surveys of the night sky, using telescopes and photographic plates to take images of large swaths of the cosmos as seen from Earth. Villarroel used a series of plates from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, which ran from 1949 to 1958 and covered much of the sky as seen from the northern hemisphere, on the hunt for transients.
One of several plates with disappearing point sources. Villarroel et al
Her research is part of the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, which, along with an associated citizen science project, is searching for transient light sources in the night sky. But after looking at the plates carefully, Villarroel and her colleagues noticed something odd: Nine dots of light, all in a line, appeared in just one plate from April 12, 1950. It didn’t look anything like the supernovas and quasars they’d normally find, which appear just as single points.
In a paper published in Scientific Reports in 2021, the scientists take a closer look at the nine transients to see if they could find a more ordinary explanation for them. They ruled out astrophysical explanations, passing airplanes, asteroids, and other known light sources. The dots could have come from contamination caused by nuclear fallout, they say — it was the era of nuclear experimentation, after all. But no known tests happened in 1950. Villarroel and her colleagues hint that that leaves the door open to other explanations. Like, say, extraterrestrial spacecraft.
A second plate with “missing” transients. Villarroel et al
WANTING TO BELIEVE — In two subsequent papers, the researchers take that idea more seriously. In a paper in Acta Astronautica published in 2022, they explore ways to find similar instances of transients in other images, laying the groundwork for future research. And in a paper published in 2022 to the pre-print server the arXiv (meaning it hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet), the researchers detail other instances of transient flashes of light that seem to line up.
Villarroel isn’t saying it’s aliens, of course. “We are very careful when we write our papers, because we are not sure if they are real or not,” she says. “We need to always assume that it is the most boring explanation.”
There are some good reasons to suspect the explanation is indeed more boring, says Paul Horowitz, an emeritus professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard and a member of the ET-hunting PANOSETI project, who was not involved in the study.
He used the Palomar plates earlier in his career, he says, and the presence of odd flashes of light doesn’t surprise him.
“There would be these things that we’d call Kodak stars, which were basically blemishes in the emulsion,” Horowitz says. “Film is full of that kind of stuff. If you look at enough of these, and there’s a lot of them, you’re going to find artifacts.”
He also points out that the object, if there was one, needn’t be in geosynchronous orbit, as Villarroel and her coauthors suggest. Depending on how often it flashes and how long the flashes are, an object could appear as a series of dots in a long exposure at a range of distances, from within Earth’s atmosphere to far beyond our planet. That could mean whatever’s on the plates could also be something launched from Earth.
Animation to show the difference between plates. Villarroel et al
An earthly object might be the best explanation for the flashing lights, Eliot Gillum, the director of optical SETI at the SETI Institute, tells Inverse. While there weren’t any satellites in 1950, the U.S. government had begun testing rockets several years earlier, relying on expertise from ex-Nazi scientists brought to the U.S. after the Second World War. There are several military bases near the Palomar Observatory, Gillum points out, any of which could have been launching rockets by 1950. He says the glints could come from a maneuver known as a roll program or from debris that broke off after launch.
There’s also ample precedent for seemingly wild observations turning out to be far more prosaic. In 1962, two French astronomers were stunned to discover that the stars they were observing were giving off massive flares of potassium, something astronomers had never seen a star do before. But on closer inspection, the “potassium flare stars” were just match heads, which had potassium in them, being lit by astronomers taking a smoke break at the observatory. And more recently, scientists studying Fast Radio Bursts were excited by what appeared to be strange new signals coming from near Earth — only to discover later they were from a microwave warming up the astronomers’ lunches.
Even if the mysterious flashes of light aren’t extraterrestrials, that doesn’t mean we haven’t learned anything, Gillum says. “One of the things that I think is truly great about SETI is that it says, ‘OK, I think I understand all of the science of the things out there, [so] what is on the edge, what is outside of what I understand?’” he says.
Exploring the edges of science could bring new insights — or, sometimes, simple explanations like dust grains that landed on photographic plates seventy years ago. But Villarroel says that if their research rules out an actual object, it suggests an upper limit on the number of extraterrestrial objects that could be near Earth. At one-billionth for every square kilometer of space, the number is tiny — not a great sign for people hoping to find extraterrestrials visiting our solar system.
Villarroel says she hopes to be able to study the Palomar plates themselves — her team had been using scanned images of them — to study the images with a microscope for a better look at the transients. And she’d like to look at images from other sky surveys to see if similar transients appear. It may be that there was indeed something out there on April 12, 1950. But what it was is still a mystery.
Het nieuwe exemplaar van het oude vliegende reptiel, pterosauriër genoemd, was zo’n negen meter lang — ongeveer net zo lang als een schoolbus. Daarmee is het wezen de grootste pterosauriër die ooit in Zuid-Amerika is gevonden. Volgens onderzoekers is het reptiel ouder dan vogels en dus een van de eerste wezens op aarde die zijn vleugels gebruikte om op zijn prooi te jagen.
Paleontologen ontdekten de fossielen van de Thanatosdrakon amaru (letterlijke vertaling: draak des doods) in het Andesgebergte in de westelijke provincie Mendoza in Argentinië. Ze ontdekten dat de rotsen waarin de fossielen van het reptiel zaten zo'n 86 miljoen jaar terug de tijd in gaan. Dat is 20 miljoen jaar voordat een inslag van een asteroïde driekwart van het leven op aarde wegvaagde.
Leonardo Ortiz, projectleider van de zoektocht naar het fossiel, zei dat de nooit eerder vertoonde kenmerken van het fossiel een nieuwe geslachts- en soortnaam vereisten. Daarbij woorden de oude Griekse woorden voor dood (thanatos) en draak (drakon) gebruikt. “Het leek gepast om het zo te noemen”, aldus Ortiz. “Het wezen zag er angstaanjagend uit.”
Vietnam Vet Has Tall White Aliens Contact Experiences via Charles Hall
Vietnam Vet Has Tall White Aliens Contact Experiences via Charles Hall
Charles Hall, a former US Air Force serviceman claims that the U.S. military have had contact with – and worked alongside – the Tall Whites since the Fifties.
In the Sixties, he claims that the ‘shocking’ aliens liked to unwind by donning disguises, including sunglasses, and hitting casinos such as the Stardust, surrounded by CIA handlers.
The Vietnam veteran first published his detailed accounts of his meetings with the Tall Whites as a series of four sci-fi novels, Millennial Hospitality – but then ‘revealed’ that they were true.
He claims that the U.S. military used technologies they traded with the aliens – but did not tell the public as they felt they were not ‘emotionally ready’ for the encounter.
‘In 1964, when I was a weather observer at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, I witnessed interactions between the military and a group of mysterious tall, white, human-like extra-terrestrials,’ he said. ‘Their craft are capable of traveling faster than the speed of light because Einstein was wrong about relativity.’
Hall worked at a former military site near Las Vegas, where he claimed that many of the personnel had met and dealt with Tall Whites – but which has since been disused.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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