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APOD Podcast

The Horsehead Nebula

Published 17th December 2019



In today's image, we see the Horsehead Nebula. This is a dark, dusty nebula in the Orion region and it a site of current star formation. Ot is a dark nebula because the dust in it is dense enough that we cannot see through it and it effectively blocks out the light from behind it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MkxNbtManu8

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SciShow Space

How Two Dead Stars Sparked A New Field Of Astronomy

Published 17th December 2019

Pulsars are more than just cool blinking lights shining across the universe. The discovery of the first binary pulsar paved the way for gravitational wave astronomy astronomy today.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CgYRQbk4i34

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PBS Space Time

Do Black Holes Create New Universes?

Published 17th December 2019

What if every single black hole that formed in our universe sparked the big bang of a new universe? Cosmological natural selection proposes exactly this - but even better, it claims to be able to test the hypothesis.

Physicists have been struggling for some time to figure out why our universe is so comfy. Why, for example, are the fundamental constants - like the mass of the electron or the strength of the forces - just right for the emergence of life? Tweak them too much and life, stars, galaxies, the universe as we know it wouldn’t exist. In recent episodes we explored one possible explanation for this - the anthropic principle and the idea of the multiverse. If there are countless universes with different fundamental constants, then it’s not surprising that a few exist with the right numbers for life - and certainly not surprising that we find ourselves in one of those good ones. But if you don’t like the anthropic principle - and many scientists don’t - then rest assured, there’s an alternative. You only need to accept two things: that our universe formed inside a black hole, and that universes can evolve.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rFgpKlcpzNM

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Nemesis Maturity

December Solstice 2019

Published 17th December 2019

Wishing you all a very happy December Solstice!
Decemember solstice 2019 arrives on December 22 at 4 19 UTC. That's December 21 for much of North America.

Solstices are opposite on either side of the equator, so the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kpsgzqOBDos

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Fraser Cain

100 Million Exoplanets By 2050? How Will We Get There?

Streamed & Published 17th December 2019

To quote Fraser: "As I’m recording this video near the end of 2019, the total number of confirmed exoplanets stands at 4,104. We’ve come a long way since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star back in 1995 with 51 Pegasi b.

And the reality is that the race to find new exoplanets is only accelerating. New ground and space-based telescopes are turning up planetary candidates at an increasing rate. New techniques will find planets in entirely new ways. The bottom line is that over the next few decades, this mere 4000ish will multiply by orders of magnitude.

So let’s run the clock forward and try to calculate what the future holds for exoplanets. How many worlds will we know about 3 decades from now, in the year 2050?"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HP-5ij5xTNU

[Star Tsar]

UFO News Network Sunday



Jan Aldrich & Paul Dean

Published 15th December 2019

Jan Aldrich and Paul Dean join us to discuss Project 1947, air intelligence service squadrons, NORAD, unit and base histories and what's going on with UFOs today.

Visit Jan’s website here: http://www.project1947.com/

Visit Paul’s website here: http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gQGMSlWYxBY

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Paco Chierici

Published 17th December 2019

Paco Chierici joins us to discuss the Nimitz case, his fightersweep.com article about it and his new book, “Lions of The Sky”.

Visit Paco’s website at: https://www.lionsofthesky.com/

Read Paco’s Nimitz article: https://sofrep.com/fightersweep/x-files-edition/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6BoJbsrlVVA

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Currently there is some fuss about Betelgeuse ...
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Head of Physics at Uppingham School Dr David Boyce said on his Twitter account that the sudden decrease in the star’s brightness was noticeable even to a general observer’s eye and suggested that if it is about to go supernova, then the explosion would give out “more energy” in just a few hours than throughout the millions of years of its existence.

https://sputniknews.com/society/2019...omers-believe/

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Where is Star Tsar? He has been missing here since the 18th.

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Nemesis Maturity

Published 23 & 24 December 2019

Star Tsar is a busy man with a busy household to maintain. Here's hoping he's just 'icing his knee'.

Jupiter at Solar Conjunction - The Sun is Directly in Between Earth and Jupiter

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EXP8Jk7Y7r0

Rogue Asteroid Orbits The Wrong Way Around The Sun

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=agb5ir3SFtk

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 26th December 2019





Galactic Sheet Impact | Timing the Arrival

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ouGhtFOpaHM

Record Cold & Snow, Magnetic Shift Signal - STEVE?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=De7V0tpH4zw

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STEVE?

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Thanks guys I needed some rest, I do apologize but now I have returned to bring you your latest cosmic news!!!

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Anton Petrov

The Top Fifthteen Mind Blowing Space Discoveries Of 2019

Published 25th December 2019

Anton talks about top 15 space discoveries of 2019! Which is your favourite?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2iRs7PPPo4g

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Volcano Time-Lapse

Meteor | Volcán de Colima, Mexico

Recorded & Published 26th December 2019



This is a meteor caught on the 26th of December at Colima.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xX3PRgdUG9s

Caught several meteors at this dark sky site. This one at 04:12 CST.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L83sHld7zm8

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Space.com

Annular Solar Eclipse - Moon's Shadow Seen From Space

Published 26th December 2019



Japan's Himawari 8 satellite captured imagery of the moon's shadow traversing the Earth, caused by the Dec. 26, 2019 annular solar eclipse. -- Last Solar Eclipse of the Decade: https://www.space.com/ring-of-fire-s...os-videos.html

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4e57pfvgTj8

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Forbes.com

Is Betelgeuse About To Explode?

Published 26th December 2019



When you take a look at the stars in the night sky, they generally appear the same regardless of time. Only a small number of stars ever appear to change on human timescales, as most stars burn through their fuel very stably, with almost no variation in their continuous brightness. The few stars that do appear to change are either intrinsically variable, members of multi-star systems, or go through an enormous evolutionary change.

When very massive stars get close to the end of their lives, they start varying by tremendous amounts, and do so with significant irregularity. At a critical moment, most of these stars will run out of the nuclear fuel holding up their cores against collapse, and the resulting implosion leads to a runaway cataclysm: a core-collapse supernova. Could Betelgeuse, whose variability intensified in a novel way over the last few days, be about to explode? Here's what astronomers know so far.

Read all about it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startsw.../#3643d1c547bf

Related musical interlude

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0eling--A

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Vox.com

The Fifthteen Most Awe-inspiring Space Images Of The Decade

Published 26th December 2019

The field of astronomy this decade delivered an embarrassment of riches: stunning accomplishment after stunning accomplishment from the exploration of space. Humans sent robots to the farthest reaches of the solar system, to the sun, to the gas giant Jupiter, and more. Meanwhile, our telescopes peered deeper into the cosmos. They showed us images never seen before, like the first-ever image of a black hole, which was just declared to be Science’s “breakthrough of the year.”

We put together our favorite astronomy images and videos from the 2010s, in no particular order. Some of these images are awe inspiring for their beauty, or their remoteness, or for helping us understand our tiny place in the universe. Others are awe inspiring for the engineering achievements they represent, and give hope for what’s possible in the future. There’s the first-ever view of the surface of Pluto, an up-close encounter with a comet, and an entire solar system photographed in its infancy. Behold, and enjoy.

This one is my favourite Rossetta from 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's surface



Read all about it here: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/sci...rom%20%251%24s

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 27th December 2019 | Weather Swings, Geomagnetic Jerk Forecast, Climate

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w59JCSKPzHg

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Sci-News.com

Phosphine Could Signal Existence Of Alien Anaerobic Life On Rocky Planets

Published 27th December 2019



A team of researchers at MIT has found that phosphine, which is among the stinkiest, most toxic gases on Earth, cannot be produced in any other way except by anaerobic organisms, making it a pure ‘biosignature gas.’

Related paper: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1954

Read all about it here: http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/ph...gas-07957.html

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Richplanet.net

Rendlesham UFO | 40 Years Of Lies

Published 25th December 2019

When trying to get to the bottom of an event, we often rely heavily on words that come out of people’s mouths. If physical, video or photographic evidence is lacking, eye witness testimony is often used to shape the public's perception of events. For nearly 40 years, the public’s perception about the most famous UK UFO case in history has been shaped by a number of military witnesses. Many researchers have tried to build a picture of what most likely happened in dozens of books, films and “extended” interviews. All of these researchers (including myself) have made fatal mistakes by assuming that one or more of the military witnesses have been telling the whole truth. Recent statement analysis on three key witnesses leads to a startling conclusion. There probably was no unidentified object on any night during the Rendlesham forest incidents. The whole scenario was most likely a tale manufactured by U.S. intelligence, intended to conceal details of a classified exercise or operation.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TSVfPDkiwrs

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