Mars is Alive! NASA Detects Unusual Activity From Inside The Planet

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Car Pulls Over To Watch UFOs, Cameron, Texas, Dec 15, 2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Dec 15, 2022
Location of sighting: Cameron, Texas, USA

 

Watch as a person the car over and begins to record a whole UFO fleet traveling across the sky. The Glowing orange UFOs are all traveling in the same direction. The person recorded 54 seconds of video and its enough to see these objects have no wings, no aircraft lights, no sound, no flashing at all that might identify them as aircraft. These objects are UFOs, unidentified flying objects. Texas is famous for its sightings and recently they had four tornadoes in Texas which I believe were caused by these UFOs. Often UFOs are seen around destructive weather phenomenon. The UFOs are doing scientific research on creating these destructive phenomenons and humans reactions and adaptations to them. To aliens knowledge is gold.

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Eyewitness states:

I saw a formation of 8-10 fire ball like lights traveling in the sky. They were flying at a constant altitude above the north tree line in an east to west direction. The formation shape and distance did not appear to change. They did not appear to be far away. Just as the last light was about to go out of view I quickly moved to a higher and clearer area. The lights had vanished but should not have if they continued as they had.

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In 1908, President Teddy Roosevelt wanted to declare the Grand Canyon off-limits to all timber and mining operations. It would take another 11 years for Congress to designate the Grand Canyon a national park. 

Sensing a final opportunity for adventure, explorer G.E. Kincaid took a boat down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. The canyon was rich in minerals like gold, silver and copper and Kincaid wanted to see what he could find before the area was closed off for good. 

About 40 miles up-river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon, Kincaid saw stains in the sediment formation about 2,000 feet up. He tied off the boat and got out to investigate. 

Kincaid couldn't find a trail, but after a short hike he found something interesting covered in desert brush. Steps. Hundreds of them. Carved in sandstone. Steps that wound their way up to a high shelf on the side of the canyon. 

He followed the steps until he came across a cavern entrance. An entrance that was clearly man made. 

Kincaid entered the cavern and turned on his flashlight. On the walls he saw writing. But it wasn't English or Native American writing. It was Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. 

Kincaid lifted his flashlight and saw that the tunnel ran far into the distance. He didn't realize it at the time, but this was only the beginning. 

Interesting to know that Smithsonian denies the story of the Ancient Egyptians and Giants in the Grand Canyon and they came up with the following explanation in an attempt to debunk the story. 

Smithsonian: Backstory: On April 5, 1909, the Arizona Gazette ran the following headline: “Explorations in Grand Canyon; Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light; Jordan Is Enthused; Remarkable Find Indicates Ancient People Migrated from Orient.” The article includes testimony of one G. E. Kincaid who says that he, traveling solo down the Green and Colorado Rivers, discovered proof of an ancient civilization—possibly of Egyptian origin. The story also asserts that a Smithsonian archaeologist named S. A. Jordan returned with Kincaid to investigate the site. However, the Arizona Gazette appears to have been the only newspaper ever to have published the story. No records can confirm the existence of either Kincaid or Jordan. 

In the following video 'The Why Files' provides a detailed explanation and analysis on this possible archaeological cover-up.

  

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Triangular UFO Formation Spotted in Los Angeles Skies

On the evening of December 16, 2022, residents of Los Angeles were treated to a rare sight: a triangular shaped UFO formation flying in the sky above the city.

Here’s the video. Please let me know in the comments what you think about it.

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UFO Sightings on the Rise: All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Investigates

The office, which is called the “Anomaly Resolution Office,” was established to monitor reports about flying objects in the air, space, or underwater. They’ve already received hundreds of reports.

According to the agency’s leadership, they have received hundreds of new reports about flying objects, but so far, there has been no evidence of alien life.

The agency, called All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), was established in July to monitor reports about flying objects in the air, space, or underwater. It’s also tasked with identifying and tracking other unidentified objects that can move from one domain to another. This issue has been brought to light by military pilots, who have been reluctant to report these sightings due to their fear of stigma.

In 2021, the agency reported that there were 144 instances of flying objects that were spotted from 2004 to 2021. According to Sean Kirkpatrick, the number of reports about these sightings has increased significantly.

Officials said that the agency’s director is expected to release an updated report by the end of the year regarding the number of reports received regarding flying objects. The office was established to look into the possibility of alien life, as well as the security risks that come with encounters with such objects.

In May, the House Committee on Intelligence held its first hearing regarding the matter in over half a century. It was concerned that the unknown could create a security risk due to the possible involvement of other countries, such as Russia or China. Although the agency has not seen any evidence of alien life, officials believe that the objects spotted so far could be from another planet.

• DoD Announces the Establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Defense.go)

According to the agency’s director, the office is currently working on developing new technologies that will allow it to identify the objects that were spotted. One of these is the recalibrating of sensors that were previously focused on identifying known enemy aircraft. The outreach the department conducted to inform the public about the procedures involved in reporting encounters with flying objects has also contributed to the increasing number of reports.

In addition to the unidentifiable objects, the agency’s director noted that the development of new technologies, such as drones and stealth fighters, could also be mistaken for UFOs. To prevent this, the office has been working with the intelligence community and the Pentagon to get the signatures of these new aircraft.

In order to prevent these types of sightings, the agency has established clear mechanisms that will allow it to identify the objects that were spotted. These include the Pentagon’s “blue programs” and the intelligence community’s “IC programs.”

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 17/12/2022

SpaceX Starship Fire, Artemis 1 Orion Returns, HAKUTO-R Moon Lander, Falcon 9 SWOT, Ariane 5 launch

This past week was, well, pretty much ridiculous to try and squeeze down. I’m not even sure where to start. Loads of updates at Starbase Texas including new SpaceX Starship Fire! WOAH, that top down footage was unreal. New insights found from the flight a few days ago at Starbase Florida. But outside... man. This was crazy. Artemis 1 Orion Returns back home, the HAKUTO-R Moon Lander now on its way to land on the moon. That mission includes another spectacular return to landing site. What is better than that? Well, another two more of them of course. Falcon 9 SWOT mission, Ariane 5 launch boosting satellites to orbit. You name it. This week, we’ve got it and even more. Enough of this into, lets just stuck into it.

Why The Biggest Laser in the World is Making Big News About Fusion

The National Ignition Facility has finally earned its middle name, generating temperatures and pressures at which a fusion reaction is able to drive itself and maintain the burn for longer. It's not going to change the world overnight, but it's another step towards understanding how humanity might be able to harness fusion power in the future.

A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion

James Webb Telescope 15 ALL NEW Images SHOCK The Entire Space Industry

Welcome to Futureunity, where we explore the fascinating world of science, technology, and the universe! From the inner workings of the human body to the outer reaches of space, we delve into the latest and most interesting discoveries that are shaping our world. Whether you're a science buff or just looking for some mind-blowing facts, we've got you covered. Join us as we uncover the mysteries of the world around us and discover new frontiers in the fields of science and technology. Get ready for a journey that's both educational and entertaining!

Mars Perseverance Rover Captured a 4k Stunning Video Footage of Mars Surface ||

What Did The Aliens Detect? Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Is Escaping Our Solar System

What Did The Aliens Detect? Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Is Escaping Our Solar System. Where exactly is Oumuamua right now, and is it escaping our solar system like a fugitive on a run? And, is it really the first interstellar object to have entered our solar system? Or, are there several of them lurking in our star-system, with one of them already here on earth hiding in plane sight?

All this and more, in today’s episode.

0:00 What is Oumuamua?

3:22 Arawn in Kuiper Belt

7:11 Interstellar Object in Our Oceans

11:55 Avi Loeb's Take on Alien Contact

13:52 Project Lyra

Hubble Telescope: The Unseen Of Our Universe

The Hubble space telescope is a symbol of the technological advancement that has allowed us to advance our understanding of the universe to a new level.

The Edwin Hubble Telescope, launched in April 1990, has been surveying space for over three decades. The space telescope, which weighs 11.6 tons and is nearly 40 feet long, searches the vast expanse of the cosmos using the electromagnetic spectrum, from infrared light to ultraviolet light. The innumerable galaxies, cosmic objects, and structures that Hubble has added to the star maps demonstrate that the ambitious project's initial mission aims have been completed.

Let’s look at some of the most breathtaking views and knowledge the Hubble Space Telescope has given us about space over the years.

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Untouched and uɴʟooтᴇᴅ 4,400-yr-old тoмʙ of Egyptian High Priest Discovered

Archaeologists in Egypt have made a new tomb discovery — the final resting place of a high priest, untouched for 4,400 years, decorated with hieroglyphics. The secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, described the find as “one of a kind in the last decades.”

The tomb was found buried in a ridge at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.

It was untouched and unlooted. Officials say they expect more discoveries when archaeologists further excavate the site in the months to come.

The well-preserved tomb is decorated with scenes showing the royal priest alongside his mother, wife and other members of his family, the ministry said in a statement.

The high priest was devoted to his mother, evidence shows. “He mentions the name of his mother almost everywhere here,” said Waziri in an interview, pointing to the dozens of hieroglyphics, statues, and drawings.

“The colour is almost intact even though the tomb is almost 4,400 years old,” he added.

The high priest “Wahtye” served during the Fifth Dynasty reign of King Neferirkare (between 2500-2300 BC), at the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt. In addition to the name of the deceased, hieroglyphs carved into the stone above the tomb’s door reveal his multiple titles.

Saqqara pyramid of Djoser in Egypt.

The grave’s rectangular gallery is said to be covered in painted reliefs, sculptures, and inscriptions, all in excellent shape considering how much time has passed.

The reliefs depict Wahtye himself, his wife Weret Ptah, and his mother Merit Meen, as well as everyday activities that include hunting and sailing and manufacturing goods such as pottery, according to National Geographic.

The team of Egyptian archaeologists found five shafts in the tombs. They had removed a last layer of debris from the tomb on December 13, 2018, and found five shafts inside, Waziri said.

One of the shafts was unsealed with nothing inside, but the other four were sealed. They are expecting to make discoveries when they excavate those shafts. He was hopeful about one shaft in particular.

“I can imagine that all of the objects can be found in this area,” he said in an interview, pointing at one of the sealed shafts. “This shaft should lead to a coffin or a sarcophagus of the owner of the tomb.”

The tomb is 33 feet long, 9 feet wide, and just under 10 feet high, Waziri said.

This picture taken on December 15, 2018, shows a general view of a newly-discovered tomb belonging to the high priest ‘Wahtye’ who served during the 5th dynasty reign of King Neferirkare (between 2500-2300 BC), at the Saqqara necropolis, 30 kilometres south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.

Various drawings depict “the manufacturing of pottery and wine, making the religious offerings, musical performances, boats sailing, the manufacturing of the funerary furniture, and hunting,” according to the site Egypt Today. Also, NPR is reporting that the Saqqara site is part of a larger complex where archaeologists have discovered art and architecture that yield insight into daily life in ancient Egypt.

The Fifth Dynasty ruled Egypt from about 2500 BC to 2350 BC, not long after the great pyramid of Giza was constructed.

Giza pyramids.

Saqqara served as the necropolis for Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt for over 2 millennia.

Ancient Egyptians mummified humans to preserve their bodies for the afterlife, and animal mummies were used as religious offerings.

The rate of discoveries seems to be increasing. In November 2018, archaeologists unearthed eight new limestone sarcophagi containing mummies at a site that is 25 miles south of Cairo.

Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry said the mummies were dated to the Late Period (664-332 BC) and have an outer layer of cartonnage — papyrus or linen which is covered in plaster — decorated with a painted human form. Three of the mummies are well-preserved.

Images show the sarcophagus painted with the colours deep ochre and blue. Moreover, days before the eight mummies were found, the perfectly-preserved mummy of a woman was found inside a coffin in Egypt dating back more than 3,000 years.

That sarcophagus was opened on November 24th, which was one of two coffins discovered in El-Assasif, Luxor, on the bank of the Nile.

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The Juno mission's infrared view of the Jovian moon Io. Taken on July 5, 2022. All the hotspots are volcanic features.

Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

BY CAROLYN COLLINS PETERSEN

Juno’s has Been Touring Jupiter’s Moons on its Extended Mission. Next Stop: Volcanic Io

The volcanic activity on Io gives it a mottled, pizza-like appearance. There are hundreds of vents and calderas on the surface and these create a huge variety of interesting features. Volcanic plumes and lava flows across the surface show up in a palette of colors, from red and yellow to orange and black. Some of the lava “rivers” stretch for hundreds of kilometers.

Why is Io volcanic? Look at where it is. Jupiter on one side and two outer moons on the other. The planet’s huge gravity pulls on Io while Europa and Ganymede tug on it from their direction. That tug-of-war actually deforms Io, basically stretching and squeezing it. The friction of that action heats the interior, in a process called “tidal heating.” That causes the surface to bulge up and down as much as 100 meters. The result of the heating, heaving, and pulling, is a surface dotted with volcanic features.

Io constantly “repaves itself” with lava. That volcanism also feeds a thin atmosphere made mostly of sulfur dioxide. It also sends particles into the magnetosphere, where they create a huge donut-shaped “torus” of plasma surrounding Jupiter. The moon itself travels inside Jupiter’s much stronger and more extensive magnetosphere and the magnetic field lines trap particles from the torus. They spiral into the Jovian poles and create glowing auroral displays.

What Will Juno Learn Here?

The Juno spacecraft is on a two-year extended mission, focusing on the Jovian moons. It recently flew past Ganymede and Europa, gathering data about those two icy moons. It extended our view of Ganymede under the surface. At Io, it will speed through the extended torus of ions several times to get more information about the radiation environment. This is useful information for the upcoming JUICE and Europa Clipper missions.

The 9 flybys of Io will provide Junocam and other instruments ample opportunity to get high-resolution images of the rugged Io surface and provide plenty of other data about this tiny moon. It has already made one infrared image showing the glowing hotspots of its eternally active volcanoes.

As it loops the moons, Juno also will continue to study Jupiter, focusing on its internal structure, magnetic field, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. As its orbit slowly evolves over the next two years, it will focus on studies of the Io and Europa torus regions. In addition, Juno will continue its study of the dusty faint rings of Jupiter. All the images and data should give a much fuller understanding of the activities on Jupiter, its moons, and how they are interconnected.

For More Information

• NASA’s Juno Exploring Jovian Moons During Extended Mission
• Juno Mission
• Discovery of Volcanic Activity on Io: A Historical Review (links to PDF)

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If you’re an Earth junkie like some of us at Universe Today, then you’ve already seen images from these satellites. The images are used to track all sorts of things: dust storms, forest fires, algae blooms, ice coverage, volcanic eruptions, heat waves, vast storms with their embedded lightning, and lots of other stuff.

These initial images show two regions in particular. One shows bright blue water in the Caribbean Sea, the other shows smog in northern India.

“The turquoise colour that’s visible around Cuba and the Bahamas in the bottom-left image above comes from sediment in the shallow waters around the continental shelf,” said NOAA’s Dr. Satya Kalluri, Joint Polar Satellite System program scientist. Sediment around continental shelves is called neritic sediment. It’s carried from land into the ocean by wind, rivers, flowing ice, and other processes. (Obviously, not by ice in the Caribbean. Please don’t email me.)

Scientists are interested in these sediments because they can analyze things like carbonates and isotopes in them to help model global and environmental change. Though we’re accustomed to seeing only optical light images, including sediment and the blue waters they create, other instruments on satellites, like microwave and infrared sounders, provide deeper scientific data. That data helps researchers understand other oceanic features like flooding, river plumes, and even harmful algae blooms that can kill shellfish and poison people.

The image showing smog in India also sheds light on some of the dynamics of that large and highly-populated country.

Northern India butts up against the Himalayas. The Himalayas are vast and contain some of Earth’s highest mountains, including Mt. Everest. The range dominates the region’s geography.

The Himalayas separate the Indo-Gangetic Plain, a vast fertile region in the Indian subcontinent, from the Tibetan Plateau. The mountain range causes enormous amounts of rainfall on the plains directly south of them during monsoons. The abundant glaciers in the Himalayas provide reliable, year-round water for agriculture. As a result, most of India’s agriculture is concentrated here, as are over 400 million of its people. It’s one of Earth’s most densely-populated regions.

But as the image shows, the Himalayas also make smog concentrate here, right where so many people live. The satellite image shows how smog is a health hazard for hundreds of millions of people in the country’s critical agricultural region.

“VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) serves so many disciplines, it’s an absolutely critical set of measurements,” said Dr. James Gleason, NASA project scientist for the JPSS Flight Project. “VIIRS provides many different data products that are used by scientists in unrelated fields, from agricultural economists trying to do crop forecasts, to air quality scientists forecasting where wildfire smoke will be, to disaster support teams who count night lights to understand the impact of a disaster.”

The NOAA now has three polar-orbiting, Earth-monitoring satellites with VIIRS onboard. That redundancy is important, according to Gleason, because we rely on satellites for so much now, and there’s so much at stake.

“We had two VIIRS on orbit, and now we’ve got three,” Dr. Gleason said. “We launch multiple weather satellites to make doubly and now triply sure we always have one going. Space is a dangerous environment. Stuff happens, and you can lose an instrument or a satellite, but we cannot lose the data. It’s too important to too many people.”

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The Alaskan UFO Encounter & Abduction

The Alaska man in the video was sitting in his log cabin when he heard a military helicopter and went outside to investigate with binoculars. He saw that the helicopter had no markings and was hovering in place. He then noticed a large, silver UFO that was around 1500-2000 feet long, 4-5,600 feet wide, and 300-350 feet tall. The UFO had a diamond-shaped crystal on the bottom that was emitting blue and white reddish lights. The person was struck by the size of the UFO, which he described as being much larger than a super tanker.

He sat and watched the UFO for several minutes and then went inside to call his neighbors, who also saw the UFO. The Alaska man sat outside and watched the UFO for several hours. When he went back inside, he realized that he had lost several hours of time, which is a common occurrence in alleged alien abductions.

• UFO sightings in Alaska

In a separate incident, the person and their family were driving in a van from Alaska to Florida when they experienced a strange encounter with a UFO. They were driving on a highway near the Canadian border when the power went out in their van and the engine shut down. They were then followed by flashing lights and a UFO. The UFO moved rapidly back and forth and the family felt a sense of power. The van moved on its own and the family felt trapped in the UFO’s wake. The Alaska man, who had experience identifying aircraft, was unable to identify the UFO. He believes that they were abducted by the UFO and experienced missing time. The experiences have caused the person to believe that the UFO was not from Earth.

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Bob Lazar’s Theory on How Element 115 Powers UFOs

As a whistle-blower, Bob Lazar was able to expose the alleged activities of the government and extraterrestrials at Area 51. He is widely known for revealing that the US and other countries were working together on secret bases in the area. Lazar worked as an engineer in a hangar known as S-4 in Area 51 in the 1980s. He claimed that the facility’s antimatter generators were powered by Element 115, an element that is yet to be discovered.

Lazar’s element, known as Element 115, is not the same as the element known as Moscovium, which was first synthesized in 2003. It was created by a team of scientists from the US and Russia at a nuclear research facility in Dubna, near Moscow.

The atomic number of Moscovium is 115, which is the number of protons in an atom’s nucleus. This makes it a heavy element due to its large number. Among the elements in the universe, hydrogen has an atomic number of 1, making it the oldest element and the most abundant. On the other hand, Element 115 is both extremely rare and incredibly dense.

The strange nature of the story surrounding Element 115 became apparent when Lazar claimed that the FBI had raided his business. His followers believed that the agency was trying to recover the samples of Element 115 that he took from Area 51. According to a report by Motherboard, the FBI did indeed raid his business. It was known to sell various electrical equipment, radioactive materials, jet engines, and high-powered magnets.

In his documentary, Jeremy Corbell, which was released earlier this year, Lazar claimed that the raid was carried out by the FBI to seize the alien fuel that he stole from Area 51. However, the documents that were obtained by Motherboard did not contain Element 115.

• Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers – Watch full documentary here!

According to Corbell, Lazar was able to obtain a stabilized version of Element 115, which he tested and recorded. Some of the witnesses who were able to observe his tests included George Knapp, an investigative journalist. In his documentary, Corbell also revealed that during one of his tests, Lazar was able to obin some of the element.

Jeremy Corbell

Despite the various claims that have been made against Lazar, there are still people who can vouch for his truthfulness. For instance, George Knapp claims that he had been able to speak with several former employees of Lazar. They confirmed that he was a physicist.

According to Knapp, the employees who confirmed Lazar’s truthfulness were close friends of the physicist. One of them was Joe Vaninetti, who was a scientist who was closely associated with Bob. Before and after Lazar claimed that he worked at S-4, Vaninetti was involved in research about extraterrestrials.

Is Element 115 the Alien Fuel of the Future?

A decade before the substance known as Element 115 was synthesized, Lazar was still talking about it. According to some, his claims about Element 115 were credible, as it was a theoretical element that could prove useful in an alleged alien coverup. Another possibility is that element 119 could also exist. However, it has not yet been discovered.

During his first interview with George Knapp in 1989, Bob first talked about the substance and how it was utilized in the propulsion system of an alien craft that was found at the facility’s S-4. He would not confirm or deny if extraterrestrials sent the aliens with Element 115, but he claimed that they had 500 pounds of it.

Lazar referred to Element 115 as a superheavy element, and he claimed that it produced its own gravitational field after being exposed to radiation. He also stated that the fuel used by the alleged alien craft was stable. Lazar noted that the substance could create gravity waves and lift the UFO.

In his documentary, Corbell focused on Lazar’s work at Los Alamos, he talked about the various aspects of his invention, which he referred to as a “craft.” According to Lazar, the vehicle was designed to move with the belly and the bottom, and it would shoot off when it needed to. He noted that it was the same design as the propulsion system that he had worked on.

Lazar claims that this element, which is highly radioactive, allows alien spacecraft to go through the cosmos without getting affected by gravity. For years now, he has been talking about the material he worked on at Area 51, which he claims can be used to power extraterrestrial spacecraft. He also claims that the materials used to make these spacecraft were metamaterials, which are materials that are not made on Earth. In 2019, a report by the New York Times claimed that the Pentagon was investigating these materials.

Bob Lazar Interview, 1989

According to Lazar, the bombarding of Element 115 with protons led to the creation of Element 116, which is a livermorium. This substance then decays and produces antimatter, which can be used for propulsion. It is also believed that Element 115 could be the exotic matter that could be used to create traversable portals through the cosmos.

Carl Sagan and Kip Thorne have also speculated about the possibility of extraterrestrials. They were the subjects of a leaked Defense Intelligence Research document entitled “Traversable Wormholes, Negative Energy, and Stargates.”

In 2020, Corbell shared a picture of Lazar holding Aerogel, which was used to package Element 115. He said that he would not be including this component in his Netflix documentary, but he promised to release a video explaining how Element 115 worked. I had searched his YouTube channel, but I could not find a clip explaining how Element 115 worked.

Image of Bob Lazar with the Aerogel used to transport ELEMENT 115, a key component in alleged alien technology.

Lazar’s Aerogel was used to package the element for transportation. There have been various speculations about its function in extraterrestrial spacecraft. However, this is a core component of what Lazar has been talking about.

It has been reported that TIC TAC UFOs appear to have a gravitational distortion, which helps explain how they can move at an incredibly fast speed. According to multiple credible witnesses, such as Commander Fravor and Cmdr. Select Underwood, these objects shot off at an incredible speed.

The objects moved at an incredible rate of speed. They were immediately gone from both radar and sight. Even the Princeton SPY-1 radar system was able to confirm this.

In his article, Corbell stated that the presence of TIC UFOs in our airspace is a mystery that needs to be solved. He also theorized that Element 115 could have revealed the presence of alien spacecraft on Earth.

Bob Lazar’s credibility

Lazar is regarded as the most important individual who uncovered the alleged activities of the government and extraterrestrials at Area 51. He was able to reveal in 1989 that the government and aliens were working together in secret bases. Thirty years ago, Lazar claimed that he was an engineer working at S-4, which was a hangar near Area 51. He said that the extraterrestrial seats found in the UFOs were made out of Element 115.

A Medium user known as SignalsIntelUFO was able to transcribe over 50 interviews with Lazar, which included details about his background and work. In 1982, Lazar claimed that he was hired by Los Alamos. He was working at the facility’s Meson Physics Facility. According to Terry England, in an article published on June 30, 1982, Lazar was working on developing jet engines.

Bob Lazar

During a podcast in 2020, Corbell revealed that during a conversation with England, he asked the scientist about Lazar’s work at Los Alamos.

During the conversation, Corbell asked England how he came up with the claims about Lazar’s work at Los Alamos. He noted that the scientist had to go through the process of writing a paper to prove that he was a physicist. England then said that if he had not provided the information to the media, he would have been blackballed by the facility. The Associated Press immediately picked up the story and repeated it.

Aside from England’s recollection, Lazar also gave an interview on December 20, 1989, where he provided more details about his work at Los Alamos. He talked about the nature of his role at the facility and the timeline of his work.

Lazar claimed that he had two masters degrees, one in physics and one in electronics. He worked at Los Alamos for a couple of years, before he was hired as a physicist. He was in the facility’s Polarized Proton Section, where he was involved in dealing with the accelerator.

Following Knapp’s initial report identifying Lazar, he claimed in an interview that he was hired as a technician. Lazar went on to say that he stayed in this role for a few years before he became a physicist.

According to the Los Alamos Monitor article, Bob stated that he moved to Los Alamos a month before starting work at the lab. On the contrary, Los Alamos confirmed that he started working there on May 18, 1982.

If Bob had only started working at the lab a month before the Monitor article was published, he would not have been a physicist by the time Terry England interviewed him. For several years, he was a technician at the lab.

According to George Knapp, he had been in contact with some of Bob’s former coworkers, who confirmed that he was a physicist. These claims were made informally, and one of them was Joe Vaninetti. According to Knapp, these individuals were friends of Lazar, and he only named Joe as the individual who confirmed Bob’s claim. Vaninetti also had a passion for UFOs, and he had been involved in research related to the phenomenon.

For over two decades, Jarmer worked in the lab’s Polarized Proton section. Also, Joe Vaninetti, who worked alongside Bob, was listed as an author on several of Jarmer’s research papers.

Earl Hoffman, a physicist at Los Alamos, stated that Lazar was a technician, which would not have qualified him as a physicist. He also claims that he only knew about Lazar when they worked together in the accelerator.

Lazar was off in an adjoining building, which was a little bit different from the others. I knew him because of his unusual name, and I could hear the car driving up and down the town as it was fired up. I don’t believe that I have ever met him, and I would wager that he wasn’t a physicist.

In 2019, Jeremy Corbell conducted an interview with Robert Krangle, a scientist who has been consulting for Los Alamos since 1980. In the interview, he talked about his first interaction with Lazar.

According to Krangle, there was not much interaction between them. During security meetings, one would usually be briefed on what was happening in the facility. They would also ask questions only to be kept to a minimum.

According to Jeremy Corbell, Lazar was very different from the other individuals he worked with. He said that he looked like Hawkins, and he had a British norman facial structure. He also noted that they never worked together, and he would often pass him in the cafeteria.

Joe Rogan, who was also interviewed by Jeremy Corbell, stated that the story that Bob told was the same as it had been for a long time. He claims that Bob might have changed his words, but the actual thing remained the same.

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 16/12/2022

Smithsonian Cover-Up: Ancient Egyptians and Giants in the Grand Canyon

In 1908, President Teddy Roosevelt wanted to declare the Grand Canyon off-limits to all timber and mining operations. It would take another 11 years for Congress to designate the Grand Canyon a national park.

Sensing a final opportunity for adventure, explorer G.E. Kincaid took a boat down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. The canyon was rich in minerals like gold, silver and copper and Kincaid wanted to see what he could find before the area was closed off for good.

About 40 miles up-river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon, Kincaid saw stains in the sediment formation about 2,000 feet up. He tied off the boat and got out to investigate.

Kincaid couldn't find a trail, but after a short hike he found something interesting covered in desert brush. Steps. Hundreds of them. Carved in sandstone. Steps that wound their way up to a high shelf on the side of the canyon.

He followed the steps until he came across a cavern entrance. An entrance that was clearly man made.

Kincaid entered the cavern and turned on his flashlight.

On the walls he saw writing. But it wasn't English or Native American writing.

It was Ancient Egyptian Heiroglypics. Kincaid lifted his flashlight and saw that the tunnel ran far into the distance.

He didn't realize it at the time, but this was only the beginning.

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SpaceX launches NASA water-monitoring satellite, booster lands in California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 16, 2022.

The first stage of the rocket landed back at the base several minutes after liftoff.

NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite aims to map Earth's water in unprecedented detail to help manage climate change, and to share data openly to assist communities with managing the precious resource.

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Scientists Discover An Ancient Alien City Hidden Under Antarctica

Scientists Discover An Ancient Alien City Made of Crystal Hidden Under Antarctica
Admiral Byrd had been on several explorations before, but after the world war, he was asked by the government to go on the biggest exploration to Antarctica.
A Top Secret Expedition to the South Pole started after this.
The troop explored nearly one-fourth of the Antarctic coast, and also opened up the continent’s interior for scientific exploration.
But then, in the third month, something bizarre happened that the government allegedly keeps from the public even till this day.
They discovered a ancient alien crystal city under earth.

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Space Station: ISS Russian EVA Canceled, Significant Soyuz Coolant Leak Raises Questions about Craft

Highlights from the dramatic events of Wednesday evening, December 14, 2022, when a planned Russian spacewalk was canceled because of a significant and readily visible coolant leak from the instrumentation segment of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked with the ISS. Stay tuned to NASA and your usual space news sources for updates on this developing story.

Ancient Aliens: TOP 10 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF 2022

Check out these groundbreaking extraterrestrial moments from 2022, in this Ancient Aliens compilation.

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Most Satisfying Machines That Will Amaze You

The state of technology is continually improving. Although we have visited the moon, we are now discussing a trip to Mars and how we will colonize it in the near future.

The journey from Europe to America would take hours, which would have taken weeks some decades back.

In this video, we're going to step back and examine some of the incredible and satisfying machines that technology has brought about to make our lives easier so you can see how far we've come. Here are the most satisfying machines that will amaze you.

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More than 160 mysterious Nazca geoglyphs are discovered in Peru - including a Homer Simpson-style person, a snake and a cat-like creature

• Experts report the discovery of 168 geoglyphs in the soil of Peru's Nazca Desert 
• The newly-discovered drawings depict humans, camelids, birds, cats and more
• One looks like Homer Simpson with big cartoon eyes and a patch of face stubble

By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE 

Researchers have discovered another 168 geoglyphs made in the soil of Peru's Nazca Desert, known as the Nazca lines. 

The newly-discovered drawings – identified by a team at Yamagata University in Japan – depict humans, camelids, birds, killer whales, felines and snakes. 

One of the human drawings looks like Homer Simpson, with big cartoon eyes and a patch of what looks like stubble around the mouth. 

These 168 newly-found geoglyphs are thought to date between 100 BC and AD 300, according to experts, but other Nazca lines may go back even further to 400 BC.

More than 160 mysterious Nazca geoglyphs are discovered in Peru - including a Homer Simpson-style person (pictured)

These newly-found 168 geoglyphs are thought to date between 100 BC and AD 300, according to the Yamagata University experts

The Nazca lines

Photos released by Yamagata University show some of the new discoveries, with lines manually added on the images to emphasize the original lines, which ahve faded due to erosion. 

Yamagata University is working in collaboration with the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York to scan aerial images of the Peruvian site with artificial intelligence (AI).

It's thought AI can identify markings in the landscape that the human eye would otherwise miss.  

'By using the newly discovered geoglyphs for AI analysis, Yamagata University aims to clarify the distribution patterns of the geoglyphs,' the university said in a statement.

'The results of this research will also be used for geoglyph conservation activities.' 

The Nazca lines of Peru have fascinated archaeologists for centuries. 

They are a group of geoglyphs – large motifs made in the ground – located in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru. 

The UNESCO World Heritage Site stretches over an area of nearly 190 square miles between the towns of Nazca and Palpa, about 249 miles (400 km) south of Lima.

Archaeological surveys have previously found wooden stakes in the ground at the end of some lines, supporting a theory that ancient people used simple tools and surveying equipment to construct the lines.

Some geoglyphs depict animals, objects or compact shapes, while others are only simplistic geometric lines. 

Other motifs already identified at the location include a dog, hummingbird, condor, monkey, spider and a mythical beast sticking out its tongue.   

The newly-discovered drawings are thought to depict humans, camelids, birds, killer whales, felines and snakes (pictured) 

The newly-found 168 geoglyphs are thought to date between 100 BC and AD 300. Pictured, one of the new discoveries, a bird geoglyph

The Nazca lines were originally created by removing black or reddish-brown pebbles from the surface of the earth to expose a white sandy surface below. 

The Yamagata team discovered them through field surveys conducted between June 2019 and February 2020 that used aerial photos and drones. 

Adding the 168 new geoglyphs to those that are already known gives a new total of 358 Nazca Lines, they say, although they are thought to be hundreds more yet to be discovered.

Luis Jaime Castillo, a Peruvian archaeologist, previously told the Guardian that only five per cent of all the Nazca lines out there had been found.

Often, a geoglyph is too big to be appreciated at ground level, so only when one is high enough in the air can they discern the shapes of some of the designs.

For this reason, the intricacies of many of the designs were not fully realised until airplanes were invented and the artwork was seen from the sky.

The Nazca lines were apparently first spotted in 1939 when a pilot flew over the Nazca planes of the Peruvian coastal highlands – although its likely they were seen by locals on hill tops much earlier. 

Contrary to the popular belief that the figures can only be seen from the air, many are actually visible from the surrounding foothills too. 

The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs - large motifs made in the ground - located in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru

A spider geoglyph at Nazca. The figure is said to be 150 feet long and made out of one continuous line 

However, the actual purpose of the mysterious Nazca Lines in Peru has long puzzled archaeologists. 

Some believe they were intended to act as a kind of observatory, to point to the places where the sun and other celestial bodies rose or set in the solstices. 

Other theories suggest that they were created to be seen by the gods in the sky, while it's also possible that they were artistic expressions much like the ones we see today. 

By uncovering more of these mysterious formations, archaeologists hope to piece together clues about their existence, IBM says.  

WHAT ARE PERU'S MYSTERIOUS 'NAZCA LINES'?

Geoglyphs span large land tracts located between the towns of Palpa and Nazca. Some geoglyphs depict animals, objects or compact shapes; others are only simplistic lines.

The Nazca people lived in the area from 200 to 700 CE. Some of the designs are believed to be created instead by the Topará and Paracas people.

Most of the lines are formed by a shallow trench with a depth of between four inches (10cm) and six inches (15cm), made by removing the reddish-brown iron oxide-coated pebbles that cover the surface of the Nazca desert and exposing the light-colored earth beneath.

This sublayer contains high amounts of lime which has hardened to form a protective layer that shields the lines from winds and prevents erosion.

An aerial view of a spiral-tailed monkey figure in Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines, located some 240 miles south of Lima. No one knows why the Pre-Inca Nazca culture made the figures and lines, some of them miles long

Paul Kosok, from Long Island University, is credited as the first scholar to seriously study the Nazca Lines.

He discovered that the lines converged at the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.

Along with Maria Reiche, a German mathematician and archaeologist, Kosok proposed the figures were markers on the horizon to show where the sun and other celestial bodies rose.

Source: UNESCO 

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168 New Geoglyphs Discovered, Adding to the Enigma of Peru’s Nazca Lines

A fresh set of 168 geoglyphs have been discovered by researchers in Peru’s intriguing Nazca Lines UNESCO World Heritage Site. The newly found drawings depict humans, camelids, birds, orcas, cats and snakes as well as simple lines and geometrical patterns.

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Dark Cube UFOs Seen Deep Within Sun, 12-14-2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 12-14-2022

Location of sighting: Sun

Source: NASA/SOHO images

 

There was an explosion on the sun so big, it blinded the camera for a few seconds. It also lit up several planet size dark objects deep within the sun itself. I believe these objects to be the notorious black cubes we have all seen over the last decade. The objects have a square shape to them and are very big, over 5x the size of earth. Now the explosion lit up the area below the UFOs, highlighting them so that they could not escape detection. I'm sure NASA will find some excuse for these UFOs, but the truth is...NASA wont tell you the truth, never has about the subject of intelligent aliens. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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During an interview last year on October 19th, 2021 NASA Chief Administrator Bill Nelson made some astonishing statements regarding UFOs/UAPs and the possible existing of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations on other Earth-like planets in the universe or in a parallel universe.

Some quotes of Bill Nelson: 

We aim the search for extraterrestrial life, what you think we doing on Mars, we looking for life, this is part of NASA's mission. 

This is what the telescope (new Webb telescope) is going to be looking for. Are there planets elsewhere that there is life. This is a mission that is constantly looking what/who is out there. 

Who are we, how did we get here, how did we become as we are, how did we develop, how did we civilized? 

 

And all those conditions are out there in the universe that has billions of suns and billions of other galaxies, my personal opinion is that the universe is so big and now there are even theories that there might be other universes (parallel universes) and if that is the case who am I to say that planet Earth is the only location of a life form that is civilized and organized like ours. 

Are there other planets Earth out there , I certainly think so because the universe so big said Bill Nelson. 

He also talks about the hundreds of sightings of UFOs/UAPs reported by navy and commercial pilots and says he doesn't know where they came from, but it goes without saying that he (and NASA) knows very well more about the existence of extraterrestrial UFOs/UAPs and where this alien technology comes from. 

If you listen closely and watch Bill Nelson's expressions, you will know that he is in fact confirming the existence of extraterrestrial UFOs/UAPs and advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that inhabit Earth-like planets somewhere in the universe or in a parallel universe. 

Video below:

Here is the full interview with Bill Nelson and skip to the 53.10 mark where he starts to talk about UFOs, aliens and parallel universes.

  

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The Lights Over Phoenix: Was it a UFO or Military Operation?

On the evening of March 13, 1997, a group of people in Phoenix, Arizona witnessed something truly extraordinary: an enormous aircraft, bigger than any built by humans, slowly hovering in the sky. Some witnesses described it as a giant V-shaped object, with five major lights set into it, blocking out the stars as it moved. Others saw a formation of aircraft that seemed to be attached to something invisible, or surrounded by a force field. The giant aircraft made no sound as it slowly rose into the clouds and disappeared from view.

Many people who saw the lights that night believed that they had witnessed a UFO, and hundreds of calls were made to local authorities reporting the incident. Some even suggested that the lights were the result of an alien visitation, and that the inhabitants of Phoenix had been chosen by extraterrestrial beings for some unknown purpose.

However, there could be a more plausible explanation for what happened that night. According to the military, there was a planned military operation taking place in the area, known as Operation Snowbird. Five A-10 aircrafta, belonging to the Air National Guard out of Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson, took off into the evening sky with their Identifier lights on. These lights are different from the flashing strobes used on civilian aircraft, and appear as a single steady red light. The A-10s flew over Phoenix before coming to rest at another airbase, where they remained for the rest of the night.

It is possible that the people who saw the lights that night were actually witnessing the A-10s flying in formation. The size and shape of the lights, as well as the fact that they were seen moving slowly and hovering in the sky, all fit the description of the A-10s and their Identifier lights. Furthermore, the military has confirmed that the A-10s were in the area at the time of the sightings, providing further evidence that the lights were not of extraterrestrial origin.

While the idea of a UFO visiting Phoenix may be exciting, it could be possible this was simply a military operation, and not a sign of alien life. Or they are just trying to do a cover-up as they tried with weather balloon in Roswell UFO incident?

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Radiance Technologies rumored to be working with extraterrestrial technology in Nevada

Members of Congress are reportedly investigating allegations that the Pentagon is hiding secrets related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs), including claims that aerospace contractors are studying and storing materials believed to be of extraterrestrial origin. In response, at least one prominent defense contractor, Radiance Technologies, has announced that it is actively seeking government contracts that might involve UFO technology.

Radiance Technologies has 20 offices in 17 states and specializes in developing advanced weapons and systems for the Pentagon. Unlike some of its larger competitors, the company has not shied away from the topic of UFOs, which has long been considered taboo or fringe. Tim Tinsley, an engineer who spent two decades working on missile defense systems before joining Radiance, said that the company would be open to accepting a contract to study a UFO. “Oh, sure, absolutely. Why not, right? I’m waiting for one of those.” Tinsley said.

The company has also recently hired Jay Stratton, a former Navy intelligence official and head of the Pentagon’s UFO Task Force, as a reverse engineering specialist. Astrophysicist Travis Taylor, who also worked with Stratton on the UFO Task Force, has also been hired by Radiance. The company’s news releases about the hiring of the two men specifically mentioned their UFO credentials.

Radiance Technologies is entirely owned by its employees, and is based in Huntsville, Alabama. The company’s website hints at the development of exotic defense technologies such as direct energy weapons, hypersonic missiles, and systems to defend against cyber warfare. While the company cannot confirm the allegations about the Pentagon hiding UFO secrets, it has positioned itself to potentially take advantage of any future contracts related to UFO technology.

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 15 /12/22

Soyuz spacecraft still leaking on space station, 3 hours after detection

A Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft that is currently docked to the International space station is spewing coolant.

Full Story: https://www.space.com/soyuz-spacecraf...

The cause of this leak [is] not known at this time," NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said during live commentary. "Russian specialists are continuing to look at the data and discussing what may have triggered the leak."

The leak was first detected at 7:45 p.m. EST (0045 Dec. 15 GMT) as cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were preparing to exit the space station for a 7-hour spacewalk outside the station.

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6 Minutes ago! Nikola Tesla's Terrifying Message

Nikola Tesla is undoubtedly one of the greatest inventors of all time creating some of the most used electrical concepts we have in the world today. The creator of the alternating current which powers most of the world's electronics today was a celebrated figure, although most of his ideas were far ahead of his time and even fellow inventors back then couldn't possibly comprehend the futuristic claims Tesla made. But it turns out most of his predictions were far more accurate than even Tesla himself would have believed. In Today's video, we'll be showing you how Nikola Tesla predicted the future of 2025.

With over 300 patents to his name, Nikola Tesla was undoubtedly one of the greatest Minds of all time and while most of his inventions helped propel the world into the electrical age, his ideas were not always welcomed by the common ear. Tesla dabbled in all things electrical, from lighting bulbs with just his hand to transmitting electrical current without the use of wires. But even with all that innovation, Tesla still made some bold claims about advancement in technology that were strange to anyone in the early 20th century but have been realized 100 years later. Some of these predictions may be normal in today's world but it would astound you to know that Tesla predicted their existence well over a century ago.

CLIMATE CHANGE 

Climate change is a hot topic in today's world with massive debates among scientists and experts about the current and future state of the planet's atmosphere and geology. Most people believe the effect of climate change is a product of activity from the last 50 years resulting from heavy greenhouse gas emissions from the carbon age. Black carbon, which is a chemical pollutant resulting from burning fossil fuel, has been found to contribute to increasing surface temperatures while other pollutants such as sulfate have been observed to contribute to cooling the planet's atmosphere. It's understandable to expect no one from before 1950 to predict the environmental changes our planet would face in the coming century, everyone except Nikola

The Discovery of an Alien Spacecraft Hiding in Disguise

They Are Here! Massive, Unidentified Object Detected by International Space Station. December 1998, the location, International Space Station. As the crew unpacks new hardware, they spot a shadow floating in space. Without wasting any moment, they quickly begin to take photographs. This unidentified object looks nothing like a man-made craft, so what could it be?

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SpaceX Starship 24 fired up for short duration test, seen from Rocket Ranch

SpaceX conducted a static fire test of Starship 24 at their Starbase facility in South Texas on Dec. 12, 2022. Anthony Gomez captured video of the test from a few miles away at the Rocket Ranch, Texas outpost

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Solar System? Horrible Places I Would Never Go On Vacation

Earth has terrible weather. Sometimes hurricanes and tornadoes rip off the roofs of houses or suc- up cars and drop them kilometers away. In some places on the planet, it rains so hard you could almost drown looking up at the sky. There are deserts where it is hot enough to fry eggs on a rock . . . In other places, it can be cold enough to freeze tears on your eyelashes.
Is there anywhere else in the solar system we could go to get away from this wild climate of Earth?
Well, apparently we would be spoiled for choice...
Our solar system is home to eight planets, a half-dozen "official" dwarf planets (although the number could rise into the thousands once we fully explore the outer trenches of our solar system), an untold number of comets, asteroids, and planetesimals, as well as more than 200 moons orbiting the outer planets of our solar system.
If indeed, as a very successful series of vintage-style tourist posters promoted by NASA would have you believe, the solar system had already been colonized to such an extent that tourist agencies were promoting trips to everywhere of it, which destination would you choose?

Colossal Object Found In The Zone Of Avoidance!

A Huge Hidden Galactic Structure Found In The Zone of Avoidance Behind Milky Way.
If you ever happened to go out during the night, far from the city lights, you might have seen the Milky Way.
It’s something incredible, to be seen at least once in your lifetime!
This is how it looks like from the Atacama Desert.

What we really observe is the internal part of our galaxy.
The solar system is rotating around the center, also called “bulge” of the galaxy, along with millions of other stars, and when we look at the Milky way in the sky we are actually looking towards more central regions in the disk.

The term ‘bulge’ is used to describe the dense spheroidal swarm of stars often found in the centres of spiral and S0 galaxies. The bulge of the Milky Way appears to be fairly typical – a slightly flattened sphere of radius ~6,500 light years – while bulge sizes in other galaxies vary from several hundred to several tens of thousands of light years, depending on the type and size of the galaxy.

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Bright UAP ‘towered over US Navy ship in typhoon’ and was so huge ‘stopped rain’

During a typhoon in 2008, Bob McGwier was aboard the USS Blue Ridge. There, he saw a massive glowing object that was flying over the ship. It protected the entire vessel from the rain.

During that time, a massive typhoon hit the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Blue Ridge in a sea new Thailand. One of the people aboard the ship claimed that they saw a mysterious flying object that prevented the rain from falling on the vessel.

According to McGwier, he worked on classified projects while aboard a nuclear submarine. He also claimed to have encountered a frightening encounter while aboard another Navy vessel.

He also claimed to have seen other strange objects during his time aboard the ship. For instance, during a recent interview with Chris Mehto, he talked about the time he saw a massive shape hovering over the ship. You can watch the full interview in the Youtube video bellow!

During the interview, he noted that the typhoon that hit the ship in 2008 had winds of up to 90 knots and seas of up to 40 feet. Although the storm was raining, no rain was falling on the vessel.

As he looked out the window, he saw a glow in the sky. He then saw that the object was either blocking the rain from falling on the ship or it was a massive flying object. According to Bob, the glowing object looked like it was on a flat surface. He continued to observe it and noted that the object started to grow brighter before it disappeared. He concluded that it was a massive flying object that took off.

Over the years, various Navy personnel have reported seeing strange flying objects. In 2016, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell released a series of videos that captured the alleged sightings. He claimed that around a hundred UFOs were spotted flying over nine US Navy warships in a month.

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UFO sighting near Lake Geneva, Switzerland – December 2022

These unidentified flying objects were filmed in the night sky near Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

Witness report: 

Me and my boyfriend stepped on our balcony last night at 5:51 pm when he saw three lights moving synchronically upwards and disappearing. Video was taken yesterday 11th of December 2022. We ate not sure if they were just lanterns but they are definitely not airplanes.

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OCEAN VORTEX SWALLOWS FLEET OF SHIPS | The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters (Season 1)

The crew is on a mission to find evidence of Jingle’s fleet at the bottom of a mid-ocean sink hole. See more in this clip from Season 1, "Holes in the Ocean."

Watch new episodes of The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters, Tuesdays at 10/9c, and stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at history.com/schedule.

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Ancient Japanese Atlantis Found Underwater | The Proof is Out There: Bermuda Triangle Edition

Divers discover evidence of a lost kingdom off the coast of Japan's Ryukyu islands that could be an ancient Japanese civilization.

See more in this clip from Season 1, "Mysterious Ruins." Love watching The Proof Is Out There: Bermuda Triangle Edition?

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Perseverance captures sound of a Martian dust devil

NASA's Perseverance rover captured audio of a Martian dust devil on September 21, 2021 using its SuperCam microphone. The dust devil traveled "directly over the Perseverance rover," according to Nature Communications paper authors Naomi Murdoch and colleagues.

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Sunspot crackling with strong M flares - See them in 4K time-lapse

Sunspot AR3165 has erupted with several m-class solar flares in a span of a few hours. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in several wavelengths.

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The eerie sound of Mars' 'dust devils': Recordings taken by NASA's Perseverance rover suggest whirlwinds reach over 387 FEET tall as they skim across the Red Planet

• NASA's Perseverance rover has taken an audio recording of a dust devil on Mars
• The whirlwind of grit was over 387 feet (118m) and blew at 25mph (40kph)
• It provided scientists insight into the atmosphere and weather on the Red Planet
• You can hear the blowing winds and sound of dust hitting the rover's exterior

By FIONA JACKSON FOR MAILONLINE 

Dust tornadoes over 387feet (118m) tall are skimming along the surface of Mars, scientists have found.

Known as 'dust devils', these whirlwinds swirl around at speeds of 25mph (40kph), blowing up grit and particles as they go.

NASA's Perseverance rover took the first ever audio recording of the phenomenon, which provides insight into the atmosphere and weather on the Red Planet.

This could help engineers as they design future Mars missions, as bombardment from the dust has implications on the hardware we send up.

Dust tornadoes over 387feet (118m) tall are skimming along the surface of Mars, scientists have found. Pictured: A 70-yard-wide Martian dust devil  

This is a spectrogram of the microphone sound showing the wind noise, grain impacts and also the rover pump harmonic at 760 Hz. A large grain impact causes an acoustic echo at approximately 6kHz due to sound reflections from the base of the microphone

Perseverance landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars on 18 February 2021, after a nearly seven-month journey through space.   

Since then, the car-sized robot has been searching for ancient biomarkers in the Martian clay, which could indicate if alien life ever existed there.

It is equipped with 23 cameras that help it navigate, assess its safety and collect visual data on near and distant objects.

One of those cameras is the 'Supercam' – a suite of tools located on Perseverance's 'head' that contains scientific instruments, cameras and a microphone.

Sensors on other landers and rovers have been able to pick up vibrations on Mars in the past, however this microphone is the first to ever grace its surface. 

It records samples at nearly 100,000 times a second, which gives researchers a stronger sense of the environmental conditions on Mars.

'We can learn a lot more using sound than we can with some of the other tools,' said Dr Roger Wiens, the principal investigator of Perseverance's SuperCam.

Scientists at NASA and the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space have used the microphone to make the first ever recording of an extraterrestrial dust devil.

Dust devils are common on Mars, and indicate areas of atmospheric turbulence.

They lift dust into the atmosphere - an important step in the planet's dust cycle, which helps regulate its climate.

This particular one was about 82 feet (25 m) wide, which is about ten times wider than the rover itself.

Perseverance (pictured) landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18 2021, after a nearly seven-month journey through space 

Dust devils (pictured) are common on Mars, and indicate areas of atmospheric turbulence. They lift dust into the atmosphere – an important step in the planet's dust cycle

Prior to this recording, data collected by Perseverance's other sensors showed that over a hundred of these tornadoes have passed over the rover since it landed.

However, since the microphone is only on for about three minutes every day, it wasn't until 27 September 2021 that the sound of a dust devil was picked up for the first time.

You can clearly hear the blowing winds, with a faint pattering of grains bouncing off the rover's exterior.

As well as the audio recording, Perseverance took air pressure readings and time-lapse photos during this encounter. 

Dr Roger Wiens, the principal investigator of Perseverance's SuperCam, said that all this enabled the researchers to follow the dust devil.

He said: 'We could watch the pressure drop, listen to the wind, then have a little bit of silence that is the eye of the tiny storm, and then hear the wind again and watch the pressure rise.' 

This figure shows the relative size of the dust devil with respect to the Perseverance rover. The dust devil diameter (white circles) is 25 m. The blue dashed arrow shows the dust devil trajectory direction. The rover Navigation camera (Navcam) field of view is indicated by the pale triangle. At t1, Perseverance is in the leading vortex wall. At t2, Perseverance is inside the eye of the vortex. At t3, Perseverance is in the tailing vortex wall. The orange arrows indicate the clockwise rotational direction of the vortex winds

These are images taken of the direct dust devil encounter by the rover’s Navigation Camera (Navcam). The images have been processed to show the quantity of dust. The colour scale ranges from lowest dust content (blue) to highest dust content (yellow)

The team analysed all the data Perseverance collected together, and their findings were published today in Nature Communications. 

They revealed that this tornado of dust and grit isn't quite as menacing as some of those we've experienced on our home planet.

He said: 'The wind is fast, about 25 miles per hour, but about what you would see in a dust devil on Earth. 

'The difference is that the air pressure on Mars is so much lower that the winds, while just as fast, push with about one per cent of the pressure the same speed of wind would have back on Earth. 

'It's not a powerful wind, but clearly enough to loft particles of grit into the air to make a dust devil.'

This will come as a relief to future astronauts, who can be confident that they won't have to face gale force winds while exploring the planet.

The dust devils may also have blown off grit that settled on the solar panels of previous rovers, helping them to survive on Mars for longer than they otherwise would have.

The Spirit rover lasted for six years, and the Opportunity rover remained active for nearly 15 years. 

Dr Wiens said: 'Those rover teams would see a slow decline in power over a number of days to weeks, then a jump. That was when wind cleared off the solar panels.'

This could explain why the InSight lander, which currently sits in the less windy Elysium Planitia, is winding down its mission after only four years.

Scientists at NASA and the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space have used Perseverance's microphone to make the first ever recording of an extraterrestrial dust devil. Pictured: A dust devil photographed by NASA's Curiosity Rover

Prior to this recording, data collected by Perseverance's other sensors showed that over a hundred of these tornadoes have passed over the rover since it landed. Pictured: Three dust devils photographed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

The researchers hope the microphone will be able to pick up the sound of dust devils that appear in different geological locations on Mars.

This will allow them to compare data from the different recordings to find out how the Martian landscape affects their properties. 

'Just like Earth, there is different weather in different areas on Mars,' Dr Wiens added. 

'Using all of our instruments and tools, especially the microphone, helps us get a concrete sense of what it would be like to be on Mars.'

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NASA MARS 2020: PERSEVERANCE ROVER AND INGENUITY HELICOPTER ARE SEARCHING FOR LIFE ON THE RED PLANET

NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on Earth in the earliest years of the evolution of the solar system.

Named Perseverance, the main car-sized rover is exploring an ancient river delta within the Jezero Crater, which was once filled with a 1,600ft deep lake.

It is believed that the region hosted microbial life some 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago and the rover will examine soil samples to hunt for evidence of the life.

Nasa's Mars 2020 rover (artist's impression) is searching for signs of ancient life on Mars in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on our own planet

The $2.5 billion (£1.95 billion) Mars 2020 spaceship launched on July 30 with the rover and helicopter inside - and landed successfully on February 18, 2021.

Perseverance landed inside the crater and will slowly collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth for further analysis.

A second mission will fly to the planet and return the samples, perhaps by the later 2020s in partnership with the European Space Agency.

This concept art shows the Mars 2020 rover landing on the red planet via NASA's 'sky-crane' system

A dust devil swirls across the landscape in Jezero Crater. 

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The largest impact basin on the Moon is the South-Pole Aitken basin. It, and other impact basins, were created by planetesimals according to a new study.

Image Credit: Moriarty et al., 2021.

BY EVAN GOUGH

Asteroids Didn’t Create the Moon’s Largest Craters. Left-Over Planetesimals Did

The Moon’s pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It’s marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU.) The largest ones are called impact basins, not craters. According to a new study, asteroids didn’t create the basins; leftover planetesimals did.

The Giant Impact Hypothesis shows that the Moon was created when a Mars-sized protoplanet slammed into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. The collision sent molten material into orbit around Earth. Some of that material fell to Earth, and some coalesced to become the Moon.

As the molten rock coalesced, the Moon experienced a phase called the Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO.) The Moon’s entire surface was molten during the LMO, and while astronomers do not doubt that massive objects collided with the Moon during that episode, there’s no record of them. Only once the Moon solidified could impacts leave a lasting mark.

Researchers try to understand the Moon by piecing together the history of lunar impacts, and the solidification of the LMO marks hour zero for the Moon’s impact record. Since the Moon is geologically inactive, every impactor that struck the Moon since hour zero left a mark that’s still there to this day.

Some of the Moon’s craters are so vast that they’re called impact basins, not craters. Basins are not only larger than craters, but they’re also more complex and tend to have a central peak ring rather than a single central peak. Features larger than 300 km are called lunar impact basins, and there are about 50 of them. The Moon’s largest impact basin is the South-Pole Aitken (SPA) basin, and it’s 2,494.5 kilometres (1,550 miles) in diameter. Texas could fit inside it.

A new study says the leftover terrestrial planetesimals formed these basins when they slammed into the Moon. The study is “Formation of Lunar Basins from Impacts of Leftover Planetesimals,” published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The lead author is David Nesvorný from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI.)

The impactors that created the basins played a huge role in the Moon’s history and controlled much of its geology. When they struck, they removed existing crust material from the innermost peak ring and thickened the crust between the inner peak ring and the outer rim crest. The Moon’s mare basalts, which the Apollo missions sampled, are mostly confined to the topographic depressions in the middle of the basins. The impacts also created faulting and other deformations over large regions of the lunar surface and excavated mantle material. This exposed mantle material holds clues to fundamental planetary formation and evolution processes.

Some impact basins are still referred to as lunar mares because of their appearance. Ancient humans thought the dark regions inside the basins were oceans. The basins became filled with basaltic lava not when they were initially formed but when other impactors struck the opposite side of the Moon from the basins and triggered volcanic activity. Mares cover about 16% of the lunar surface.

When these basins form, the impact spreads ejecta far and wide, which helps researchers piece together the Moon’s history. A crater on top of the ejecta must be younger than the impact basin, and if a basin partially buries a crater, then the crater is older.

Previous research showed that asteroids from the main belt are responsible for these impact basins. “The basin-forming impactors were suspected to be asteroids released from an inner extension of the main belt (1.8–2.0 au),” the authors write. But in their paper, the authors say that most impactors were planetesimals. “Here, we show that most impactors were instead rocky planetesimals left behind at ~0.5–1.5 au after the terrestrial planet accretion.”

More planetesimals collided with the Moon than show up in the record because planetesimals were more plentiful earlier in the Solar System’s history, and some would have struck during the Moon’s LMO phase. “… the first ~200 Myr of impacts are not recorded on the lunar surface,” the researchers explain.

The researchers created models to determine planetesimals’ role in forming the lunar basins. They based their models on previous research into terrestrial planet accretion that shows how planetesimals changed over time due to collisions with other objects. This is called collisional grinding, which eventually results in a uniform size distribution of planetesimals. They also relied on the dynamical modelling of asteroids and comets to see what role they played in lunar impacts.

The authors’ work shows that asteroid impacts created the most impacts in the last 3.5 billion years. But before that, planetesimals did most of the damage. “The integrated history of lunar impacts shows that leftover planetesimals dominated the early impact flux (t < 1.1 Gyr or T > 3.5 Ga; T is measured looking backward from today).” Comets created some impact craters in the Solar System, but not many, compared to asteroids and planetesimals.

Their results also show that about 500 20km diameter planetesimals struck the Moon during its LMO phase. But those impacts left no lasting mark.

The prominent Imbrium basin is a bit of an outlier, according to this work. In their model, the planetesimal that created the Imbrium basin “occurs with a 15%–35% probability”, was greater than or equal to about 100 km in diameter, and struck about 3.92 billion years ago. The authors say it must have formed late because it only has two smaller basins overlying it.

The results are supported by impacts on Earth, too. But without impact craters to study, researchers rely on spherule beds. When impactors strike Earth, they create a plume of vaporized rock. The rock condenses into tiny sphere-shaped rocks called spherules that shower back onto the Earth. They form spherule beds embedded in rock. “Our model predicts ~20 d > 10 km impacts on the Earth for T = 2.5–3.5 Ga.,” the study says. “This is similar to the number of known spherule beds in the late Archean.” 

In this time interval, both main-belt asteroids and leftover planetesimals struck Earth. But, they write, “Whereas the asteroid impacts were more uniformly spread over the late Archean, nearly all planetesimal impacts should have happened before 3 Ga.”

Researchers are still studying the Moon’s craters and piecing together the Solar System’s history. While the IAU officially recognizes 9,137 craters, of which 1,675 have been dated, these numbers are likely to change. New research based on data from China’s Chang’E lunar orbiter puts the number of craters closer to 130,000. Other research puts the number even higher: two million craters larger than 1-2 km.

Whatever the eventual number, each crater is like a fossil. Earth lacks this fossil record, and piecing together the impact fossil record on the Moon not only reveals the Moon’s history; it reveals Earth’s.

More:

• Research Paper: Formation of Lunar Basins from Impacts of Leftover Planetesimals
• Research Paper: Lunar impact basins revealed by Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory measurements
• Universe Today: Impacts From Interstellar Objects Should Leave Very Distinct Craters

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If nuclear fusion power can be harnessed, that could open up a new era of cleaner, more abundant energy. One of the potential fuels for fusion is deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen that can be extracted from seawater.

Fusion takes advantage of the same reaction that lights up the sun. Unlike nuclear fission, which involves the decay of heavy radioactive elements, fusion smashes together lighter elements so forcefully that some of the mass of the fuel is converted into energy in line with Albert Einstein’s famous E=mc² equation.

Researchers around the world have been working to maximize the efficiency of fusion reactions in the lab. The biggest project is the international ITER experiment in France, which will use a giant magnetic confinement device known as a tokamak. The National Ignition Facility uses a different approach, which focuses a blast from 192 high-powered lasers on a tiny capsule containing a deuterium-tritium target that’s smaller than a BB pellet.

The NIF team has been trying to achieve ignition for years, but it’s been devilishly difficult to craft the target pellet and the geometry of the laser blast to produce the pressures and temperatures required for fusion. Mark Herrmann, program director for weapon physics and design at the Livermore Lab, compared the effort to a race between heating up the target and losing that heat due to tiny defects in the design.

“For many, many decades, we lost the race,” Herrmann said.

Thanks in part to machine learning tools, the design was improved over the past few months. At 1:03 a.m. PT Dec. 5, a laser shot put 2.05 megajoules of energy into the experiment — and got back 3.15 megajoules of neutron-producing fusion energy. “A gain of 1.5,” said Marv Adams, NNSA’s deputy administrator for defense programs.

Tammy Ma, who leads Livermore Lab’s Inertial Fusion Energy Institutional Initiative, said she “burst into tears” when she heard about the successful shot.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the achievement would “go down in the history books.”

“This milestone moves us one significant step closer to abundant carbon-free energy powering our society,” she said.

The wider fusion research community also hailed the breakthrough. “Today’s announcement shows the world that fusion is not science fiction: It will soon be a viable source of energy,” Andrew Holland, CEO of the Fusion Industry Association, said in a news release. “There are still many steps between these experimental results and fusion power plants, but this is an important milestone for fusion.”

David Kirtley — the CEO of Helion Energy, a commercial fusion company based in Everett, Wash. — said achieving ignition is “a really big deal for fusion science.”

“Even though at the National Ignition Facility, they were not focused on commercial energy, at Helion we believe this paves the way for private business to now focus and turn up the speed on getting commercial energy to the grid,” Kirtley said.

The researchers behind the experiment didn’t downplay the challenges. Although the laser shot itself registered a net energy gain, Livermore Lab director Kim Budil pointed out that the total electrical energy required “from the wall” to support the experiment was 300 megajoules — roughly 100 times the amount of fusion energy produced.

“Our calculation suggests that it’s possible with a laser system at scale to achieve hundreds of megajoules of yield, so there is a pathway to a target that produces enough yield,” Budil said. “But we’re very distant from that right now.”

Moreover, the National Ignition Facility is designed to do a laser shot only about once a day, but a power plant would have to produce energy continuously. (And for what it’s worth, one kilowatt-hour of energy is equivalent to 3.6 megajoules.)

“A few decades of research on the underlying technologies could put us in a position to build a power plant,” Budil said.

Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, cautioned against getting too excited about today’s announcement. “I’d be more excited about an announcement that U.S. is ending fossil fuel subsidies,” Mann said in a series of tweets. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t good news, but it does mean that it won’t play a significant role in decarbonizing our economy by 50% this decade, which is necessary to avert catastrophic >1.5C (3F) warming.”

Focusing on existing sources of renewable energy and improving technologies for energy storage, efficiency and conservation are more realistic strategies for dealing with the climate challenge over the next decade, Mann said.

In addition to advancing the cause of clean energy, ignition contributes to NNSA’s national security mission, Adams said.

“First, it will lead to laboratory experiments that help NNSA defense programs continue to maintain confidence in our deterrent without nuclear explosive testing,” Adams said. “Second, it underpins the credibility of our deterrent by demonstrating world-leading expertise in weapons-relevant technologies. That is, we know what we’re doing.”

Helion Energy’s Kirtley, who conducted research into plasma propulsion systems before turning his focus to commercial fusion power, said the breakthrough could have off-Earth implications as well.

“Interestingly, I think this is even more applicable for space propulsion applications of fusion than it is for commercial electricity generation,” he said. “The pulsed inertial method that the National Ignition Facility is doing is a high-gain ignition type of system for electricity generation. Helion is focused on really efficient small-scale generators, but in space, the inertial application at high gain and high energy yield is really one of the key goals.”

Michael Eades, chief engineer for Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies, said nuclear pulse propulsion is farther off than the systems that are the focus of his company’s research. Nevertheless, he said achieving ignition is a welcome development. “We’re excited by the news of the gain in energy, and we see it as enabling far future missions — maybe beyond the solar system,” Eades said.

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 BY PAUL M. SUTTER

The Voids Closest to Us May Not be Entirely Empty

However, our observations of the large scale structure of the universe do not reveal the entire story. That’s because we can only see galaxies, which are a minority of all the mass in the universe. Most of the mass, somewhere around 80%, is made of dark matter, which is a mysterious form of matter that does not interact with light. 

Scientists have been studying the nature of dark matter and the relationship between it and normal matter for decades using sophisticated computer simulations. Most recently, a team of researchers used simulations that represent the local volume of our universe to study the seven nearest voids to the Milky Way.

They found that while the giant gaps in galaxy distributions could be identified as voids, they were not always empty of dark matter. Indeed, half of them did not even have densities below the average density of the universe.

The astronomers were able to explain this result by the fact that not all voids are the same. Some voids appear as smaller pockets within a larger structure that is on average higher density than the rest of the universe. Other voids, typically the largest ones, expand to hundreds of millions of light-years across and take up a sizable chunk of the volume of the universe on their own.

The smaller voids that arise as pockets inside of larger structures are not fully empty of dark matter, while the largest ones are completely devoid of matter in their centers.

Understanding voids helps astronomers understand the overall structure and evolution of the universe. The researchers hope that by peering deeply into these abysses, we can also better understand the relationship between dark matter and normal manner.

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James Webb detecteert meest afgelegen sterrenstelsel ooit

Turen in onze kosmos is een fantastisch tijdverdrijf en met de nieuwe James Webb-ruimtetelescoop van NASA kunnen astronomen dat nu veel nauwkeuriger. De telescoop zou vorige week een zeer oud sterrenstelsels hebben ontdekt dat tot nu toe niet zichtbaar was. Het sterrenstelsel zou ‘slechts’ 350 miljoen jaar na de oerknal zijn ontstaan.

 Bron: The Guardian

Astronomen zeiden donderdag dat dit recent ontdekte sterrenstelsel wel eens het meest afgelegen zou kunnen zijn dat ooit is waargenomen. Dat record stond hiervoor op een observatie van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop. Dat sterrenstelsel vormde zich zo’n 400 miljoen jaar na het begin van het heelal.

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Het licht dat we op de beelden van de James Webb-telescoop kunnen zien is zo’n 13,5 miljard jaar geleden vertrokken. “De kans is echter wel groot dat dit record binnenkort weer gebroken wordt”, vertelt onze wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters. “De James Webb is nog maar 6 maanden operationeel, dus we gaan nog zeer veel ontdekken”.

Het licht dat de James Webb-telescoop heeft waargenomen zou zo'n 13,5 miljard jaar op weg zijn geweest.  © James Webb Telescoop

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Huge drop in UFO Reports Coming Into MUFON In Last 3 Months. UFO Sighting News.

Guys, this is really odd. I have noticed a huge drop in the last 3 months in UFO reports coming into MUFON. It use to be 30-50 per 24 hours, but now is closer to 3-12 per 24 hours. I am worried, because it began 3 months ago, when weather was warmer and people were outdoors more. Less sightings is concerning, because its like aliens have change game plans and getting us use to sightings little by little is being thrown out the window.

As if they came to the conclusion that it wont work, so...the big question is...what is the new plan aliens have that replaced the old one? Below is a screenshot which normally would be full for the last 24 hours, however it not covered three full days. Also reports coming onto Youtube and Twitter have slowed down dramatically. Something is up, something is about to happen soon. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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3 glowing UFOs a couple blocks from the US capitol, Washington, D.C.

This interesting UFO video of a three glowing orbs hovering in the sky above Washington, DC was filmed last week. What do you think about this sighting?

Witness report: 

This was a remarkable sighting in person mannn , and Nooo it was not a lantern this object drew so much attention even people were pulling over cars to get out and record with us.

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3 glowing UFOs a couple blocks from the US capitol, Washington, D.C.

This interesting UFO video of a three glowing orbs hovering in the sky above Washington, DC was filmed last week. What do you think about this sighting?

Witness report: 

This was a remarkable sighting in person mannn , and Nooo it was not a lantern this object drew so much attention even people were pulling over cars to get out and record with us.

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Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind - Full Documentary - YouTube

“Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” is a feature documentary presented by Dr. Steven Greer, the global authority on extraterrestrials who created the worldwide disclosure movement and routinely briefs presidents and heads of state on the ET phenomenon. His previous works, Sirius and Unacknowledged, broke crowdfunding records and ignited a grassroots movement.

In this film, Dr. Greer presents the most dangerous information that the architects of secrecy don’t want you to know: how forgotten spiritual knowledge holds the key to humans initiating contact with advanced ET civilizations.

The film features groundbreaking video and photographic evidence and supporting interviews from prominent figures such as Adam Curry of Princeton’s PEAR Lab; legendary civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan; and Dr. Russell Targ, who headed the CIA’s top secret remote viewing program. Their message: For thousands of people, contact has begun. This is their story.

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West Midlands Policeman is writing a book about UFO encounters

Roy Teague, an inspector from the West Midlands Police Federation, is working on a book about the strange sightings of flying objects by officers. Although he has never actually seen a UFO himself, he’s hoping to hear stories about them.

After gathering a lot of information about the phenomenon, he started working on the book. According to Mr. Teague, the response to his calls for witnesses has been overwhelming.

He’s hoping to collect stories about these sightings so that they can be saved for future generations. He’s also planning on treating everyone who provides him with the necessary anonymity.

After watching a documentary about the alleged sightings in the US, Mr. Teague started to wonder who the best witnesses are. He said that he was most interested in finding out the truth about the matter since he believes that people who are in professional occupations are more credible than others.

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See Sierra Space's LIFE habitat burst in new ultimate pressure test

Sierra Space "successfully completed its second sub-scale Ultimate Burst Pressure (UBP) test" in Nov. 2022, according to statement released by the company. The space habitation system prototype exceeded NASA certification requirements.

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Something Happens to Earth Every 200 Million Years

Earthquakes of unprecedented magnitude will destroy our metropolises. New mountains will rise right in the middle of the skyscrapers! And the remains of the ravaged neighborhoods will be swallowed up by a mega glacier. But the dead silence won’t last long. Soon, a comet will appear in the sky and turn the remnants of civilization into lava and ash! Our planet has cycles of catastrophic events that sometimes stretch for millions of years, and therefore, they are very difficult to notice.

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12 Most Mysterious Ancient Egypt Finds That Scare Scientists

Ancient Egypt has been studied more than perhaps any other culture and country in human history. Because of that, you’d like to believe that we know everything there is to know about them. That’s not the case. There are many ancient Egyptian mysteries that we’ve never gotten to the bottom of and might never get to the bottom of - and some of them scare scientists stiff!

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Scientists found giant black hole eating another one

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can't escape it. But what if another black hole tries to eat it? Would it destroy it or would they two simply merge into a larger black hole? Astronomers have previously detected a black hole devouring neutron stars in a single bite. Let's see what happens if there appears another black hole on the way... Animation is created by Bright Side.

Massive, Unidentified Interstellar Objects 300 Miles Wide Detected By NASA

Massive, Unidentified Interstellar Objects 300 Miles Wide Detected By NASA.
Astronomers have spent decades looking for objects from outside our own solar system.
What would essentially be interstellar visitors from an alien star system.
To no avail. But it is when all hope seems to be lost, that some of the most marvelous things happen.
It was something like that for these astronomers. After decades of finding absolutely nothing, something completely unexpected happened. Two objects arrived, at once. 

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Ancient Environmental DNA Reveals Thriving 2-Million-Year-Old Life on Greenland

A “breakthrough” has been made in understanding the history of our planet. Studying ancient environmental DNA a team of researchers has now tracked and mapped the evolution of biological communities that existed some two million-years-ago (Mya).

Until now, the scientific understanding of Earth’s ancient biological lifeforms was greatly built on the oldest environmental DNA available, which was taken from a woolly mammoth that roamed in the Siberian tundra around 1 Mya. But a team of researchers has now sampled and interpreted DNA from sedimentary clay and quartz deposits taken from the permafrost of Greenland that dates back to around 2 million Mya.

Based on this new study of ancient environmental DNA, the team of researchers has presented a detailed picture of life in a 2-million-year-old (Myo) environment, describing it as “far removed from the icy shores of the Arctic Circle.” But more importantly, they think their new techniques and methodology might soon shine light on the ancient origins of humans .

• UK’s Oldest Human DNA Reveals Two Distinct Ancient Tribes of Britain
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A two-million- year-old trunk from a larch tree still stuck in the permafrost within the coastal deposits. The tree was carried to the sea by the rivers that eroded the former forested landscape.

(Professor Svend Funder/ Nature)

Peering Through A Wormhole In Time

A new paper published in the journal Nature explores an ancient ecosystem through the results of an analysis of “the oldest ancient environmental DNA recovered to date,” anywhere. The samples were all taken in the north of Greenland, and the study reveals the animal and plant species that roamed these northern territories approximately two Mya.

Author of the new paper, Geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Cambridge in the UK and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, says the new research opens “a new chapter spanning 1 million extra years of history.” And as a result of this new study scientists can now “look directly at the DNA of a past ecosystem that far back in time" added Eske.

Prof. Eske Willerslev and a colleague sample sediments for environmental DNA in Greenland.

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Revolutionary Steps in Environmental DNA Analysis

The ancient environmental DNA was identified in samples taken at the Kap København Formation, located in Peary Land, North Greenland. Often described as a ‘polar desert’ this region is renowned for its rare fossils dating back to the Neogene period beginning 23.03 million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period 2.58 Mya.

Notwithstanding, because ‘vertebrate’ fossils are rare in the Arctic researchers have always struggled to obtain samples that reveal new data about ancient biological communities. Eske explains that all previous research suggested that around 2–3 Mya the Kap København Formation region had experienced a much warmer climate with “temperatures 11–19 °C warmer than today.” But the new research was constructed around extracted and sequenced DNA “from 41 organic-rich sediment samples taken from 5 different sites within the Kap København Formation.”

• Conclusions About Ancient Populations May be Drastically Wrong Due to Dodgy Method
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Newly thawed moss from the permafrost coastal deposits. The moss originates from erosion of the river that cut through the landscape at Kap København some two million years ago.

(Professor Nicolaj K. Larsen/ Nature)

Mapping A Two MYO Ecosystem

Geologist Kurt Kjær of the University of Copenhagen explains that most of the samples were taken many years ago during other research projects. It wasn't until “a new generation of DNA extraction and sequencing equipment was developed” that extremely small and damaged fragments of DNA in the sediment samples could be analysed enabling the new “map a 2-million-year-old ecosystem."

The new model of the Greenland polar region some 2 Mya shows an ancient ecosystem thriving with fern and fauna. An open boreal forest was filled with “a mixed vegetation of poplar, birch and thuja trees, as well as a variety of Arctic and boreal shrubs and herbs.” Furthermore, mitochondrial DNA allowed the researchers to build a picture of the wildlife from the ground up.

On a microscopic scale, DNA was identified from microorganisms and fungi and the ancient world was populated by ants and fleas. On the other end of the spectrum giant mastodons roamed among reindeer, rodents and geese, and until this study it was thought that mastodons did not range as far north as Greenland. Then, in areas that were once ancient seas, the scientists recovered DNA from the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).

Questing Ancient Origins

In conclusion, the authors suggest their data points towards “Earth's future in the face of a changing climate.” What they mean here is that they now have insights into the ability of different species to adapt to the changing environments resulting from temperature increases. Geogeneticist Mikkel Pederson of the University of Copenhagen said the new found information suggests that given time, “more species can evolve and adapt to wildly varying temperatures than previously thought.”

In the opening sentence this new research was described as a “breakthrough.” Why so? Now that ancient environmental DNA has been extracted from clay and quartz samples, and successfully analysed, the new technique might now be turned towards deposits from other locations around the world. Willerslev said “the possibilities are endless" and that if the new method was applied in Africa scientists might soon be gathering “ground-breaking information about the origin of the first humans and their ancestors."

• Top image: Reconstruction of Kap København formation two-million years ago in a time where the temperature was significantly warmer than northernmost Greenland today.          
• Source: Beth Zaiken / Nature

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James Webb detecteert meest afgelegen sterrenstelsel ooit

Turen in onze kosmos is een fantastisch tijdverdrijf en met de nieuwe James Webb-ruimtetelescoop van NASA kunnen astronomen dat nu veel nauwkeuriger. De telescoop zou vorige week een zeer oud sterrenstelsels hebben ontdekt dat tot nu toe niet zichtbaar was. Het sterrenstelsel zou ‘slechts’ 350 miljoen jaar na de oerknal zijn ontstaan.

Astronomen zeiden donderdag dat dit recent ontdekte sterrenstelsel wel eens het meest afgelegen zou kunnen zijn dat ooit is waargenomen. Dat record stond hiervoor op een observatie van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop. Dat sterrenstelsel vormde zich zo’n 400 miljoen jaar na het begin van het heelal.

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Het licht dat we op de beelden van de James Webb-telescoop kunnen zien is zo’n 13,5 miljard jaar geleden vertrokken. “De kans is echter wel groot dat dit record binnenkort weer gebroken wordt”, vertelt onze wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters. “De James Webb is nog maar 6 maanden operationeel, dus we gaan nog zeer veel ontdekken”.

Het licht dat de James Webb-telescoop heeft waargenomen zou zo'n 13,5 miljard jaar op weg zijn geweest.  © James Webb Telescoop

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This is an artist’s impression created to visualize the concentration of black holes at the center of globular cluster NGC 6397.

Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann

 BY CAROLYN COLLINS PETERSEN

Black Holes Shouldn’t be Able to Merge, but Dozens of Mergers Have Been Detected. How Do They Do It?

Stellar-mass Black Holes in a Crowded Environment

Black holes are notoriously tricky objects. The stellar-mass types form when supermassive stars die and collapse on themselves. Typically, they shouldn’t be able to merge easily. Once black holes get fairly close together in binary pairs, they can settle into fairly stable orbits with each other. The situation changes, however, if they’re dancing together in a crowded environment. That actually describes globular clusters to a T. Those stellar agglomerations contain tens of thousands or even millions of stars packed together. Those stars are tightly gravitationally bound together, which creates a gravity “gradient” from the outside into the core. As aging supermassive stars in a globular die, some end up as stellar-mass black holes. Eventually, they sink to the core of the cluster. That’s called “mass segregation”. Eventually, they create a sort of “invisible dark core”.

Black holes in binary pairs in the cluster are most likely to merge. They get a little help from their neighbors along the way. Any nearby massive objects can remove orbital energy from the binary pair. Astronomers call these “dynamical interactions”. The loss of energy pushes them close together and affects the shape of the orbit to make it more elongated. That takes the black hole pair out of the stable orbit they’ve enjoyed.

If this is actually what’s happening, then the black holes pass closer and closer together under the effect of the gravitational interaction. Eventually, a merger occurs. That sets off gravitational waves that we can detect here on Earth. When two black holes are in such an elongated orbit, their gravitational wave signal has characteristic “fingerprints”. Those are clues that can be studied for clues to where the two objects met.

Learning from Black Hole Mergers in Globulars

A team of researchers led by Dr. Isobel Romero-Shaw (formerly of Monash University, now based at the University of Cambridge), with Professors Paul Lasky and Eric Thrane of Monash University, are working together to study those orbital shapes of the black hole binaries just before they merge. They find that some of the binaries observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration (a cooperative between three gravitational wave observatories) likely to have those elongated orbits. That indicates that the binaries collided in their densely populated star cluster core. These findings also indicate that a large chunk of the observed binary black hole collisions — at least 35% — could have been forged in such star clusters.

“I like to think of black hole binaries like dance partners”, said Dr. Romero-Shaw. “When a pair of black holes evolve together in isolation, they’re like a couple performing a slow waltz alone in the ballroom. It’s very controlled and careful; beautiful, but nothing unexpected. Contrasting to that is the carnival-style atmosphere inside a star cluster, where you might get lots of different dances happening simultaneously; big and small dance groups, freestyle, and lots of surprises!”

There are a lot of these collisional dances to study. Since 2015, at least 85 pairs of black holes have crashed into each other and been detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. Based on this finding, astronomers in the consortium know these cosmic collisions happen pretty often. The next steps are to observe as many of these as possible, particularly with ever-improving instrumentation. As detector sensitivity improves, researchers should sense these gravitational wave events frequently—perhaps daily. The big question remains, however, what kicks off the final merger event? That’s what the teams are hoping to find out as they observe more of them in the hearts of globular clusters.

About the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration

Gravitational wave research into these kinds of mergers requires worldwide cooperation. That’s because multiple gravitational wave detectors can make it easier for verified events to be studied. The twin LIGO observatories in the United States work together with the Virgo facility in Italy and the KAGRA observatory in Japan. They carry out joint observations and analysis of resulting data and have worked together since 2010. The research team now expects to sense more mergers of binaries in globular clusters during the next LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run, which begins in 2023.

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This image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the region of study by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). This area is in and around the Hubble Space Telescope’s Ultra Deep Field.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb).

BY EVAN GOUGH

Webb Completes its First “Deep Field” With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?

Younger galaxies can masquerade as ancient galaxies, a problem that has plagued our attempts to understand the evolution of galaxies. The early Universe was almost entirely made of two lightest, simplest elements, hydrogen and helium. As a result, the stars that comprise the earliest galaxies are made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. They have “low metallicity” in astronomical jargon.

Confusingly, some younger galaxies also have low metallicity. They should have much more than just hydrogen and helium in them because so many stars lived and died before these galaxies formed. And stars are what forge heavier elements, sending them out into space when they die to be taken up by the next generation of stars.

But the JWST isn’t easily fooled.

The JWST can more precisely dissect the light from these galaxies than any of its predecessors. It needs to be kept ultra-cold to observe infrared light in such detail, which is why it sits way out in space, sheltered by a massive sun shield. The JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) were both brought to bear on this latest observing effort, and the teams operating each instrument collaborated closely to achieve these results.

“It was crucial to prove that these galaxies do, indeed, inhabit the early universe. It’s very possible for closer galaxies to masquerade as very distant galaxies,” said astronomer Emma Curtis-Lake from the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. “Seeing the spectrum revealed as we hoped, confirming these galaxies as being at the true edge of our view, some further away than Hubble could see! It is a tremendously exciting achievement for the mission.”

Two upcoming papers will present the new results from the JWST’s Deep Field observations. One is “Spectroscopy of four metal-poor galaxies beyond redshift ten,” by Curtis-Lake et al. 2022. The other is “Discovery and properties of the earliest galaxies with confirmed distances,” by Robertson et al. 2022. Neither one has been peer-reviewed yet.

The Hubble Space Telescope introduced us to Deep Field observations. When astronomers pointed the Hubble at a patch of sky that appeared empty and let it gather photons for more than 11 days in 2003 and 2004, it revealed something extraordinary. What was masquerading as empty space was full of galaxies. Its Ultra-Deep Field image found almost 10,000 galaxies in a tiny patch of dark sky, and astronomers think that about 800 of the faintest, reddest ones are some of the Universe’s primordial galaxies.

But we needed a more powerful telescope with better instruments to study them.

NIRCam and NIRSpec were built to find these early galaxies, and they’re succeeding. The team behind both instruments got together before the telescope was completed and launched to develop JADES, the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey. JADES will give astronomers an unprecedented, deep and detailed look at the Universe’s earliest galaxies. “These results are the culmination of why the NIRCam and NIRSpec teams joined together to execute this observing program,” shared co-author Marcia Rieke, NIRCam principal investigator from the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The JWST’s ability to distinguish ancient galaxies is based on the Lyman break. The Lyman break is related to how neutral gas absorbs light in the star-forming regions of distant galaxies. The more distant a galaxy is, the more red-shifted its light is. This light stretching puts the Lyman break at a different position in spectrometric observations. The JWST can spot the Lyman break with its keen infrared capabilities.

The JWST captured its Deep Field in the same region of the sky the Hubble captured its Ultra-Deep Field. Telescopes have been studying this region for about 20 years, creating a complete data set across the electromagnetic spectrum. The Webb’s observations build on this archive, adding the deepest, most light-sensitive observations yet.

The JWST’s field is 15 times larger than the Hubble’s and is deeper and sharper. The NIRCam image is only the size a human appears when viewed from a mile away, but it contains over 100,000 galaxies. Because of the JWST’s power, astronomers can be certain that some of them are the earliest galaxies to form in the Universe.

“For the first time, we have discovered galaxies only 350 million years after the big bang, and we can be absolutely confident of their fantastic distances,” shared co-author Brant Robertson from the University of California Santa Cruz, a member of the NIRCam science team. “To find these early galaxies in such stunningly beautiful images is a special experience.”

The team used the telescope’s NIRSpec instrument to examine the light from 250 of the faintest galaxies in the image over the course of 28 hours. The spectra presented precise measurements of each of the galaxies’ redshifts, revealing the properties of the stars and gas in each one.

“These are by far the faintest infrared spectra ever taken,” said astronomer and co-author Stefano Carniani from Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy. “They reveal what we hoped to see: a precise measurement of the cutoff wavelength of light due to the scattering of intergalactic hydrogen.”

Out of over 100,000 galaxies in the JWST Deep Field, researchers zeroed in on four of them. All four have redshifts greater than 10, with two having redshifts of 13. Redshift tells astronomers how long light has taken to reach us (but not how far away something is because the Universe is expanding.) A redshift value of 10 means the light has been travelling for 13.184 billion years. The light from redshift 13 galaxies was among the first light to be sent out into the Universe after the Big Bang.

Those are the galaxies astronomers were hoping to spot with the JWST, and that’s what the telescope is doing. These galaxies illuminated the Cosmic Dawn and are critical to understanding how galaxies form and evolve. “Galaxies forming at these times may be the seeds of the much more massive and mature galaxies in the local Universe,” Curtis-Lake and co-authors explain in their paper.

The Cosmic Dawn represents a gap in our understanding of the Universe, and attempts to fill in that gap rely on a number of assumptions about gas temperature and other factors. But with its precise instruments, astronomers hope the JWST can fill the gap with data.

“It is hard to understand galaxies without understanding the initial periods of their development. Much as with humans, so much of what happens later depends on the impact of these early generations of stars,” said astronomer and co-author Sandro Tacchella from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. “So many questions about galaxies have been waiting for the transformative opportunity of Webb, and we’re thrilled to be able to play a part in revealing this story.“

In their paper, Curtis-Lake and her co-authors acknowledge this milestone in cosmology. “We conclude by emphasizing that this is clearly a milestone result for the JWST mission, pushing the spectroscopic frontier to a markedly earlier epoch of galaxy formation,” they write.

The JWST is only at the beginning of its mission, and finding these Lyman dropouts in ancient galaxies is a critical step. “In addition to providing clear detections of the Lyman dropouts as high as z = 13.2, these JADES observations also show the power of spectroscopy to probe the physics of these galaxies and the IGM,” write Curtis-Lake and her co-authors.

“Truly, this is just a starting point for the mission.”

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Scientists unlock secrets of 'burping’ supermassive black holes that are surrounded by mysterious radio bubbles by using West Virginia’s Green Bank Telescope

• Scientists have a new understanding about supermassive black holes thanks to data gathered by West Virginia's Green Bank Telescope 
• A team of astronomers used a telescope to image galaxy cluster MS0735 in a way that distorts the cosmic microwave background
• Supermassive black holes are located deep within the center of galaxies in areas where temperatures run up to 50 million degrees Celsius 
• 'We’re looking at one of the most energetic outbursts ever seen from a supermassive black hole,' Jack Orlowski-Scherer, the study's lead author, said 

By CHRISTOPHER CARBONE U.S. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Scientists have a new understanding about supermassive black holes thanks to data gathered by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

Supermassive black holes are located deep within the center of galaxies in areas where temperatures run up to 50 million degrees Celsius. The black hole will sometimes reheat the gas surrounding it in violent bursts - 'burps' - from its center.  

These gas jets carve out immense cavities within the hot cluster, which then pushes hot gas farther from the center and replaces it with radio-emitting bubbles. If they can learn more about what’s left behind filling in these cavities, scientists can begin to understand what made them in the first place.

'We’re looking at one of the most energetic outbursts ever seen from a supermassive black hole,' Jack Orlowski-Scherer, lead author on this publication and a research fellow at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, said in a statement. 'This is what happens when you feed a black hole and it violently burps out a giant amount of energy.'   

Observations by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory show the enormous cavities (circled in grey) excavated by the powerful radio jets (green contours) expelled from the black hole at the center of galaxy cluster MS0735

In a new paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics that analyzes the galaxy cluster MS0735, a team of astronomers used an instrument known as MUSTANG-2 on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia to image the cluster in a unique way that distorts the cosmic microwave background. 

The cosmic microwave background was emitted 380,000 years after the Big Bang and is considered to be the afterglow of our universe's birth 13.8 billion years ago. 

These new findings reinforce previous discoveries that at least a portion of the pressure support in the cavities is due to non-thermal sources, such as other types of particles, cosmic rays and turbulence, and potentially a small contribution from magnetic fields. 

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Unlike previous research, new imaging produced by the GBT considers the possibility that the pressure support within the bubbles could be more nuanced than previously thought, mixing both thermal and non-thermal components. 

'With the power of MUSTANG-2, we are able to see into these cavities and start to determine precisely what they are filled with, and why they don’t collapse under pressure,' explains Tony Mroczkowski, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory who was part of this new research.

The researchers also used existing X-ray observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, in addition to the radio observations. 

'We knew this was an exciting system when we studied the radio core and lobes at low frequencies, but we are only now beginning to see the full picture,' says co-author Tracy Clarke, an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and VLITE Project Scientist who co-authored a previous radio study of this system.

Future observations across multiple frequencies can establish more precisely the nature of how exotic the black hole eruption is.

'We knew this was an exciting system when we studied the radio core and lobes at low frequencies, but we are only now beginning to see the full picture,' says co-author Tracy Clarke, an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and VLITE Project Scientist who co-authored a previous radio study of this system 

WHAT'S INSIDE A BLACK HOLE?

Black holes are strange objects in the universe that get their name from the fact that nothing can escape their gravity, not even light.

If you venture too close and cross the so-called event horizon, the point from which no light can escape, you will also be trapped or destroyed.

For small black holes, you would never survive such a close approach anyway. 

The tidal forces close to the event horizon are enough to stretch any matter until it's just a string of atoms, in a process physicists call 'spaghettification'.

But for large black holes, like the supermassive objects at the cores of galaxies like the Milky Way, which weigh tens of millions if not billions of times the mass of a star, crossing the event horizon would be uneventful.

Because it should be possible to survive the transition from our world to the black hole world, physicists and mathematicians have long wondered what that world would look like.

They have turned to Einstein's equations of general relativity to predict the world inside a black hole.

These equations work well until an observer reaches the centre or singularity, where, in theoretical calculations, the curvature of space-time becomes infinite.

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A Black Hole has been Burping for 100 Million Years

Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies. Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them, not even light. So when anything made of simple matter gets too close, whether a planet, a star or a gas cloud, it’s doomed.

But the black hole doesn’t eat it at once. It plays with its food like a fussy kid. Sometimes, it spews out light.

When the black hole is not only at the center of a galaxy but the center of a cluster of galaxies, these burps and jets carve massive cavities out of the hot gas at the center of the cluster called radio bubbles.

Astronomy and astrophysics are all about light. Almost everything we know about distant objects in space, including black holes, comes from observing light. (Gravitational waves are the exception.)

The light astronomers see when they observe a black hole is coming from the environment in the vicinity of the black hole, not from the black hole itself. The behemoth’s strong gravity means that anything that gets too close is like a puppet on a string, and the black hole is the puppet master.

In a new study, a team of researchers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) examined a supermassive black hole (SMBH) burping out mysterious radio bubbles.

“This is what happens when you feed a black hole, and it violently burps out a giant amount of energy.”

Jack Orlowski-Scherer, lead author, McGill University.

The study is “GBT/MUSTANG-2 9“ resolution imaging of the SZ effect in MS0735.6+7421,” and it was published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The lead author is Jack Orlowski-Scherer, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania at the time the study was done. “This is what happens when you feed a black hole, and it violently burps out a giant amount of energy,” he said in a press release.

Supermassive black holes reside in the center of large galaxies like the Milky Way. They’re found in every large galaxy, including the galaxies at the heart of galaxy clusters. The heart of a galaxy cluster is an extreme environment. The plasma there is scorching, up to 50 million degrees Celsius (90 million F.)

That plasma radiates x-rays, and over time that dissipates the heat. The plasma cools down, allowing stars to form. It’s sort of like the Universe’s situation after the Big Bang. Only after things cooled down could stars form.

Sometimes a black hole will reheat the surrounding gas preventing stars from forming. That’s called black hole feedback, and it happens when black holes emit jets of heated material from their centers. The jets are enormously powerful, pushing away the hot x-ray-emitting gas in the galaxy cluster’s center, creating vast radio bubbles.

While that description makes the process sound straightforward, it’s not. It takes enormous energy to move that much gas, and astrophysicists want to know where all of that energy comes from. In this study, the researchers probed the radio bubbles for clues to the energy source.

The Green Bank Telescope is a fully steerable radio telescope—the world’s largest—located in West Virginia. Its collecting area is 100 meters in diameter. The MUSTANG-2 receiver is a type of camera called a continuum receiver that operates across multiple channels.

The team aimed the instrument at the galaxy cluster MS0735. It’s about 2.6 billion light years away and is known for having an enormously massive black hole in its center. The jets coming from the black hole in the center are one of the most powerful active galactic nucleus eruptions ever recorded. The eruption has been going on for over 100 million years and has released as much energy as hundreds of millions of gamma-ray bursts.

“We’re looking at one of the most energetic outbursts ever seen from a supermassive black hole,” said lead author Orlowski-Scherer.

The jets are the likely culprits behind the radio bubbles, but exactly how they work is unknown. Somehow, they provide the heat that prevents star formation. “Jets are the main drivers of ICM (Intra-Cluster Medium) reheating, although the exact mechanism is not clear yet,” the authors explain in their paper. “It is known that the jets, as traced by their synchrotron emission, often terminate in radio lobes that are coincident with depressions (cavities) in the X-ray emission.”

These jets are what carved out the radio bubbles, and the team studied them for clues to how it all plays out.

The region is difficult to observe, but the team used MUSTANG-2’s power to peer into the bubbles. They took advantage of a phenomenon called the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. The SZ effect is a subtle distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB,) sometimes called the echo from the Big Bang. It’s relic radiation from the moment the Universe began over 13 billion years ago. The SZ effect registers as a slight thermal pressure at 90 GigaHertz, where MUSTANG-2 can sense it. 90 GHz is in the millimetre band because radio waves in this band have wavelengths from one to ten millimetres.

“With the power of MUSTANG-2, we are able to see into these cavities and start to determine precisely what they are filled with and why they don’t collapse under pressure,” said Tony Mroczkowski. Mroczkowski is an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory who was part of this new research.

This study isn’t the first time astrophysicists have studied these radio bubbles. Those efforts showed that the pressure inside these bubbles wasn’t entirely thermal. They pointed to relativistic particles, cosmic rays, and turbulence as causes, as well as a small contribution from magnetic fields. “Broadly, the support mechanisms can be broken down into two categories: thermal and non-thermal,” the team explains in their paper.

But the observations in this new study are the deepest high-fidelity SZ observations yet of the inside of the bubbles. That’s important because the SZ effect can distinguish thermal pressure causes from non-thermal pressure and relativistic electron causes. This study’s results show more nuance in the cause of the cavities, including thermal and non-thermal sources.

“We knew this was an exciting system when we studied the radio core and lobes at low frequencies, but we are only now beginning to see the full picture,” explains co-author Tracy Clarke. Clarke’s an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and VLITE Project Scientist who co-authored a previous radio study of this system.

Galaxy clusters are important because they’re the endpoints of structure formation in the Universe. They grow continuously through mergers and accretion. Theory and calculations show that some of their energy is not yet thermalized, meaning it comes from turbulence and bulk motion. Researchers want to know how much of a cluster’s pressure support is not thermal because that helps them understand how the gas in the intra-cluster medium reaches equilibrium. That’s called virialization, and it leads to star formation.

It all relates to the problem of black hole feedback, which prevents stars from forming. Studies like this one that uses the GBT/MUSTANG-2 receiver across multiple frequencies can start to untangle this complex environment by determining how thermal and non-thermal pressures support the radio bubbles. Scientists would like a clearer understanding of how turbulence, magnetic fields, and even cosmic rays support these bubbles.

“This work will help us better understand the physics of galaxy clusters and the cooling flow feedback problem that has vexed many of us for some time,” added Orlowski-Scherer.

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• Press Release: Scientists Reveal Secrets to Burping Black Hole with the Green Bank Telescope
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In 86 More Days, Skynet Could Become A Reality, Pentagon Video, UFO Sighting News.

Now this is fun, or not. A 90 days from now (actually 86 now) AI will gain control of UAS or Unmanned Aerial Systems. This sounds like no big deal, but is clear that if a UAS has AI this AI is very advanced and might even escape its confines, expanding to do more, achieve more than it was suppose to do. Remember the movie Terminator where Skynet AI takes over? In the movie a gov AI algorithm takes over all military remote controlled and AI controlled devices, missiles, tanks, ect. To wipe out its biggest threat, human kind. Its not something I ever thought I would live to see, and yet, here it is, about to begin or at least, activated in 89 more days. If it grows, if its intelligence grows, it may not see us as the good guys any longer. Listen to CETCOm talk about it and decide for yourself. Has it begun? Clearly the US military has experimented a lot with this AI to give it such power.  But was it enough to know...can it be controlled? Every get a computer glitch, software glitch, a virus? Then you can see what can happen. Now understand this AI could soon gain control of US nuclear arsenal. How you feeling about it now? 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Door Found On Mars Near Pyramid, Entrance To Tomb, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Guys just made this today, please hit like and subscribe, helps me so much. I found this entrance to a tomb on Mars in a Gigipan photo. Not far away is also a pyramid, blue polished, sunken into the sand on one side. When I took screenshot and added light, I can see the dirt from outside continues inside on the floor within, There is no blue rock walls which is proof its not a crack in stone, but a sculpted entrance to a home or tomb. 

 

Please have a look at the video, I answer a lot of questions including, showing you inside the doorway. 

 

 Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

 

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In 1997, Art Bell, anchor of "Coast to Coast AM," a popular radio talk show that discussed strange occurrences and unexplainable phenomena, received a fax from a man named Mel Waters. 

In the fax, Mel mentioned an unusual pit with unknown origins on his property in Manastash, Washington. The pit was "bottomless" and spooked wildlife in the area so badly that birds never flew over it. 

Soon after, Art Bell invited Mel to appear on his radio show, where Mel introduced the world to what would become one of the most famous mysteries of the 21st century - Mel's Hole. 

A similar bottomless hole can be found at Houska Castle in the Czech republic near Prague. 

According to the legend, a chapel was constructed over the hole but after animal-human hybrids were reported to have crawled out of it, and dark-winged, otherworldly creatures flew in its vicinity, they covered the hole with a huge stone to keep the beings and demonic beasts inside the bottomless hole, which they call the "gateway to Hell" or like Mel's hole, "the gateway to another dimension".

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Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt and Dr. Joseph Farrell go deep on the covert machinery that allows a whole category of Advanced, Exotic UFO technology to remain behind a Wall of Secrecy. 

They also look at 75 years of CIA obfuscation and political lies that have kept the 'Hide The UFO File' game going behind the scenes right up until today. 

From the development of the Nazi Bell which disappeared to Argentina, to President Kennedy being assassinated over UFO Disclosure and also the rise of X-Protect Aerospace Assassins and Paperclip Scientists, have we reached a breaking point heading into 2023? 

Includes X Topics: 

Apollo Moon Mission - Nazi Bell 

NASA Censorship of Artifacts 

UFO File Black Budget 

JFK UFO Disclosure Attempt 

Werner von Braun - Hans Kammler - Walter Dornberger

  

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TOP 3 TERRIFYING ALIEN ENCOUNTERS Caught On Camera

The Ancient Aliens series explores the idea that alien life has been visiting Earth for millions of years. In this compilation, we’ll take a look at some of the scariest encounters with these mysterious objects.

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