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Star Tsar

30th June 2020, 20:26

NASA Goddard

Proposed NASA Mission Would Visit Neptune's Curious Moon Triton

Published 16th June 2020

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When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune's strange moon Triton three decades ago, it wrote a planetary science cliffhanger.

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to have flown past Neptune, and it left a lot of unanswered questions. The views were as stunning as they were puzzling, revealing massive, dark plumes of icy material spraying out from Triton's surface. But how? Images showed that the icy landscape was young and had been resurfaced over and over with fresh material. But what material, and from where?

How could an ancient moon six times farther from the Sun than Jupiter still be active? Is there something in its interior that is still warm enough to drive this activity?

A new mission competing for selection under NASA's Discovery Program aims to untangle these mysteries. Called Trident, like the three-pronged spear carried by the ancient Roman sea god Neptune, the team is one of four that is developing concept studies for new missions. Up to two will be selected by summer 2021 to become a full-fledged mission and will launch later in the decade.

Read all about it here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7680

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NASA Is Considering The Trident Mission. Going Back To Neptune & Triton

Streamed & Published 30th June 2020

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Earlier this year, NASA announced 4 new Discovery-class missions that they were considering. These are low-cost, rapidly-built missions that will help scientists understand some mystery in astronomy and planetary science.

One of these missions is called Trident, and it’s going to be targeting the Planet Neptune. And more specifically, it’s going to be providing close up pictures of its largest moon Triton.

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Star Tsar

30th June 2020, 20:33

NASA Goddard

NASA’s Tess Delivers New Insights Into An Ultrahot World

Published 30th June 2020

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Measurements from NASAs Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known.

Located about 670 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, KELT-9 b was discovered in 2017 because the planet passed in front of its star for a part of each orbit, an event called a transit. Transits regularly dim the stars light by a small but detectable amount.

Between July 18 and Sept. 11, 2019, as part of the mission's yearlong campaign to observe the northern sky, TESS observed 27 transits of KELT-9 b, and these observations allowed the team to model the systems unusual star and its impact on the planet.

KELT-9 b is a gas giant world about 1.8 times bigger than Jupiter, with 2.9 times its mass. Tidal forces have locked its rotation so the same side always faces its star. The planet swings around its star in just 36 hours on an orbit that carries it almost directly above both of the star's poles.

The close orbit means the planet's dayside temperature is around 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,300 C), hotter than the surfaces of some stars. This intense heating also causes the planets atmosphere to stream away into space.

Its odd host star is about twice the size of the Sun and averages about 56 percent hotter. But it spins 38 times faster than the Sun, completing a full rotation in just 16 hours. Its rapid spin distorts the stars shape, flattening it at the poles and widening its midsection. This causes the stars poles to heat up and brighten while its equatorial region cools and dims, a phenomenon called gravity darkening. The result is a temperature difference across the stars surface of almost 1,500 F (800 C).

With each orbit, KELT-9 b twice experiences the full range of stellar temperatures, producing what amounts to a peculiar seasonal sequence. The planet experiences summer when it swings over each hot pole and winter when it passes over the stars cooler midsection. So KELT-9 b experiences two summers and two winters every year, with each season about nine hours.

KELT-9 b begins its transit near the star's bright poles, and then blocks less and less light as it travels over the star's dimmer equator. This asymmetry provides clues to the temperature and brightness changes across the stars surface, and they permitted the team to reconstruct the stars out-of-round shape, how its oriented in space, its range of surface temperatures, and other factors impacting the planet.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-tess-delivers-new-insights-into-an-ultrahot-world

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Star Tsar

30th June 2020, 20:42

UniverseToday.com

Do Hot Jupiters Form Close In, Or Do They Migrate? A Newly-Discovered Planet Might Help Answer This

Published 29th June 2020

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For the sake of their study (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/young-giant-planet-offers-clues-to-formation-of-exotic-worlds), the team took a look at HIP 67522 b, an exoplanet that was discovered earlier this year by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This exoplanet is about 10 times the diameter of Earth (roughly the same as Jupiter) and is so close to its host star that it only takes seven days to complete a full orbit.

These features also make HIP 67522 b easy to detect using the Transit Method, where astronomers monitor stars for periodic dips in brightness to determine the presence of planets (as well as their size and orbital period). However, this exoplanet still required confirmation using the infrared data from the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope since young stars are known to have sunspots (which also lead to periodic dips in brightness.)

But what is more interesting is the fact that this hot Jupiter’s star (located about 490 light-years from Earth) is just 17 million years old. In effect, HIP 67522 b is the youngest hot Jupiter ever observed given that in all previous cases, hot Jupiters were found to be more than a billion years old. This could mean that this particular hot Jupiter is still in the process of evolving, thus allowing astronomers to test theories about gas giant migration.

Read all about it here: https://www.universetoday.com/146739/do-hot-jupiters-form-close-in-or-do-they-migrate-a-newly-discovered-planet-might-help-answer-this/

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Deep Down In Ocean Worlds, It’s Difficult To Tell Where The Oceans End & The Rock Begins

Published 29th June 2020

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For the sake of their study, the team took a look at HIP 67522 b, an exoplanet that was discovered earlier this year by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This exoplanet is about 10 times the diameter of Earth (roughly the same as Jupiter) and is so close to its host star that it only takes seven days to complete a full orbit.

These features also make HIP 67522 b easy to detect using the Transit Method, where astronomers monitor stars for periodic dips in brightness to determine the presence of planets (as well as their size and orbital period). However, this exoplanet still required confirmation using the infrared data from the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope since young stars are known to have sunspots (which also lead to periodic dips in brightness.)

But what is more interesting is the fact that this hot Jupiter’s star (located about 490 light-years from Earth) is just 17 million years old. In effect, HIP 67522 b is the youngest hot Jupiter ever observed given that in all previous cases, hot Jupiters were found to be more than a billion years old. This could mean that this particular hot Jupiter is still in the process of evolving, thus allowing astronomers to test theories about gas giant migration.

Read all about it here: https://www.universetoday.com/146708/deep-down-in-ocean-worlds-its-difficult-to-tell-where-the-oceans-end-and-the-rock-begins/

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Star Tsar

30th June 2020, 20:49

SciShow Space

Unusual Places To Look For Life

Published 30th June 2020

From "superhabitable planets" that can potentially sustain life longer than earth to rogue planets that don't even orbit a star, we’ve talked about some strange places that could host extraterrestrial life over the last few years. Here are some of our favorite episodes about them!

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Star Tsar

30th June 2020, 21:14

Making Contact

Making Contact Trailer

Published 15th June 2020

AMARZA PRODUCTION has partnered with RYNO PICTURES to produce a brand new film that explores UFO's, E.T.s, and the possibilities of Human-Initiated Contact via Consciousness. A seven-year-old boy is awakened in the middle of the night by something he does not understand and thus begins a life-long quest to make sense of the encounter and discover what it may mean for all of us.

MAKING CONTACT is the story of this man's pursuit to overcome the lies and fear surrounding the subject of Contact which is prolific in today's media. He struggles against the disinformation that has infected this subject like a plague. He's mentored by intuitives, scientists, and experiencers as he travels across the country to find answers. Those answers come at a cost that will eventually shatter his paradigm and make him change his entire outlook on the actual nature of existence and his role in this world.

Watch the whole story unfold through his eyes as he conquers his fear and discovers that this is not an alien question at all...it's a very human one.

For more information about the movie visit:
makingcontactthemovie.com

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Star Tsar

30th June 2020, 22:11

Podcast UFO

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Professor Matthew Szydagis | UFOs & Dark Matter

Streaming Live At Time Of Posting & Published 30th June 2020

What is the possible connection between UFOs and Dark Matter? A fascinating guest, Matthew Szydagis, to discuss his thoughts on nearly 25% of the universe being composed of a mysterious substance known as dark matter (while 70% of the cosmos is something called “dark energy”) and how craft, terrestrial or otherwise, might also be able to tap into this as the real-life “zero-point vacuum energy,”.

PROFESSOR MATTHEW SZYDAGIS received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany studying experimental particle astrophysics, in particular the direct detection of dark matter WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) and general particle detector development for “rare-event searches.”

He grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation right away with Season 1 from the age of 5, and simply fell in love with the character of Lieutenant Commander Data, realizing that science officer was the position for him. He became a physicist after being inspired by Star Trek, becoming one in order to make time travel and FTL travel a reality. But, he got “side-tracked” along the way to find dark matter!

Powerpoint presentation of information Matthew covers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16FeaUAIrYaf5rCilEsXZ6ZKk9XMD11An/view

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/upcoming-guest-professor-matthew-szydagis/

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Star Tsar

30th June 2020, 23:57

The Richard Dolan Show

Intelligent Disclosure | Forgotten UFO Recovery: 1941

Streamed & Published 30th May 2020

Richard and Tracey discuss what may be America's original UFO crash retrieval case: that which occurred outside of Cape Girardeau, MO, in April 1941. The world was a very different place, and the U.S. national security establishment was not even in its infancy. The event was unknown until the 1990s, when one highly credible witness, Charlotte Mann, came forward with the story of her grandfather, Reverend William Huffman. This is a truly fascinating story, and although corroboration has been limited to a few other individuals, many serious researchers think it really happened.

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 07:35

UFO News Network Sunday

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News Update

Published 1st July 2020

Frank discusses the Senate Intelligence Committee’s request for a report from the Pentagon’s UFO Task Force, the Air Force finally provides some UFO information, the “new” Majestic 12 document gets skewered and still more on the Wilson “notes”.

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 07:38

The Black Vault

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Astronaut UFO Sightings Mysteriously Removed From Government UFO Study; Here They Are

Published 26th June 2020

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For twenty-two years, from 1947 – 1969, the United States Air Force ran a trifecta of UFO research programs known as Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. The public is most familiar with the latter of the three, undoubtedly due to the success of a History Channel series by the same name. However, lesser known to non-UFO-aficionados, is why those studies ended. That was due to a near fifteen-hundred page report (https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-full-condon-committee-report-on-ufos-1968/) generated by what was known as the Condon Committee, which convened from 1966-1968 at the University of Colorado, to evaluate whether the further study of UFOs was worth it. Spoiler alert: they concluded UFOs were not worth the time. However, something strange has happened to that report over the years. A chunk of it went missing within the main government agency that disseminates it.

Read all about it here: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/astronaut-ufo-sightings-mysteriously-removed-from-government-ufo-study-here-they-are/

Astronaut UFO Sightings Mysteriously Removed From Government UFO Study; Here They Are

Published 1st July 2020

For twenty-two years, from 1947 – 1969, the United States Air Force ran a trifecta of UFO research programs known as Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. The public is most familiar with the latter of the three, undoubtedly due to the success of a History Channel series by the same name. However, lesser known to non-UFO-aficionados, is why those studies ended. That was due to a near fifteen-hundred page report generated by what was known as the Condon Committee, which convened from 1966-1968 at the University of Colorado, to evaluate whether the further study of UFOs was worth it. Spoiler alert: they concluded UFOs were not worth the time. However, something strange has happened to that report over the years. A chunk of it went missing within the main government agency that disseminates it.

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 07:43

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 1st July 2020 | Star Vanished, Climate News, Hot Planet

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 07:51

BBC Sky @ Night Magazine

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What To See In The Night Sky: July 2020

Published 1st July 2020

What can you see in the night sky this month? Astronomers Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal their stargazing tips for July 2020.

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:08

APOD Podcast

The Galaxy, The Planet, & The Apple Tree

Published 1st July 2020

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In today's image, we see an apple tree in the foreground and above, in the sky, we see the Milky Way Galaxy stretching across the image. The bright object to the left of the Milky Way is the planet Jupiter and the bright star to the right in the supergiant star Antares.

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:16

Space.com

Saharan Dust Cloud, Seen From Space, Fertilizes Amazon Soil 'Regularly'

Published 2nd July 2020

Every year wind-swept dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa travels over the Atlantic Ocean, which can be seen by satellites. The dust plume “regularly fertilizes soils” in the Amazon rainforest in South America.

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Icy Mars Korolev Crater Is 51 Miles Across - Flyover Animation From Orbiter Imagery

Published 2nd July 2020

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ESA Mars Express orbiter imagery has been used to create a flyover animation of Mars crater Korolev. It's 51 miles across (82 km) and 1.2 miles (2 km) deep from its rim. This Icy Crater Near Mars' North Pole Is a Winter Wonderland

Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/42828-icy-mars-crater-winter-wonderland-photos.html

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:28

Asteroid Station

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Largest Asteroids Of July 2020

Published 2nd July 2020

Largest Asteroids Passing Earth of July 2020. Luckily we don't have to worry about these asteroids hitting Earth, but two of the asteroids are classified by NASA as PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid). Meaning they could be a potential threat in the future because they pass close to Earth's orbital path.

Asteroid 242450 (2004 QY2) July 8
Asteroid 420302 (2011 XZ1) July 19
Asteroid 85989 (1999 JD6) July 20
Asteroid (2015 FP332) July 23

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:36

Weather Events

Sandstorm Hits Fahud, Oman

Recorded & Published 1st 2020

Awesome sandstorm, leaves riders trapped and record it. It happened on Chihuahua road in Ciudad Juarez in the Samalayuca desert. Sandstorm surprised citizens yesterday afternoon...

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Jade Mine Landslide In Myanmar

Recorded & Published 2nd 2020

Yangon, Myanmar At least 162 people have died and others are feared trapped after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar's Kachin State, according to officials.
The landslide was triggered by heavy rain and swept through the site in the jade-rich area of Hpakant on Thursday morning.
Myanmar Fire Department said 162 bodies had been recovered as of 7:15 p.m. Thursday local time and another 54 people have been taken to hospital. Local lawmaker Khin Maung Myint warned that the death toll is expected to rise, but heavy rain had forced rescue efforts to be called off.

Images from the Facebook page of Myanmar's fire service showed a rescue team pulling bodies out of the mud and carrying them up a steep rock face that appears to be flooding.

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:41

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 2nd July 2020 | Eclipse, More Underground Structure, Stellar Winds

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:45

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Unexplained Heartbeat Phenomenon Of Black Hole Detected Again

Published 2nd July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a supermassive black hole that pulsates as if it has a heart beat and the mystery behind so-called QPO - Quasi Periodic Oscillations.

Source paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/495/4/3538/5851376

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:49

Isaac Arthur

Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats

Published 2nd July 2020

Mankind's future is among the stars, but not necessarily on other planets. Instead we might forge giant space stations that are entire artificial worlds, and today we'll explore some of those megastructure designs, like the McKendree Cylinder, Bishop Rings, Banks Orbital, Topopolis, and more.

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Star Tsar

2nd July 2020, 23:55

The Vintage Space

Space Exploration Is All Politics

Published 1st July 2020

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We explore space because we want to push the limits of what we know in the universe. We explore to expand humanity’s reach, to gain a foothold to eventually become a multi planetary species while learning why our planet alone has life, because it’s really all about understanding if we’re alone… right?
In an idealized world, maybe, but in reality, no. Space is all about politics.

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Star Tsar

3rd July 2020, 00:03

TTSA Talks

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The 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act Request For A UAP Task Force

Published 1st July 2020

In this episode of TTSA Talks, Tom DeLonge, Chris Mellon and Luis Elizondo engage in a conversation about The Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021 that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

One can listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ep-4-2021-intelligence-authorization-act-request-for/id1517910497?i=1000481781381

Star Tsar

3rd July 2020, 00:19

John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

Dr. Robert Nemiroff | Searches For Superluminality, Aliens, & Impossible Knowledge

Published 2nd July 2020

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Can anything go faster than the speed of light?

Scientific Searches for Aliens, Superluminality, and Impossible Knowledge are all subjects that John Michael Godier discusses with Dr. Robert Nemiroff a professor of physics at Michigan Tech. Dr. Nemiroff is hosting the 100th anniversary of the great debate between Harlow Sapley and Herber Curtis with a new question, how will humanity first discover extraterrestrial life? Other discussion subjects include, Is time travel to the past possible? One way to answer that is by searching the internet for evidence of time travelers.

Related material:

100th Anniversary of the great debate: https://apod.nasa.gov/debate/debate100th.html
Debat Video channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsSSm2_iOLoyPudBNO-Wv0Q/videos

Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1312/1312.7128.pdf

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Star Tsar

4th July 2020, 07:56

Fade To Black Radio

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Richard Dolan | UFO Updates

Recorded & Published 3rd July 2020

Tonight, Richard Dolan joins us for a full conversation on all of the recent UFO/UAP news throughout the world.

Richard is one of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFOs and believes that they constitute the greatest mystery of our time.

Dolan completed his graduate work at the University of Rochester, where he studied U.S. Cold War strategy, European history, and international diplomacy. Richard also studied at Alfred University and Oxford University.

He is the author of UFOs and the National Security State, he co-authored with Bryce Zabel, A.D. After Disclosure and his latest book is: UFOs and the 21st Century Mind.

Richard hosts a weekly radio show, The Richard Dolan Show, on KGRA radio. He is currently featured on several television series and documentaries, including Ancient Aliens, Hangar One: The UFO Files and Close Encounters.

In addition to his research, Richard’s company, Richard Dolan Press, publishes innovative books by authors from around the world and he hosts his weekly live stream on his YouTube channel.

Website:
https://www.richarddolanpress.com/

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 12:45

Engaging The Phenomenon

Admiral Thomas Wilson Briefing Media Compilation

Published 7th July 2020

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Here is a collection of media regarding the 1997 Briefing in the Pentagon involving Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson, Commander Will Miller, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, and Dr. Steven Greer.

Here is a collection of media regarding the 1997 Briefing in the Pentagon involving Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson, Commander Will Miller, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, and Dr. Steven Greer.

Resources available at Giuliano Marinkovic's website: https://omnitalkradio.weebly.com/pentagon-ufo-briefing.html

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 12:57

Grant Cameron Whitehouse UFO

Admiral Tom Wilson Document Leak Panel

Published 5th July 2020

Mr Cameron hosts a panel discussion on the Admiral Wilson documents...

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 13:01

UFOlogy TV

The German Fighter Pilot Who Fought A UFO In 1917 - Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen

Published 6th July 2020

This video highlights a strange UFO encounter between one of the most feared and famous German pilots of WW1 and a UFO, which occurred over the skies of Belgium in 1917.

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 13:07

Coast To Coast AM

Major George Filer | Military UFO Encounters

Broadcast May 10th Published 2nd July 2020

Maj. George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth's atmosphere after World War II. Award-winning investigative reporter John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer. In the first half, he joined Richard Syrett to discuss Filer's accounts of UFO reports. Guerra said that Filer was at first dubious of unidentified object reports, but was shaken out of his complacency by his own dramatic sighting from a refueling aircraft over the UK in 1962.

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 13:15

Rogue Planet TV

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Are UFOs A Threat?

Published 2nd July 2020

Jason McClellan looks at the term "threat" as it applies to UFOs.

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 13:28

UFO Buster Radio Network

Pennsylvania - The UFO Hotbed & Derbyshire Named As UFO Hotspot

Published 8th July 2020

Pennsylvania was the fifth best state for UFO sightings from January 2019 through June 2020.

In that period Pennsylvanians reported 358 sightings of strange lights and objects in the sky to the National UFO Reporting Center, according to an analysis of the center’s database by SatelliteInternet.com, which researches satellite internet.

That placed Pennsylvania behind California, with 752 reported sightings; Florida, 567; Washington, 386 and Texas, 375.

And 2020 is shaping up as a record year for UFOs over Pennsylvania. From January-June 2020, Pennsylvanians have filed 135 reports, nearly double the 75 reports filed during the first half of 2019.

“Hovering triangular object with three white lights and one red,” read a May 26 report from Mars, Pennsylvania.

“A very bright orange glowing craft (that I thought was on fire) traveled in a low altitude heading south from the northeast,” reported someone in Bethlehem on May 23.

A March 21 report from Harrisburg noted, “Dozens of odd shaped lights traveling at snail pace in the sky. Some traveling in triangle formation and some alone. One large craft stood still mostly but moved on occasion ascending and descending. Large bright light. Family member reported seeing the same about a mile away as well as one flickering on and off with red lights. Definitely an ongoing thing seeing these craft at night.

UFOs have been reported in the skies over Pennsylvania 3,887 times, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, which has been gathering reports since 1947.

That ranks Pennsylvania eighth among all 50 states in total reported sightings of eerie lights, erratically moving aircraft and mysterious metal saucers.

California is No. 1, with 13,559 reports, followed by Alabama, 10,882; Florida, 6,534; Washington, 5,894; Texas, 4,969; New York, 4,689; Arizona, 4,028; Pennsylvania, 3,887; Illinois, 3,616; and Ohio, 3,566.

Derbyshire named as UFO hotspot in new report: https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/derbyshire-named-ufo-hotspot-new-report-2904955

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 13:38

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 3rd - 8th July 2020

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 13:49

Live Storms Media

Royal Oak, Michigan, USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Oak,_Michigan): Severe Thunderstorms

Recorded 7th & Published 7th July 2020

High summer heat brought enough instability for storms to form along the colliding lake breeze and outflow boundaries. A strong downburst brought torrential rain and 60mph wind gusts to the Royal Oak area. Numerous tree limbs were downed and some power lines were downed as well. This video includes strong winds, damage footage, and some lightning strikes.

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New Philadelphia, Ohio, USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Philadelphia,_Ohio): Significant Flooding

Recorded 7th & Published 7th July 2020

A strong, slow moving thunderstorm dropped at least 2” of rain which flooded much of the downtown area of New Philadelphia. Cars drove straight through the water despite many vehicles being too close to the ground. Law enforcement attempted to prevent vehicles from going any further but many of them ignored the officer.

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 14:00

Seeker

We May Finally Know Why Earth’s Magnetic North Keeps Moving

Published 8th July 2020

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Magnetic north keeps shifting, but we may finally know what’s causing it.

The Earth's magnetic north pole is shifting in two ways: It’s moving away from Canada and toward Siberia, and it is accelerating. In fact, it is accelerating so fast that we have had to update our models of Earth’s magnetic field ahead of schedule.

The reasoning behind why our magnetic poles move and flip has always been a mystery, until now.

A team of researchers from Leeds University think they have nailed down just what makes Earth's magnetic poles move: blobs.

The team from Leeds used 20 years of data collected by satellites, including ESA’s Swarm, and concluded that changes in flow at lower latitudes in Earth’s outer core have changed the magnetic flux, or the number of field lines, in two blobby areas.

Read More:
Recent north magnetic pole acceleration towards Siberia caused by flux lobe elongation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-0570-9
"The wandering of Earth’s north magnetic pole, the location where the magnetic field points vertically downwards, has long been a topic of scientific fascination."

Magnetic north and the elongating blob
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/Magnetic_north_and_the_elongating_blob
"For some years now, scientists have been puzzling over why the north magnetic pole has been making a dash towards Siberia."

Scientists explain magnetic pole's wanderings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52550973
"European scientists think they can now describe with confidence what's driving the drift of the North Magnetic Pole."

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 14:59

APOD Podcast

Mercury's Sodium Tail

Published 8th July 2020

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In today's image, we see the planet Mercury - the closest planet to the Sun. Stretching back to the upper left, we see a tail composed of sodium atoms. These atoms are from Mercury's atmosphere and are pushed off by the Sun and excited by the Sun's energy and glow with a yellow color.

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 15:18

ParallaxNick

So Much Universe, So Little Time. The Current Crisis In Cosmology & How We Got Here

Published 5th July 2020

In 2019, astrophysics finally admitted it was in a crisis. The universe is apparently older than itself.

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 21:50

PBS SpaceTime

Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?

Published 8th July 2020

The most precious substance in our universe is not gold, nor oil. It’s not even printer ink. It’s antimatter. But it’s worth every penny of it’s very high cost, because it may hold the answer to the question of why anything exists in our universe at all.

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Star Tsar

8th July 2020, 22:04

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

The First Ever Colliding Black Holes That Produced Light

Published 6th July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about the first ever detection of a black hole collision that produced visual light.

Source paper: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/104019/

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FRB In The Milky Way Was Probably Caused By Asteroid-Magnetar Collision

Published 7th July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about one of the best explanations for what may have created a mysterious FRB (Fast Radio Burst) in the Milky Way galaxy in April of 2020.

Source paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.04601.pdf

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Turns Out, Galactic Jets Are Very Long Particle Accelerators!

Published 8th July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about the the jet of Centaurus A...

Source paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2354-1

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Star Tsar

12th July 2020, 12:32

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 9th - 12th July 2020

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Star Tsar

12th July 2020, 12:46

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 257

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Published 11th July 2020

The “new normal” is beginning to sink in, but for how long will current conditions be accepted by populations? Societal breakdown is already unfolding. For over a decade institutions like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others have acted out "mock drills” of exactly the scenario that we now face. Was this just a coincidence? The global power elite have long since been aware that that the planet's life support systems are breaking down at blinding speed. Is the unfolding environmental unraveling directly connected to numerous agendas that are now being carried out?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-july-11-2020-257/

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Star Tsar

12th July 2020, 13:15

Live Storms Media

Thedford, Nebraska, USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thedford,_Nebraska) - Land Spout Tornado

Recorded 8th & Published 10th July 2020

Enhanced risk for severe weather was set for the day and storms began to explode along the front just north of Thedford, Nebraska around 6pm CST. As the boundaries began to enhance and collide with the southern edge, it spun up this incredible land spout tornado in the sand hills of central nebraska.

First clip is the initial funnel observed from the town of Thedford. Second clip is the full land spout as is turned in the open space and about 3 minutes in you get a closer view of the horseshoe like funnel rotating towards the middle, followed some more rotation from the land spout.

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Ashby, Minnesota, USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashby,_Minnesota)- Violent EF4 Tornado Timelapse

Recorded 8th & Published 11th July 2020

The full epic timelapse of the Ashby/Dalton, MN EF4 tornado. For more info on this tornado go to the NWS damage survey here: https://www.weather.gov/fgf/2020_07_08_Tornadoes

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Troy Grove, Illinois, USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Grove,_Illinois) - Severe Thunderstorms, Hail & Strong Winds

Recorded 11th & Published 12th July 2020

Widespread strong to severe thunderstorms marched across northern and central Illinois on Saturday. These storms produced hail and damaging straight-line winds, leading to numerous reports of damage.

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Norman, Oklahoma, USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman,_Oklahoma) - Severe Thunderstorm & Multiple Powerflashes

Recorded 11th & Published 12th July 2020

Filmed multiple power flashes looking NW from the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, OK. As the severe thunderstorm rolled through, severe wind gusts were reported - including one over 74 mph! Damaging winds tore down power lines and caused tree damage all across the OKC metro!

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Star Tsar

12th July 2020, 13:24

Weather Events

Snowfall - Mendoza, Argentina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendoza,_Argentina) & Tropical Storm Fay Hits The US

Recorded & Published 9th - 10th July 2020

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Heavy Storm - Brescia, Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brescia)

Recorded 11th & Published 12th July 2020

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Star Tsar

12th July 2020, 15:02

Nemesis Maturity

Comet C/2019 U6 Lemmon is Putting on a Show in NASA'S STEREO SECCHI HI 2A Camera

Published 10th July 2020

And yet another comet that's being completely neglected is the mag +7 comet C/2019 U6 (Lemmon), which is putting on a decent show in NASA'S STEREO SECCHI HI-2A camera.

In the field of view in that camera, you can see Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth (left to right) in the center. The Sun is outside the left-hand edge of the 70-degree field of view.

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NASA’s STEREO-A Spacecraft Spots Comet Encke Passing Near the Sun

Published 11th July 2020

Comet NEOWISE deservedly grabbing all the attention, but in other news, comet 2P/Encke has finally perked up.

The stuff at the left of the video is solar outflow. Lots of solar wind action going on in the tail, as it always does with this comet.

By early July, skywatchers at southern latitudes will nab the comet shining around magnitude 7.5 to 8 as it crosses Cancer in evening twilight. Moving rapidly eastward, the comet fades quickly, dimming to 11th magnitude by month's end.

Comet Encke has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within our solar system. It takes 3.30 years for Encke to orbit the Sun once. Its nucleus measures approximately 2,98 miles (4.8 kilometers) in diameter.

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Comet NEOWISE Has A Super-Sized Nucleus - It Is Now Visible In The Evening Sky

Published 12th July 2020

Now we know why Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is so bright. Its nucleus is huge. Researchers working with NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft have analyzed infrared emissions from the comet's core in discovery images from March 2020.

The glow is proportional to the size of the nucleus--the nugget of dust and frozen gas at the heart of the comet. "From its infrared signature, we can tell that the nucleus is about 5 kilometers across," say researchers. 5 km is extremely large for a comet approaching this close to the sun (think Comet McNaught-sized), which explains its high activity.

On July 3rd, Comet NEOWISE passed by the sun near the orbit of Mercury. The oversized nucleus helped it survive the encounter, which some comets would have found too hot to handle. Now NEOWISE's sun-heated core is spewing massive amounts of dust and gas, creating a worldwide sensation.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020. Processed data from the WISPR instrument on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe shows greater detail in the twin tails of comet NEOWISE. The lower, broader tail is the comet’s dust tail, while the thinner, upper tail is the comet’s ion tail.

For Comet NEOWISE, the future looks bright. Its large nucleus is a reservoir of dust and gas that should continue to fill the comet's double tail with visible material for weeks to come.

NEOWISE is now visible in the evening sky. At the moment "Evening Comet" NEOWISE is still a horizon-hugger, low and hard to see. However, it will climb higher in the sunset sky as July unfolds. After July 15th, sunset will be the time and place to see the comet as it rockets northward toward the Big Dipper.

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Star Tsar

12th July 2020, 15:09

Lowell Observatory

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What Is An Opposition? | Jupiter & Saturn At Their Biggest & Brightest In 2020

Published 12th July 2020

Jupiter reaches opposition on the night of July 13-14, 2020, and Saturn reaches opposition on July 20, when each planet is its biggest and brightest in our skies. This is also when an outer planet rises in the east just as the Sun sets in the west, because it is directly opposite the Sun as viewed from Earth, and so we call this an “opposition.”

Join Lowell Observatory at 9pm PDT on Monday, July 13, for a live stream of Jupiter at its biggest and brightest for 2020: https://youtu.be/vHe7d_DyZug.

Join Lowell Observatory at 9pm PDT on Monday, July 20, for a live stream of Saturn at its biggest and brightest for 2020: https://youtu.be/cQg7eDbuD5U.

On both evenings, we'll also show views of much fainter Pluto, which has its own opposition on July 15. Between views of Jupiter, Saturn, or Pluto, we'll conduct an Interactive Stargazing session, showcasing some celestial objects and then letting viewers choose which objects to see via YouTube's chat function.

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Star Tsar

12th July 2020, 15:16

Dr James O'Donoghue

The Astronomical Explanation For Mercury Retrograde

Published 12th July 2020

An astronomical explanation for Mercury's retrograde motion: the inner planet appears to retrace its steps a few times per year. Every planet does this, every year. In fact, there is a planet in retrograde for 75% of 2020.

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 14:08

Seeker

The UAE’s Hope Probe Will Make History As It Heads to Mars

Published 13th July 2020

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The UAE is about to send its first probe to Mars, making history as the first interplanetary mission for the Arab world.

July 2020 is a crowded month for Mars missions, but one mission in particular will be making history in more ways than one.

The Emirates Hope Probe, the first interplanetary mission for the Arab world (the country’s national space program only started in 2006), could provide us with the most comprehensive picture of the Martian atmosphere yet,

In order to get the project off the ground, the team worked with a handful of U.S. institutions, including University of Colorado Boulder and UC Berkeley, setting their sights on a better understanding of Mars’ atmosphere.

Read More:
Emirates Mars Mission (Hope)
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=EMM-HOPE
"The Emirates Mars Mission, or "Hope", is a Mars mission scheduled to launch on 14 July 2020 at 20:51:27 UT."

How a small Arab nation built a Mars mission from scratch in six years
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-020-01862-z/index.html?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=d8ecc52b76-briefing-dy-20200709&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-d8ecc52b76-44374765.
"The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is the Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft — and has jump-started science in the country. Will the momentum last?"

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This 3.2 Gigapixel Camera Will Record A Timelapse Of The Universe

Published 12th July 2020

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will use the world's largest digital camera to capture the far reaches of the universe, and in the process, hope to tackle some of the most fundamental questions in science today.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is the first national observatory to have been named for a woman and it currently houses the world’s largest optical lens ever built.

Measuring 1.55 meters in diameter, this piece of glass is one of three lenses that will be the eyes for a new astronomical camera. The optical lens weighs more than 3 tons and has an enormous field of view, where light from billions of galaxies will come into focus. By recording images of the entire sky every few days, this camera will produce a time-lapse movie of the universe.

In this Focal Point, we hear from Cosmologist Daniel Gruen, PhD, from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Stuart Marshall, a camera operator physicist, to learn more about what this massive digital camera has to offer.

Read More:
Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://lsst.slac.stanford.edu/#
“During the first 10 years of operations, Rubin Observatory will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the entire southern sky and provide the widest, fastest and deepest views of the night sky ever observed.”

Engineering the world’s largest digital camera
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/engineering-the-worlds-largest-digital-camera
“The camera is a combination of many extremes. Its largest lens is one of the biggest ever created for astronomy and astrophysics. The ceramic grid that will hold its imaging sensors is so flat that no feature larger than a human red blood cell sticks up from its surface. The electronics that control the sensors are customized to fit in a very tight space and use as little power as possible.”

First national US observatory to be named after a woman!
https://www.lsst.org/news/vro-press-release
“It was announced today that the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will conduct a vast astronomical survey for unprecedented discovery of the deep and dynamic Universe, will now be named the NSF (National Science Foundation) Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Rubin Observatory).”

Four New Giant Telescopes Are About to Rock Astronomy
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/four-new-giant-telescopes-are-about-to-rock-astronomy
“Now, astronomers stand on the threshold of a new telescope revolution. During the next several years, researchers expect three instruments that are more than twice the size of their closest competitors to start scanning the skies. And a fourth telescope, one “only” 8 meters in diameter, will use advanced technology to image the entire night sky every three days. This quartet of new instruments promises to deliver stunning science on the hot-button issues.”

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 14:36

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 13th June 2020 | Weather Alert, Terrestrial Gamma Flashes, Climate Science

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 14:45

VolcanoYT

Timelapse | Merapi Volcano, Indonesia (https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/es/merapi.html)

Recorded & Published 13th July 2020

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Timelapse | Stromboli Volcano, Italy (https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/stromboli.html)

Recorded & Published 13th July 2020

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 14:57

Weather Events

Strong Winds - Karaganda, Kazajstan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaganda)

Recorded & Published 12th July 2020

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 15:27

European Space Agency

Earth From Space: Bay Of Naples

Published 10th July 2020

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The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the busy maritime traffic in the Bay of Naples, in southern Italy, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme.

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 15:34

Phys.org

Keeping A Steady Eye On Sea Level Change From Space

Published 13th July 2020

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Over the course of nearly three decades, an uninterrupted series of satellites has circled our planet, diligently measuring sea levels. The continuous record of ocean height that they've built has helped researchers reveal the inner workings of weather phenomena like El Niño and to forecast how much the ocean could encroach on coastlines around the world. Now, engineers and scientists are preparing two identical satellites to add to this legacy, extending the dataset another decade.

Both spacecraft are a part of the Sentinel-6/Jason-CS (Continuity of Service) mission, a U.S.-European collaboration that aims to make some of the most accurate measurements of sea levels around the world. The first satellite to launch, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, will lift off in November. Its twin, Sentinel-6B, will launch in 2025. Both will assess sea levels by sending electromagnetic signals down to the ocean and measuring how long it takes for them to return to the spacecraft.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-steady-eye-sea-space.html

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Researchers Find Younger Age For Earth's Moon

Published 13th July 2020

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The moon formed a little later than previously assumed. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the debris ejected during this collision, which became the moon. Planetary geophysicists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), led by Maxime Maurice, together with researchers at the University of Münster, have used a new numerical model to reconstruct the time at which the event occurred—4.425 billion years ago. The previous assumptions about the formation of the moon were based on an age of 4.51 billion years—that, is 85 million years earlier than the new calculations reveal. The scientists have reported their findings in Science Advances.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-younger-age-earth-moon.html

Source paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/28/eaba8949

Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 15:51

Unveiled

Why Has Russia Never Been To The Moon?

Published 13th July 2020

In the 1960s, America won the race to put a man on the moon... but, surprisingly, Russia never followed suit. In this video, Unveiled uncovers the real reasons why the Soviet Union failed to get to the moon, and why NO ONE has been back since 1972. It was originally described as "one giant leap for mankind", so what went wrong?

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 16:01

Insane Curiosity

Ganymede: Jupiter's Oceanic Moon!

Published 12th July 2020

The Finding And Naming Of Ganymede

At present, Jupiter has 79 moons, some of which have only been discovered recently. But in regards to Ganymede, it may have an origin that is far beyond the histories of the other moons.
Chinese astronomical records report that in 365 BC, Gan De detected what might have been a moon of Jupiter, probably Ganymede, with the naked eye. However, Gan De reported the color of the companion as reddish, which is puzzling since the moons are too faint for their color to be perceived with the naked eye. Sh* Shen and Gan De together made fairly accurate observations of the five major planets.
On January 7th, 1610, Galileo Galilei observed what he thought were three stars near Jupiter, including what turned out to be Ganymede, Callisto, and one body that turned out to be the combined light from Io and Europa; the next night he noticed that they had moved. On January 13th, he saw all four at once for the first time, but had seen each of the moons before this date at least once. By January 15th, Galileo came to the conclusion that the stars were actually bodies orbiting Jupiter. Thus, the discovery of the moons.
Galileo originally called Jupiter's moons the Medicean planets, after the Medici family and referred to the individual moons numerically as I, II, III, and IV. Galileo's naming system would be used for a couple of centuries.
It wouldn't be until the mid-1800's that the names of the Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, would be officially adopted, and only after it became apparent that naming moons by number would be very confusing as new additional moons were being discovered.
In mythology, Ganymede was a beautiful young boy who was carried to Olympus by Zeus (the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter) disguised as an eagle. Ganymede became the cupbearer of the Olympian gods. The Greek/Roman pantheons are the epicenter of many names of both planets and moons in our solar system.

Orbits and Rotations
Ganymede orbits Jupiter at a distance of 1,070,400 km, third among the Galilean satellites, and completes a revolution every seven days and three hours. Which indeed means that a "Day" on Ganymede is a week here on Earth, that would be something that would take some getting used to no doubt.
Like most known moons, Ganymede is tidally locked, with one side always facing toward the planet, hence its day is seven days and three hours. Its orbit is very slightly eccentric and inclined to the Jovian equator, with the eccentricity and inclination changing quasi-periodically due to solar and planetary gravitational perturbations on a timescale of centuries.
Ganymede participates in orbital resonances with Europa and Io: for every orbit of Ganymede, Europa orbits twice and Io orbits four times. Conjunctions (alignment on the same side of Jupiter) between Io and Europa occur when Io is at periapsis and Europa at apoapsis. Conjunctions between Europa and Ganymede occur when Europa is at periapsis. The longitudes of the Io–Europa and Europa–Ganymede conjunctions change with the same rate, making triple conjunctions impossible. Such a complicated resonance is called the Laplace resonance.
There are two hypotheses for the origin of the Laplace resonance among Io, Europa, and Ganymede: that it is primordial and has existed from the beginning of the Solar System; or that it developed after the formation of the Solar System. A possible sequence of events for the latter scenario is as follows: Io raised tides on Jupiter, causing Io's orbit to expand (due to conservation of momentum) until it encountered the 2:1 resonance with Europa; after that the expansion continued, but some of the angular moment was transferred to Europa as the resonance caused its orbit to expand as well; the process continued until Europa encountered the 2:1 resonance with Ganymede. Eventually the drift rates of conjunctions between all three moons were synchronized and locked in the Laplace resonance.

Composition
Ganymede has three main layers. A sphere of metallic iron at the center (the core, which generates a magnetic field), a spherical shell of rock (mantle) surrounding the core, and a spherical shell of mostly ice surrounding the rock shell and the core. The ice shell on the outside is very thick, maybe 800 km (497 miles) thick.

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Star Tsar

13th July 2020, 16:05

Dr Becky Smethurst

Saturn's Spongey Moon Hyperion

Published 8th July 2020

Saturn's moon Hyperion is the poster child for the potato-shaped moons in the solar system. But unlike other potato-shaped moons, it's not thought to be a captured asteroid. So, does it's weird spongey looking surface give away how it might have formed?

Thomas et al. (2007) - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05779
Matthews (1992) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1992QJRAS..33..253M
Cruikshank et al. (2007) - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05948

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Star Tsar

14th July 2020, 21:14

TheVerge.com

NASA Is Updating Its Guidelines On How To Prevent Contamination Of The Solar System

Published 9th July 2020

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After years of debate, NASA plans to update its guidelines for how much biological contamination of other worlds will be allowed while the agency explores the Solar System. The new rules would relax some of the agency’s requirements for how to explore the Moon and Mars — two high-profile destinations where NASA hopes to send astronauts in the coming years.

For decades, NASA has followed fairly strict rules about how much biological contamination is considered acceptable whenever the agency sends probes — or people — to other planets. It’s a concept known as planetary protection, and it has a legal basis in a treaty signed more than 50 years ago. Called the Outer Space Treaty, it challenges nations to explore other worlds “so as to avoid their harmful contamination” and to not bring back any alien microbes from other worlds that could cause harm to Earth.

Read all about it here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/9/21318986/nasa-planetary-protection-guidelines-moon-mars-artemis-human-exploration

Star Tsar

14th July 2020, 21:21

TamithaSkov

Space Weather News | Two Solar Storms, One Hits Earth

Published 14th July 2020

This week our Sun launched two solar storms, one of which was Earth-directed! The storm has hit, right on time and all through the night people have been getting some amazing aurora shots down to mid-latitudes along with comet NEOWISE (as far south as Michigan in the USA, from what Ive seen thus far)! If you are a member of my Patreon community or follow me on Twitter, you got an early warning of this solar storm and hopefully got some once-in-a-lifetime shots! This solar storm is now waning, but should continue over the next day or so before things return to quiet. As for our star, it continues to be spotless, which means the solar flux is in the high 60s and radio propagation on Earth's dayside continues to be poor. However, this low solar flux means GPS reception on the dayside should be pretty good-- just be careful on Earth's nightside with the ongoing solar storm. Especially if you are near aurora or near dawn or dusk, your GPS reception will likely be unreliable. Learn more details about this ongoing solar storm, how long aurora will last, and see what else our Sun has in store this week!

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Star Tsar

14th July 2020, 21:25

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 14th June 2020 | Cosmic Rays Spike, Red Stars, Earth Structure

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Star Tsar

14th July 2020, 21:31

Liv Boeree

How Long Is The Earth?

Published 14th July 2020

How far would the Earth stretch if you cut it up into Minecraft sized 1m cubes and lay them in a line through space? What about if you arrange it into a square?

Volume is a SERIOUSLY underrated phenomenon - our minds routinely underestimate how much stuff three dimensional objects contain. To understand why, join me on this thought experiment voyage through the spatial dimensions we call home - expect tennis ball stars, galactic moving vans and homeopathic swimming pools.

Curious about these calculations? Check out the math here: https://livboeree.com/2020/06/29/how-long-is-the-earth-video-calculations/

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Star Tsar

14th July 2020, 21:37

Weather Events

Freak Hail Storm - Gyumri, Armenia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyumri)

Recorded 13th & Published 14th July 2020

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Flash Floods - Cayeli, Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87ayeli)

Recorded 12th & 13th & Published 14th July 2020

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Sea Foam Storm - Cape Town, South Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town)

Recorded 13th & Published 14th July 2020

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Severe Rain Storm & Hail - Valencia, Spain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia)

Recorded 13th & Published 14th July 2020

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:21

NASA Langley Research Center

CALIPSO Observes Saharan Dust Transport

Published 14th July 2020

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:25

Exploring Space

Orbital Mechanics In Sixty Seconds

Published 11th July 2020

Explaining basic space travel visually, without any math or difficult terminology, using the example of a trip to the moon.

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:29

SciShow Space

The First Time We Met A Comet, We Blew A Hole In It

Published 14th July 2020

In the first mission of its kind, Deep Impact’s goal was to teach us about the interior of comets...by blowing a hole in the side of one!

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:34

Scott Manley

NEOWISE - The Comet & The Story Of The Spacecraft Which Discovered It

Published 14th July 2020

Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE is now visible to observers in the Northern Hemisphere. You can see it in the twilight just before sunrise and now, just after sunset without any binoculars or telescopes, it's the best comet in over a decade.

However, the spacecraft which discovered it has a pretty amazing story, it was launched just over a decade ago, helped find 3 new stars close to the Sun, and a huge catalog of asteroids. After its primary mission ended it was reactived as an asteroid survey telescope and Comet NEOWISE is one of its discoveries.

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:39

Vice

Scientists Discovered A Gigantic Structure In A Hidden Zone Of Space

Published 13th July 2020

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Scientists have spotted a gargantuan bow-like structure made of galaxies that stretches for 1.4 billion light years across the skies above the South Pole.

This “South Pole Wall” is one of the biggest structures ever glimpsed by humans, and its discovery was announced in a study published on Friday in The Astrophysical Journal.

“When our visualizations indicated something going on at the celestial South Pole, we were surprised: indeed there were no reports of a large scale structure in this region,” said Daniel Pomarède, a cosmographer at Paris-Saclay University in France who led the new study

Read all about it here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8vg7/scientists-discovered-a-gigantic-structure-in-a-hidden-zone-of-space?utm_content=1594656288&utm_medium=social&utm_source=VICE_twitter

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:43

CNN.com

New Stars Found In The Milky Way Were Born Outside Of It

Published 13th July 2020

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Astronomers have found a new stream of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, but they likely didn't originate there, according to a new study.

This new star cluster has been named Nyx, for the Greek goddess of the night. They are within the vicinity of our sun's location in the galaxy and extend about 6,000 light-years above and below the plane of the Milky Way galaxy if you were to view it from the side.
The study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1131-2.epdf?sharing_token=2RT60G6QX8pP7-fGoJnvINRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Mq3fdQAZsAtY7Q6FxuakNtbhEKxyKIugF0KF-bGpOgZ-N5JSk5uFieMqObpFVfPmM06zaRRIpzeuO4q-y_nYNg_22QCyrOJFRwmp8TQFHO6uzbX7mBwCm9o3YehpbzhWOZ2h__FvoH7QKCV7to902XBJ4KZrw8OCIx5VTVGYnq8MgSxJRqcx LJU3McXJfyDycgJgq6Aj00Vr5XFgT4U--hMR9Rw3N4qBMOukwi8kwtkBOSbTZWzleGectBK8XB9zs%3D&tracking_referrer=edition.cnn.com).

Read all about it here: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/12/world/milky-way-stars-nyx-scn-trnd/index.html

Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:47

Learn The Sky

Ophiuchus

Published 14th June 2020

Ophiuchus is a large and ancient constellation that has been in existence since the time of the Babylonians. It is sometimes mistakenly called the 13th zodiacal constellation since technically the sun spends about two weeks in this star pattern. It isn't officially classified as a zodiacal constellation even though the sun spends more time in this constellation than Scorpius. Ophiuchus is a large constellation that has many celestial objects situated in its boundaries, including globular clusters and a variety of nebulae.

0:12 - Subscribe to Learn the Sky
0:37 - Intro to Ophiuchus
5:32 - Pattern of Ophiuchus
8:29 - Practice finding Ophiuchus
6:37 - Finding the South Celestial Pole
12:52 - Legends of Ophiuchus:11 - Crux on National Flags
15:07 - Review of Ophiuchus
16:26 - Photo Attributes

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 00:56

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Discovery Of Six New Exomoons Around Distant Planets

Published 13th July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about the discovery of six new exomoons around planets far, far away.

Source paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12997

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Eleven Space Anomalies From New SETI's Exotica Catalog

Published 14th July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about the newly released Exotica catalog that includes some of the more unique science anomalies.

Read more: http://seti.berkeley.edu/exotica/
Source Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11304.pdf
Catalog: http://seti.berkeley.edu/exotica/Exotica_FullAppendices.pdf

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 01:05

SatelliteInternet.com

US States With The Most UFO Sightings In 2020

Published 24th June 2020

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UFO sightings are on the radar these days thanks to the Pentagon’s official release of UFO videos. Last year, Americans reported almost twice as many UFO sightings to the National UFO Reporting Center than the previous year—jumping from 3,456 sightings in 2018 to 6,340 sightings in 2019.

Read all about it here: https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/states-with-the-most-ufo-sightings/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 01:09

The Richard Dolan Show

A Five Hour Deep Dive Into The Wilson UFO Leak

Streamed & Published 30th May 2020

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By now most people following the field of UFOs and ufology are at least somewhat aware of the notes known as the Wilson Document, or the Core Secrets Document, or the Davis-Wilson notes. These are 13 pages of typed notes written by Dr. Eric Davis in 2002, after he met with a recently retired Admiral named Thomas R. Wilson. Wilson had recently been head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the DIA, and head of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The subject of their conversation concerned Wilson's failed attempt five years earlier to gain access to a deeply classified UFO program concerned with studying an intact craft "not made by man."

Richard's guest for this program is an anonymous researcher known only as Mr X. This individual wants his anonymity and we are respecting that desire. Previously, Mr. X did a three hour interview on this subject at another Youtube Channel, Project Unity. The interview with Richard was initially intended to be a short one-hour version; instead they went for five hours, by the end of which Richard was starting to lose his voice.

This is a very detailed breakdown of the document, with a great deal of engaging conversation throughout. This is a truly deep dive into the UFO Leak of the Century. Before the interview begins, Richard provides a 9-minute overview of what is to follow.

Mr. X's interview at Project Unity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5P04uI2hu0

Read the Davis-Wilson Notes at Richard's site here:
https://richarddolanmembers.com/articles/article-ufo-leak-of-the-century-richard-dolan-analyzes-the-admiral-wilson-leak/

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 01:18

Paul Stonehill Paranormal Research

Dyatlov Pass: New Developments

Published 14th June 2020

In February of last year, Sixtyyears after the incident, the Prosecutor General's office announced they will conduct verification of the investigation of the Dyatlov group case. At the press conference on Saturday, July 11, 2020, the representative of the Prosecutor General's office in the Ural Federal district, Andrey Kuryakov, said…

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 01:22

Ancient Astronaut Archive

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Zecharia Sitchin and the Anunnaki Paradigm - 100th Birthday Special

Published 11th July 2020

As we close out this special presentation in honor of Mr. Sitchin’s 100th birthday, the Archive declares its enormous respect and debt of gratitude to a man that has forever changed how humanity should view its origins and, for that matter, its future development. We celebrate his birth and not his death because in many ways, Sitchin never died. The truth he uncovered is eternal regardless of its non-acceptance in the currently flawed academic and religious paradigms of our day. Each day that passes see more validation of work versus negation thereof.

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 07:34

Open Minds Productions

Speilberg & UFOs

Streamed & Published 14th June 2020

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was one of Speilberg's first hit movies. What you may not know is that Steven Speilberg based the film on real UFO research conducted by the US government & It's famous consultant Dr J Allen Hynek.
However Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was not the only movie of Speilberg's inspired by alleged real UFO & Alien encounters. In this presentation Alejandro covers the incredible cases that influenced many of Mr Speilberg's films, The rumour that he was given a unique insight into UFOs by former president Ronald Reagan, His connection to a UFO presentation to the United Nations & The recent revelation that the pentagon has/conducted a UFO investigation project.
Speilberg, A self proclaimed UFOlogist, Seems to know much more about UFOs & Aliens than he lets the general public know...

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 07:49

Spaced Out Radio

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Mary Rodwell | Alien Contact

Broadcast 14th & Published 15th July 2020

Mary Rodwell is the founder of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network, Which she established in 1997. Mary is one of the most recognized researchers & profressionals when it comes to investigating people who've claimed to have had alien contact.
With over three thousand cases under her belt, Mary continues to search for answers to the question of why ETs are contacting some of us. (Not me sadly...)

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 08:01

Mysterious Matters

Dr David Jacobs | Alien Hybridization Program: Replacing Human DNA With Alien Genetics

Published 11th May 2020

Joining Mysterious Matters is Dr. David Jacobs. Dr. Jacobs is a Historian and a prolific researcher into alien abduction cases. He was mentored by Budd Hopkins, and still utilizes some of the same techniques that Budd Hopkins used. What if there is an invasive program going on and most of us are unaware of the hybrid beings surrounding us? That is the hypothesis of Dr. Jacobs’ research and discussion. Bob focuses on the heavily criticized techniques of hypnosis and explores the possibility that instead of acting as a jackhammer to release memories from blocked areas that the hypnotic state may instead be acting as a Trojan horse—infusing false memories. Dr. Jacobs also touches on the Emma Woods’ accusations and controversy. Other topics touched on include: Are alien abductions a physical event or a psychological one?

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Star Tsar

15th July 2020, 11:26

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 15th & 16th June 2020

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Star Tsar

16th July 2020, 16:41

Chuck's AstroPhotography

Solar Orbiter Shows Closest Pictures Ever Captured Of The Sun

Published 16th July 2020

On July 16, 2020, NASA made their first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter available to the public. These are the closest pictures ever captured of the sun.

Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, to study our closest star, the Sun.

Solar Orbiter carries six imaging instruments, each of which studies a different aspect of the Sun.

Principal investigator David Berghmans, an astrophysicist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, points out what he calls “campfires” dotting the Sun in EUI’s images - see the arrows.

“The campfires we are talking about here are the little nephews of solar flares, at least a million, perhaps a billion times smaller"

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Star Tsar

16th July 2020, 16:45

Primal Space

The Power Of Space Solar Power

Published 16th July 2020

As space becomes more accessible and many industries start to move over to more renewable energy sources, the idea of a solar power farm in space could be the next step in creating a cleaner future. A solar farm in space could also be used to power electric airplanes in mid flight, reducing the need for heavy batteries and allowing them to fly much further.

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Star Tsar

16th July 2020, 16:54

CNBC.com

Top Russian Space Official Dismisses NASA’s Moon Plans, Considering A Lunar Base With China Instead

Published 15th July 2020

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The head of Russia’s space organization criticized the current United States plan to return astronauts to the moon as “a big political project,” saying his country is instead speaking with China about establishing a lunar base of operations.

NASA last year announced its Artemis program, the agency’s plan to fulfill President Donald Trump’s order in 2017 to return Americans to the surface of the moon by 2024. Additionally, NASA in May unveiled the “Artemis Accords” — a set of principles it seeks to use as the basis of international agreements with other countries about using and operating in space, especially as the U.S. returns to the moon.

Read all about it here: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/russia-space-chief-dmitry-rogozin-dismisses-nasas-moon-program-considering-china-lunar-base.html

Star Tsar

16th July 2020, 17:01

Asteroid Station

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Asteroid (2020 NO)

Published 15th & Expected 22nd July 2020

This asteroids will come close to Earth but it will not be closer than the Moon. The asteroids is classified as an Apollo asteroid because of the axis and it was discovered one week ago. The asteroid's size is around 25 meters, which is about 82 feet and the closest distance to Earth will be about 2.0 LD, which is over 400,000 miles away from Earth.

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Asteroid (2020 ND)

Published 18th & Expected 24th July 2020

A new asteroid that was discovered last month is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA). The object is larger than the New York Times Building and it is travailing over 30,000 MPH. Asteroid (2020 ND) is expected to miss Earth by millions of miles, which will be at 14 LD from Earth.

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Star Tsar

18th July 2020, 21:52

Nemesis Maturity

Spectacular Double Meteor Shower Set To Put On A Dazzling Display

Published 17th July 2020

Every year in late July, the Earth passes through the debris left by two comets. This year, both meteor showers peak on the same night.

A celestial traffic jam may be on tap in July 28-29, as two meteor showers combine forces to put on a brilliant sky show. The Delta Aquarids meteor shower and the Alpha Capricornids set to put on a dazzling display. Together the showers will produce anywhere between 30 and 40 shooting stars per hour under clear dark skies.

Delta Aquariid meteors leave persistent trains – glowing ionized gas trails that last a second or two after the meteor has passed. The meteors burn up in the upper atmosphere about 60 miles (100 km) above Earth’s surface.

The best viewing hours are after midnight and before dawn for all time zones around the world. Find an open sky away from artificial lights and don’t worry too much about radiant points. The meteors will appear in all parts of the sky.

The Delta Aquariid meteor shower is officially active from about July 12 to August 23 each year. It favors the Southern Hemisphere, though is still visible from mid-northern latitudes.

The Alpha Capricornids are active from July 3 through August 15 with a "plateau-like" maximum centered on July 30. What is notable about this shower is the number of bright fireballs produced during its activity period. This shower is seen equally well on either side of the equator.

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Here's How to See Comet NEOWISE Just After Sunset

Published 17th July 2020

Observers in the Northern Hemisphere are hoping to catch a glimpse of Comet NEOWISE as it zips through the inner solar system before it speeds away into the depths of space. Discovered on March 27, 2020 by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission, Comet NEOWISE is putting on a dazzling display for skywatchers before it disappears, not to be seen again for another 6,800 years.

For those hoping to catch a glimpse of Comet NEOWISE before it’s gone, there are several observing opportunities over the coming days when it will become increasingly visible shortly after sunset in the northwest sky. If you’re looking at the sky without the help of observation tools, Comet NEOWISE will likely look like a fuzzy star with a bit of a tail, so using binoculars or a small telescope is recommended to get the best views of this object.

For those hoping to see Comet Neowise for themselves, here’s what to do:

Find a spot away from city lights with an unobstructed view of the sky.

Just after sunset, look below the Big Dipper in the northwest sky.

If you have them, bring binoculars or a small telescope to get the best views of this dazzling display.

Each night, the comet will continue rising increasingly higher above the northwestern horizon.

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Star Tsar

18th July 2020, 21:58

Astro Bytes

Twenty Stunning Images Of Comet NEOWISE

Published 12th July 2020

Comet Neowise is paying a visit to the inner solar system for the first time in 6,800 years. The comet has been getting brighter and brighter in the early morning sky. Neowise is one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century, an inner-solar system "intruder" that might become known as the Great Comet of 2020, NASA said.

Although it's visible with the naked eye, a simple telescope or pair of binoculars can reveal more details, especially when it is seen before twilight in the morning or after twilight in the evening.

The comet survived its recent closest approach to the sun, and is now headed back toward the outer solar system. Measuring about 3 miles across, Neowise is considered a fairly large comet

Comet NEOWISE, is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020 by the NEOWISE space telescope. The comet is low in the morning sky just above the northeastern horizon and below Capella close to the glare of twilight. It can be clearly seen with the naked eye if one knows where to look. The comet is expected to remain visible to the naked eye throughout July 2020.

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Star Tsar

18th July 2020, 22:05

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 17th & 18th June 2020

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Star Tsar

18th July 2020, 22:15

Volcano Time-Lapse

Explosion | Volcán de Fuego (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volc%C3%A1n_de_Fuego), Guatemala

Recorded & Published 17th July 2020

At 20:54 CDT an activity registered.

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Crater Activity | Popocatepetl Volcano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl), Mexico

Recorded & Published 18th July 2020

At 03:25 CDT activity in the crater was observed.

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Star Tsar

18th July 2020, 22:35

Weather Events

Severe Flooding - Rostov-on-Don, Russia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostov-on-Don) & Hubei Province, China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubei)

Recorded 17th & Published 18th July 2020

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High Tide - Java, Indonesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java) & Landslides - Ganderbal, India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganderbal_district) & Xujiadu, China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changxing_County)

Recorded 17th - 18th & Published 18th July 2020

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Star Tsar

18th July 2020, 22:40

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 258

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Published 18th July 2020

Spreading worldwide like a wildfire, is it in the air? A recent headline to consider, - "Coronavirus: Fishermen test positive despite spending 35 days at sea and testing negative before they left”.
What are actually the most dire and immediate challenges we collectively face? What will unfold during the coming weeks and months?
Populations are beginning to awaken to the deception and oppression that they have been subjected to by global power structures.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-july-18-2020-258/

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Star Tsar

18th July 2020, 22:45

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

An Interesting Claim That Forests Make Rain & Wind On Earth

Published 18th July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about an interesting theory that suggests our planet's atmosphere is filled with so-called flying rivers created by forests around the world, suggesting that forests control the water distribution and even wind on the planets.

Source article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/controversial-russian-theory-claims-forests-don-t-just-make-rain-they-make-wind

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Star Tsar

19th July 2020, 01:25

Lunar Princess

New Moon & Saturn At Opposition

Published 18th July 2020

July 20th 2020 New Moon is also with Saturn exactly opposite Cancer in Capricorn, bringing you a clear notion on what is working in your life and what isn’t.

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Star Tsar

19th July 2020, 01:30

Real Engineering

Are Space Elevators Possible?

Published 18th July 2020

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Star Tsar

19th July 2020, 01:43

JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

Ten Cool Things About Pluto

Published 18th July 2020

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Five years ago, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft - designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL - conducted the first close-up exploration of Pluto. Since then, scientists have uncovered numerous surprising, revolutionary and downright unbelievable things about Pluto and its moons that have transformed our view of these distant icy worlds.

Here are ten of the coolest, weirdest and most unexpected findings about the Pluto system that scientists have learned since 2015, thanks to data from New Horizons.

Read all about it here:
https://www.jhuapl.edu/FeatureStory/200714b-five-years-after-New-Horizons-10-things-learned-about-Pluto

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 15:23

Cincinnati Enquirer

How To Spot Jupiter & Saturn As They Return To The Night Sky

Published 21st July 2020

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They’re big, they’re bright, and they’re back in the nighttime sky. The largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, are putting on a light show every night, and this is the perfect month to see them yourself.

Read all about it here: https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2020/07/21/how-spot-jupiter-and-saturn-they-return-night-sky/5476090002/

Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 15:33

Inverse.com

Mercury At Its Highest On Wednesday Night

Published 21st July 2020

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Celestial objects come and go from our view in the night sky, as they fling by or orbit around the Sun. Whether it be the full moon or a meteor shower or just the best night to see Mars, we're here to direct your eyes skyward and tell you to look up and appreciate the wonders of space from Earth.

This week, we're asking you to marvel at the beauty of the planet Mercury as it reaches its longest elongation in the west on Wednesday, July 22 shortly after sunset, and will be visible to sky gazers through the night.

Read all about it here: https://www.inverse.com/science/mercury-longest-elongation-west

Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 15:41

Very Interesting Channel

How Did The Planet Uranus Get Its Name?

Published 21st July 2020

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 16:23

The Great Science

Thirty Seven Volcanoes Found On Venus

Published 21st July 2020

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Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. As the second-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, Venus can cast shadows and can be, on rare occasion, visible to the naked eye in broad daylight. Venus lies within Earth's orbit, and so never appears to venture far from the Sun, either set in the west just after dusk or rising in the east a bit before dawn. Venus orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth day

Scientists have long known that Venus remained active long after fellow rocky planets Mercury and Mars lost their geological mojo. The second rock from the sun sports far fewer craters than those two worlds, a count that's consistent with a global resurfacing event some 500 million to 700 million years ago.

The researchers, led by geophysicist Anna Gülcher of ETH Zürich in Switzerland, used computer simulations to model in unprecedented detail the formation and evolution of Venus' ring-shaped volcanic structures, which are called coronae.

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Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/venus-active-volcanoes-coronae.html

Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 16:30

Atlas Pro

Intro To Areography | The Geography Of Mars

Published 20th July 2020

An overview of the most important structures on Mars and their relation to one another.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 18:08

ScienceAlert.com

Neptune Rains Diamonds, And Now We Might Know How

Published 29th June 2020

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Deep within the hearts of Neptune & Uranus, It could be raining diamonds. Now scientists have produced experimental evidence of how this might be possible.

Read all about it here: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-wild-laboratory-experiment-supports-diamond-rain-on-neptune-and-uranus

Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 20:51

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 19th - 22nd June 2020

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 20:55

AGU

How Prepared Are We For A Carrington Level Solar Storm?

Published 20th July 2020

Space weather and solar storms pose an increasing threat to our modern technological world but what are we doing about it.
In this video, we look at what we have found out about how the coronal mass ejections affect not only our tech but the earth itself and how we can use the latest data from solar observatories and geoelectrical mapping to mitigate even a Carrington level event in the future.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:00

AGU

Animation: Earth’s Magnetic Field Changes Over Time

Published 22nd July 2020

Earth is surrounded by a constantly changing magnetic field that shields our habitat against harmful radiation from cosmic rays and the solar wind. A new study in AGU’s journal Reviews of Geophysics summarizes what scientists currently know about how Earth’s magnetic field has evolved over the past 100,000 years.

This animation shows how the intensity of Earth’s magnetic field changed from 44,000 to 38,000 years ago. Around 41,000 years ago, a geomagnetic excursion happened, when the global geomagnetic field intensity reduced dramatically. This event, known as the Laschamp excursion, is the best-documented geomagnetic excursion; evidence of it has been found in geological records around the world. You can see the intensity of the field change from pink (strong) to white (weak) as time progresses.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:04

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Earth Atmosphere Is Ringing Like A Bell & We Just Heard It!

Published 21st July 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a recent discovery that suggests Earth's atmosphere is ringing like a bell.

Source article: https://journals.ametsoc.org/jas/article/77/7/2519/347483/An-Array-of-Ringing-Global-Free-Modes-Discovered

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:08

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CNET

Get An Astronaut's View Of Earth From This Passenger Balloon

Published 22nd July 2020

Space Perspective (https://thespaceperspective.com/aboutus/) wants to be world's first company offering passenger rides to the stratosphere, on a balloon.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:19

Weather Events

Bad Weather Strikes Around

Recorded 20th & Published 21st July 2020

00:00 Germany - hurricane winds, heavy rains hit berlin today july 20th.
02:04 Russia , floods nizhniye sergi, sverdlovsk, july 20
04:33 Slovakia - severe storm , heavy winds whip stara lubovna, july 20
05:44 Czech republic - supercell strong storm over pardubice, july 20
06:01 Tunisia flash floods , july 20
07:42 Emirates flash floods , july 21

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Heavy Rains - Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharjah) | Thunderstorms - Burgenland, Austria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenland) | Heavy Rains - Győr, Hungary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C5%91r)

Recorded & Published 21st July 2020

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Heavy Rains - Saint-Étienne, France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne)

Recorded & Published 21st July 2020

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:26

Volcano Time-Lapse

Eruption | Popocatepetl Volcano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl), Mexico

Recorded & Published 22nd July 2020

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Uploader's comment:

Popo has been throwing up a column of ash/gasses for a couple hours now I guess. It's nice to see the activity. Beautiful...

Event was observed at 09:30 CDT.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:30

Nemesis Maturity

Comet NEOWISE Is Approaching Earth

Published 22nd July 2020

Tomorrow night may be your best chance to see Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) for the next 6,800 years. On July 23rd, the comet makes its closest approach to Earth--only 0.63 AU (103 million km) away. It's still visible to the naked eye (barely) from dark sky sites, but will fade as it recedes after this week.

If you can't see the comet after the sky fades to black on Thursday, try using binoculars. Even a little magnification brings NEOWISE into view. Short exposures with digital cameras reveal the comet's magnificent double tail.

Comet NEOWISE is now in the constellation Ursa Major. To find it, look north-northwest after sunset and let the stars of the Big Dipper be your guide.
And if you miss the comet ... no worries. It'll be back in 6,800 years!

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:34

Meteoroides.net

Meteor | Sevilla, Spain

Recorded & Published 22nd June 2020

This beautiful meteor overflew the south of Spain on 2020 July 22 at about 3:49 local time (equivalent to 1:49 universal time). It was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from a comet that hit the atmosphere at around 220,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 120 km over the Gulf of Cadiz (Atlantic Ocean), and ended at a height of around 75 km over the sea level.

The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, which is being conducted by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN). The event was spotted from the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla and Calar Alto.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:44

SpaceForce.mil

The U.S. Space Force Logo & Motto

Published 22nd June 2020

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The U.S Space Force released its logo and motto, Semper Supra (Always Above), July 22, 2020 at the Pentagon, D.C. The logo and motto honor the heritage and history of the U.S. Space Force.

Taken from here (https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2282948/the-us-space-force-logo-and-motto)

Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:48

SciShow Space

Cosmic Shear: Revealing The Invisible Universe

Published 21st July 2020

What exactly are the invisible things out there, and how did they help form the universe as we know it? To explore and understand the most spectacular structures out there, scientists have been using cosmic shear to indirectly detect dark matter, and map out and how it’s distributed around the universe.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 21:55

PBS SpaceTime

The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars

Published 20th July 2020

When we detected the very first gravitational wave, a new window was opened to the mysteries of the universe. We knew we’d see things previously thought impossible. And we just did - an object on the boundary between neutron stars and black holes, which promises to reveal the secrets of both.

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 22:07

PopularMechanics.com

We've Never Witnessed Exoplanets Orbiting a Sun-Like Star. That Changes Now.

Published 22nd June 2020

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Three-hundred light-years away, in the constellation Musca, our sun has a twin. The star, charmingly named TYC 8998-760-1, is similar to our sun, but younger—just 16.7 million years old—and astronomers believe it could reveal secrets about how our own solar system evolved.

Two massive exoplanets are circling the star along wide, sweeping orbits. Earlier this year, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile snapped an incredible picture of the star system.

Read all about it here: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a33391505/exoplanet-orbiting-sun-like-star-image/

Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 22:15

Podcast UFO

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Nigel Watson | History & Analysis Of American Abduction Claims

Published 14th July 2020

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Our guest is longtime UFO researcher, Nigel Watson discusses his latest book, Captured by Aliens?: A History and Analysis of American Abduction Claims and gets into the details of what he researched and his interesting takes on the incidents.

Nigel Watson has researched and investigated historical and contemporary reports of UFO sightings since the 1970s.

He has published articles in Fortean Times, Fate, Flying Saucer Review, Magonia and UFO Magazine, and is the author of 'UFOs of the First War,' the 'UFO Investigations Manual' and 'Captured by Aliens? A History and Analysis of American Abduction Claims.' He lives in Plymouth, UK.

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/show-notes/nigel-watson

Nigel's book available here (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089G91VQY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0)

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Michael Schratt | Dark Files A Pictorial History Of UFOs

Published 21st July 2020

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uest Michael Schratt discusses his new illustrated book, DARK FILES: A Pictorial History of Lost Forgotten and Obscure UFO Encounters. This book covers the work he did between 2008 and 2009, as he meticulously reviewed a minimum of 50,000 cases which were preserved at the CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies). He discusses several unusual cases in his book and much more.

Digital artwork by Tom Bogan with the exception of the 1983 Alabama case, by John McNeill.

Michael Schratt (private pilot/aviation historian) has been investigating UFO encounters for over 25 years. Between 2008 and 2009, Michael meticulously reviewed a minimum of 50,000 cases which were preserved at the CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) archives in Chicago. In an effort to maintain an important part of our national history, Michael has re-created dozens of highly credible UFO cases by the use of drawings, illustrations and commissioned artwork. Many of these include USO (Unidentified Submerged Objects), actual extraterrestrial encounters, and pre-history UFO cases which have never seen the light of day. Michael has appeared on multiple media platforms including the following: Coast to Coast AM, History Channel, Paranormal Matrix, UFO Hunters, Fade to Black. In addition, Michael has been a guest speaker at multiple UFO conferences including the following: Phoenix MUFON, Orange County MUFON, International UFO Congress, MUFON Symposium and UFO CON.

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/show-notes/michael-schratt

Michael's book available here: https://www.amazon.com/DARK-FILES-Pictorial-Forgotten-Encounters-ebook/dp/B08D6FM2L3

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 22:20

The Richard Dolan Show

Danny Silva | Citizen Journalist Of UFOs

Streamed & Published 21st July 2020

Richard interviews Danny Silva of The Silva Record, one of the leading new sources of journalism and analysis related to the field of UFOs. Danny has been working this subject for several years and has developed a reputation for integrity and professionalism, all while engaged in this subject as someone who just wants to get answers.

See Danny Silva at https://silvarecord.com/

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Star Tsar

22nd July 2020, 22:37

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A Beginner's Guide To Disinformation In Ufology

Published 19th July 2020

0:00 SOM 1-01 manual
1:19 Disinformation clues
2:37 First MJ12 document
4:03 Doty's comments in 2000s
4:52 Sparks-Greenwood findings
6:02 Lesser-known 90s MJ12 files
7:43 Cooper confesses to Hastings
8:29 Conclusion

There are hundreds of pages of disputed Majestic 12 documents, many lesser known that came out in the 1990s. Every individual who received these admitted later they believed they were fake, but couldn't be sure how much of the material was added.

Rather than a simple scheme to make money from these, there is testimony from government insiders the Air Force Office of Special Investigations was running a coordinated disinformation campaign meant to mislead ufologists.

What did some of these documents say? How can we determine they're likely disinformation? And why would there be an effort to divide UFO researchers, or muddy the waters any time someone brings up a UFO information control group?

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Star Tsar

26th July 2020, 12:53

Preston Dennett

Night Of The UFOs

Published 25th July 2020

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On the evening of June 14, 1992, a massive UFO wave occurred over the small community of Topanga Canyon, California. Hundreds of UFOs were seen by multiple witnesses across the canyon. Objects hovered over homes, shot across the sky, chased cars down the road, even lifting one up in the sky. But the full story has never been told. Until now. This video presents brand new startling information about this famous case, including excerpts from phone calls made to the police, new eyewitnesses, photographs and more, including an apparent abduction.

On this evening, numerous people called the police, the local newspaper, and UFO groups. In this video, you will hear the police tape firsthand, and listen to actual witnesses reporting the incredible events which occurred on that evening. The night of June 14, 1992 remains one of the most incredible UFO events in California history, and marked the beginning of a two-year-long UFO wave of stupendous proportions.

My book, "UFOs over Topanga" tells the story of this UFO wave, and for those who are interested, is available on here (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567182216/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=officialweb0f-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=52255d757aa9a2b12ad3d23b0b026ccc&creativeASIN=1567182216).

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Star Tsar

26th July 2020, 13:14

Open Minds Productions

UFO News Roundup

Streamed & Published 25th July 2020

Host Alejandro Rojas discusses the UFO news of the week with a guest. This week's guest: Martin Willis of Podcast UFO fame.

Main focus of discussion on this episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html

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Star Tsar

26th July 2020, 13:27

Project Unity

Leslie Kean & Ralph Blumenthal | First Interview On Their Latest NYT Article

Published 25th July 2020

I was fortunate enough to conduct and I am now proud to present, the very first interview with both Ralph Blumenthal & Leslie Kean regarding their long-standing and ongoing investigations into the secrecy apparatus behind the UFO / UAP Issue which has recently culminated into a brand new article in The New York Times that quotes a high-level senior scientist (Dr. Eric W. Davis) and a former senate majority leader (Senator Harry Reid) on the subject of UFO / UAP Crash Retrieval Programs that may be operating within the US Government and perhaps even outside of the USG's purview via corporate aerospace & defence contractors.

I imagine we can expect further publications from these two journalists on this topic and although some of us within the UFO community feel that more could have been added, I consider this article to be a tremendous victory for the UFO community. The ball just got pushed a little further down the field.

Source article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Star Tsar

26th July 2020, 13:34

Fox Crow

Something Smells Funny About That N.Y. Times Article Concerning UFO's

Published 25th July 2020

Dr Davis' work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric_Davis6

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Star Tsar

26th July 2020, 14:01

Winnipeg.CTVNews.ca

UFO Sightings Across Canada Have Spiked During The Pandemic

Published 25th July 2020

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There’s been a significant increase in UFO sightings across Canada during the pandemic, according to a UFO researcher.

Chris Rutkowski, a ufology researcher, said Canada keeps track of all the UFOs reported throughout the years.

In 2019, there were 849 cases, a 10 per cent decrease from the year before, but it seems things - and Canadians - are looking up this year.

Read all about it here: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/ufo-sightings-across-canada-have-spiked-during-the-pandemic-1.5038118

2019 Report

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gl-R8e9tIAkyX-4_RaknYRhM-aYtVMQV/view

Star Tsar

26th July 2020, 14:05

ECETI Stargate

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ECETI Live Skywatch

Published 22nd July 2020

From James Gilliland's ECETI Ranch at the Base of Mt. Adams, Located in Beautiful Trout Lake Washington.

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Star Tsar

28th July 2020, 05:26

Ancient Astronaut Archive

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History Of The UFO

Published 25th July 2020

The word UFO is an abbreviation which comes from the initial letters of the words ‘unidentified flying object’. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ‘unidentified flying object’ goes back at least to the 1950's: it is recorded in 1953, in a book by the US aviator and writer Donald Keyhoe. The OED also gives a citation in 1956 by Edward Ruppelt, an officer in the USAF, stating that he had invented the term as a more general one to replace the earlier description for such objects, flying saucer.

Most of our viewers are very well acquainted with the term UFO and are likely familiar with the many sightings and contact accounts since the 1940's and the entire 20th century for that matter. But, was this the only period in human history where such unexplained craft appeared? The answer is of course no. There are literally hundreds of written accounts from around the world prior to the 20th century describing unusual craft in the skies. The main difference in those accounts as compared to the modern ones, is the lack of photographs and videos that record the event. With that said, it is the Archive’s opinion that the lack of such modern recording technology does not make these written accounts any less credible.

This presentation begins with the written accounts from the 19th century and then stretches back several millennia to catalog sightings of UFOs before they were actually called UFOs. Of course, we cannot itemize every single event throughout our known history, but we are certain that we have enough to satisfy the curiosity of even the most experienced UFO aficionados among us.

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Star Tsar

28th July 2020, 05:39

Somewhere In The Skies

Unidentified: Out Of The Shadows

Published 26th July 2020

Ryan is joined by Anthony Lappé, the executive producer and show-runner for the History Channel/To the Stars Academy television series, Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation. We learn how Lappé first got involved with the show. Lappé offers his candid thoughts on the first season, the developments with To the Stars Academy and the U.S. Government and his thoughts on the first three episodes of Season 2. Lappé then answers listener questions and gives us a sneak peek at what's to come in future episodes.

Guest Bio: Anthony Lappé is a New York-based author, producer and director. He produced the award-winning Showtime documentary about the Iraq war, BattleGround. He was the Executive Editor of the Sundance-awarding winning Guerrilla News Network. He has written for Details, ESPN: The Magazine, New York Magazine, and the South China Morning Post, among many others. In addition, he has produced programming for Fuse, PBS, National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Science Channel. More recently, he was a writer/producer for Radical Media. He is the current show-runner and executive producer for Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation. Learn more at: http://www.anthonylappe.com

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Star Tsar

28th July 2020, 05:54

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 23rd - 27th July 2020

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Star Tsar

28th July 2020, 05:59

Space Telescope Science Institute

Tonight's Sky: August 2020

Published 28th July 2020

In August, a flock of star-studded figures soars overhead. Look for the Vega and Lyra constellations, which point to Epsilon Lyrae and the Ring Nebula. You can also spot three bright summer stars: Vega, Deneb, and Altair, which form the Summer Triangle. Keep watching for space-based views of these and other stars and nebulas.

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Star Tsar

28th July 2020, 07:38

Lowell Observatory

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Southern Delta Aquariids & Alpha Capricornids 2020

Published 27th July 2020

Every year in late July, the Earth passes through the debris left by two comets, one that creates the Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower and one that creates the Alpha Capricornid meteor shower. Both meteor showers peak on the same night: July 28th.

The Southern Delta Aquariid meteoroid stream is thought to come from Comet Machholz (96P), which passes by Earth’s orbit every 5.3 years and comes unusually close to the Sun. The Alpha Capricornid meteoroid stream comes from Comet NEAT (169/P), which passes by Earth’s orbit every 4.2 years. The Earth moves through these streams in the same part of its orbit each year, so these two meteor showers are always active in our skies during July and August.

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Star Tsar

28th July 2020, 07:48

Dr. Jose M. Madiedo

Perseid Meteor Shower In 2020

Published 27th July 2020

This video provides information about the observation of the Perseid meteor shower in 2020.

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Star Tsar

28th July 2020, 16:38

NASA Goddard

Jezero Crater, Landing Site For The Mars Perseverance Rover

Published 28th July 2020

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This image of Jezero Crater, the landing site for the Mars Perseverance Rover, was taken by instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which regularly takes images of potential landing sites for future missions. NASA chose Jezero crater as the landing site for the Perseverance rover because scientists believe the area was once flooded with water and was home to an ancient river delta.

Jezero crater tells a story of the on-again, off-again nature of the wet past of Mars. More than 3.5 billion years ago, river channels spilled over the crater wall and created a lake. Scientists see evidence that water carried clay minerals from the surrounding area into the crater lake. Conceivably, microbial life could have lived in Jezero during one or more of these wet times. If so, signs of their remains might be found in lakebed or shoreline sediments.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jezero-crater-landing-site-for-the-mars-perseverance-rover

This video highlights two mosaics of the Jezero crater landing site on Mars made by the USGS Astrogeology Science Center to support the Mars 2020 mission, as well as several key locations that the Perseverance rover may visit once it is on the surface. The larger mosaic is composed of images from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The higher-resolution mosaic is composed of images from the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In both mosaics, the images were aligned to each other and to the planet with unprecedented precision. The high-resolution mosaic was used to identify hazards in the landing ellipse. The resulting hazard map and the CTX mosaic will be carried onboard the spacecraft, which will use them to steer away from hazards as it lands.

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More on the Rover

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration. The rover will carry with it several technology demonstrations including a helicopter, which will attempt humanity's first powered flight on another planet. Perseverance has a new set of science instruments and the ability to “self-drive” on the Martian surface.

The Perseverance rover is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as early as July 30. It is set to land at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

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Star Tsar

29th July 2020, 14:43

Nemesis Maturity

Newly Spotted Asteroid Just Zipped By Earth Grazing Path Of Satellites In Geostationary Orbit

Published 29th July 2020

A car-sized asteroid discovered over the weekend made a close flyby of Earth yesterday (July 28), passing our planet at a range that rivals the orbits of some high-flying satellites.

The asteroid 2020 OY4, which was first detected on Sunday (July 26), made its closest approach today at 1:31 a.m. EDT (0531 GMT) when it zipped by Earth at a speed of about 27,700 mph (44,600 km/h), according to the European Space Agency. The asteroid is just under 15 feet (5 meters) wide and posed no impact risk to Earth, but did approach the flight paths of geosynchronous satellites.

ESA's tool listed the closest distance as about 21,900 miles (35,170 km), or just inside the satellite orbit ring.

Asteroids the size of 2020 OY4 fly by Earth several times a month, NASA officials have said in the past. This month (July 2020) three asteroids slightly larger than 2020 OY4 actually hit the Earth, but broke up harmlessly in the atmosphere, astronomers said.

Read all about it here: https://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-passed-earth-closest-encounter-year-1521046

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The Most Massive Solar Flares Of Solar Cycle Twenty Four

Published 28th July 2020

The sun could be one of our biggest threats in the next 100 years. If an enormous solar flare like the one that hit Earth 150 years ago struck us today, it could knock out our electrical grids, satellite communications and the internet.

Here's the 10 most massive solar flares of solar cycle twenty four.

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Star Tsar

29th July 2020, 14:53

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 259

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Published 25th July 2020

Climate engineering operations are the single most environmentally destructive factor we face short of nuclear cataclysm. What will happen when climate engineering is ultimately brought to a halt? The deeply ingrained normalcy bias that is so prevalent in societies, is beginning to break down. Will manufactured and orchestrated scenarios continue to control the attention of the majority?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-july-25-2020-259/

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Star Tsar

29th July 2020, 15:05

Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Recorded & Published 26th - 29th July 2020

Karachi, Pakistan underwater flooding , july 26 2020
Kazakhstan - Huge amount of hail , july 26 2020
Mexico : hurricane hanna led to large floods
India situation in the state of Bihar , july 28
Jordan dust storm Amman, northwest Jordan, July 27
Algeria - Large forest fire, Tiaret Province, Algeria, July 28
Japan - Mogami River overflows in Yamagata Prefecture July 28
Germany - hail storm, Kofering, July 28
Austria - Severe storm in Vienna, July 28
Flooding continues by rains, affecting Taif, Saudi Arabia, July 28

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Star Tsar

29th July 2020, 15:35

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 28th - 30th July 2020

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:03

SciShow Space

How Radio Waves Could Help Clear The Way To Space

Published 28th July 2020

There is an invisible shell of radiation surrounding our planet that can wipe out satellites and could endanger future explorers. One possible solution to this problem? Good, old-fashioned radio waves.

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:08

Analytical Graphics, Inc

107,000 Planned Satellites By 2029

Published 29th July 2020

This video depicts the spacecraft applications that have been filed with the FCC, ITU and in some cases from announcements in mainstream media. Note that the orbit raise and disposal phases are not modeled in the video. This represents the maximum large constellation traffic we can anticipate, as some of the operators filing these applications may not survive the whole process of getting their application approved, obtaining the necessary funding, making their business case close, obtaining the necessary launch and operations tempo required to build, deploy, sustain and reenter so many spacecraft. But even if a conservative 20% of the 107,000 spacecraft shown in this video attain operational status, that represents a 10X increase in the number of active spacecraft being operated today.

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:16

Seeker

Diamonds Could Unlock The Mysteries Of Earth’s Core

Published 30th July 2020

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We’ve never been able to journey to the center of the Earth, but thanks to an incredibly innovative experiment, we may not have to go there to understand what it's like.

Historically, we’ve explored our planet's interior using seismic measurements—basically, measuring vibrations that pass through the Earth to tell us more about what’s going on in there. Thanks to research like this we know the Earth has an innermost, super dense solid core, surrounded by a less dense, liquid outer core

But now, an exciting new experiment tells us details about the Earth’s core that we’ve never had access to before by using something called a diamond anvil cell, two diamonds pressed together to create a tremendous amount of pressure, to achieve its results.

By putting a sample of a material in a diamond anvil cell we can see how it behaves under these extreme pressures, which is exactly what these researchers did with liquid iron. Iron is not only the 6th most abundant element in the universe, it’s also thought to make up a large part of the core of our own planet, and the cores of Mercury and Mars.

Read More:

First of its kind experiment uses diamond anvils to simulate the Earth's core
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-kind-diamond-anvils-simulate-earth.html
"For the first time, experiments and simulations have shown researchers details about this outer core that were previously unobtainable. And these studies reveal some fascinating details."

Why is the earth's core so hot? And how do scientists measure its temperature?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-the-earths-core-so/
" Iron is the only element that closely matches the seismic properties of the earth's core and is also sufficiently abundant present in sufficient abundance in the universe to make up the approximately 35 percent of the mass of the planet present in the core."

Earth's inner core is doing something weird
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/08/earths-inner-core-spinning-surprisingly-slow-nuclear-tests-reveal/
"Better understanding the history and current dynamics of the iron blob nestled within our planet could yield more clues to the processes charging and stabilizing our magnetic field—a geologic force field that protects our world from various kinds of harmful radiation."

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:23

VolcanoYT

Timelapse | Merapi Volcano, Indonesia (https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/es/merapi.html)

Recorded & Published 30th July 2020

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Volcano Time-Lapse

Explosion | Volcán de Fuego (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volc%C3%A1n_de_Fuego), Guatemala

Recorded & Published 29th July 2020

At 02:13 CDT an activity registered.

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Ejecta| Popocatepetl Volcano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl), Mexico

Recorded 29th & Published 30th July 2020

At 20:49 CDT ejecta was observed at Popocatepetl Volcano.

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:38

MetaBallStudios

Moons Size Comparison

Published 18th July 2020

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:46

Dr Becky Smethurst

The Mysterious Echo From The Sun: The IBEX Ribbon

Published 29th July 2020

In 2009 the IBEX satellite detected an excess of atoms reflected back from a particular spot at the edge of the solar system that originally came from the Sun. To this day this echo, dubbed the "IBEX ribbon" is unexplained. Could it be something to do with the Milky Way's magnetic field? Or something more sinister that might affect future human exploration of the solar system?

McComas et al. (2009) - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/326/5955/959?casa_token=OD9bca--ij0AAAAA%3A-waCF2RMYhGOf6dvR05Pdc38d_Oi0KjsdfgO6qN9rmTp_V-G1WQipado3KZsAAz502B5AgURVJDf3Q
Heerikhuisen + (2010) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/708/2/L126/pdf
Schwadron & McComas (2013) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/92/pdf
Grzedzielski et al. (2010)- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/715/2/L84/pdf (public; https://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.3917.pdf)

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:50

Astrum

Are We Actually In A Nebula?

Published 28th July 2020

What really is a nebula, and are we in fact in one? What is the Local Interstellar Cloud? Astrum Answers!

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Star Tsar

30th July 2020, 15:54

Learn The Sky

Rho Ophiuchi

Published 28th June 2020

The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex is a region of this sky in the southern portion of the constellation Ophiuchus. This nebula stretches into the boundaries of Scorpius and lies close to Antares, the brightest star of the scorpion constellation. It is estimated to be 3,000 times more massive than our own Sun. This stellar nursery is close to our own Solar System at an estimated 400 to 460 light years away.

0:40 - Ophiuchus Pattern
1:05 - Star Map of Ophiuchus
3:03 - Celestial Object in Ophiuchus
3:33 - Map of Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
5:37 - Overview of Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
10:26 - Photo Attributes

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Star Tsar

2nd August 2020, 14:01

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

What's Up: August 2020

Published 31st July 2020

What are some skywatching highlights in August 2020? See the Moon posing with various planets throughout the month, plus catch the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

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Star Tsar

2nd August 2020, 14:09

Lowell Observatory

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Mars Hill Almanac | What's In The Sky August 1st - 14th 2020?

Published 1st August 2020

Tune in on the 1st and 15th of each month to see what's happening in the night sky over the next couple weeks or so.

Highlights for August 1-14 include Jupiter and Saturn in the sky all night long, with Mars rising late in the evening, and the Perseid meteor shower on August 11. We also look at the constellation Sagittarius and some its many deep-sky objects, including the Lagoon nebula (M8) and the Trifid Nebula (M20).

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Star Tsar

2nd August 2020, 14:35

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 31st July - 2nd August 2020

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Star Tsar

2nd August 2020, 14:41

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 260

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Published 1st August 2020

While most are understandably focused on the societal changes that have taken place in recent months, existential background threats are being almost completely overlooked. Distracting populations from dire and immediate environmental threats serves establishment objectives of maintaining public complacency. The ozone layer continues to collapse, an updated report from a former NASA contract engineer is covered in this broadcast. How long has climate engineering been deployed? A just acquired report from a US Navy officer that sounds the alarm is also covered in this broadcast.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-august-1-2020-260/

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Star Tsar

2nd August 2020, 14:58

Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Recorded 31st July & Published 1st August 2020

Turks & Caicos Islands - Severe flooding
Puerto Rico - Severe flooding July 31st
Dominican Republic - severe flooding July 31st
Bahamas - Hurricane July 31st
South Korea - Flooding July 31st
France - Fire July 31st
Las Vegas, USA - Fire July 31st
Sudan - Dam Collapse July 31st

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Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 15:05

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 3rd August 2020 | Solar Wind, Freshwater Changes, Extinction Review

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Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 15:11

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Early Earth Expanded & Cracked - Creating Continents

Published 31st July 2020

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In this video Anton will talk about a new analysis that suggests origins of the plate tectonics on Earth.

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17480-2
Plate tectonics simulation by Ian Webster: https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth
Plate tectonic PHET sim: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?sort=alpha&view=grid

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Study Suggests Dark Matter Could Form Some Craters On Earth

Published 2nd August 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a study that suggests certain craters on Earth may be produced by a type of particles that could also be dark matter.

More about Strange Matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter
Paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2007/2007.04826.pdf
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-09087-3
Thorough explanation of strangelets: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.04534.pdf
Simple explanation: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/strange-matter.htm

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Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 15:22

Box Van Dee

Meteor Crater In Arizona - A Wonder Of The World

Published 30th July 2020

A lady called Dee (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5MIcYL0SmgBD9GBlEYO55Q) takes us on a field trip...

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Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 15:30

Nemesis Maturity

Earth Is Entering A Stream Of Debris From The Perseid Meteor Shower

Published 3rd August 2020

Earth is entering a stream of debris from giant Comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on the morning of Aug. 12th with many fireballs slicing through the light of a last-quarter Moon. NASA's network of all-sky cameras is already detecting a few Perseid fireballs every night over the USA.

Comet Swift-Tuttle has a huge nucleus--about 26 km in diameter. Most other comets are much smaller, with nuclei only a few kilometers across. As a result, Comet Swift-Tuttle produces a large number of meteoroids, many of which are hefty enough to produce fireballs.

Indeed, a 6-year study by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office found that the Perseids produce more fireballs than any other annual shower.

During the Perseid meteor shower, which lasts for weeks, comet debris particles a few cm wide hit the atmosphere with an average speed of 59.6 km/s (133,350 mph). The average magnitude of the resulting fireballs is -3.7, about as bright as Venus. More fireballs are in the offing as Earth moves deeper into the comet's debris stream. Generally speaking, the best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise when the shower's radiant is high in the sky.

Read all about it here: https://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-passed-earth-closest-encounter-year-1521046

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Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 15:39

NASA Goddard

Studying Trojan Asteroids With Lucy

Published 3rd August 2020

NASA’s Lucy mission is launching in 2021 and will fly by seven different Trojan asteroids that are orbiting the same distance from the Sun as Jupiter. This video highlights the four main science objectives and the instruments aboard the spacecraft that will be utilized. Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, which are remnants of our early solar system.

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Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 16:00

Lowell Observatory

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Sagas In The Sky | Lyra

Published 2nd August 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the stories connected to Lyra.

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Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 16:09

EarthSky.org

Is There Life Below The Martian Surface?

Published 3rd August 2020

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Galactic cosmic rays that penetrate the Martian surface can potentially trigger the kind of chemical reactions that biological life can harness for metabolism. That’s according to a new study published July 28, 2020 in Scientific Reports, an online peer-reviewed journal published by Nature. Researcher Dimitra Atri – of New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates – is lead author of the new study, which peers (theoretically) below the Martian surface to see how likely it is for life to survive. He said:

It is exciting to contemplate that life could survive in such a harsh environment, as few as 2 meters [6 feet] below the surface of Mars.

Read all about it here: https://earthsky.org/space/is-there-life-below-the-martian-surface

Star Tsar

3rd August 2020, 16:14

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NASA's Missing UFO Reports: Found

Published 28th July 2020

00:00 Intro
1:32 Carter White House writes NASA
3:25 NASA says they don't study them
4:00 Condon Report missing chapter
5:19 Gemini 4 first UFO sighting
6:50 Gemini 4 second UFO sighting
7:24 Gemini 7 UFO sighting
8:54 Conclusion

The Condon Report, funded by the U.S. Air Force, was published in 1968 and suggested continued study of UFOs would yield no scientific discoveries. Buried in the report, though, are three "unidentifieds" determined to be UFOs seen by astronauts in Earth's orbit in 1965.

The astronauts on Gemini 4 and 7 saw the objects, and after thorough examination, even the Condon analyst deemed them a puzzle and ruled them unknown.

This is curious for two reasons. One: the chapter of astronaut sightings has mysteriously gone missing from many mainstream versions of the report, such as the primary copy on file at the Defense Technical Information Center. It is also missing from the Internet Archive. Only in an obscure Dept. of Commerce database can we find this missing chapter.

Two: NASA's own form letter they sent to UFO inquiries for decades cited the Condon Report as evidence that it didn't need to look at UFOs, and even claimed the astronaut sighings were nothing, at odds with Condon. This comes despite internal memos stating NASA was informally collecting UFO debris under a nicknamed operation "UFOHEAP."

Sources in order of mention

R.C. Henry paper and memos: https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/ufodocsnasa.pdf

Condon Report with missing chapter: https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/ntis/CondonReport-Complete.pdf

NTRL search: https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/

DTIC version with missing pages: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/680975.pdf

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Star Tsar

4th August 2020, 14:31

Preston Dennett

UFOs Over Prisons

Published 1st August 2020

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UFOs are known to be attracted to technological installations such as power stations, military bases and more, including, evidently, prisons. These are not coincidental fly-bys. In these cases prisons are being directly targeted. The objects hover at very low levels for long periods of time. They are often viewed by both prison officials and inmates.

There are more than 20 cases on record. These are not simple sightings, but also include physiological effects and strange electromagnetic effects. In a few cases, photographs have been taken. There's at least one case of a landing. Humanoids have been seen, and there's even an apparent abduction. Clearly something very profound is happening here!

San Quentin Prison, Lebanon Correctional Institute, Colorado State Penitentiary and many others have all had encounters. Some locations have been visited repeatedly. The question, of course, is why? After watching this presentation, you will know the answer.

For those who are interested in learning more about UFOs over prisons, I collected many of these cases in chapter six of my book, "Not from Here: Volume Three," now available here

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Star Tsar

4th August 2020, 14:38

Fade To Black Radio

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John Greenewald | The NYT UFO Retractions

Recorded & Published 3rd August 2020

In this broadcast John Greenewald will be discussing the recent articles from the NYT, the Wilson Document and what parts of all of this may be fact and/or fiction.

John began researching the secret inner workings of the U.S. Government in 1996 at the age of fifteen. He targeted such groups as the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, Air Force, Army, Navy, NSA, DIA, and countless others. Greenewald utilized the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to thousands of records. He accumulated an astonishing number of documents on topics related to UFOs, the JFK Assassination, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and top secret aircraft.

Greenewald named his online archive “The Black Vault.” His teenage project turned into the largest private online collection anywhere in the world, with million of pages of material. At the age of twenty-one, Greenewald published his first book, Beyond UFO Secrecy, in 2002. It was later put into a second expanded edition, and was re-published by Galde Press in January, 2008.

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Star Tsar

4th August 2020, 15:32

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 4th August 2020 | Electric Event, Rings & Spirals, Sunspots

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Star Tsar

4th August 2020, 15:41

John Michael Godier

Ten Enormous Cosmic Structures

Published 4th August 2020

An exploration of ten of the largest known structures in the universe and what we know about them. Also explored is how and why some of them shouldn't even exist according to standard models.

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Star Tsar

4th August 2020, 15:54

Thunderbolts Project

Space News | Black Hole Or Cosmic Light Switch?

Published 29th July 2020

A new scientific paper describes an unprecedented and “mind boggling” event around a so-called black hole – an event so rapid, energetic and completely unexpected to astronomers, it challenges the very bedrock of black hole theory.

A team of scientists studying an active galactic nucleus observed the brightness of a so-called black hole corona drop by a factor of 10,000 in less than one year. A co-author of a new paper on the discovery stated, "We expect that luminosity changes this big should vary on timescales of many thousands to millions of years. But in this object, we saw it change by 10,000 over a year, and it even changed by a factor of 100 in eight hours, which is just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling."

In fact, the conundrum of cosmological entities such as galaxies, quasars and stars experiencing seemingly impossibly rapid evolutionary changes is an increasingly common conundrum. This Space News episode explores why such rapid cosmological events illuminate the electrical circuitry that pervades the cosmos.

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 05:00

Richard Aguilar

The Rise Of China’s Unbelievable Space Programs

Published 4th August 2020

What you will see in this video today is all about China’s unbelievable and cutting-edge space technologies. So, with this being said, brace yourself to see the rise of China’s space programs that are gaining momentum.

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 05:14

European Space Agency

ExoMars Captures Spring In Martian Craters

Published 4th August 2020

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A new set of images captured this spring by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRAR_ooGZ7I) on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter shows a series of interesting geological features on the surface of Mars, captured just as the planet passed its spring equinox.

Read all about it here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/ExoMars/ExoMars_captures_spring_in_Martian_craters

Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 05:28

SciShow Space

The Planets With Inside-Out Weather

Published 4th August 2020

Way out in the solar system, the heat of the Sun drops off dramatically, so the gas giants get just a tiny percent of the solar radiation that reaches Earth. Instead, their weather is fueled from the inside out!

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 05:59

EOS.org

A GOLDen Way to Study Space Weather

Published 4th August 2020

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A NASA mission is observing airglow in the upper atmosphere and uncovering what it tells us about Earth’s space weather system.

One of NASA’s newest missions, called Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991FXaiiMS8) (GOLD), is revealing how the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere affect space weather by observing atmospheric airglow in unprecedented detail. In a new study, Eastes et al. report early data from the mission, including observations of how neutral gases in the thermosphere interact with charged particles in Earth’s ionosphere and how these interactions respond to disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field caused by solar storms hazardous to critical infrastructure.

Read all about it here: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/a-golden-way-to-study-space-weather

Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 06:06

SpacePolicyOnline.com

Space Weather Bill Clears Senate, Creates Pilot Program At NOAA

Published 3rd August 2020

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The Senate passed the PROSWIFT space weather bill on July 27, another step along what has been a long path for the legislation. It is a compromise with a version adopted by the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee in January that includes a provision calling for NOAA to create a commercial space weather data pilot program akin to its commercial weather data program. All that is needed now is passage by the House and a signature from the President, which would mark the end of a five-year effort.

The legislation assigns roles and responsibilities to agencies involved in space weather research and forecasting and ensures coordination within the government to better predict severe space weather events and mitigate their impact. It also calls for coordination between the government and the non-governmental space weather community including academia, the commercial sector, and international partners.

Read all about it here: https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/space-weather-bill-clears-senate-creates-pilot-program-at-noaa/

Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 06:10

RT

Going Underground - Alan Stern: Militarisation Of Space

Published 3rd August 2020

We speak to Alan Stern, the Principal Investigator in NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto. He discusses the latest in space exploration such as the recently launched new Mars mission and mission to explore Pluto, the creeping role of private corporations in space travel, the militarisation of space and how hostilities on Earth between the US, China and Russia are slowly being taken to space, the development of Trump's Space Force and much more!

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 09:52

Learn The Sky

Aquila

Published 4th August 2020

Aquila is an ancient constellation that is fairly easy to find if you know what to look for. Its bright star Altair makes up part of the asterism called the Summer Triangle, so if you can find this pattern, you can find Aquila. Learn more about the star pattern and how to find this constellation.

0:40 - Introduction to Aquila the Eagle Constellation
3:27 - Star Pattern and Map of Aquila
5:41 - Using the Summer Triangle to find Aquila
7:31 - Practice Finding Aquila
9:52 - Get more practice finding Aquila
11:24 - Review Aquila
13:04 - Photo Attributes

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 10:05

ScienceAlert.com

In A First, Astronomers Find An Exoplanet By Using Radio Waves And A Wobbly Star

Published 5th August 2020

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The hunt for exoplanets in our galaxy is a deeply important endeavour. The more exoplanets we find, the better we can understand our own Solar System - and how life emerges in the Universe. To date, over 4,000 exoplanets have been confirmed - but a new discovery could widen the search, helping us to find exoplanets that previously have proven too difficult to detect.

The newly discovered exoplanet, with a mass comparable to that of Saturn, orbits a very small, cool red dwarf right at the lower mass limit for main sequence stars, and located about 35 light-years away. However, it's not just the planet, nor the star, that's so groundbreaking here.

Read all about it here: https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-a-radio-telescope-has-been-used-to-find-a-planet-by-its-wiggling-star

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 10:09

Technology.org

‘Twinkle’ Mission Will Search For Planets Outside Our Solar System That Could Support Life

Published 5th August 2020

Astronomers are preparing to further study the atmospheres of planets discovered through NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission to identify the most promising exoplanets — planets in solar systems beyond our own — for habitability and signs of life.

Set to launch in late 2021, Twinkle is a space mission that will deliver unprecedented data via satellite telescope to astronomers about the elemental composition of exoplanet atmospheres. Astronomers at The Ohio State University, along with astronomers at Vanderbilt University, are founding members of the mission and will play a leading role in shaping the mission’s directives, targets and survey operations.

Read all about it here: https://www.technology.org/2020/08/05/twinkle-mission-will-search-for-planets-outside-our-solar-system-that-could-support-life/

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 10:30

The Richard Dolan Show

The New York Times & UFO Disclosure. What's Really Going On?

Streamed & Published 4th August 2020

The UFO community has been rocked by more information coming out of the New York Times in the form of claims that briefings have been made at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill about "retrievals from off world vehicles not made on this earth.” What is really going on? Richard comes on for an extended solo analysis.

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 10:41

Podcast UFO

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Linda Zimmermann | Animal Reactions To UFOs

Streamed & Published 4th August 2020

Guest Linda Zimmermann to discuss the reactions of animals during UFO sightings, which may provide clues to the nature of the phenomenon and how to conduct better research. So many sightings occur because the witness was alerted by a dog barking, or barnyard animals making sounds of alarm, but that aspect is usually just a brief mention in reports. Animals have keen senses and don’t have an imagination, so their reactions prove that something real is happening.

Bio: Linda Zimmermann is a research chemist turned award-winning author of over 30 books on science, history, the paranormal, and fiction. She has lectured across the country, and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
Linda starred in the documentary, In the Night Sky: I Recall a UFO, which was based on her research into sightings in the Hudson Valley of New York. The film won the 2013 People’s Choice Award at the EBE Film Festival at the International UFO Congress in Arizona. Her three UFO books are: In the Night Sky, Hudson Valley UFOs, and More Hudson Valley UFOs. She is working on a Hudson Valley UFO compendium, as well as a book on animal reaction cases, and another major project which will be announced soon.
She is the host of two podcasts, UFO Headquarters, and the true crime show, Murder in the Hudson Valley, and the creator and writer of the 1950s-style sci-fi spoof series, Science Friction Theater, all on http://hudsonriverradio.com

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/415-latest-podcast-linda-zimmermann/

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 12:30

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 5th August 2020 | NASA Chem Spray, Odd Galaxies, Forecast: Sun/Earth

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Star Tsar

5th August 2020, 15:55

Nemesis Maturity

The Summer Triangle Graces The August Night Sky

Published 5th August 2020

As darkness falls on these balmy August evenings the famous "Summer Triangle" is high in the southeastern sky. This seasonal triangle is composed of three of the brightest stars in the night sky, each of which is the brightest star in its own constellation.

Lyra, the Small Harp, lies high in the late evening sky. Its main star is the great Vega, one of the brightest in the sky. Look for Lyra by locating Vega and then the parallelogram of stars nearby.

The great constellation Cygnus, the Swan, flies high through the August night. Using bright Vega as your guide star, look for the cross just to the east. Cygnus is also known as the Northern Cross. Deneb, the Swan's tail, is a supergiant star. If Deneb replaced the Sun in the center of our solar system, it would engulf Mercury and Venus.

Aquila, the Eagle, was known to the ancient Greeks as the great bird of Zeus. Altair, the brightest star in Aquila, is only 16 light-years from Earth.

The bright stars of the summer night, Vega, Altair, and Deneb, make up the Summer Triangle. Seek out the celestial treasures within the "Summer Triangle".

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Mars will Appear Super Close To The Moon

Published 6th August 2020

On August 9th, Mars will appear super close to the Moon before dawn. Look toward the south, high in the sky, and you can't miss it – Mars is the bright, reddish point of light just right of the Moon. Weather permitting, this should be a beautiful sky, with the Pleiades, Orion, Aldebaran, Sirius and Venus to the southeast.

Mars is brightening now, day by day. By September 2020, Mars will outshine Sirius, the brightest star in our sky (besides the sun). In October – when Earth will sweep between the sun and Mars, bringing Mars to its every-other-year opposition – Mars will outshine not only all the stars, but also Jupiter, the second-brightest planet.

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Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 09:01

NASA

Mars Nightglow Animation from MAVEN Observations

Published 6th August 2020

Mars’ nightside atmosphere glows and pulsates in this data animation from MAVEN spacecraft observations. Green-to-white false color shows the enhanced brightenings on Mars’ ultraviolet “nightglow" measured by MAVEN’s Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph at about 70 kilometers (approximately 40 miles) altitude. A simulated view of the Mars globe is added digitally for context, with ice caps visible at the poles. Three nightglow brightenings occur over one Mars rotation, the first much brighter than the other two. All three brightenings occur shortly after sunset, appearing on the left of this view of the night side of the planet. The pulsations are caused by downwards winds which enhance the chemical reaction creating nitric oxide which causes the glow. Months of data were averaged to identify these patterns, indicating they repeat nightly.

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Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 09:09

NASA Goddard

Hubble Views Moon To Study Earth

Published 6th August 2020

Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse in January 2019, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have measured the amount of ozone in Earth’s atmosphere. This method serves as a proxy for how they will observe Earth-like planets around other stars in search of life.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-uses-earth-as-a-proxy-for-identifying-oxygen-on-potentially-habitable-planets-around

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Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 09:32

ScienceDaily.com

Lava Tubes On Mars & The Moon Are So Wide They Can Host Planetary Bases

Published 6th August 2020

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Researchers at the Universities of Bologna and Padua studied the subsurface cavities that lava created underground on Mars and the Moon. These cavities can shield from cosmic radiation.

The international journal Earth-Science Reviews published a paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825220303342?via%3Dihub) offering an overview of the lava tubes (pyroducts) on Earth, eventually providing an estimate of the (greater) size of their lunar and Martian counterparts.

Read all about it here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200805110118.htm

Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 09:41

Dr Maggie Lieu

The Missing Satellite Problem

Published 2nd August 2020

Hundreds of satellites around our Milky Way are missing? Where could they be hiding?

Extra reading:
Klypin et al 1999: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901240

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Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 09:45

Dr Becky Smethurst

Is Light A Wave Or A Particle

Published 5th August 2020

One of the most famous debates in all of Physics is one that spanned over four centuries and eventually led to Einstein and Bohr debating for most of the 20th century. It was all about the very nature of light - is light a particle (as Newton had insisted) or is light a wave (as people like Young and Maxwell insisted)? It was eventually a problem that quantum physics would solve...

Here's the video Dr Becky mentioned on the history of light and trying to find the medium it propagates through: https://youtu.be/jRLNVvsxfFo

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Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 09:49

Or8tor

The Universe: In Numbers

Published 26th June 2020

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Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 10:56

Space.com

Space Roar: NASA Detected The Loudest Sound In The Universe, But What Is It?

Published 5th August 2020

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In space, nobody can hear you scream, but with the right equipment, it is possible to detect a roar. That's what scientists discovered back in 2006 (https://www.space.com/6293-mystery-roar-faraway-space-detected.html) when they began to look for distant signals in the universe using a complex instrument fixed to a huge balloon that was sent to space. The instrument was able to pick up radio waves from the heat of distant stars, but what came through that year was nothing short of astounding.

As the instrument listened from a height of about 23 miles (37 kilometers), it picked up a signal that was six-times louder than expected by cosmologists. Because it was too loud to be early stars and far greater than the predicted combined radio emission from distant galaxies, the powerful signal caused great puzzlement. And scientists still don't know what is causing it, even today. What's more, it could hamper efforts to search for signals from the first stars that formed after the Big Bang.

Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/space-roar-loudest-sound-in-the-universe.html

Star Tsar

7th August 2020, 16:16

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 6th & 8th August 2020

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 09:16

Thunderbolts Project

Space News | Donald Scott: Campfires On The Sun?

Published 8th August 2020

It’s one of the great enduring mysteries of solar physics — why is the sun’s lower corona hundreds of times hotter than the Sun’s photosphere? For many decades, scientists on Earth have sought an answer to the puzzle, though only doing so within the confines of the standard, thermonuclear model of the Sun.

Recently, the ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft returned to scientists on Earth the closest images of the Sun taken to date. Some missions scientists are speculating that features they're calling "campfires" may reveal clues to the problem of coronal heating.

In this episode, Professor Donald E. Scott explains why the Sun’s super-hot corona has always been a predictable feature of the Electric Sun model.

From The Archive
Donald Scott: Solving the Mystery of Coronal Heating:
https://youtu.be/1N3J_X5hD8M

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 09:23

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 261

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Published 8th August 2020

Economies are collapsing, conflicts are erupting and governments are implementing increasingly dire protocols. Changes and challenges formerly unimaginable to most are rapidly accelerating. Unfortunately, the background of biosphere collapse is being completely overlooked, even though this factor is directly connected to what societies are being subjected to.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-august-8-2020-261/

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 09:29

Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Recorded & Published 8th August 2020

South Korea - Severe flooding - August 8th

The capital city of Seoul has recorded rainfall each of the first six days of the month, tallying a whopping 11 inches in less than one week. Climatologically, August is the second wettest month of the year in Seoul, with an average monthly rainfall of about 14 inches.
That number could be eclipsed in the coming days. Another round of heavy rain will soak the region courtesy of the remnants of Tropical Storm Hagupit

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Fire at a chemical factory, at Vapi in Valsad, Gujarat, India

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Mount Sinabung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinabung) Indonesia, erupts again after year of inactivity, August 8th

After being inactive for more than a year, Mount Sinabung in Karo regency, North Sumatra erupted early on Saturday morning, spewing ash 2,000 meters into the air.

The volcanic ash reached Berastagi, which is located around 30 kilometers from the volcano.

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 09:41

Volcano Time-Lapse

Eruption | Sakurajima Volcano (https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/sakurajima.html), Japan

Recorded 8th & Published 9th August 2020

At 05:38 JST an explosion was recorded. It's a shame it's cloud obscured It's a two-colored plume.

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 09:48

Lowell Observatory

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What Is The Perseid Meteor Shower?

Published 8th August 2020

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best meteor showers of the year. It peaks on the night of August 11 and the wee hours of August 12, 2020. Meteors are often called “shooting stars,” but they’re not really stars at all. The Perseid meteoroid stream comes from the debris of Comet Swift-Tuttle (109P), which last passed the Earth’s orbit at the end of 1992.

Perseids are very fast, but these meteors are a bit faint, with few fireballs, so the best time to view them this year is in the evening before midnight, as the light of a Last Quarter Moon this year will obscure all but the brightest meteors when the Moon rises around midnight local time.

Drone footage generously donated by Corvid Aerial Solutions (https://corvidaerial.com). Meteors as seen from space simulation by meteorshowers.org.

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Meteoroides.net

Bright Perseids Recorded By The Smart Project

Published 8th August 2020

This video shows some bright Perseid meteors recorded before the peak activity of the meteor shower by the systems operating in the framework of the SMART project. SMART is being conducted by Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC).

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 10:07

Asteroid Station

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Asteroid (2020 PC)

Published 8th August 2020

Asteroid (2020 PC) closest approach set for August 11th 2020

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 10:15

Lowell Observatory

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Sagas In The Sky | Draco

Published 9th August 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the stories connected to Draco.

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 10:18

Dr James O'Donoghue

The Actual Positions Of Stars In Twelve Constellations Of The Zodiac

Published 9th August 2020

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 10:22

SciShow Space

This Stellar Blast Showered The Universe With… Calcium

Published 7th August 2020

We knew some stars created large amounts of calcium, but no one really ever knew how...until now! Plus, astrophysicists believe they’ve finally seen evidence of the star that created one of the most important supernovas ever!

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 10:31

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

New Strange White Dwarf That Survived Its Own Supernova

Published 6th August 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a new discovery of a very strange white dwarf that creates more problems for astronomers than solutions.

Paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/496/4/4079/5860288

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Massive Blanets, Black Hole Planets - Could Be All Over the Place

Published 6th August 2020

In this video Anton will talk about blanets - a new hypothesized object that might exist around super massive black holes.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.15198.pdf

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 10:50

Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics

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CfA Scientists Discover Mysterious Spiral Structures Around A "Planet Factory"

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Published 3rd August 2020

Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) announced today the discovery of a complex set of spiral arms extending to 1000 astronomical units from the young variable star, RU Lup. The discovery, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reveals new details concerning the size and structure of "planet factories," the protoplanetary disks of gas and dust surrounding stars where planets are born.

Observations at the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile previously produced high-resolution images of dusty disks with multiple rings and gaps hinting to the emergence of new planets, including in the dust disk surrounding RU Lup. But the new study, which focuses on gas in the disk rather than dust, revealed a more complex, less neatly-arranged structure, with an appearance similar to a "mini galaxy."

Read all about it here: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-16

Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 10:57

LiveScience.com

Mysterious 'Fast Radio Burst' Detected Closer To Earth Than Ever Before

Published 7th August 2020

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Thirty thousand years ago, a dead star on the other side of the Milky Way belched out a powerful mixture of radio and X-ray energy. On April 28, 2020, that belch swept over Earth, triggering alarms at observatories around the world.

The signal was there and gone in half a second, but that's all scientists needed to confirm they had detected something remarkable: the first ever "fast radio burst" (FRB) to emanate from a known star within the Milky Way, according to a study published July 27 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Since their discovery in 2007, FRBs have puzzled scientists. The bursts of powerful radio waves last only a few milliseconds at most, but generate more energy in that time than Earth's sun does in a century. Scientists have yet to pin down what causes these blasts, but they've proposed everything from colliding black holes to the pulse of alien starships as possible explanations. So far, every known FRB has originated from another galaxy, hundreds of millions of light-years away.

Read all about it here: https://www.livescience.com/fast-radio-burst-magnetar-milky-way.html

Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 11:04

History Of The Earth

Did Life On Earth Come From Space?

Published 8th August 2020

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 11:09

It's [Redacted].

The Most Unsettling U.F.O. Theory?

Published 8th August 2020

In June, investigative reporter Tim McMillan told The Basement Office host Steven Greenstreet a source inside the intel/aerospace world claimed UFOs "weren’t flying saucers, they weren’t tic tacs...they were something that possessed the ability to make your mind see what makes sense to you."

Two years earlier, a leaked slide from the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, suggested the phenomenon can "manipulate both physical and cognitive environments in order to penetrate U.S. facilities, influence decision makers, and compromise national security."

Tom DeLonge, whose To The Stars Academy is working with AATIP veterans, recently suggested they may represent a disturbing and ancient “control mechanism." Something Jacques Vallée has hypothesized in the past.

Could all of this be related? Might UFOs — the flaming castles of the 1700s, 1897 phantom airships, and more modern saucers and tic tacs — present themselves differently depending on the time period? And do the goals of the phenomenon change over time?

Or... might humankind unknowingly be driving these changes in UFO appearances?

0:00 UFOs show "what makes sense to you"
0:35 Leaked Pentagon AATIP slides
1:40 1716 "sky battle" above England
3:04 1897 mystery airship wave
6:39 Blue Book's tin can humanoids
8:05 Vallee's theories
10:55 Religious implications

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 11:20

Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 11:29

Paul Stonehill Paranormal Research

Aliens Without Faces : Cases From The Annals Of The Russian Commission On Anomalous Phenomena

Published 2nd August 2020

Soviet and later Russian Scientists - academicians, professors, and candidates of science also worked as part of the Commission. For almost thirty years, they had conducted several hundred expeditions and interviewed probably thousands of eyewitnesses.
Perhaps we are as far from them in development as the simplest insects are from us…

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 11:52

ECETI Stargate

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UFOs Of ECETI July 2020

Published 8th August 2020

From James Gilliland's ECETI Ranch at the Base of Mt. Adams, Located in Beautiful Trout Lake Washington.

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Star Tsar

9th August 2020, 13:37

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 9th August 2020 | Magnetic Pole Shift, Shadow-Ban Ends, Pre-Earthquake OLR

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Related music interlude:

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East Sun

9th August 2020, 16:05

Preston Dennett

Preston's Top Twenty UFO Healing Cases

Published 8th August 2020

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There are more than 300 UFO healing cases on record. Some cases, however, rise above the rest. This video presents 20 of the very best UFO healing cases. These well-documented accounts come from men and women across the world, and involve the healings of a wide variety of injuries, illnesses and diseases. Many of the cases have been verified by doctors and UFO researchers. These UFO healing events are important because they present hard physical evidence of extraterrestrial intervention in people's lives. They also have many things to teach us about these mysterious visitors to our planet. They show us that there is no such thing as a chronic or incurable disease. They also show a very positive side to ETs and their agenda on Earth.

If you would like to learn more about people who have been healed by UFOs, my book, "The Healing Power of UFOs: 300 True Accounts" is available here (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1792986203/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=officialweb0f-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=4dd46d6f1abb0482910d57e9c61e12eb&creativeASIN=1792986203).

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Thank you Star Tsar

I really enjoyed that. Gives me hope that one day when we get past this
present day manipulation by the controllers of humanity for all this time,
thousands of years, by some estimates, we can begin to make this place a
paradise, as it could have been all along.

ETs could have been the angels of yore mentioned in the Bible.
In the OLD Testament I was always intrigued be Ezekiel and the entities
that spoke to him.

Their vehicle had whirring wheels and fire as Ezekiel saw it in his understanding
of chariots of fire.

Those creatures with "wings" cloaks, arms and legs had to be a type of ET.

Also Moses had an encounter on the mountain with a strange "god".

And maybe Jesus was an ET. He certainly did have powers and everything
he did may have been a show to make the people understand that there
is a different realm in existence that they may reach.

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East Sun

9th August 2020, 19:43

(To continue previous post)

Jesus as an ET.

It would follow that the Holy Ghost was also an ET.
This Holy Ghost descended onto Mary (the Virgin) and impregnated her.
She was given in marriage to Joseph (the carpenter). He had been told
to not worry as this was to be.

Jesus was born. (We know the story)

Later Mary had sons and a daughter who were the the half brothers
and half sister of Jesus (this may not be spelled out clearly in the Bible
but in other places.

James was known as the brother of Jesus and maybe other brothers also.

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Star Tsar

10th August 2020, 14:33

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 10th August 2020 | Rapid Solar Climate Forcing, Deadly Storms, Rare Quake

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Star Tsar

10th August 2020, 14:41

SOTT Media

July 2020 : Earth Changes Summary

Published 9th August 2020

As the solar minimum deepens, all the electrical phenomena are increasing in amount and intensity, and we had another month of record amounts of water pouring down affecting millions and destroying crops around the world.

East Asia got the worst in July, extreme monsoon rain, and the consequential floods and landslides affected tens of millions, displaced thousands, and killed hundreds of people in China, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India.

China continues to battle the worst floods in decades as the water level of 433 rivers is above the flood control line, with 33 of them reaching record highs. Heavy rains have lashed 27 of the country's 31 provinces, affecting more than 37 million people and leaving 141 dead or missing so far.

South Korea continues to suffer its wettest monsoon in recent history, at least 15 people died and more than 1,500 have been evacuated. About 1,300 houses are reported to have been submerged or buried in landslides across the country, and 1,000 roads and bridges have been destroyed or damaged.

Heavy rain and floods continue to ravage Assam, India since May, affecting 2 to 3 million in 27 districts, claiming the lives of more than 100 people, and destroying crops. Over 2,400 villages submerged.

After two weeks of heavy rains, flash floods washed away houses, farms, roads, and electricity and water lines in Yemen. Thousands have been left homeless, and at least 14 have died.

Heavy rains and floods also affected parts of the US Midwest and Southeast, meanwhile, the tornado season has been prolonged another month, with cases of multiple tornadoes at the same time. Ontario, Alberta and Saskatoon, Canada, also experienced multiple tornadoes, something that is becoming more common, even in places where they are supposedly rare.

Snow continues with its off-season displays, 1 foot of snow and -7C degrees temperatures chilled Noway, and China got a fair share despite it being summer.

In the Southern hemisphere, the Andes recorded a historic record of 17 feet of snow; The Snowy Mountains in Australia reported 40 inches, and South Africa experienced a rare snowfall, something new to many locals.

Meteor fireballs gave us a very bright display this month, reminding us that we need to pay attention to the skies and "cosmic intentions".

At the same time, noctilucent clouds are becoming a common sight, perhaps indicating a more significant accumulation of charged particles in the upper atmosphere. As a reminder:

"The unbelievable amount of precipitation during the past months can be explained with the increasing amount of charged particles in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

Charged particles influence weather much more than has been appreciated. "

Extreme weather continues to impact food production all over the world, and we can expect an increase in food prices sooner than later.

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Star Tsar

10th August 2020, 15:00

Volcano Time-Lapse & VolcanoYT

Eruption | Mount Sinabung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinabung), Indonesia

Recorded & Published 10th August 2020

After a year of no activity, Sinabung explodes. Here are clips that show the extent of this blast.

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Volcano Sinabung in Karo Regency (North Sumatra - Indonesia) erupted again with a high ash column that was observed about 5,000 meters above the peak or about 7,460 meters above sea level at 10:16 WIB, Monday (10/8). This ash column is taller than the previous eruption two days ago.

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Star Tsar

10th August 2020, 15:25

Weather Events

Severe Flooding

Recorded 9th & Published 10th August 2020

Evia, Greece (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euboea) - Torrential rains and thunderstorms caused sudden flooding on the Greek island of Evia over the weekend, 5 dead so far, authorities said today Sunday, August 9

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Sudan, Khartoum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum) - August 9th 2020 Heavy rains and torrential rains in most of the states of Sudan resulted in the deaths of nine people and the collapse of more than a thousand houses. In Khartoum state, hundreds of homes collapsed in the eastern Nile regions and flooded with sandy wood in eastern Khartoum, which led to the displacement of many citizens of these areas.

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Star Tsar

11th August 2020, 15:24

Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov

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Solar Storm Forecast | Three Bright Regions & A Storm Generator

Published 10th August 2020

This week our Sun brings on the brightness with three bright regions in Earth view. One of these, region 2770 is the largest new cycle sunspot we have seen in the northern hemisphere yet! It has also fired a C-class flare, along with a bunch f mini-flares. All of this activity is boosting the solar flux up into the mid-70s. With the additional regions on the Sun's farside rotating into view soon, we might see the solar flux move higher than its been in several years! On top of that, one of the farside regions is also a solar storm generator so we might get a chance for another solar storm as well over the next few weeks. Learn the details of these new regions, catch up on the remaining aurora photos I promised to show with Comet Neowise shooting through aurora-filled skies during our last solar storm, and see what else our Sun has in store!

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Star Tsar

11th August 2020, 15:28

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Major Breakthrough In Predicting Dangerous Solar Storms

Published 10th August 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a new study that uncovers an amazing way to predict dangerous solar flares and potentially the next Carrington Event coming from the sun..

source paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1147-7

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Star Tsar

11th August 2020, 15:32

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 11th August 2020 | NASA On Earth's Magnetic Shift, Water On Ceres

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As mentioned by Ben

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Star Tsar

11th August 2020, 15:40

APOD Podcast

Churning Clouds on Jupiter

Published 11th August 2020

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In today's image, we see the planet Jupiter as seen by the Juno spacecraft. This is a close-up of the cloud tops and one thing that has been noted is that some clouds are lacking in ammonia - something that we had expected to find in these clouds.

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Star Tsar

11th August 2020, 16:04

Dr James O'Donoghue

The Actual Sizes Of Planets In Our Sky Relative To The Moon (& Each Other) Until Late 2022

Published 11th August 2020

Time passes at 30 days per second in this video and because the Moon orbits in 27.3 days it appears to shrink/grow often. Oh and wait for Venus to have its moment. Arc seconds, what's that? We need to specify angles precisely so we use something called arc seconds, here's some handy conversions:
1° = 60 arc minutes (′)
1′ = 60 arc seconds (″)
so 1″ = 1/3600 of 1°

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Star Tsar

11th August 2020, 16:18

Phys.org

Main Belt Asteroid Psyche Might Be The Remnant Of A Planet That Never Fully Formed

Published 11th August 2020

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New 2-D and 3-D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile. Knowing this will be critical to NASA's forthcoming asteroid mission, Psyche: Journey to a Metal World, that launches in 2022.

"This mission will be the first to visit a metallic asteroid, and the more we, the scientific community, know about Psyche prior to launch, the more likely the mission will have the most appropriate tools for examining Psyche and collecting data," said Wendy K. Caldwell, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chick Keller Postdoctoral Fellow and lead author on a paper published recently in the journal Icarus. "Psyche is an interesting body to study because it is likely the remnant of a planetary core that was disrupted during the accretion stage, and we can learn a lot about planetary formation from Psyche if it is indeed primarily metallic."

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-main-belt-asteroid-psyche-remnant.html

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Star Tsar

11th August 2020, 16:24

Nemesis Maturity

The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Now Underway

Published 10th August 2020

According to meteor experts, the Perseids are the best meteor shower of the year. This year during peak people should see about 60-80 meteors per hour but in outburst years (such as in 2016) the rate can be between 150-200 meteors an hour.

The meteor shower's peak will be visible both the nights of Aug. 11-12 and Aug. 12-13. On the night of Aug. 12-13 you may see the highest rate of meteors or shooting stars. Both, however, should be spectacular.

Unlike most meteor showers, which have a short peak of high meteor rates, the Perseids have a very broad peak as Earth takes more than three weeks to plow through the wide trail of cometary dust from comet Swift-Tuttle.

Comet Swift-Tuttle is the largest object known to repeatedly pass by Earth; its nucleus is about 16 miles (26 kilometers) wide. It last passed nearby Earth during its orbit around the sun in 1992, and the next time will be in 2126.

The Perseids appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, visible in the northeastern sky soon after sunset this time of year. Keep in mind, the Perseids are rich in fireballs, so the show should be spectacular.

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 05:27

Movie Vertigo

Perseid Meteor Shower 2020 Timelapse

Published 11th August 2020

A timelapse taken during the run up to the peak of the Perseids. Each frame is a 15 second exposure.

Taken on Auguest 11, 2020 in the UK with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 lens.

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 05:42

Learn The Sky

Perseids Meteor Shower 2020

Published 11th August 2020

The Perseids Meteor Shower is an annual celestial event that occurs from mid-July to late August. In 2020, the Perseids Meteor Shower peaks on August 12. Seek out dark skies and go out early in the morning to see this amazing event! In this video, we will review why meteor showers occur and explore the comet known as Swift-Tuttle, since the debris from this comet is what causes the Perseids to occur. We will also get practice with identifying the constellation of Perseus, since that is the radiant for this meteor shower.

0:41 - Introduction to the Perseids
1:02 - Perseids in 2020
2:20 - Comet Swift-Tuttle
3:25 - Meteor Definition
4:10 - Meteor Shower Definition
4:31 - Radiant of a Meteor Shower
6:02 - Perseus the Hero Constellation
8:45 - Practice Finding Perseus
12:51 - Outro
13:52 - Photo Attributes

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 05:46

APOD Podcast

The Shifting Tails Of Comet NEOWISE

Published 12th August 2020

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In today's image, we see several images of Comet NEOWISE taken last month. You can note how the comet changed position over the course of the eight days and how its tail is always pointing away from our Sun.

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 06:15

Mansfield & Sutton Astronomical Society

Bob Mizon | Light Pollution

Published 11th August 2020

Bob Mizon from the BAA's Commision for Dark Skies gives us a talk about light pollution & what we can do about it.

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 06:19

NASA Goddard

TESS Completes Its Primary Mission

Published 11th August 2020

On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its primary mission, a two-year-long survey that imaged about 75% of the starry sky. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, as well as nearly 2,100 candidates astronomers are working to confirm.

TESS monitors 24-by-96-degree strips of the sky, called sectors, for about a month using its four cameras. The mission spent its first year observing 13 sectors comprising the southern sky and then spent another year imaging the northern sky.

Now in its extended mission, TESS has turned around to resume surveying the south. In addition, the TESS team has introduced improvements to the way the satellite collects and processes data. Its cameras now capture a full image every 10 minutes, or three times faster than during the primary mission. The faster measurements will allow TESS to better resolve brightness changes caused by stellar oscillations and to capture explosive flares from active stars in greater detail.

These changes will remain in place for the duration of the extended mission, which will be completed in September 2022. After spending a year imaging the southern sky, TESS will take another 15 months to collect additional observations in the north and to survey areas along the ecliptic – the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun – that have not yet been imaged by TESS.

TESS looks for transits, the telltale dimming of a star caused when an orbiting planet passes in front of it from our point of view. During its primary mission, TESS also observed the outburst of a comet in our solar system, as well as numerous exploding stars, and even watched as a black hole in a distant galaxy shredded a Sun-like star.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard2020/nasa-s-planet-hunter-completes-its-primary-mission

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 06:23

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Up To Seven Habitable Planets Types Could Exist In Many Star Systems

Published 11th August 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a new study into habitable planet types.

Source paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.13962.pdf

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 06:41

UniverseToday.com

Beyond the Fermi Paradox: What is the Aestivation Hypothesis?

Published 7th August 2020

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In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked five years prior as part of the Manhattan Project. According to various accounts, the conversation turned to aliens and the recent spate of UFOs. Into this, Fermi issued a statement that would go down in the annals of history: “Where is everybody?“

This became the basis of the Fermi Paradox, which refers to the high probability estimates for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) and the apparent lack of evidence. But despite seventy years of looking, we still haven’t been able to answer Fermi’s question, leading to multiple proposals as to why this is. Today, we look at the “Aestivation Hypothesis,” which argues that aliens are not dead (or non-existent), they’re just resting!

This theory takes its cue from nature, where certain organisms enter a state of prolonged torpor during particularly hot or dry periods. Similar to hibernation in the winter, these organisms will remain in this state until conditions become cooler and wetter. Applied to the Fermi Paradox, the Aestivation Hypothesis asserts that alien civilizations are largely dormant because they are awaiting better conditions.

Read all about it here: https://www.universetoday.com/147161/beyond-the-fermi-paradox-v-what-is-the-aestivation-hypothesis/

Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 06:45

Rogue Planet TV

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UFO Crash Retrievals

Published 11th August 2020

Jason McClellan looks at the renewed interest in alleged alien materials recovered from crashed UFOs, instigated by recent New York Times articles.

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 06:52

The Richard Dolan Show

Jay From Project Unity | The New York Times & UFO Coverage

Streamed & Published 11th August 2020

For this program, Richard is joined by Jay of the Youtube channel Project Unity. Jay recently did an important follow-up interview with New York Times journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, discussing their latest piece on UFOs. Richard and Jay talk about that and much more of relevance to the entire story of what's going on with UFOs and the media.

That part of the interview doesn't begin until 34 minutes in, as they spend most of the first half hour talking about Jay's interest in CE5 initiatives, that is self-initiated "contact" with non-human/ET intelligences. Although popularized by Dr. Steven Greer, CE5 is being done by many people on their own. Jay has his own very interesting stories to tell in that regard.

Visit the Project Unity Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/DefinedART

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 07:06

Podcast UFO

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Tom Conwell | Earthquakes & UFOs

Streamed & Published 11th August 2020

Lee Speigel joins us for the first part of the show, then guest Tom Conwell discusses his latest book Earthquakes & UFOs as well as his series of books, They Are Here, UFO encounters, possible messages abductees say they are hearing and what they may mean.

has been an Electronic Technician with the US Navy and Honeywell, Inc. for 42 years, a Honeywell Temperature Control, Fire Alarm and Security Software Specialist, Biomedical Engineer, is Fire Alarm Level II Certified, a Metrologist and HVAC Engineering resource. Tom has a wide-ranging expertise with a keen awareness of physics, computer and internet software and a broad knowledge of electronics and how it intersects with the paranormal world and UFO’s.
Tom studies databases as a Forensic Pattern Researcher. Over the past three years, Tom has written three volumes of a book series (They Are Here, Volume 1, 2 & 3), self- published a collection of blogs (Going Interstellar?), latest book is (Earthquakes and UFOs), has studied and researched UFO sighting reports from the US East Coast, the Central US, and the Western US and given speeches about each of these subjects. Tom has assembled a map of UFO sightings which has revealed many anomalies and is now an integral part of his research studies. Tom’s next book will be about what UFO abductions has suggested to us.

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/show-notes/tom-conwell/

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 12:03

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 12th August 2020 | Unidentified Comet, Mystery Ring, Radio Spiral

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 12:07

AlwaysAsking

How Big Is The Universe?

Published 10th August 2020

How big is the universe? While it is generally known that the universe is very big, the latest science reveals that its true size defies all comprehension.

In this episode we tackle the question of how big the universe is, whether or not it is infinite, and what the consequence are for us all if it is.

If the universe is big enough, it guarantees the existence of aliens, mirror Earths, and even copies of you living in the distant past and far future.

Beginning: 00:00
Episode start: 00:25
Historic views: 00:50
Copernican view: 2:24
Other star systems: 3:13
Many galaxies: 5:40
The modern view: 7:35
Ancient radiation: 8:48
Where the bang happened: 10:18
Size of the bang: 11:47
Cosmic inflation: 14:32
Eternal inflation: 19:01
String theory landscape: 21:21
Mathematical universe: 25:13
How big reality is: 28:05
Consequences of infinite space: 31:00
We're not alone: 31:40
You have doppelgängers: 32:43
You've lived before: 34:33
Does god exist? 35:24
Credits: 36:12

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 15:33

European Southern Observatory

ESOcast 228 : ALMA Sees Most Distant Milky Way Look-Alike

Published 12th August 2020

ALMA has revealed the most distant galaxy that looks surprisingly like our Milky Way.

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This schematic animation shows how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the distant source appear distorted, but magnified, forming characteristic rings of light, known as Einstein rings. This effect has allowed astronomers to see the distant galaxy SPT0418-47 (which appears as a golden ring in the ALMA images) in finer detail than would have been possible otherwise.

The foreground galaxy is not visible in the ALMA images of SPT0418-47 because it is too faint at the wavelengths used. The blue colour used in this schematic to represent this foreground galaxy is artificial.

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This animation gives the viewer an idea of how astronomers reconstructed the true shape of the SPT0418-47 galaxy, from ALMA observations of the gravitationally lensed view of the galaxy.

SPT0418-47 is gravitationally lensed by a nearby galaxy, appearing in the sky as a near-perfect ring of light, shown at the start of the video. At the end, we see the image of SPT0418-47 that astronomers obtained when they used a new computer modelling technique to reconstruct its real shape and motion of gas.

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 16:35

CosmoQuest

Daily Space

Streamed & Published 11th August 2020

Dr Pamela Gay with your space & astronomy news for the past day.

Join us today as we cover all the news about Ceres that culminated in SEVEN papers, revealing the existence of a salty subsurface ocean and active cryovolcanism. After, Dr. David Grinspoon will join us to talk about a conference on technosignatures.

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 16:52

Seeker

Forget GPS, Future Missions May Use Neutron Stars To Navigate Deep Space

Published 12th August 2020

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Lighthouses have helped safely guide mariners for centuries. As space explorers consider traveling to far-flung destinations, could pulsars provide them with similar guidance?

As NASA sets its sights on distant planets, astronauts will need a way of orienting themselves in space. Here on Earth, we use the satellite-based GPS that carry atomic clocks that provide extremely accurate time, which gets used by your phone or car to help calculate your position.

And while GPS works just fine if you’re on Earth or close to it, the signal weakens once you go beyond its range.

Historically, NASA has primarily used the Deep Space Network to track missions beyond Earth’s orbit. The three ground stations are approximately 120 degrees apart, and they beam up radio waves to a spacecraft and log details as the signals return. Navigation data is calculated on Earth and sent back, helping ground control keep missions on the right path.

But if that radio link with Earth is lost, a spacecraft can find itself adrift.

And so we need a better solution, like if a spacecraft could navigate independently, without ground control.

Enter: Pulsars.

Find out how neutron stars, pulsars, and a piece of equipment called the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, can help spacefaring explorers navigate space more effectively in this Elements.

Read More:

Future Space Travelers May Follow Cosmic Lighthouses
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/future-space-travelers-may-follow-cosmic-lighthouses-sextant-results
"An X-ray telescope on the exterior of the space station, the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer or NICER, collects and timestamps the arrival of X-ray light from neutron stars across the sky."

Fast-spinning pulsars can act as the universe's timekeepers
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150805-the-most-accurate-clocks-in-space
"Millisecond pulsars offer clues. The pulses allow scientists to precisely determine the pulsars' orbits and thus their masses - crucial data that theorists need to constrain and devise new hypotheses."

Pulsars at 50: Still going strong
https://astronomy.com/bonus/pulsars
"When astronomers initially stumbled upon these rapidly pulsing beacons in 1967, they thought they had found ET. The truth was almost as shocking."

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 18:47

The Vintage Space

When The USAF Planned A Moon Landing

Published 12th August 2020

Amy describes the time when the USAF had lunar ambitions!

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 19:21

Meteoroides.net

Perseids Over Sierra Nevada, Spain

Published 12th August 2020

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Related musical interlude:

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Star Tsar

12th August 2020, 22:49

NASA Astrobiology

Ask An Astrobiologist : Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra

Published 12th August 2020

Once a month, SAGANet (www.saganet.org (http://www.saganet.org)) and the NASA Astrobiology Program host a program called "Ask an Astrobiologist", where the public is invited to interact with a high-profile astrobiologist, who replies to twitter, facebook, and chat questions live on video.

Each session lasts about an hour. This month it's the turn of Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra (Blue Marble Space Institute Of Science).

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Star Tsar

14th August 2020, 11:29

John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

Dr. James Green | Why The Solar System May Be Full Of Life

Published 13th August 2020

Is life on Europa?
Did Mars have life? Does Mars currently have life on it?

NASA Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Green joins John Michael Godier to discuss NASA's plans for Mars 2020, the possibility of past and current life on Mars. As well as the fact that the solar system may be full of life as much of the moon's and Kuiper belt objects have large amounts of water on them. Does Europa have complex life? It has an ocean of water underneath it's surface more than the combined amount of water on Earth. The Europa Clipper mission will do its best to answer that. Also, how is NASA now searching for potential technosignatures?

Dr. Green's podcast Gravity Assist: https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist/

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Star Tsar

14th August 2020, 11:36

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Amateur Astronomers Find Saturn Like Planet In The Habitable Zone Of GJ 3470

Published 13th August 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a discovery of a new Saturn like planet in the habitable zone of the star system, but this time entirely by a group of amateur astronomers from around the world.

Source paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2007/2007.07373.pdf
AstroImageJ download: https://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/
Philip Scott story: https://www.mcalesternews.com/news/local_news/local-astronomer-says-hes-detected-new-planet/article_5fc5acb6-bc82-5441-960a-da28ce290c5b.html
Exoplanet Search group: https://exoplanetschannel.wixsite.com/home/observatories
Equipment info by Alberto Caballero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHCppdWYs6w
More about the project: https://youtu.be/0A7gEaewOws
Planet info: http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/gj_3470_c/
2018 Discovery: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05551.pdf

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Star Tsar

14th August 2020, 11:42

Cool Worlds

Six New Exomoons?

Published 13th August 2020

A team of astronomers recently announced six new exomoon candidates, capturing the headlines and sparking plenty of excitement. Exomoons have been broadly eluded astronomers for many years, so this is a big deal.... if true. Today, new work performing an independent analysis of these signals is presented in a Cool Worlds exclusive, detailing a new paper by Prof Kipping.

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Star Tsar

14th August 2020, 11:46

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 13th & 14th August 2020

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As mentioned by Benjamin:

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Star Tsar

14th August 2020, 11:50

Asteroid Station

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Asteroid (2020 NK1)

Published 13th August 2020

Asteroid (2020 NK1) has a one chance in 70,000 of impacting Earth.

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Star Tsar

14th August 2020, 11:54

Scott Manley

Snapped Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope

Published 13th August 2020

The Arecibo Radio Telescope is one of the most famous astronomical observatories in the world, and for a long time was the world's largest. On Monday night a support cable snapped and fell into the reflector dish, damaging the reflector panels, it also crashed into the side of the gregorian dome which includes the secondard and tertiary reflectors.

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 12:25

NASA Goddard

NASA Spacecraft Uncover Mystery Behind Auroral Beads

Published 14th August 2020

A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras and their powerful drivers out in space. Known as auroral beads, these lights often show up just before large auroral displays, which are caused by electrical storms in space called substorms. Until now, scientists weren’t sure if auroral beads are somehow connected to other auroral displays as a phenomenon in space that precedes substorms, or if they are caused by disturbances closer to Earth’s atmosphere.

But powerful new computer models, combined with observations from NASA’s Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms – THEMIS – mission, have provided the first direct evidence of the events in space that lead to the appearance of these beads and demonstrated the important role they play in our local space environment.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/aurora-mysteries-unlocked-with-nasa-s-themis-mission/

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 12:32

Thunderbolts Project

Space News | No Magnetic Universe Without Electric Currents

Published 14th August 2020

It may be the greatest surprise for mainstream cosmologists since the dawn of the Space Age: the detection of powerful magnetic fields at all scales throughout the Universe. In recent years, with the ever finer detection of cosmic magnetism, astrophysicists have increasingly sought an answer to the problem — an answer which might somehow be compatible with acceptable, Big Bang cosmology.

It’s important to note, as we’ve done in numerous past episodes, that mainstream cosmologists did not predict the so-called magnetic universe. In fact, a telling glimpse into the prevailing thoughts on cosmic magnetism can be found in the 1999 NASA web item entitled, 'Do magnetic fields exist throughout space?' It states, “On the cosmological scale, there is no data to suggest that magnetic fields are present. They certainly are not important in the dynamics of the universe for any reasonable range of field strengths consistent with present observational constraints.”

However, today, not only do mainstream cosmologists view cosmic magnetism as important, some astrophysicists are counting on mysterious magnetism to resolve ad hoc some of the biggest evidentiary problems for the Big Bang hypothesis. In this episode, we’ve asked retired professor of Electrical Engineering Dr. Donald E. Scott to offer his thoughts on the real source of cosmic magnetism in our Electric Universe.

https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/q309.html

FROM THE ARCHIVE
Donald Scott: An Electrical Engineer's Take on Magnetic Reconnection
https://youtu.be/ILUmJmDi6uM

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 12:37

Times Infinity & JG Science

The Deep Space Gateway, Skylab & Mir

Published 14th August 2020

The Deep Space Gateway is a project to put humans in orbit around the Moon in order to develop a permanent presence on the Moon. The project is grand in vision, but how close are we to realizing it?

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With the OLGW on its way, lets take a look back and retrace our steps leading to the ISS, Skylab and Mir!

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 12:41

Phys.org

Space Bricks For Lunar Habitation

Published 14th August 2020

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In what could be a significant step forward in space exploration, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed a sustainable process for making brick-like structures on the moon. It exploits lunar soil, and uses bacteria and guar beans to consolidate the soil into possible load-bearing structures. These 'space bricks' could eventually be used to assemble structures for habitation on the moon's surface, the researchers suggest.

"It is really exciting because it brings two different fields—biology and mechanical engineering—together," says Aloke Kumar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc, one of the authors of two studies recently published in Ceramics International and PLOS One

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-space-bricks-lunar-habitation.html

Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 12:54

BBC Sky @ Night Magazine

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A New Mission To Neptune's Largest Moon

Published 15th August 2020

Neptune's largest moon Triton is an icy world that may host a subsurface ocean. Scientist Louise Prockter discusses Trident, a proposed mission to send a robotic space probe to investigate.

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 13:17

Nemesis Maturity

Rare "Black Moon" Rising

Published 13th August 2020

There are many intriguing Moons, the Full Moon, the Supermoon, the Blue Moon, the Blood Moon and so many more. None however, are as intriguing, or mysterious, as the Black Moon. This rare Moon occurs just once every 33 months, and is set to rise this month.

On August 19, 2020, at 02:41 UTC (10:41 PM EDT - Aug. 18) will be the New Moon, when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun and will not be visible from the Earth.

What Is A Black Moon?
There are several definitions of a Black Moon. It can be the third New Moon in an astronomical season with four New Moons, or the second New Moon in the same calendar month.

Second New Moon in the same month: These Black Moons are the most common ones, and they occur about once every 29 months.

Third New Moon in a season of four New Moons: These Black Moons are a little rarer, and occur about once every 33 months.

On August 19th will be the third New Moon in a season with four New Moons, so we call this a "Black Moon." And while the Moon itself will be pretty much invisible, it will, nonetheless, provide an incredible opportunity for stargazing since there will be a whole lot of darkness in the night sky.

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 13:20

ScienceMag.org

An Unusual Meteorite, More Valuable Than Gold, May Hold The Building Blocks Of Life

Published 13th August 2020

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As the fiery emissary streaked across the skies of Costa Rica, an unearthly mix of orange and green, Marcia Campos Muñoz was in her pajamas, watching TV on the couch. It was 23 April 2019, a bit past 9 p.m., when she heard a foreboding rumble. Heart racing, she tiptoed outside to calm her barking dog, Perry, and to check on the cow pastures ringing her small house in Aguas Zarcas, a village carved out of Costa Rica’s tropical rainforest. Nothing. She ducked back inside, just before a blast on the back terrace rattled the house to its bones.

Campos Muñoz phoned her father, brother, and oldest son, who rushed to the house. On the terrace, they found a grapefruit-size hole in the corrugated zinc roof and a smashed-up plastic table, last used for the quinceañera of Campos Muñoz’s daughter. The culprit was scattered on the floor, in pieces as black as coal.

She picked up the biggest fragment, still warm to the touch. Already, her phone was chiming with WhatsApp messages from friends telling of blazing fireballs and rocks raining down on farms and fields. The family added its own viral messages to the mix: photos of Campos Muñoz and her son holding the big stone that crashed through her roof. Within hours, a local journalist visited the house and streamed videos of the damage on Facebook Live.

Read all about it here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/unusual-meteorite-more-valuable-gold-may-hold-building-blocks-life

Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 13:24

AstroMagazine

Perseid Meteor Shower 2020

Published 13th August 2020

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 13:29

Asteroid Station

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Asteroid (2020 PS)

Published 15th August 2020

Set for close approach next week.

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 13:40

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 15th August 2020 | Solar Flare, Space Plasma, Polar Evidence

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 13:43

Astronomy Magazine

The Milkomeda Collision

Published 13th August 2019

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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, and its nearest large neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), are on a collision course. Billions of years from now, the merger will transform the structure of both galaxies and create a new arrangement of stars we have dubbed Milkomeda (“milk-AHM-mee-da”). The merger will radically transform the night sky. But into what?

Currently, the Milky Way’s thin disk of stars and gas appears as a nebulous strip arching across the summer sky. As Andromeda grazes the Milky Way, a second lane of stars will join the one that presently graces the night sky. After the final merger, the stars will no longer be confined to two narrow lanes, but instead scatter across the entire sky.

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Star Tsar

15th August 2020, 13:49

Dr Becky Smethurst

How Big Is The Universe?

Published 13th August 2020

Dubbed "The Great Debate" in 1920 between two giants of astronomy, Herber Curtis and Harlow Shapley, this debate was all about the biggest question there ever has been: how big is the entire Universe?

The video Dr Smethurst did with Joe Scott on the crisis in cosmology: https://youtu.be/RdJx34szLjs

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Star Tsar

16th August 2020, 13:25

Dr Maggie Lieu

Neith: Venus' Moon Mysteriously Vanished

Published 16th August 2020

Venus has no moons? Are you sure about that. In the past, several observations have led astronomers to believe that Venus has at least 1 moon and maybe even 2. So why is it that modern probes have not found it? In this video, I talk about the mystery of Venus' moon Neith.

Extra reading:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.05661.pdf

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Star Tsar

16th August 2020, 13:34

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 16th August 2020 | Electrodynamic Sky, Cosmos, Lightning/Magnetic Field

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Star Tsar

16th August 2020, 13:55

Weather Events

Trabzon, Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabzon) - Several Landslides & Flooding

Recorded 14th & Published 16th August 2020

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Mauricio Jose, Paraguy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capit%C3%A1n_Mauricio_Jos%C3%A9_Troche) - Hail, Sipacate, Guatemala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipacate) - Storm, Tunisia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia) - Floods

Recorded 14th & Published 16th August 2020

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Star Tsar

16th August 2020, 13:59

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 262

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Published 15th August 2020

Social unrest and societal division have become the themes of the day. The reality we formerly knew seems increasingly distant. While all eyes are understandably focused on the increasingly draconian lockdown rules and regulations, climate and environmental collapse are becoming exponential. Record shattering and relentless heat is baking the US West while other parts of the country are scheduled to be unseasonably cool. Geoengineering operations are the core causal factor that is creating the freeze/fry extremes, severely affecting crop production all over the world. How long till store shelves empty out?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-august-15-2020-262/

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