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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 06:31

Nemesis Maturity

Extremely Rare Line-Up of Stars Is Coming

Published 15th August 2020

An extremely rare "Gravitational Lensing Event" is predicted to occur. Alpha Centauri A and B will line-up with a red supergiant star. This will create a circle of light which could be used to determine the presence, and the masses, of nearby planets.

The prediction is based on the trajectories of Alpha Centauri A and B, a fast moving pair of stars in the closest solar system to our own. Using both new and archive data, researchers have predicted the star's movements over the next 34 years.

This phenomenon was predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity in 1916. If the two objects are very closely aligned, eagle-eyed astronomers may catch a glimpse of an 'Einstein Ring' - a circle of light that curves around on all sides of the closest object.

In this case, Alpha Centauri A is predicted to move in front of a red supergiant star, called S5. In a statement on its website, the European Southern Observatory, said: "In May 2028, there is a strong chance that the light from S5 will create an 'Einstein Ring' around Alpha Centauri A, observable with ESO's telescopes.

Because the amount of mass in this nearby star determines exactly how the light bends around it, deviations from the expected gravitational lensing effect can be used to determine the presence, and the masses, of planets.

An extremely rare opportunity for planet hunting in the Alpha Centauri star system. It's coming 2028.

Source stories: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2016/10/aa29201-16/aa29201-16.html & https://www.eso.org/public/usa/announcements/ann16075/

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 06:41

Astrum

What Really Is Going On With Betelgeuse?

Published 15th August 2020

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Why were you dimming? Scientists may have finally come up with the answer thanks to data from Hubble.

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 06:47

PBS Space Time

How Stars Destroy Each Other

Published 17th August 2020

Our galaxy is full of dysfunctional stellar relationships. With more than half of all stars existing in binary orbits, it’s inevitable that many stellar remnants will end up in parasitic spirals with their partners. Today we’re going to look at the worst of these - from the novae produced by white dwarfs, to X-ray binaries created by neutron stars and black holes - and much weirder things besides.

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 06:57

Lowell Observatory

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What's In The Sky August 15th to 31st 2020?

Published 18th August 2020

Highlights for August 15-31 include Jupiter and Saturn in the sky all night long, with Mars rising late in the evening, and Venus in the wee hours of the morning. We also look at the constellation Cassiopeia.

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Sagas In The Sky | Aquila

Published 17th 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 Aquila, the Eagle..

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:03

MustReader

Dr Robert Zubrin | We Will Get To Mars By 2030

Published 12th August 2020

Robert Zubrin is an American aerospace engineer and the President of the Mars Society.

The Case for Mars: https://amzn.to/30Nl2IT

0:00 – Intro
0:40 – Which country will be the first to reach Mars
05:59 – Why hasn't anyone done it yet
07:31 – Why the US is postponing the Mars program
10:35 – Similarities between SpaceX and Lockheed Martin
12:23 – How Elon Musk is going to use Martian materials
13:48 – What prevents us from reaching Mars
16:30 – Sending unmanned vehicles to Mars
17:47 – Risks of a flight to Mars
18:36 – The number of people in the first mission to Mars
20:16 – Why the Mars mission is so important
28:24 – Which social problems can the colonization of Mars cause
30:41 – The Mars Society
32:59 – Terraforming Mars
36:45 – The use of nuclear weapons in the terraforming of Mars
37:46 – About flying to Mars in person

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:07

Air&SpaceMagazine.com

Microbes In The Clouds Of Venus

Published 17th August 2020

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In a paper (https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2244) just published in the journal Astrobiology, Sara Seager from MIT and colleagues suggest a way that microbial life could permanently reside in the lower atmosphere of Venus. The idea that microbes might exist in the Venusian clouds, at an altitude of 50 to 65 kilometers above ground level, was proposed more than 50 years ago (https://www.nature.com/articles/2151259a0) by the late Carl Sagan, and has since been advanced by many other authors.

Read all about it here: https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/microbes-clouds-venus-180975580/

Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:15

Issac Arthur, Parallax Nick & The ExoPlanets Channel

The Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence

Published 17th August 2020

SETI, relies on looking for signals from distant alien worlds where even very powerful signals can weaken to near nothing. We'll explore today how we, or extraterrestrials, might get around this problem, be it by immense star-powered transmitters or by using laser communication beams.

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In this video I talk about the possibility of aliens trying to contact us with lasers instead of radiotelescopes.

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As the longer stretches of the electromagnetic spectrum have repeatedly turned up dry, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence has gradually shifted to higher and higher frequencies, and have recently crossed into the domain of our eyes.

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:27

Preston Dennett

UFOs & Rockets: Someone Is Watching Us

Published 16th August 2020

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Ever since the Modern Age of UFOs began in 1947, UFOs have been closely monitoring humanity's progress into space. When the U.S. military began to actively launch missiles at White Sands in New Mexico, UFOs immediately made their presence known, not only following the missiles in full view, but sometimes intervening to cause the missiles to fall to Earth. When more rocket launches occurred, UFOs were often there. Wherever rockets were being launched, UFOs showed up, including not only White Sands, but China Lake, Vandenburg, Holloman and other areas. While the U.S. military scrambled to deal with the sudden UFO presence, at the same time they aggressively tried to cover-up the events.

But as the UFOs continued to show themselves, still sometimes disabling the rockets, whistle-blowers recognized the importance of what was happening and courageously alerted the public of what was happening.

These are not simple sighting. Under the J. Allen Hynek system, some might be classified as Close Encounters of the Second Kind, during which UFOs affect the environment (disabling a missile.) But in actuality, they are all human-initiated encounters and are more accurately classified as CE5 events.

This video presents about twenty cases in which UFOs have showed up during rocket launches. As most of these events have been covered up, the actual number is certainly much higher.

The incredible events that have occurred at White Sands, Holloman AFB, China Lake, Vandenburg AFB and other areas have yet to be fully revealed.

As this video will show, the UFO occupants' interest and monitoring of rocket launches is likely comprehensive, as there are cases in which UFOs have shown up during the launching of toy model rockets! Some UFO abductees have been told directly that we are being observed.

Why are UFOs monitoring and disabling missiles? What happened to all the camera footage showing these events? How many times has this happened? We all deserve to know the truth about the UFO presence on our planet. Cases like these are profoundly important and can be ignored no longer.

For those who would like to learn more, I have documented these (and other) cases in my book, "Not from Here: Volume Two," now available here (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FOY69F6/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=officialweb0f-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01FOY69F6&linkId=a58cfa59efbc47c56c8b5b978152a4a7).

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:31

Paul Stonehill Paranormal Research

Vladimir Putin & UFOs

Published 17th August 2020

To quote Mr Stonehill
"To make sure that we are not alone in the Universe. Are you privy to this… I'm telling you this for the first and last time… some of the best educated officers who research UFOs come from a very interesting place of learning…

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:36

Act.tv

Seth Shostak | Is The Trump Administration Investigating UFOs?

Published 12th August 2020

Julianna welcomes back noted Astronomer of the SETI Institute, Dr. Seth Shostak, to discuss how the New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon project to investigate strange aerial phenomena, which was assumed to be canceled... is in fact alive and well. Seth writes that “the clandestine effort, originally known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program is still doing its thing under the auspices of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence.” Seth tells us what we should we take from all of this.
Seth directs the search for extraterrestrials at the SETI Institute in California—trying to find evidence of intelligent life in space. He is also committed to getting the public, especially young people, excited about Astrobiology and Science in general. He also hosts SETI's weekly radio show/podcast Big Picture Science, has played himself numerous times in TV and internet film dramas, and has acted in several Science Fiction films.

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:42

The Undead Gaucho

UFO Military Weaponry

Published 16th August 2020

The government seems to be openly looking for answers about the #UFO phenomenon. With the implementation of the UAP Task Force we are in new territory. Should we disregard the past and the UFO cover up? How do we trust those that have with held the truth from the masses for so many years? Has or will the technology tied to these unidentified craft be turned into a unmatched military weapon?

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 07:46

Somewhere In The Skies

Jeremy McGowan | The Crate In The Desert

Published 12th August 2020

Ryan is joined by former Air Force Security Forces officer, Jeremy McGowan. Jeremy is a twelve- year veteran. He spent almost three years in the Middle East during Desert Storm and other operations, serving with Joint Special Operations Command and the DEA in performing counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of Colombia. But during an operation in the Jordanian Desert in 1995, something inexplicable occurred. He and a fellow security officer were ordered to guard a massive, unmarked crate in the middle of the desert. They were never told was in the crate or why they were guarding it. But while performing the cryptic duties one night, McGowan noticed something strange in the skies. Something that hovered directly over the crate and performed unbelievable maneuvers. Whatever it was, it seemed just as interested in the contents of that crate as McGowan was. And as we dig deeper in to the events of that night, we will be just as curious as well. McGowan runs us through the entire event, the aftermath, and his thoughts and theories on what was in the crate, where it went, and why the UFO may have been so interested in the contents.

CIA documents referenced by Jeremy during the discussion: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/1996/dci_testimony_032096.html

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 11:55

Seeker

What Evidence Do We Have for Life On Mars?

Published 17th August 2020

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One of the main jobs of Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, is to find signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. So, how will it meet this goal when it reaches the red planet next year?

We’ve been studying Mars from Earth since the 1600s and from space since the ‘60s.

From the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to the now present-day Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, astrobiologists have been searching for and collecting variables for decades regarding the existence of life on mars.

And NASA’s latest rover will serve as yet another puzzle piece in the ongoing journey that is finding signs of life on mars—specifically ancient microbial life.

Perseverance will dig around in Mars’ rocks looking for fossils, gathering samples to hang onto until future missions can hopefully ferry those samples back to Earth for further study.

And Mars 2020 rover will eventually be joined by the European-Russian ExoMars rover.

Find out more about the Perseverance mission, and the long history we have with searching for life on Mars in this Elements.

Read More:

Goal 1: Determine if Life Ever Arose On Mars
https://mars.nasa.gov/science/goals/#goal-1
"During the next two decades, NASA will conduct several missions to address whether life ever arose on Mars."

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars
"New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars."

Mars Life? 20 Years Later, Debate Over Meteorite Continues
https://www.space.com/33690-allen-hills-mars-meteorite-alien-life-20-years.html
"Twenty years ago, NASA scientists and their colleagues announced they had spotted possible signs of Mars life in a meteorite. The claim ignited a scientific controversy that lingers to this day."

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Star Tsar

18th August 2020, 11:59

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 18th August 2020 | Superlightning, Magnetic Anomaly, Mystery Gamma Rays

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As mentioned by Mr Davidson

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 05:28

Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov

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Space Weather News | Flares Pick Up & A Solar Storm Heads Towards Earth

Published 18th August 2020

This week our Sun holds our attention with multiple bright regions flaring and launching solar storms. One of these solar storms is partly Earth-directed and should impact Earth late on August 19 or by midday August 20. This storm is the first "fast" solar storm of this new cycle (compared to the slower, weaker storms during solar minimum). As such it could give us our best chance of aurora views yet down to mid-latitudes! On top of that we are managing to stay in the low 70s for solar flux, despite having a spotless Sun so amateur radio operators should enjoy marginal radio propagation on Earth's dayside over this next week. Of course radio propagation and GPS reception will be affected once the solar storm hits, but overall the boost in activity lately is a sure sign of Solar Cycle 25 really getting underway! Learn the details of the coming storm, how it will affect you, and see what else our Sun has in store this week.

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 05:32

Learn The Sky

Altair - The Brightest Star Of Aquila The Eagle Constellation

Published 18th August 2020

Altair is the brightest star of the constellation Aquila, which gives it the alpha designation. Altair in unique in the sense that is rotates quickly -- every 9 hours -- which gives the star an oblate spherical shape. It is fairly close to our own solar system at 16.7 light years away, which is why it is bright in our sky. Learn more about the spectral class and shape of this beautiful star.

0:42 - Introduction to Aquila
1:10 - Introduction to Altair
1:25 - Characteristics of Altair (Spectral Class and Shape)
2:24 - Direct Image of Altair
3:08 - Star map of Aquila
4:12 - Alpha, Beta and Gamma stars of Aquila
5:11 - Poem "Altair" by Karle Wilson Baker
7:10 - Practice finding Aquila using the Summer Triangle
8:17 - More practice finding Aquila and Altair
9:53 - Outro about Altair

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 05:46

Harvard.edu

The Sun May Have Started Its Life With A Binary Companion

Published 18th August 2020

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A new theory published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abac66) by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass. If confirmed, the presence of an early stellar companion increases the likelihood that the Oort cloud was formed as observed and that Planet Nine was captured rather than formed within the solar system.

Dr. Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard, and Amir Siraj, a Harvard undergraduate student, have postulated that the existence of a long-lost stellar binary companion in the Sun's birth cluster—the collection of stars that formed together with the Sun from the same dense cloud of molecular gas—could explain the formation of the Oort cloud as we observe it today.

Read all about it here: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-19

Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 06:02

Phys.org

The Fastest Star Ever Observed

Published 17th August 2020

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A team of researchers has observed the fastest moving star ever recorded. In their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, the group describes their observation and study of stars circling close to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and what they observed.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fastest-star-1.html

Source papers: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9c1c & https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04764

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Exploding Stars May Have Caused Mass Extinction On Earth, Study Shows

Published 18th August 2020

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Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star, brighter than a full moon—it might be fun to think about, but this scene is the prelude to a disaster when the radiation devastates life as we know it. Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event, researchers said, and finding certain radioactive isotopes in Earth's rock record could confirm this scenario.

A new study led by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign astronomy and physics professor Brian Fields explores the possibility that astronomical events were responsible for an extinction event 359 million years ago, at the boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-stars-mass-extinction-earth.html

Source paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/17/2013774117

Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 06:08

Sean Carroll

The Biggest Ideas In The Universe | Cosmology

Published 18th August 2020

"Cosmology." Perhaps more a field of study than an "idea," but it is made possible by an extremely powerful idea: that our universe is uniform and simple enough to be understandable. We go through the expansion of space, the thermal history of what makes up the universe, and a bit about dark matter and the cosmic microwave background.

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 06:16

NASA & Nemesis Maturity

Citizen Scientists Discover Dozens Of New Cosmic Neighbours In NASA Data

Published 18th August 2020

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We’ve never met some of the Sun’s closest neighbors until now. In a new study, astronomers report the discovery of 95 objects known as brown dwarfs, many within a few dozen light-years of the Sun. They’re well outside the solar system, so don’t experience heat from the Sun, but still inhabit a region astronomers consider our cosmic neighborhood. This collection represents some of the coldest known examples of these objects, which are between the sizes of planets and stars.

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In this artist’s rendering, the small white orb represents the white dwarf (a remnant of a long-dead Sun-like star), while the purple foreground object is the newly discovered brown dwarf companion, confirmed by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. This faint brown dwarf was previously overlooked until being spotted by citizen scientists working with Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a NASA-funded citizen science project.
Credits: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld/Acknowledgement: William Pendrill
Members of the public helped make these discoveries through Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a NASA-funded citizen science project that is a collaboration between volunteers and professional scientists. Backyard Worlds incorporates data from NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) satellite along with all-sky observations collected between 2010 and 2011 under its previous moniker, WISE. Data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope and the facilities of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab were also instrumental in the analysis.

“Vast modern datasets can unlock landmark discoveries, and it’s exciting that these could be spotted first by citizen scientists,” said Aaron Meisner, assistant scientist at NSF’s NOIRLab and the lead author of the study describing the brown dwarfs. “These Backyard Worlds discoveries show that members of the public can play an important role in reshaping our scientific understanding of our solar neighborhood.”

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/citizen-scientists-discover-dozens-of-new-cosmic-neighbors-in-nasa-data

Nemesis Maturity report

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 06:24

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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Gizmodo.com

Damaged SETI Observatory Could Be Sidelined For Months

Published 18th August 2020

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The iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was damaged last week when a large cable fell onto the radio telescope’s main reflector dish. We’re now learning more about this unfortunate incident, including how long it might take until the beleaguered observatory is back online.

During the early morning of Monday August 10, a thick auxiliary cable used to support a metal platform dropped onto the main reflector dish, producing a 100-foot-long gash. The golf ball-like Gregorian Dome was also damaged, as was a platform used to access the dome, which houses a multi-beam receiver. No one was hurt during the incident, but scientific work at Puerto Rico’s famous Arecibo Observatory is now on hold, pending repairs.

During a virtual press conference held on August 14, Francisco Córdova, the director of the Arecibo Observatory, described it as an “unprecedented event,” saying the cables, which were installed around 20 years ago, were supposed to last for another 15 to 20 years. Importantly, however, the cable did not snap. Rather, the 3-inch thick cable slipped out from a socket located on one of the observatory’s three support towers, he said.

Read all about it here: https://gizmodo.com/damaged-seti-observatory-could-be-sidelined-for-months-1844763305

Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 06:38

BusinessInsider.com & Asteroid Station

A Car-Size Asteroid Flew Within 1,830 Miles Of Earth Over The Weekend, The Closest Pass Ever — And We Didn't See It Coming

Published 18th August 2020

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A car-size asteroid flew within about 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of Earth on Sunday.

That's a remarkably close shave — the closest ever recorded, in fact, according to asteroid trackers and a catalog compiled by Sormano Astronomical Observatory in Italy.

Because of its size, the space rock most likely wouldn't have posed any danger to people on the ground had it struck our planet. But the close call is worrisome nonetheless, since astronomers had no idea the asteroid existed until after it passed by.

"The asteroid approached undetected from the direction of the sun," Paul Chodas, the director of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, told Business Insider. "We didn't see it coming."

Read all about it here: https://www.businessinsider.com/car-size-asteroid-2020qg-missed-earth-by-2000-miles-2020-8?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm&r=US&IR=T

Asteroid Station report:

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 06:54

Phys.org

Scientists Determine Oumuamua Isn't Made From Molecular Hydrogen Ice After All

Published 18th August 2020

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The debate over the origins and molecular structure of 'Oumuamua continued today with an announcement in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that despite earlier promising claims, the interstellar object is not made of molecular hydrogen ice after all.

The earlier study, published by Seligman & Laughlin in 2020—after observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope set tight limits on the outgassing of carbon-based molecules—suggested that if 'Oumuamua were a hydrogen iceberg, then the pure hydrogen gas that gives it its rocket-like push would have escaped detection. But scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) were curious whether a hydrogen-based object could actually have made the journey from interstellar space to our solar system

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-scientists-oumuamua-isnt-molecular-hydrogen.html

Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 07:13

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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VolcanoYT

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

Recorded & Published 18th August 2020

This time-lapse is a combination of 4 cameras, unfortunately camera is active during plume so we don't see initial eruption (categorized as blowing).

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 08:13

NASA

What You Need To Know About Ocean Worlds

Published 17th August 2020

Our planet is a beautiful water-filled world, teeming with life. But did you know that Earth is not the only world in our solar system with an ocean? Here’s what you need to know about Ocean Worlds.”

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 08:18

CosmosMagazine.com

Bayesian Statistics & The Hunt For ET

Published 17th August 2020

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One of the goals of the next generation of giant telescopes, now rapidly nearing completion, is to scour the nearby heavens for stars whose planets show signs of life.

If they find even a single such a world, Amedeo Balbi of the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Claudio Grimaldi of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne say, it probably means that the galaxy is teeming with life-bearing worlds.

In fact, the two astrobiologists write in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, such a discovery would indicate that life-bearing worlds may well be more common than pulsars (which are believed to number in the order of 200,000 in the Milky Way galaxy alone).

Read all about it here: https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrobiology/bayesian-statistics-and-the-hunt-for-et/

Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 08:22

Podcast UFO

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John Michael Greer | The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy & Disinformation

Streamed & Published 18th August 2020

Guest John Michael Greer speaking on his new book, The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation and more.

John Michael Greer is a widely respected author and blogger in the fields of nature spirituality and the future of industrial society. He is the author of more than fifty books and his blog, Ecosophia. https://www.ecosophia.net/

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/417-john-michael-greer/

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 08:26

The Richard Dolan Show

The End Of UFO Disclosure?

Streamed & Published 18th August 2020

The past three years have given the public much in the way of new authenticated information on the subject of UFOs. Recently, the Pentagon announced the formation of a UFO Task Force. All this is important confirmation of a phenomenon that many people knew was real, but which never received confirmation. But how far can all this go?

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 08:33

Post Disclosure World

UFO Believers: What Happens If We're Right?

Published 16th August 2019

If UFO believers end up being right, that doesn't mean UFO skeptics were wrong about one thing. It actually means they were wrong about many things.

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Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 08:37

The Black Vault

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The Road to a Congressional UFO Hearing, 1960’s Style

Published 18th August 2020

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The world is abuzz that the United States Senate, namely the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by Senator Marco Rubio, is interested in a public UFO report created by the Intelligence Community (IC). In addition, the Department of Defense (DOD) recently announced a UAP Task Force, or UAPTF, which aims to investigate unidentified objects as they encroach on military installations. The effort is an exciting push towards transparency related to an issue that has intrigued the masses for decades, and one that is often encapsulated in secrecy and conspiracy allegations. However, this is not the first time Congressional interest into UFOs has happened. In fact, it’s happened before in a nearly identical fashion. Can this unfolding saga end the same way? Advocates for UFO disclosure sure hope not.

Read all about it here: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-road-to-a-congressional-ufo-hearing-1960s-style/

Star Tsar

19th August 2020, 11:50

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 19th August 2020 | Climate, Nova Extinction, Quakes, Hurricane

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 12:23

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 263

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Published 22nd August 2020

Hundreds of wildfires in the Western US have blanketed huge regions of the country in smoke. Other parts of the world, like Siberia and the Amazon rainforest, are experiencing unprecedented wildfires. Simultaniously, parts of the planet are being deluged with record rains. Systemic environmental collapse is unfolding. Governments around the globe are demonstrating their desperation by taking increasingly draconian actions to lockdown and control the masses.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-august-22-2020-263/

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 13:02

Weather Events

Storm Ellen Hits Ireland

Recorded 19th & Published 20th August 2020

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Severe Flooding - Los Cabos, Baja California, Mexico (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cabos_Municipality)

Recorded 19th & Published 20th August 2020

Flooding caused by Hurricane Genevieve.

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Jellyfish On Mysovoyeen Beach, Russia, | Tropical Storm Ellen Hits Cork, Ireland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_(city)) | Flooding In The Dominican Republic

Recorded 21st & Published 22nd August 2020

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Parts Of Southeastern Australia Wake Up To A Winter Wonderland

Recorded 21st & Published 22nd August 2020

A Rare spring storm dumps three feet of snow on Southeastern Australia

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 13:07

VolcanoYT

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

Recorded & Published 23rd August 2020

Mount Sinabung erupted on Sunday, 23 August 2020, at 07:41 WIB with height ash column observed ±1500m above peak (±3960m above sea level). Ash column is observed to be gray with a thick intensity towards the east. This eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 25 mm and a duration of 747 seconds.

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 13:23

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 20th - 23rd August 2020

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 13:27

Androsif

The Moon - Mythology, Mystery & History

Published 19th August 2020

In this video we will tackle the "Mythos of the Moon" ranging from it's scientific origins, its place within our mythology and what it might look like in our future.

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 13:40

NASA

What You Need to Know About Enceladus

Published 21st August 2020

Beneath its icy surface, Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has many surprises: a reservoir of liquid water, organic chemical compounds, and hydrothermal vents. Find out what you need to know about Enceladus, an ocean world which may have conditions friendly to life.

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 13:46

Dreksler Astral

Colonizing Callisto - Third Largest Moon In The Solar System

Published 18th August 2020

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Callisto is a pretty big moon that has some conditions which are very friendly for a human colony. Because of that in this video, I take a look at how we could go about establishing a big colony on this moon of Jupiter and how we could even turn its surface conditions to be even better for humans in the really far future.

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 13:53

Filling-Space.com

Why Is It Important To Consider Human Rights In Space?

Published 24th August 2020

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From most people’s perspectives, space law is a fairly niche field. Even more niche are particular sub-fields of space law, such as space human rights law. Despite being so niche, though, one can argue that space human rights law is extremely important. It defines how humans treat each other as they expand into new off-planet environments. It thus fundamentally shapes how humanity engages with space. To learn more about the intersection of human rights and space exploration, we spoke to Jonathan Lim, a solicitor at the law firm WiseLaw. He is also the founder of Jus Ad Astra, a project at WiseLaw that develops legal principles pertaining to space exploration.

Read all about it here: https://filling-space.com/2020/08/21/why-is-it-important-to-consider-human-rights-in-space/

Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 14:04

Thunderbolts Project

Space News | Ben Hyde: Electric Universe Inspiring Gen Z

Published 14th August 2020

What does the future hold for education in the space sciences?

More than half a century ago, inspired interest in space exploration was remarkably high among the general public, as humanity’s attention was held rapt by the race to the Moon. However, in the 21st century, the public face of space science is less the astronaut than the physicist and astrophysicist.

When young people wish to learn of space science, they learn of the Big Bang and gravity-centric cosmology. They must try to make sense of concepts such as warped space-time, infinities and singularities. They’re told of a Universe that is 96% dark, comprised of matter and energy that are unproven, invisible and “poorly understood.”

However, today we know that more than 99% of the universe is composed of plasma. This universe is not "dark," it is alight with electric currents. And the physical mechanisms that spark the phenomena we see have been replicated for many decades in laboratories on Earth. Thus, one can see the potential for the electrical cosmology to inspire a new generation, through concepts that are both understandable and demonstrable.

Recently, we have engaged with an Electric Universe advocate who has made it his mission to introduce the young and curious to the ideas of the EU. His name is Benjamin Hyde, a television news science presenter at KSTU-FOX 13 Salt Lake City, and prolific social media science creator.

We are excited to formally introduce Ben to the EU community in his Space News debut. Here he describes SPARK (Science Programs Aimed Right at Kids), and how his efforts to interest and inspire Generation Z in the sciences is flourishing.

Ben Hyde SPARK | Science Programs Aimed Right at Kids
• YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbsEPiGtoPDkflR4rPPmXkQ
• Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Spark-science-137581603027542/

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 14:21

AstroMagazine

11741945 Year Old Light Hits Your Eye

Published 22nd August 2020

A live view of the galaxies M81 and M82 through a telescope. This light traveled 11740000 years only to hit our small planet and your eye.

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 14:27

John Michael Godier

Ten Of The Milky Way's Most Interesting Stars

Published 21st August 2020

An exploration of some of the Milky Way Galaxy's strangest and most unusual stars and star systems.

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 14:51

SEA

Corrupt Stars | The Stars You Can't See

Published 21st August 2020

Not every star in the universe can be seen shining brightly in the night sky. There are dozens of types of fascinating hypothetical stars, which are characterised by their extreme behaviour. Today, we will be taking a look at a few of these corrupted stars, from the start of the universe right up until the end.

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Star Tsar

23rd August 2020, 15:08

Astronomy.com

How COVID-19 Is Preparing Humanity For First Contact

Published 21st August 2020

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When the first message from an alien intelligence arrives, our experience with COVID-19 could help us plan a suitable response, researchers say.

Read all about it here: https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/how-covid-19-is-preparing-humanity-for-first-contact

Star Tsar

24th August 2020, 07:23

Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 14:16

The Undead Gaucho

Humanoid UFO Occupants? Anthropomorphism?

Published 25th August 2020

Humanoid UFO Occupants? We have touched on this topic in the past on this channel, we discussed the similarities between us and them from an anatomical standpoint when it comes to the Grey's. I have even gone as far as to try and find a link to what these beings are wearing during close encounters...why they would necessarily even need to wear clothes? If there is one thing we can't ignore is that there is an anthropomorphic aspect of this phenomenon. I will be honest, at times I've wondered if this humanoid aspect could be the Achilles heel to all of this...is this just proof that this is all just a confabulation of the human mind? But as you all know I am a believer ufos are real.
So why...why humanoid with all the possibilities of evolution that could occur when thinking of an otherworldly species...why would they look similar to us? Why would they resemble human life here on earth?

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Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 14:27

DestinationDeclassified

The Insane Alien Abduction Of Betty & Barney Hill - America's First Alien Abduction Case

Published 21st August 2020

This is the story of Betty and Barney Hill, and how their recounting of a night in 1961, changed UFO culture forever...

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Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 14:35

Fade To Black Radio

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Mick West | Escaping The Rabbit Hole

Recorded & Published 24th August 2020

In this broadcast our guest is Mick West and we are going to breakdown each of the US Navy's three videos: 'Tic Tac', 'Gimble', and 'Go Fast'.

Mick West is the author of "Escaping the Rabbit Hole - How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect" and host of the podcast: "Tales From The Rabbit Hole". He's a retired videogame programmer who helped make the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Franchise. Mick runs the web site Metabunk.org, where he investigates conspiracy theories, debunks pseudoscience, and investigates UFO videos.

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Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 14:40

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 24th & 25th August 2020

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Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 14:50

Volcano Time-Lapse

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

Recorded & Published 23rd August 2020

Starting around 05:30 CDT when the clouds cleared this eruption was on-going.

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Acid Lake | Volcan Poas, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C3%A1s_Volcano) Costa Rica

Recorded 24th & Published 25th August 2020

Poas Volcano, in Costa Rica (https://costa-rica-guide.com/nature/national-parks/poas-volcano/), is usually covered in clouds but today it's beautifully clear.

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Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 15:29

Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Flooding - Haiti

Recorded & Published 23rd August 2020

Flooding caused by Tropical Storm Laura.

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Flooding - Thailand

Recorded & Published 23rd August 2020

Yom River rising which overflowed with massive flooding in Sukhothai Province (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhothai_Province),

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Fire - France

Recorded & Published 23rd August 2020

The inhabitants of Vitrolles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrolles,_Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne) were evacuated from their homes due to a wildfire. Nearly 250 firefighters fight the flames of a large fire, The 250 firefighters mobilized in Vitrolles. Thirty acres have caught fire and the A7 Freeway is closed both ways.

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Flooding - Dominican Republic

Recorded 23rd & Published 24th August 2020

Tropical storm conditions will be present over the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Turks and Caicos Islands for the rest of today and into Monday as Tropical Storm Laura makes its way towards the United States.

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Fire - La Palma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma), Canary Islands | Snow - Azerbaijan

Recorded 23rd & Published 24th August 2020

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Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 15:36

Space Telescope Science Institute

Tonight's Sky: September 2020

Published 24th August 2020

In September, Pegasus becomes increasingly prominent in the southeastern sky, allowing stargazers to locate globular star clusters and a nearby double star, Alpha Capricorni. Keep watching for space-based views of densely packed, spherical collections of ancient stars in visible and X-ray light.

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Star Tsar

25th August 2020, 15:50

Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 10:25

Learn The Sky

Cepheus

Published 25th August 2020

Cepheus is a circumpolar constellation that lies close to the constellation of Cassiopeia and can be seen all year round in the northern hemisphere. Look for Cepheus next to Cassiopeia in the sky. Both Cassiopeia and Cepheus are connected through their mythologies. Learn how to identify this constellation and the celestial objects that sit within its boundaries.

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 10:30

Weather.com

India’s AstroSat Discovers An Ancient Galaxy; Findings Could Help Explain Origin Of Light Post Big Bang

Published 25th August 2020

Scientists from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune have discovered one of the earliest galaxies in the universe, situated about 9.3 billion light-years away from the Earth. The breakthrough discovery, published on Monday, was made using AstroSat—the first multi-wavelength satellite of India.

Launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on September 28, 2015, and developed by multiple research institutes from India and Canada, the satellite specialises in studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously. It consists of five payloads that assist in capturing UV light coming from celestial objects.

The satellite, using its unique features, recently detected an extreme-ultraviolet light coming from the galaxy named AUDFs01. The discovery is expected to help our understanding of the earliest source of light in the universe.

Read all about it here: https://weather.com/en-IN/india/space/news/2020-08-26-indias-astrosat-discovers-an-ancient-galaxy

A little on AstroSat

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 10:52

Dr Paul M. Sutter

Ask a Spaceman! | Are Dark Photons Real?

Published 26th August 2020

Are there more than four forces of nature? Is dark matter connected to dark energy? What the heck are dark photons? Dr Sutter discusses these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 11:03

SciShow Space

The History Hidden In Martian Dunes

Published 25th August 2020

The Red Planet was once more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water. Now, scientists are looking for clues to its past in the planet’s ancient fossil dunes, barchan dunes, and ghost dunes.

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 11:08

Seeker

Eleven Billion Years Of Our Universe’s History Were Missing… Until Now

Published 27th August 2020

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After 20 years of mapping the night sky, one project has filled in an 11 billion year gap in our knowledge of the universe’s history.

Since 2000, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, or SDSS, has been regularly studying the sky via its relatively small two-and-a-half meter telescope in New Mexico with the goal of creating the most detailed map of the observable universe ever.

The data produced by the SDSS has made it one of the most influential tools in cosmology. Over the years the project introduced new instruments like the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, or BOSS, which mapped the distribution of luminous red galaxies and quasars to establish a scale created by ripples in the very early universe.

SDSS is on its fifth study and if it is anything like the others it will reveal parts of the cosmos we've never seen before.

Scientists May Be One Step Closer to Figuring Out How Fast the Universe is Expanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22NtXWDQlrM

Read More:
No need to Mind the Gap: Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of our universe’s expansion history
https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/no-need-to-mind-the-gap/
"The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released today a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe ever created, filling in the most significant gaps in our possible exploration of its history."

SDSS-IV: Current Surveys (2014-2020)
https://www.sdss.org/surveys/
"After nearly a decade of design and construction, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey saw first light on its giant mosaic camera in 1998 and entered routine operations in 2000."

What Is The Hubble Constant?
https://www.space.com/25179-hubble-constant.html
"The Hubble Constant is the unit of measurement used to describe the expansion of the universe."

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 11:13

JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

Voyagers One & Two, Where are We Now?

Published 25th August 2020

The current interpretations of the Voyager data on the heliosheath and the interface with the local interstellar medium are reviewed, and serious omissions in these interpretations are pointed out. Current conclusions on the global structure of the heliosheath, whether from models or observations, are found to be wanting, resulting in a need for better models and further observations, such as by Interstellar Probe.

Panelists
James Mastandrea
Michael Paul
Andrea Harmon
Prof. Lennard Fisk

Learn more about the Interstellar Probe: http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 11:17

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

New Surprising Discoveries From Ceres

Published 26th August 2020

In this video Anton will talk about about new discoveries from Ceres that imply a large sea or ocean inside of the closest dwarf planet to us.

More information: "Recent Cryovolcanic Activity at Occator Crater on Ceres," A. Nathues et al. 2020 August 10, Nature Astronomy www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1146-8
"Impact-driven Mobilization of Deep Crustal Brines on Dwarf Planet Ceres," C. A. Raymond et al. 2020 August 10, Nature Astronomy www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1168-2
"Evidence of Non-uniform Crust of Ceres from Dawn's High-resolution Gravity Data," R. S. Park et al., 2020 August 10, Nature Astronomy www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1019-1
"Fresh Emplacement of Hydrated Sodium Chloride on Ceres from Ascending Salty Fluids," M. C. De Sanctis et al., 2020 August 10, Nature Astronomy www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1138-8
"Impact Heat Driven Volatile Redistribution at Occator Crater on Ceres as a Comparative Planetary Process," P. Schenk et al., 2020 August 10, Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17184-7
"The Varied Sources of Faculae-forming Brines in Ceres' Occator crater Emplaced via Hydrothermal Brine Effusion," J. E. C. Scully et al., 2020 August 10, Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15973-8
"Post-impact Cryo-hydrologic Formation of Small Mounds and Hills in Ceres's Occator Crater," B. E. Schmidt et al., 2020 August 10, Nature Geoscience www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-0581-6

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 11:28

Engadget.com

A Tiny Space Rock Holds Clues About The Evolution Of Life

Published 24th August 2020

Meteorite Asuka 12236 (https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=67187)may pre-date our solar system.

Read all about it here: https://www.engadget.com/nasa-meteorite-asuka-12236-amino-acids-140557805.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACY3I1IKxNYCWAhh-tRe7p9PZGkvkjzdFlFMdSdxGc4lUMVANF0SLmsEgyUnRlw6aJNbnNcKxSiXtkVnTzW69P6fMoCwUV-jleSlgtdfSyhzoavEN3k57fo5zjl88Jancnhxywokio3DuZMlD0rB8U8XWB_qbZJzVg26Wd9_2BM0

More on Asuka 12236

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 11:34

NASA Night Sky Network

NASA’s Search For Meteorites In Antarctica: Who, What, When, Where, Why & How?

Published 25th August 2020

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Hear Dr. Cynthia Evans tell us about NASA's search for meteorites in Antarctica.

Dr. Evans will describe some of her recent experiences deployed to Antarctica as part of NASA’s Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) 2019-2020 field team. She will also discuss the importance of NASA’s meteorite collection for understanding solar system evolution and relevance for current and future NASA missions.

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 11:42

Nemesis Maturity

150ft-Wide Asteroid 2011 ES4 Will Fly By Earth At 0.3 Times The Distance To The Moon Next Week

Published 26th August 2020

An asteroid will fly by Earth at 0.3 times the distance to the Moon on September 1, 2020. Asteroid 2011 ES4, which measures approximately 150ft (50m) across, is expected to hurtle past the Earth at staggering speeds of 18,253mph (29,375kmh).

The space rock will pass by Earth at 0.00048 Astronomical Units (AU) away - approximately 44,550 miles (71,600 km). The CNEOS database reveals the asteroid will pass by the Earth on September 1 at 3.49pm BST (10.49am ET).

That asteroid has a condition code of seven (7) at the time, with 0 being good and 9 being highly uncertain. However, Space Agencies say it is of no threat to Earth.

Asteroid 2011 ES4 will pass safely, but it's a reminder that Earth has been vulnerable to cosmic impacts in the past, and will continue to be in the future.

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A Bright Comet Is Plunging Toward The Sun

Published 27th August 2020

It's bright, and it's doomed. A new comet just discovered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is plunging toward the sun where solar heating will almost certainly tear it apart.

"I know it doesn't look like much now, but this comet could become really bright--perhaps 2nd or 3rd magnitude as it passes by the sun on Thursday and Friday," says Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC.

The comet is a Kreutz sungrazer--a fragment from the breakup of a giant comet many centuries ago. SOHO has discovered thousands of Kreutz sungrazers; tiny ones divebomb the sun almost every day. This fragment is bigger and brighter than usual.

Like other Kreutz comets, this one will probably disintegrate when heated. But will that happen before it reaches the sun or after?

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 12:05

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 26th & 27th August 2020

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Star Tsar

27th August 2020, 12:39

Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Floods & Landslide - Karachi, Pakistan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi)

Recorded & Published 25th August 2020

A landslide in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar Block 3 destroyed over 80 cars and motorbikes Tuesday. The incident occurred when heavy rocks fell from the hills on the vehicles of Javed Hill View Apartments residents following heavy rain in the city.

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Tornado - Lecce, Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecce)

Recorded & Published 26th August 2020

Sunbathers were forced to flee after a tornado hit a beach in Italy's Puglia region.

It struck on Tuesday afternoon on Pescoluse beach, raising a column of twisting sand.

Local media reported several people had minor injuries.

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Hurricane Laura Hits US

Published 27th August 2020

The category four storm is approaching Texas and Louisiana with maximum sustained wind speeds of 150 miles per hour (240km/h).

If it maintains those speeds it would be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the US south coast.

Half a million residents have been told to leave the area.

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Ivanhoe

27th August 2020, 20:11

Hi Star
I don't always hit the thanks button, but I want you to know I appreciate the work and effort you put into this thread.
Very informative indeed.
THANK YOU!

Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 10:20

Hi Star
I don't always hit the thanks button, but I want you to know I appreciate the work and effort you put into this thread.
Very informative indeed.
THANK YOU!

Thanks Ivanhoe!
So pleased to read that your enjoying & learning along with me...

:bearhug:

Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 10:23

ScientificAmerican.com

Luna-25 Lander Renews Russian Moon Rush

Published 27th August 2020

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There is a multicountry moon rush in progress. NASA is orchestrating the Artemis program of robotic and human lunar exploration, due to launch human explorers in 2024 at the earliest. China is preparing to hurl a sample-return mission to the moon this year, joining a Chinese lander and rover that are now on the lunar far side. Other nations, such as Japan and India, as well as private spaceflight firms, also have future lunar exploration in their crosshairs.

Read all about it here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/luna-25-lander-renews-russian-moon-rush/

Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 10:27

Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov

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Solar Storm Forecast | A Fizzle, Fast Wind, & Space Guests

Published 27th August 2020

This week our Sun quiets down from the series of solar storms and flares of last week. Although we were expecting one of the solar storms to hit Earth, it actually was near miss. The storm went just southeast of us. This was quite lucky for the recent Starlink launch because a similar storm from the same region did hit one of our upstream solar wind satellite monitors (STEREO A), and it was actually quite large! Since then the active regions that were firing the solar storms have rotated to the Sun's farside so things have become quiet again. However, we are still managing to stay in the low 70s for solar flux so amateur radio and emergency responders can expect to hold on to marginal radio propagation this week. GPS reception should also remain good, especially on Earth's dayside. Plus we have some more fast solar wind coming our way, which could give us a decent show of aurora at high latitudes. Learn the details of the solar storm near miss, see why it was lucky for Starlink, and find out what else our Sun has in store this week!

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 10:37

Nemesis Maturity

Prominence Eruption & Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)

Published 27th August 2020

For days, astronomers have been monitoring a gigantic prominence on the Sun's northwestern limb. Today, [27th August] the magnetic structure erupted, hurling a bright CME into space. The CME will not hit Earth..

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Large Sungrazer Comet Divebombs The Sun & The Sun Produces Two CMEs

Published 28th August 2020

Yesterday, Aug. 27th, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) watched as a comet plunged into the sun and disappeared. Fierce solar heating completely destroyed the icy visitor from the outer solar system.

Discovered only two days ago, the comet is a Kreutz sungrazer--a fragment from the breakup of a giant comet many centuries ago. SOHO has discovered thousands of Kreutz sungrazers; tiny ones divebomb the sun almost every day. This fragment was bigger and brighter than usual, but it suffered the same fate as its siblings: annihilation.

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 10:45

NBCNews.com

Ancient Meteorites Suggest Earth's Oceans Didn't Come From Space, But Were Already Here

Published 27th August 2020

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Research indicates the star stuff that formed our solar system contained more than enough hydrogen to create all of the Earth’s water.

Earth's oceans may have formed directly from the “star stuff” that coalesced into the early solar system, according to new research – challenging the idea that most of Earth’s water was delivered here by meteorites and comets.

Read all about it here: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ancient-meteorites-suggest-earth-s-oceans-didn-t-come-space-n1238462

Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 10:52

Starset Society

Asteroid Mining - Why The Next Generation Of Miners Will Have Their Eyes On The Stars

Published 25th August 2020

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In 2015, Neil deGrasse Tyson claimed "The first trillionaire there will ever be is the person who exploits the natural resources on asteroids."

For the first installment in The Starset Society's new series - FUTURES, we examine a future where asteroid mining has become commonplace.

The notion of asteroid mining has been circulating more than ever as private companies seek ways to tap into the seemingly limitless resources of space for profit, expansion, and innovation, and they’re getting closer every year.

Read all about it here: http://thestarsetsociety.org/futures-asteroid-mining-why-the-next-generation-of-miners-will-have-their-eyes-on-the-stars/

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 11:00

Asteroid Station

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End Of The Month Report

Published 27th August 2020

Here are the largest asteroids headed towards Earth. The month is almost over and it's been very interesting. A lot of asteroids have been reported and a lot more to come. The size of these asteroids are very interesting and scare the socks out of me. My imagination goes wide I keep on wondering what else is out there, I'm sure a lot can relate. Join us next time as we do a live countdown of asteroid (2011 ES4)

Upcoming Asteroids Watch List
(2018 VP1) Impact Risk Sentry - Earth Impact Monitoring
https://youtu.be/3vqkQ9NY-w0

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(2020 QJ1) 2020-Aug-28 07:46
(2020 PG) 2020-Aug-28 11:47
(2020 QX3) 2020-Aug-28 21:21
(2020 PJ3) 2020-Aug-29 00:14
(2010 RJ43) 2020-Aug-29 01:15
(2020 QO4) 2020-Aug-29 02:03
(2020 QX2) 2020-Aug-29 04:18
(2020 PW3) 2020-Aug-29 20:38

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 11:04

Volcano Time-Lapse

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

Recorded & Published 27th August 2020

Event occured 18:42 CDT. Things have been slow so Volcan de Fuego is welcomed volcanic activity!

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 11:17

Dr Becky Smethurst

How Did The Universe Begin?

Published 27th August 2020

In the beginning, there was....what? Thankfully Physics can now help us answer that question! But during the 20th Century, there was a debate raging between whether the Universe started in a Big Bang or has existed forever. Thankfully that debate was eventually settled by radio astronomy...

Alpher, Bethe & Gamow (1948) - https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.73.803
Alpher & Herman (1948) - https://www.nature.com/articles/162774b0
Ryle (1955) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1955MmRAS..67..106S
Dickie et al. (1965) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1965ApJ...142..414D
Penzias & Wilson (1965) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1965ApJ...142..419P

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 11:21

John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

Jonathan Gorard | Is There One Rule For Our Universe?

Published 27th August 2020

What is the Theory of Everything?

Stephen Wolfram recently announced the Wolfram Physics project, a way to find the fundamental theory of physics. Is it a theory of everything? And how does it describe General Relativity and Einstein’s work? John Michael Godlier is joined by Jonathan Gorard to discuss the Wolfram physics project, and why it may be a beautiful path towards the fundamental theory of physics.

Wolfram Physics links: http://wolfr.am/physics
The announcement post: http://wolfr.am/physics-announcement
Participate: https://wolfr.am/physics-tools
Find the technical documents: https://wolfr.am/physics-documents

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 12:47

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 28th August 2020 | Plasma Universe, Are We In The Matrix?

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 13:00

Space.com

Venus Could Unlock Mysteries Of Exoplanet Habitability

Published 28th August 2020

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Future mission to study Venus could further humanity's understanding of habitability of planets outside our solar system.

Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/44-venus-second-planet-from-the-sun-brightest-planet-in-solar-system.html

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 13:45

Mystery Wire

Mystery Wire Podcast - Marco Rubio & Stephan Rodrick

Published 28th August 2020

Marco Rubio talks about the UAP task force plus George Knapp talks with Stephan Rodrick about his new Rolling Stone article on UFO enthusiasts, journalists, and investigators.

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Star Tsar

28th August 2020, 13:51

Asick

What Aliens Look Like & What Is Gonna Happen When They Come

Published 26th August 2020

This video focuses on what scientists think about aliens...

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Star Tsar

30th August 2020, 15:38

Preston Dennett

Extraterrestrial Gardeners

Published 29th August 2020

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ETs are abducting people and collecting their genetic material. They are abducting animals. And they are also abducting plants! As these accounts will show, ETs have been collecting a wide variety of plants for a very long time.

And that's not all. If you are taken onboard a UFO, the last thing you might expect to see is a forest. And yet, this has happened more than you might think.

And the cases get even stranger. In some cases, ETs provide advice about gardening. In others, they use more direct methods. Imagine a UFO shines down and causes a plant to double in size. There's more than one case like it!

Why are ETs collecting plants and growing forests onboard UFOs? What is the motive behind this agenda? ETs have been warning people about Earth changes for many years. Perhaps they have decided to take action themselves. Could UFOs be like Noah's Ark, trying to save the species of our planet?

Only one thing is for sure: ETs are here, and they are taking our plants.

If you are interested in learning more about cases like these, see my book, "Not from Here: Volume 2," available here (https://www.amazon.com/dp/153280458X/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=officialweb0f-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=97cd2e7b79e304f582d246932da597d9&creativeASIN=153280458X).

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Star Tsar

30th August 2020, 15:49

The Undead Gaucho

Non Corporeal Intelligence & UFOs

Published 30th August 2020

Some believe that a non corporeal intelligence and #UFOs go hand and hand that the UFO phenomenon is not a physical phenomenon but that what we are experiencing an interaction or contact with a non corporeal intelligence that can manipulate our reality and make us see what we want to see....some say the classic image of the grey alien is just a humanoid facade put on by this intelligence to mimic and fit into our narrative to what we believe extraterrestrials would look like. Is it possible that this phenomenon mimics our technological advancements? before tic tacs and flying saucers there where unidentified airships and before that there were vmanas and chariots of the gods.Many aspects of the abduction phenomenon tie into the legends of pagan myth for example fairly folk...light beings and angels...is it the phenomenon that is changing or is that we are changing the myth?John Keel initially believed that we were dealing with extraterrestrial visitors but later in his life linked UFOs to supernatural concepts such as monsters, ghosts and demons. Keel used the term "ultraterrestrials" to describe UFO occupants he believed to be non-human entities capable of taking on whatever form they want. Here's where this idea in my opinion gets muddy. If we are to consider the case of Bob Lazar, and the recent claims made in one of the latest NYT articles of recovered crashed off-world vehicles, where physical craft have been retrieved and is being studied. This idea that these craft and these beings are just a facade put on by a nonphysical intelligence goes out the window. We must consider the reality that if they have recovered craft, they most likely have recovered occupants. I am surprised no one saw that hidden bombshell when reading the NYT article...Id have to say I lost some sleep over it... for example, consider cases like the crash in Aztec New Mexico did happen and bodies where recovered. So why did the mask or this facade not fade... as the lifeless occupant and chunks off world vehicles laid sprawled out..if its all just a facade why did it not fade back to where it came from? Like the image fades away when the film roll breaks and the projector shuts off? It looks like we are dealing with physical craft and physical beings at least in what we believe to be physical in our reality.I often think to my self, how can we expect to classify or explain within the parameters of human science or logic this alien phenomenon...we may be looking at the concept of physical reality in all the wrong ways..through a human lens.

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Star Tsar

30th August 2020, 15:53

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Iran Chased Unidentified Object Going Mach 10 In 2004

Published 30th August 2020

A very rare file comes from Iran — on October 28th, 2004, an IRIAF F-14 was ordered to pursue and engage a spherical, luminous, green unidentified aerial phenomenon. When the pilot attempted to lock on, the weapons system and radar would malfunction.

The UAP also showed signs of anomalous acceleration, disappearing and reappearing in different spots in the sky, confirmed by two in the jet and observers on the ground near the Arak Heavy Water Reactor. The object was estimated to go between Mach 7 and Mach 10.

0:00 Intro
1:05 F-14 engages UFO
1:56 Weapons system interference
2:25 The sketch
3:35 IRIAF's UFO study
4:45 Key questions

2009 IRIAF UAP report, used with permission: https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee/status/942385916659814401?s=20

F-14, Jeff Quitney (cc) https://vimeo.com/405461012

Pentagon, Jeff Quitney (cc) https://vimeo.com/326635311

Minuteman, Jeff Quitney (cc) https://vimeo.com/343242173

F-14B 1998 (cc) https://youtu.be/emuQbh-eH64

Mapbox: https://docs.mapbox.com/help/how-mapbox-works/attribution/

Arak Reactor (cc) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arak_Heavy_Water4.JPG

Thumbnail derived from this, Creative Commons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gcdnz/44675124114/in/photostream/

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Star Tsar

30th August 2020, 16:01

Rizlaz

AREA 51: UFO Sightings - Leaks, Proof & History

Published 30th August 2020

Two locations are legendary among UFO seekers. One is Roswell, New Mexico, where sightings of a so-called flying saucer electrified the town in 1947. The other is Area 51 near Groom Lake, Nevada, where the U.S. government has long maintained a secret base that some say hides UFO-related technology and experiments.Two locations are legendary among UFO seekers. One is Roswell, New Mexico, where sightings of a so-called flying saucer electrified the town in 1947. The other is Area 51 near Groom Lake, Nevada, where the U.S. government has long maintained a secret base that some say hides UFO-related technology and experiments.

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 10:29

Paul Stonehill Paranormal Research

Mongolian Cryptids & UFOs

Published 30th August 2020

A large prehistoric reptile that has existed on earth since the pre-glacial period… was attacked... by a dinosaur… It doesn't look much like terrestrial-manufactured satellite, and looks more more like petroglyphs and national ornaments of Mongolia…

Accompanying materials (see explanation in my video)

https://youtu.be/OM2hLzsxfT8
https://vk.com/video-60099869_456245785

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 10:35

Scary Mysteries

1979 Val Johnson UFO Encounter

Published 28th August 2020

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Have you been to the Marshall County Historical Society Museum on E. Johnson Avenue, Warren, Minnesota? Visitors will feel the nostalgia of living in a small 1880s community through its historical buildings at the Settler’s Square. A stroll along the boardwalk presents attractions like a vintage bank, barbershop, tavern, school, church and many more. Its new 10,000 square foot-Visitor Centre has been attracting more guests because of its many exhibits, war artifacts room, collection of antique vehicles, and the so-called “UFO Car,” undoubtedly one of the museum’s star attractions. According to Sherlyn Meiers, Marshall County Historical Society Director, large crowds come to the museum just to see the early 1970s Ford LTD cruiser. And what is so special about this outmoded car that piques the interest of more people than a 1912 Maxwell, a Hart Parr Steamer, and a Studebaker Wagon of 1870s? The car with a shattered windshield and bent antennas is by all means not just any ordinary car. It was a central character in an alleged UFO encounter in 1979 which is popularly known as the “Val Johnson Incident” with Marshall County, Minnesota Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson as the sole witness of an out-of-this-world experience. Was it perpetrated by a force from outside of the human realm? Did Johnson face head-on an unidentified flying object?

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 10:40

Engaging The Phenomenon

Dream Time Contact

Published 30th August 2020

A lesser understood but genuine aspect of the Contact Phenomenon.

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:03

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 29th - 31st August 2020

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:08

BBC Sky @ Night Magazine

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What To See In The Night Sky, September 2020

Published 30th August 2020

What can you see in the night sky? Astronomers Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal their stargazing tips for September 2020. In 2020 we're celebrating 15 years of our Virtual Planetarium: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/history-bbc-sky-at-night-magazines-virtual-planetarium/

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:12

Lowell Observatory

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Sagas In The Sky | Delphinus

Published 30th 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 Delphinus.

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:22

SentIntoSpace

Aurora From Space

Published 28th August 2020

The sight of the Earth's aurora from space is one of the most stunning views of our planet. Visible thanks to the efforts of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS), these incredible images were unimaginable just a few decades ago.

The aurora is caused by solar winds buffeting against our atmosphere. The ionised particles flowing through the electromagnetic field around our planet begin to glow in beautiful colours, creating these mesmerising lights in the sky. This same field, known as the magnetosphere, protects us from harmful radiation from the sun and other sources throughout our solar system.

The International Space Station is a site of great scientific significance. Astronauts from across the globe conduct research which expands our understanding of the planet we live on, as well as discovering how different objects and processes respond to a zero gravity environment. However, it is perhaps equally important as a symbol of international cooperation and a source of inspiration. The scientists on board conduct experiments designed by schoolchildren across the globe, maintain communications with amateur radio enthusiasts and even perform social media stunts, all to educate people about space and sustain our collective fascination with growth and scientific development.

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:26

SpaceTime With Stuart Gary

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A Close Call For Planet Earth

Published 29th August 2020

Covered in this episode

New record for a close call for planet Earth with an asteroid
Planet Earth’s just had another close call with an asteroid the size of a small truck narrowly missing the planet.

The ultimate rave data set released
Some call it the ultimate rave – the release of the sixth and final data set from the RAdial Velocity Experiment or RAVE -- the largest systematic spectroscopic survey of motions of star in the Milky Way galaxy.

Ariane 5 launches another satellite mission extension vehicle
Arianespace has launched a mission extension vehicle and two new telecommunications satellites into orbit aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.

The Science Report
New world record high temperature set in Death Valley.
Global atmospheric methane levels are at a record high.
E-cigarettes acting as gateway drug encouraging regular cigarette smoking.
Fossils from a new species of theropod dinosaur discovered on the Isle of Wight.

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Arecibo Dish Seriously Damaged

Published 31st August 2020

Covered in this episode

The world-famous Arecibo dish seriously damaged
The National Science Foundation has been forced to suspend astronomical observations from its iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico after its 305-metre dish was seriously damaged following a cable break.

SOHO discovers 4000th comet
Citizen scientists looking through data from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft -- SOHO – have discovered their four thousandth comet.

SpaceX’s Starlink constellation reaches 655 satellites
SpaceX has completed its eleventh Starlink launch with another 58 of the broadband internet satellites placed into orbit.

The Science Report
Warnings that the COVID-19 coronavirus could be as deadly as the 1918 flu pandemic.
Twenty-two Australian native freshwater fish are likely to become extinct within the next twenty years.
New algorithms that can distinguish between troll messages and those tweeted by public figures.
New study shows stopping for a coffee on that morning ride may help your cycling performance.
Skeptics guide to winning a quarter of a million dollars

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:44

Reflective Layer

Radio Science

Published 3rd February 2019 & 31st August 2020

Radio waves are used to communicated with spacecraft. We use them to send commands to the spacecraft and download data from them. But in many cases we can use the radio wave itself as a measuring instrument or sensor. In this episode of Celestial Sphere we look at few examples where radio waves are used as part of the sensors suite on a spacecraft. This is a two part series. Part 2 will focus on the use of radio waves to make scientific observations and take measurements.

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Radio science modules have become standard scientific instruments on many deep space missions. they provide a cost effective way to gather information such as mass, atmospheric temperature and pressure of a celestial object. This is the second haft and more detailed look of how radio science works.

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:51

Asteroid Station

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Asteroid 465824 (2010 FR)

Published 29th August 2020

Asteroid 465824 (2010 FR) Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Passing Earth On Read A Book Day, September 6, 2020. It is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and expected not to hit Earth On. It measures around 900 Feet and it will be close to 4.6 Million miles away during its close approach.

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 11:55

Seeker

This Upcoming NASA Mission Could Discover How Our Solar System Began

Published 29th August 2020

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NASA's latest mission is heading to the Trojan asteroids to help us answer some of the biggest questions about the origin of our solar system.

As of August 2020, NASA officially approved the construction of its asteroid hunting spacecraft named Lucy.

Lucy will be the first space mission in history to be launched to so many different destinations in independent orbits around our sun. The spacecraft will complete a 12-year journey visiting eight different asteroids in two large asteroid clouds near Jupiter known as the Trojan asteroids.

Although Lucy won’t be landing on any of the asteroids, the spacecraft will be mapping their surface geology, color, composition, densities, and it will even be keeping a look out for surprising mini satellites or rings that the asteroids could be pulling in.

Using an extensive suite of advanced instruments, Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.

Find out more about asteroid hunting Lucy in this Countdown to Launch.

Read More:
SwRI-LED LUCY MISSION ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE TROJAN ASTEROIDS
https://www.swri.org/press-release/lucy-trojan-asteroids-spacecraft-assembly-phase
"NASA’s Lucy mission, led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), has achieved an important milestone by passing its System Integration Review and clearing the way for spacecraft assembly."

Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/lucy-overview
"Time capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago, the swarms of Trojan asteroids associated with Jupiter are thought to be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets."

Lucy: Surveying the Diversity of the Trojan Asteroids
http://lucy.swri.edu//
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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 15:56

Nemesis Maturity

Our Solar System Is Traveling Through The Debris Of Ancient Supernovae

Published 29th August 2020

We are all travelling through a cloud of ancient radioactive debris left behind by supernova explosions, according to a team of researchers looking in the ocean. By examining deep-sea sediments, experts from the Australian National University have been uncovering the mystery surrounding the space around our solar system.

The team examined sediment known to date back 33,000 years using a sensitive mass spectrometer and found traces of the isotope iron-60 formed when stars die. For the last few thousand years the solar system has been moving through a denser cloud of gas and dust and the team believe this is depositing iron-60 in our oceans.

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The Sun Just Unleashed A Monster Eruption

Published 31st August 2020

The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Monday (Aug. 31) captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft. The giant sun eruption, called a solar prominence, occurred at 0100 UTC. The prominence was so large, it expanded beyond the camera view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

A colossal loop of glowing red plasma erupts from the higher left of the sun arcing up and out
of frame as it blasts away from the star. The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas
made of electrically charged hydrogen and helium.

The solar eruption is not headed straight for Earth, but it could deliver a glancing blow to our planet on Friday (Sep. 4).

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Star Tsar

31st August 2020, 16:05

Mathisen Corollary

Exploring The Tychos: Simon Shack, Tycho Brahe, Retrograde Mars & The Vital Importance Of The Moon

Published 30th August 2020

If someone told you that evidence suggests that the sun may not be the center of the solar system, and that while earth is not stationary it is possible that earth does not revolve around the sun, would you immediately reject that possibility and call them names because you are so convinced that the heliocentric model is correct that you will not entertain any challenges to that model?

What if you learned that the astronomer most famous for presenting the deciding arguments showing that the planetary data support the heliocentric model, Johannes Kepler, was in recent decades found to have falsified his data (data collected by the rigorous observations of his own mentor, who had died mysteriously), falsified in particular to try to force the heliocentric model to accommodate the motions of the planet Mars, whose motions are so difficult to explain that Kepler referred to his research on that planet as his "war on Mars" and ominously declared that: "By the study of the orbits of Mars, we must either arrive at the secrets of astronomy, or remain forever in ignorance of them" -- would the information of Kepler's apparently deliberate falsification (discovered in 1988 by a professor of the history of astronomy) make you any more open to examining evidence that Kepler's theory might not actually explain all of the evidence we have available to us regarding our own solar system?

This video is not supporting the flat earth theory, which I have examined and found to be hopelessly out of line with available research, nor is it supporting the concept of "geocentrism," which continues to be maintained by some individuals to this day (often in conjunction with a literalist interpretation of ancient scriptures).

Instead, this video explores some aspects of the important arguments of researcher Simon Shack, author of the "Tychos" model, which argues that the data and evidence we have available may best be explained by the hypothesis that our sun is part of a binary system -- as in fact over 80% of the stars we can examine appear to be as well (if not binary, then some other multiple and not solo, according to modern astronomy).

Simon's work suggests that Tycho Brahe, to whom Kepler acted as assistant and student, formulated a more accurate model of the heavens, but that after Brahe's untimely death, Kepler "flipped it on its head" and instead argued for a heliocentric solar system, despite data which contradicted Kepler's assertions -- and that if we update Tycho's analysis to include some of what we've discovered about binary systems, we can explain some evidence which poses serious problems for the heliocentric theory and which suggests that the heliocentric model may be gravely flawed and in need of radical revision.

You can see more about Simon's work and his Tychos model at tychos.info. This video cannot possibly explore all the evidence that Simon discusses: the interested viewer is also urged to check out Simon's 2018 book presenting a wealth of evidence and analysis.

I myself am open to exploring all the evidence and have not "made up my mind" about the mechanics of our solar system -- but I am keenly aware of other evidence which shows that we have been misled about a number of extremely important subjects including aspects of humanity's ancient history, and as discussed in this video, the subject of the motions of the heavenly bodies and the cycles of the heavens is closely related to my own area of research regarding the suppression of humanity's ancient wisdom and the undeniable existence of a world-wide system linking the ancient myths and the stars.

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Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 14:59

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 1st September 2020 | Quakes Rising, What It Will Take From The Sun

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Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 15:05

National Solar Observatory

Solar Storms Of The 21st Century

Published 1st September 2020

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The @NSF Inouye Solar Telescope will study magnetic fields on the Sun, where solar events, like the Carrington Event of 1859.

Read all about it here: http://ow.ly/eYz250Beo0A

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Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 15:09

Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Okinawa, Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island) - Typhoon Maysak

Recorded 31st August & Published 1st September 2020

Typhoon Maysak sideswiped the Japanese island of Okinawa on Monday, with wind gusts as high as 101 mph, and is forecast to intensify into the equivalent of a Category 4 storm as it moves toward eventual landfall in South Korea. Maysak is currently the equivalent of a strong Category 3 hurricane, and is traversing warm ocean waters in an environment that is favorable for further intensification, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC).

The storm is the second tropical system to head toward the Korean peninsula in a week, after Typhoon Bavi struck North Korea on Aug. 26. However, Maysak is expected to be more intense than Bavi was.

Though the storm’s center was passing about 50 miles west of the island, Okinawa experienced hurricane force wind gusts on Monday. At 10 a.m., Naha Airport recorded sustained winds of 47 mph, with a gust to 82 mph. Kadena Air Base observed sustained winds of 49 mph, with a gust to 77 mph.

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Ouarzazate, Morocco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate) - Severe Flooding

Recorded 31 August & 1st September 2020

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Mallorca, Spain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallorca) - Extensive Storm Damage

Recorded 31 August & 1st September 2020

A waterspout, or tornado forming over water, left a scene of devastation in the Serra de Tramuntana mountains after bringing down or tearing the tops off thousands of trees.

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Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 15:46

Dr. Jose M. Madiedo

Impact On The Moon

Published 1st September 2020

These images correspond to a lunar impact flash spotted by the telescopes operating in the framework of the MIDAS survey on 22 Aug. 2020, at 19:46:12 universal time. The impact took place on the nocturnal region of the lunar disk. The flash was produced by a rock (a meteoroid) that hit the lunar ground. Footage was recorded by means of a very high-sensitivity camera.

The MIDAS Survey is being conducted by the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).

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Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 15:56

Povozcar

The Toyota Lunar Cruiser

Published 1st September 2020

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) have announced today that they have named their manned pressurised rover the Lunar Cruiser. This follows a period of research into developing a lunar rover that uses fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) technologies.

The name Lunar Cruiser was chosen because of the long-held familiarity with Land Cruiser among consumers and development team members alike. The decision was made based on the quality, durability and reliability expected of the pressurised lunar rover – matching those values long held sacrosanct by Toyota for its unrivalled, all-wheel drive utility vehicle.

JAXA and Toyota signed a joint research agreement to work on a manned pressurised lunar rover last year, with an expected launch date in the latter half of the 2020s. The work involves the use of simulations to confirm power and heat dissipation performance while driving, the manufacture and assessment of prototype tyres and the use of virtual reality and full-scale models to consider the cabin layout for equipment.

Part of their focus has been working with a variety of industries to create new partners under the title of “Team Japan”, based on the theme of a lunar society pioneered by the manned pressurised rover. The meetings focus on how the manned pressurised rover becomes the starting point of a vision of a future lunar surface-based society, while discussing the challenges associated with this concept.

JAXA and Toyota will gather the knowledge, experience and technological capabilities of enterprises from across a variety of industries in their attempt to realise their vision of sustaining continuous activities on the surface of the moon as “Team Japan” moving forward.

Read all about it here: https://blog.toyota.co.uk/toyota-lunar-cruiser

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Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 16:10

ECNS.cn

Chinese Lunar Probe's 600 Days On Moon's Far Side

Published 1st September 2020

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China's Chang'e-4 probe has survived more than 600 Earth days on the far side of the moon while conducting scientific explorations.

With a variety of scientific gear on board, the Chinese lunar probe observed and measured the exotic land, offering unprecedented views and understanding of the far side of the moon and beyond.

Read all about it here: http://www.ecns.cn/news/sci-tech/2020-09-01/detail-ifzzpxeu2686072.shtml

Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 16:16

Phys.org

Can The Moon Be A Person? As Lunar Mining Looms, A Change Of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion

Published 27th August 2020

Everyone is planning to return to the moon. At least 10 missions by half a dozen nations are scheduled before the end of 2021, and that's only the beginning.

Even though there are international treaties governing outer space, ambiguity remains about how individuals, nations and corporations can use lunar resources.

In all of this, the moon is seen as an inert object with no value in its own right.

But should we treat this celestial object, which has been part of the culture of every hominin for millions of years, as just another resource?

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-moon-person-lunar-looms-perspective.html

The Moon Village Association public forum on August 18 debated whether the Moon should have legal personhood:

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Star Tsar

1st September 2020, 16:22

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

What's Up: September 2020

Published 1st September 2020

What are some skywatching highlights in September 2020? Spot the Moon together with Mars and Venus, along with the flickering star Fomalhaut, which had itself a planet...until it didn't!

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 10:05

PBS Space Time

How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

Published 1st September 2020

Pin-pricks in the celestial sphere, through which shines the light of heaven? Or gods and heroes looking down from their constellations? Or lights kindled above middle earth by Varda Elbereth and brightened with the dew of the trees of Valinor? Science has long pondered the mysteries of the stars. This is how we finally figured them out.

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 10:15

Phys.org

Astronomers Identify Eighteen Metal-Poor Stars In The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy

Published 1st September 2020

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) astronomers have detected 18 very metal-poor stars in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. They found that one of the stars from the sample has an extremely low metallicity, slightly below -3.0. The study was reported in a paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09901) published August 22 on the arXiv preprint repository.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-astronomers-metal-poor-stars-sagittarius-dwarf.html

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A Disc Of Gas Would Explain Mysterious Light Changes Observed In Sagittarius Constellation

Published 2nd September 2020

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The enigmatic variations of light in a binary system, located in Sagittarius constellation, could be explained by the presence of a variable gas disc around a hot star that revolves around a cooler star. These are the conclusions of researchers from Chile, Serbia and Poland, and published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-disc-gas-mysterious-sagittarius-constellation.html

Source Paper: https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202038110

Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 10:19

DeepSkyVideos

M14 - Cluster Destruction

Published 2nd September 2020

Dr Becky Smethurst discusses Messier 14 and the demise of globular clusters.

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 10:24

Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 10:35

Back To Space

August 2020 Space News Recap

Published 31st August 2020

We look back at everything that happened in the space world in August 2020!

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 10:51

SciShow Space

Mars's Surface Is Messed Up | The Martian Dichotomy

Published 1st September 2020

Most rocky planets have pretty consistent surface features, with a fairly even mix of mountains and basins in each hemisphere. This is NOT the case on Mars! What do scientists know about this mystery?

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 10:56

Nemesis Maturity

Close Encounter With Mars - We Are Fast Approaching The Red Planet

Published 1st September 2020

Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter this Fall, one of the best since 2003, and their separation is rapidly shrinking–negative 9 km/s as of Sep. 1st. You are literally approaching the Red Planet.

Just a few days ago the brightness of Mars surpassed that of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. Suddenly, Mars is almost bright enough to see in daylight and an easy target for backyard telescopes.

The best is yet to come. By the night of closest approach on Oct. 6th (0.4149 AU), Mars will more than double in brightness again, outshining everything in the night sky except Venus and the Moon. Throughout this apparition, the south pole will remain tilted toward Earth, giving observers a good view of the breakup of the ice cap as Martian spring turns into summer.

Can’t wait? Right now, a good time to look is just before daybreak when Mars is high in the southern sky. Keep watching as twilight creeps up the sky. The planet’s burnt orange hue looks beautiful when surrounded by the day’s first hint of morning blue.

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A Spectacular Full Moon Will Light Up Night Skies Tonight

Published 2nd September 2020

Tonight presents the third and final Full Moon for Northern Hemisphere summer (or Southern Hemisphere winter). It’s the third of three Full Moons to fall between the June 20 solstice and September 22 equinox.

The Moon will be completely full at 05:22 UTC (1:22 a.m. EDT) on Monday (September 2).

An amazing Full Moon will light up the skies tonight. Just go outside and enjoy the spectacle. If you happen to miss the Moon at its fullest, don't worry, it'll appear pretty much full on September 3 as well.

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 11:01

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 2nd September 2020 | Galactic Sheet, Ocean Mystery, Carrington In the South

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 11:07

ParallaxNick

Everyone, It Seems, Hates Proxima b. Even Proxima c

Published 30th August 2020

There's a reason I have waited so long to return to my favourite exoplanet. The news has been all-but utterly bleak. Still, I hold on to rays of hope, however physically impossible that metaphor may be.

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 14:11

History Of The Earth

What Would The Earth Have Been Like Without Life?

Published 2nd September 2020

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 14:23

EarthSky.org

A Breakthrough In The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Published 2nd September 2020

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Astronomers at the University of Manchester in the UK said today (September 2, 2020) that they’ve made an analytical breakthrough in the ability to seek and perhaps someday find intelligent extraterrestrial life in our Milky Way galaxy. They said this breakthrough is a “milestone” that could “significantly improve” our chances of finding extraterrestrial intelligence by dramatically expanding the number of stars available for searching. They said that, with their new analytical technique, they’ve increased the number of stars that can be analyzed by more than 200 times and have placed the best limits ever on the prevalence of artificial radio transmitters, dubbed techno-signatures, in the Milky Way.

Source Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.09756.pdf

Read all about it here: https://earthsky.org/space/analytical-breakthrough-seti-expand-search-200-times

Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 14:30

Podcast UFO

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Tom Warner | 51st Anniversary Of The Berkshire UFO Encounter

Streamed & Published 1st September 2020

If you watched NETFLIX Unsolved Mysteries, Episode 5 Berkshires UFO, then you saw our guest, Tom Warner and heard him tell part of his unheard of encounter. Tom tells what happened 51 years ago that night, September 1, 1969, in great detail, and how it effected his life, the aftermath and more.

BIO: Tom Warner was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and raised at the historic 1835 Warner Homestead, which is included in the Historic Homes and Institutions of Berkshire County Massachusetts. He is a historian, artist, poet and the Author ‘Beyond The Stars’ which is an autobiography of Tom Warner

Tom is a self-taught watercolor artist and was named to the
American Gallery Greatest American Painters, winner of James Weldon Johnson Literary Foundation Legacy Award for stellar contributions to Literature and the Arts. His works are in the James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, Fisk University and the Roswell UFO Museum.

Tom was inducted in the Great Barrington Historical Society Museum Berkshire UFO and recently featured in NETFLIX, Unsolved Mysteries, Ep. 5, ‘Berkshires UFO’

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

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Star Tsar

2nd September 2020, 14:34

Destination Declassified

School Children's Eerie Reports & Drawings of UFOs | The Unearthly Broadhaven Triangle Incident

Published 28th August 2020

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This is the story or stories of what happened in Pembrokeshire in 1977 and how it did nothing but further fuel the UFO craze...

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Star Tsar

6th September 2020, 12:23

Preston Dennett

Alien Zoos

Published 5th September 2020

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ETs have been studying our planet for a very long time. They seem to be interested in all things Earth. They have taken humans onboard their craft. They have collected a wide variety of plants. And they are also taking animals. In fact, there are several cases on record in which experiencers have seen collections of live animals onboard UFOs. This video is not about animal mutilations; it's about something much more bizarre. As strange as it sounds, some abductees report being taken to visit alien zoos, containing animals from Earth, and also animals from other planets. Some UFOs, it seems, are very much like "Noah's Ark," preserving a wide variety of species.

Some of these cases have a very high level of strangeness, including chimera-like creatures from ancient mythology, or even in a few cases, dinosaur-like creatures.

The ETs' interest in animals is also betrayed by the many cases in which UFOs and extraterrestrials have been caught taking animals of all kinds. Farm animals seem to be a primary target, but a wide variety of animals have been abducted into UFOs.

In a few cases, ETs seem to be particularly interested in our closest animal companions, dogs and cats. One case contains a shocking revelation explaining why they have such a strong interest in our pets.

Alien zoos may sound strange, but there are too many cases to ignore. Something very strange is happening here.

If you'd like to learn more about Alien Zoos, please check out the book, "Not from Here: Volume One," now available here (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A2LCJJQ/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=officialweb0f-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=6a58197b80f9bcd4661b11db21e6f21b&creativeASIN=B01A2LCJJQ)

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Star Tsar

6th September 2020, 12:40

Isaac Arthur

Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations

Published 3rd September 2020

Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy or flee peril. What would such cultures be like?

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Star Tsar

6th September 2020, 12:48

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The San Diego Sphere

Published 5th September 2020

On September 10th, 2014, Rick Ybarra pulled into his driveway near San Diego, CA around 6:45pm when he noticed a sphere in the sky. A retired Department of Defense therapist who worked at Naval Base San Diego and Submarine Base Point Loma, we recently spoke to him about the sighting.

The sphere had four meaningful observables, which were photographed in detail and captured on video:

*Stop/start movement
*Failure to move with the wind
*Metallic appearance
*Seemingly independent moving antennae-like appendages

It was 4-6 feet in size and 400 feet above the ground — Ybarra states he first thought it was a balloon, but slowly moved away from the hypothesis when it failed to move with the wind, and had a distinct metallic shell reflecting the twilight to the west. Ybarra showed the footage to colleagues in his chain of command — they had no explanation.

We sifted through historical archives and found a nearly identical craft in Brazilian Air Force files from 1968.

Days after his 2014 sighting, Ybarra says he felt an "urge" to go outside early in the morning when he noticed a fast-moving, spherical object on the horizon.

0:00 Intro
2:04 The photos
2:30 The wind
3:30 The antennae
4:35 The video
5:00 The neighbor
5:44 Resume
7:01 Brazilian sphere
8:57 Conclusion

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Star Tsar

6th September 2020, 13:15

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 3rd - 6th September 2020

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Veritas TV

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Ben Davidson Of Suspicious 0bservers : Space Weather News, The Carrington Event & The Coming Ice Age

Published 4th September 2020

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Star Tsar

6th September 2020, 13:19

Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov

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Space Weather News | Two Snake-Like Filaments & A Solar Storm

Published 2nd September 2020

This week our Sun shows more signs of the new solar cycle. Two big filaments have rotated into Earth-view and one has erupted as a solar storm! That we are seeing filaments on the Sun again is a welcome reminder that activity is ramping up. Even though the first filament launched to the East of Earth, we are watching the second filament closely because it is passing through the Earth-strike zone now and if it launches over the next couple of days, it could be an Earth-directed solar storm. Meanwhile, we are currently feeling the effects of some fast solar wind that has bumped us to storm levels multiple times and brought aurora down to mid-latitudes sporadically. Expect these conditions to continue over the next day or so before things return to quiet conditions. Learn the details of the ongoing solar storm as well as the filaments on the Sun, see how they could affect you, and find out what else our Sun has in store this week.

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Star Tsar

6th September 2020, 13:28

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 264

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Published 29th August 2020

Hurricane Laura was manipulated and steered, the geoengineers are deciding who is impacted by weather cataclysms, and who isn’t. Droughts, fires, floods, all are being heavily influenced by the ongoing climate engineering operations. Populations all over the globe are now facing changes and challenges that were formerly unimaginable to most. What agendas and objectives are being carried out by those who control the levers of power from behind the curtain? Will rapidly deteriorating societal circumstances finally compel populations to objectively investigate frontline facts?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-august-29-2020-264/

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Global Alert News | Episode 265

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Published 5th September 2020

From 90 degrees to snow in less than a day is predicted for Denver, Colorado. What’s the forecast in your area?
While all eyes are focused on the consequences of the pandemic, the geoengineers are pushing the climate system to extremes that are far past the breaking point. Denver Colorado is scheduled to be 90 plus degrees on Monday with snow coming on Tuesday. The coming scenario in Denver will not be from the processes of nature, it will be the result of massive climate engineering operations. The US West will continue to be baked in record high temperatures with unprecedented wildfires, while the weather makers orchestrate winter in other parts of the country. How are the actions of the geoengineers connected to the CV-19 scenario?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-september-5-2020-265/

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Star Tsar

6th September 2020, 13:55

Phys.org

Has Earth's Oxygen Rusted The Moon For Billions Of Years?

Published 4th September 2020

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To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study published today in Science Advances led by Shuai Li, assistant researcher at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).

Iron is highly reactive with oxygen—forming reddish rust commonly seen on Earth. The lunar surface and interior, however, are virtually devoid of oxygen, so pristine metallic iron is prevalent on the Moon and highly oxidized iron has not been confirmed in samples returned from the Apollo missions. In addition, hydrogen in solar wind blasts the lunar surface, which acts in opposition to oxidation. So, the presence of highly oxidized iron-bearing minerals, such as hematite, on the Moon is an unexpected discovery.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-earth-oxygen-rusted-moon-billions.html

Source Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eaba1940

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Geologic Age Of Finsen Crater On Far Side Of The Moon Found To Be 3.5 Billion Years

Published 2nd September 2020

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The absolute model age (AMA), or geologic age of Finsen crater on the moon's far side is determined to be about 3.5 billion years (Ga) based on crater counting method, according to a study published in Icarus.

The study was conducted by a research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Based on this model age, the regolith growth rate at the Chang'e-4 landing site and the crater degradation rate within Finsen crater have also been estimated.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-geologic-age-finsen-crater-side.html

Source Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103520304000?via%3Dihub

Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 07:38

Insane Curiosity

Titan: Saturn's Largest Moon

Published 5th September 2020

As with many objects in outer space, it's important to not just understand what it is, but how it was discovered from here on Earth.

Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens was the one to find TItan in 1655. Huygens was inspired by after Galileo found the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610. While also being impressed with how much Galileo improved telescopes as a whole. So thus with the help of his brother he built his own telescopes, and eventually found TItan as a result. It was the sixth moon ever discovered, after Earth's Moon and the Galilean moons of Jupiter. So quite an achievement in its own right, and again, one that was found via homemade telescope.

That's a very special story if you think about it. Because this is a tale of astronomers being inspired by others that came before them (in this case Galileo) and wanting to mimic the success of those that inspired them...and succeeding. And they did it with telescopes that pale in comparison to the ones that we have now, and yet they did it. Inspiring indeed.

Now, as for the naming of the moon, it was first called Saturni Luna, which if you can't tell was basically "Saturn's Moon" in Latin. While the name was technically official for a while, even being put into a book of names about the objects in the sky, things got a bit convoluted as more moons got found around Saturn. Why? Because instead of names, they did numbers, with each moon being named "Saturn 1" and so on and so forth. Which on one hand makes sense because it seems easier to number things than name then. But eventually that had a bit of a problem because Saturn's moons started to get discovered in greater numbers. In fact, more moons of Saturn have been discovered within the last few years bringing its total to 82, and thus numbering them would've been hard for a whole host of reasons. So, names were brought back into the equations...so to speak.

The name Titan, and the names of all seven satellites of Saturn then known, came from John Herschel. He suggested the names of the mythological Titans, the brothers and sisters of Cronus, the Greek name of Saturn. In Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus, that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. They were then dethroned by Zeus after prophecy foretold of Zeus kil*ing Cronus. They remained in the world, and many other stories from video games to Disney movies have shown them in a feud with the gods.
Thus, the name stuck, and the rest is history. Not surprisingly, the solar system as a whole has names dedicated to not just the Greek and Roman pantheons, but to others as well. Which if we're being honest, paints a much more interesting picture than just giving them numbers.

Titan’s internal structure isn’t entirely known, which isn't too much of a stretch when you think about our attempts to study it, but one model based on data from the Cassini-Huygens mission suggests Titan has five primary layers. The innermost layer is a core of rock about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) in diameter. Around that core is a shell of water ice—a special type called ice-VI that is only found at extremely high-pressures. Around that is a layer of salty liquid water, on top of which sits an outer crust of water ice. As for the surface layer, well that is coated with organic molecules that have rained or otherwise settled out of the atmosphere in the form of sands and liquids.

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Io: Jupiter's Volcanic Moon

Published 6th September 2020

In many ways, Io is one of the more popular moons of Jupiter. It's been referenced many a time as we'll note later. But how did we learn about this very special moon?
The first reported observation of Io was made by Galileo Galilei on 7 January 1610 using a 20x-power, refracting telescope at the University of Padua. However, in that observation, Galileo could not separate Io and Europa due to the low power of his telescope, so the two were recorded as a single point of light. Io and Europa were seen for the first time as separate bodies during Galileo's observations of the Jovian system the following day, January 8th, 1610 ( this is used as the discovery date for Io by the IAU).

The discovery of Io and the other Galilean satellites of Jupiter was published in Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610. In his Mundus Jovialis, published in 1614, Simon Marius claimed to have discovered Io and the other moons of Jupiter in 1609, one week before Galileo's discovery. Galileo doubted this claim and dismissed the work of Marius as plagiarism. Regardless, Marius's first recorded observation came from 29 December 1609 in the Julian calendar, which equates to January 8th, 1610 in the Gregorian calendar, which Galileo used. Given that Galileo published his work before Marius, Galileo is credited with the discovery.
But the end of the "discovery" did not end there. Because for basically 250 years various astronomers tried to learn more about Io. But because of its place in space all they could usually see was a ball of light. It would take a while for them to start to parse out the details of the moon.

Improved telescope technology in the late 19th and 20th centuries allowed astronomers to resolve (that is, see as distinct objects) large-scale surface features on Io. In the 1890s, Edward E. Barnard was the first to observe variations in Io's brightness between its equatorial and polar regions, correctly determining that this was due to differences in color and albedo between the two regions and not due to Io being egg-shaped, as proposed at the time by fellow astronomer William Pickering, or two separate objects, as initially proposed by Barnard. Later telescopic observations confirmed Io's distinct reddish-brown polar regions and yellow-white equatorial band.

Telescopic observations in the mid-20th century began to hint at Io's unusual nature. Spectroscopic observations suggested that Io's surface was devoid of water ice (a substance found to be plentiful on the other Galilean satellites).
So as you can see, this wasn't just a discovery of trying to find the moon, but to try and understand what it was and what it was like in regards to its very nature. Which would be further expanded upon in the future via attempts to explore the moon with probes and satellites.

In the late 1960s, a concept known as the Planetary Grand Tour was developed in the United States by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It would allow a single spacecraft to travel past the asteroid belt and onto each of the outer planets, including Jupiter, if the mission was launched in 1976 or 1977. However, there was uncertainty over whether a spacecraft could survive passage through the asteroid belt, where micrometeoroids could cause it physical damage, or the intense Jovian magnetosphere, where charged particles could harm sensitive electronics.

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 07:45

SEA

Moons Beyond Our Solar System

Published 6th September 2020

Most of the planets in the Solar System have moons. We have discovered almost 200 in our Solar System alone, and so we expect that the Milky Way is teeming with moons- perhaps more moons than planets and stars. With this many, it greatly increases the number of worlds in the galaxy which could support life- and so we are keen to find them. However, they are so distant and dark that detecting extrasolar moons, or "exomoons", is a tremendous challenge.

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 07:51

Scott Manley

How High Do You Have To Be To See The Curvature of The Earth?

Published 6th September 2020

It's well understood that from the surface of the Earth the curvature of the planet is not readily visible, but, as you travel higher the shape of the world becomes apparent to a casual glance. So I wanted to actually quantify this in an visual form using Youtube's 360 Video feature, it's obviously best experienced through a VR headset, or a 'Cardboard' style viewer, but you can also use the web browser if you just want to appreciate the visuals.

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 07:55

SOTT Media

August 2020: Earth Changes Summary

Published 4th September 2020

Last month, more than 1.5 million acres burned in 9 days in California, forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people. The fires were caused by unusual intense 'dry-lightning storms', which focused on the San Francisco Bay area in a short time period - an event comprising around 11 percent of the average annual lightning activity for the entire state...

No, it's not 'man-made global warming', as the media claims, nor is it 'elite-made weather', as alternative media claims. The climate globally is 'going wonky' in part because the planet's very atmosphere is changing.

Extreme weather has only worsened the exodus of people from California over the last decade. About five million Californians have left the state for a net population loss of more than one million people. Colorado was also hit last month by the largest wildfire in the state's history. The Pine Gulch fire has burned 139,006 acres and left ranchers with little-to-no grazing for cattle and worried about long-term impacts.

In Algeria, over 1,200 fires have devoured almost 9,000 hectares of forests. The North African country has experienced more frequent forest fires in recent years but the causes remain unclear. Negligence? Coal-traffickers? Increased lightning strikes? Who knows, but the fact is something unusual is going on there too.

Sheets of rain, typically resulting heavy flooding, landslides and huge hailstones continued destroying houses, basic infrastructure and crops around the world in August, impacting the lives of dozens of millions of people. In South Asia alone, an estimated 17.5 million people suffered the consequences of record-breaking monsoon floods. Nearly 700 died and thousands have been displaced. China, Bangladesh and India continue to be the most affected.

South Korea has suffered from unusually heavy downpours for over 2 months now, marking the country's longest and worst-ever monsoon season. Now, the strongest typhoon of the year is on its way to the Korean peninsula, so the deluge is unlikely to abate anytime soon.

Snow in Australia, southern Brazil and South Africa is normal this time of year - it's still winter there (barely), but what are we to make of August snowfalls in Yunnan, China; Dagestan, Russia; the Alps and Pyrenees in Europe? A foretaste perhaps of a cold northern winter to come.

Given the amount of water falling out of the sky the world over, if the unprecedented slowdown in the North Atlantic Gulf Stream holds, we may soon be entering an extended winter.

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 08:37

Lowell Observatory

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What's In The Sky 1st -14th September 2020?

Published 5th September 2020

Highlights for September 1-14 include Jupiter and Saturn in the sky most of the night, with Mars rising late in the evening, and Venus in the wee hours of the morning. We also look at the globular star cluster M15 in Pegasus and the large galaxy M33 in Triangulum.

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Sagas In The Sky | Perseus & Andromeda

Published 5th September 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the first part of the story of Andromeda and Perseus.

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 08:43

Caltech Astronomy

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Michael Zhang | Astronomical Discoveries Of The Ancient Greeks

Published 5th September 2020

Far surpassing all other ancient civilizations, the Greeks used the scientific method to discover Earth's shape, measure its circumference, calculate the size and distance of the Moon, and debate whether Earth orbits the Sun. Timestamps, links and Q&A panel questions are included below.

Welcome & Announcements: 00:00
What's up in the sky right now?: 04:05
Lecture: 10:21
Q&A Panel Introductions: 44:01
Why were the ancient Greeks so intelligent? 51:00
What about discoveries by ancient Indian astronomers? 55:07
Were there any noteworthy ancient Roman astronomers? 58:55
Which came first: supermassive black holes or galaxies? 1:01:02
How massive is the accretion disk around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole? 1:05:25
When two black holes merge, is there energy given off in electromagnetic waves? 1:08:00
What are the different formation mechanisms for black holes? 1:12:27
Why do researchers look for helium in the atmospheres of exoplanets? 1:22:36
How does the gas around a galaxy affect its evolution? 1:28:34
Is the total energy of the universe constant or variable? 1:32:52
Did ancient Sumerians make significant astronomical discoveries? 1:39:01
What do we know about our Milky Way's supermassive black hole? 1:42:42
What x-ray telescopes are there? 1:45:48
Why are there x-ray telescopes at all? 1:48:55
What inspired you to study astronomy? 1:53:10
Closing remarks: 2:08:08

Title: The Exceptional Astronomical Discoveries of the Ancient Greeks
Abstract: In 800 BC, the Greeks were eking out an existence in impoverished city states and infertile fields, the illiterate remnants of an apocalypse that destroyed their civilization 400 years prior. They could not have imagined that they would rise from the ashes to become the premier civilization of the Mediterranean, spreading their new culture from Spain to India. Greek innovations in politics, philosophy, and art would form the foundation of Western civilization. Perhaps the most impactful Greek contributions were in science. Far surpassing all other ancient civilizations, the Greeks used the scientific method to discover Earth's shape, measure its circumference, calculate the size and distance of the Moon, and debate whether Earth orbits the Sun. I will tell the story of this remarkable civilization, discuss how they learned about the cosmos, and summarize the pivotal role their achievements played in kickstarting the Scientific Revolution and ushering in modernity.

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 13:41

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 7th September 2020 | Sun, Weather, Quakes, Harvard Nova Battle - Round 2

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 13:47

John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

Dr. Andrea Dupree | What Is Causing The Mysterious Dimming Of Betelgeuse?

Published 3rd August 2020

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Why is Betelgeuse dimming?

The supergiant is going to end its life as a supernova. Is the sudden dimming a warning sign? Betelgeuse is a variable red super giant star located in the Orion constellation. Most estimations have it going supernova within the next 100,000 years, but could it be sooner? Dr. Andrea Dupree, associate director of the Center for Astrophysics at the Harvard & Smithsonian institute, joins John Michael Godier to discuss recent observations of Betelgeuse by Hubble.

Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-finds-that-betelgeuses-mysterious-dimming-is-due-to-a-traumatic-outburst
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/science/betelgeuse-star-supernova.html

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Star Tsar

7th September 2020, 15:30

Dr Maggie Lieu

Some Stars Are Strange...

Published 6th August 2020

Some stars are strange - No I mean literally! Made from strange quarks, these hypothetical objects could be hiding in plain sight, and could even be the missing dark matter we are looking for... but what exactly are they?

Extra reading:
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211348
https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0407155

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 07:31

Nemesis Maturity

Skywatching September 8th - 10th

Published 7th September 2020

Sometimes some of the prettiest sights for skywatchers require no special equipment, but are best appreciated with our unaided eyes. Over the next several mornings, look eastward and you'll see the Moon rising against a background of distant stars.

The brightest of these stars is Aldebaran. It's an orange giant star in the zodiac constellation Taurus the Bull.

September 9, 2020: Between Aldebaran and the Moon, at a distance of 150 light-years, is one of the closest star clusters in our neighborhood of the Milky Way, called the Hyades. Just above the Moon is another star cluster called the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. At 410 light-years away, this cluster is more than twice distant as the Hyades but it appears much brighter because it contains young hot stars, and is much more concentrated in volume.

If you miss the show on Wednesday, you have a second chance to see it on Thursday morning.

But wait there's more!
This must be the best part of the sky at this time of the year! You can see bright Venus , Sirius, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Procyon, Pollux, Castor, Capella light up the morning sky.

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 07:44

Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 07:49

Phys.org

'Mighty Mice' Stay Musclebound In Space

Published 7th September 2020

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Bulked-up, mutant "mighty mice" held onto their muscle during a monthlong stay at the International Space Station, returning to Earth with ripped bodybuilder physiques, scientists reported Monday.

The findings hold promise for preventing muscle and bone loss in astronauts on prolonged space trips like Mars missions, as well as people on Earth who are confined to bed or need wheelchairs.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-mighty-mice-musclebound-space-boon.html

Source Paper: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014716117

Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 07:54

Galileo's Telescope

Explaining The Earth's Temperature

Published 7th September 2020

Derivation of a simple model to explain the temperature of the earth and the rest of the planets.

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 08:23

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Asteroid (2020 PT4)

Published 7th September 2020

Asteroid (2020 PT4) is set for a close approach to Earth on September 8, 2020. This object is estimated to be 200 feet in diameter and speeding over 28,000 miles per hour.

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 08:28

Sci-News.com

Astronomers Find Misaligned & Warped Protoplanetary Disk Around A Triple-Star System

Published 3rd September 2020

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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a rare circumtriple protoplanetary disk with misaligned dust rings around the young hierarchical triple system GW Orionis. They give two possible scenarios for the misalignment: either the disk was torn apart by the gravitational pull from the stars, or by a newborn planet.

Read all about it here: http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/misaligned-warped-protoplanetary-disk-triple-star-system-gw-orionis-08813.html

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 08:39

Podcast UFO

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Paul Dean | Possible UFO Detection Documents Through FOIA

Streamed & Published 7th September 2020

Guest Paul Dean discusses what he has uncovered through Freedom of information documents, un-mined sources of government entities that have detected, tracked and made conclusions on anomalous aerial objects. There have been extremely unusual aerospace events; plus, the results of FOIA work into historical records of the USAF Space Command; NORAD; the FAA, and more.

BIO: Paul Dean is an Australian researcher who focuses on government and military involvement and response to the so-called UFO phenomena. Working alone for 20 years, Paul became an expert in official documentation related to the UFO issue. Seven years ago he began tackling the problem directly, and became instrumental in seeing that the Australian government release hitherto classified files from the Royal Australian Air Force, Air Services Australia, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, and the National Archives of Australia. He works extensively with Australian based researcher Keith Basterfield on UFO case analysis and the preservation of UFO-related records. Further, Paul started working on the US scene with "old school" researchers like Barry Greenwood, Brad Sparks and Jan Aldrich.

Paul and his team use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain records, and he is hot on the trail of 100s of never-before-seen classified military files. Recent discoveries include UFO sighting reports created during the Vietnam War, and administrative records related to a pair of highly classified "UFO tracking" programs which were ran by the US Army and US Air Force during America's involvement in that conflict. Other fresh finds include Federal Bureau of Investigation records related to the interrogation of UFO researchers in the 1970's, and a current Federal Aviation Administration system for logging military intercepts of unknown objects in America's airspace. Paul has also begun requesting UFO records from the USAF's Air Force Space Command, which will include files from the 21st Space Wing and the vital Joint Functional Component Centre for Space at Vandenburg Air Force Base. Paul believes there are likely hundreds of thousands of UFO records still held by elements of the US government, and works tirelessly to source their location and availability status. All-in-all, Paul has acquired a total of 240,000 pages of UFO-related government and military records from around the world, and tens of millions of pages of non-government UFO records, including books, newsletters, monographs, newspaper articles, case studies, letters, and magazine articles.

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/sunday-upcoming-show-paul-dean/

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 08:44

RadioAmericaTV

Luis Elizondo: Have UFOs Interfered With Military Assets?

Published 7th September 2020

In another special on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Sara speaks with Luis Elizando, who charged the Pentagon's investigation into UFOs. This time, Elizando goes into how UFOs may have made contact and even interfered with military assets. He also answers to whether alleged UFO abductions have ever happened.

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 08:48

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Peter Davenport | NUFORC

Recorded & Streamed 7th September 2020

Tonight, our guest is Peter Davenport, and we are going to discuss the recent Nuforc UFO reports that are making headlines around the world.

Peter has been director of the National UFO Reporting Center since 1994.

In addition to being the director of the National UFO Reporting Center, Peter has served as the director of investigations for the Washington Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network.

Peter has had an active interest in the UFO phenomenon from his early boyhood. He experienced his first UFO sighting over the St. Louis municipal airport in the summer of 1954, and he investigated his first UFO case during the summer of 1965 in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Peter has been witness to several anomalous events, possibly UFO related, including a dramatic sighting over Baja California in February 1990, and several nighttime sightings over Washington State during 1992.

Peter received his bachelor’s degrees from Stanford University in California, His graduate education and M.S. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, as well as an M.B.A. degree in finance and international business from the Graduate School of Business.

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 11:29

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 8th September 2020 | Brightest Galaxy, Solar Potential, Plasma Shocker

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 12:09

Insane Curiosity

Jupiter Facts & History

Published 8th September 2020

A key part of astronomy as a whole is knowing when people first saw and documented key objects in the sky, this of course includes the planets like Jupiter. But as history has shown us, it's not something that was discovered recently, but rather, farther into the past than you would expect.
The first finding of Jupiter dates back to at least the Babylonian astronomers of the 7th or 8th century BC. The ancient Chinese also observed the orbit of Suìxīng and established their cycle of 12 earthly branches based on its approximate number of years; the Chinese language still uses its name when referring to years of age.
By the 4th century BC, these observations had developed into the Chinese zodiac, with each year associated with a Tai Sui star and god controlling the region of the heavens opposite Jupiter's position in the night sky; these beliefs survive in some Taoist religious practices and in the East Asian zodiac's twelve animals, now often popularly assumed to be related to the arrival of the animals before Buddha. The Chinese historian Xi Zezong has claimed that Gan De, an ancient Chinese astronomer, discovered one of Jupiter's moons in 362 BC with the unaided eye. If accurate, this would predate Galileo's discovery by nearly two millennia. Though obviously this is a bit up for debate.
Either way though, as you can see, Jupiter has been known about in the sky for quite some time, with many different civilizations keeping track of it and the entities around it.

The Seasons And Orbits
In regards to our solar system, Jupiter is the biggest of our planets. It's so big you can put 1300 Earths into it with no issues. Which means that everything just has to be bigger on the planet, am I right? Well...no.
For example, in terms of its daily orbit? It rotates on its axis faster than any of the planets that we have in our system. For Jupiter, a day takes only about 10 hours. That's less than half an Earth day, and you thought time flew on our planet!
But there's a catch...because that "everything is bigger..." line does apply to how the year works on Jupiter. Given its distance from the sun, and how fast it moves, a year on Jupiter takes...12 Earth years! Or 11.86 to be a bit more precise. That means that for every 12 orbits around the sun for Earth, Jupiter will have just completed a singular loop. So as you can see, it's a bit of a tradeoff. You may have faster days on Jupiter, but you'll also have MUCH longer years.

Finally, for the seasons, the gas giants have a bit different of a system in terms to seasons. Because they are made of gas, no solid surface, and that means that their clouds dictate their seasonal outbursts as much as the sun does. To that end, Jupiter is known to be a very stormy planet, and then when it gets to a certain point near the sun, it can change in one area and be cold, while the other can be hot.
Oh, and seasons last 3 years there, so there's that.
Consider this one of the many reasons we don't see to inhabit Jupiter...for now.

The Moons
In 1610, Italian polymath Galileo Galilei discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter (now known as the Galilean moons) using a telescope; thought to be the first telescopic observation of moons other than Earth's.

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Star Tsar

8th September 2020, 16:28

Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 14:31

Phys.org

Data From Yutu-2 Suggests Top Layer Of Lunar Regolith Is Material Thrown From Nearby Crater

Published 9th September 2020

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A team of researchers has found evidence suggesting that the regolith material on which the Chinese rover Yutu-2 is situated consists mainly of material that was thrown there when an asteroid struck the moon nearby. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes their analyses of data sent back by the rover and what they learned from it.

Back in late 2018, China made history by launching a probe to the far side of the moon, which subsequently released a lunar rover called Yutu-2 after it landed in January 2019. The landing site was the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin—believed to be the largest and oldest impact structure on the moon's surface. The rover was equipped with ground-penetrating radar that has been used to learn more about the materials that make up the lunar regolith.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-yutu-layer-lunar-regolith-material.html

Source Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1197-x

Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 14:45

Nemesis Maturity

'Second Sun' Theory Indicates That 'Planet Nine' Is Not Alone In The Outer Solar System

Published 8th September 2020

Our Sun had a companion and there could be many undiscovered dwarf planets in the outer Solar System. That’s according to a new paper from scientists from Harvard University.

Published recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the paper by Dr. Avi Loeb, Professor of Science at Harvard and Harvard undergraduate student Amir Siraj goes against the dominate “lone star” thinking about the Sun’s origin.

Their radical-sounding theory that the Solar System may have once been a binary star system—so consisting of two stars orbiting a common point in space—perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Source paper:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abac66

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Something Exploded On The Far Side Of The Sun

Published 9th September 2020

Solar Minimum is not as quiet as you think. In the early hours of September 8th, something exploded on the farside of the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) saw the debris flying over the sun's western limb.

The blast site was hidden from view, so we don't know what exploded. It probably wasn't a sunspot. More likely, a filament of magnetism became unstable and erupted, hurling bits of itself and surrounding plasma into space. The fact is that the Sun is at a minimum of activity and the cause of this large explosion is not yet entirely clear.

The resulting coronal mass ejection (CME) will miss Earth. But consider this: If the explosion had occurred only a couple weeks later, when the blast site would be facing Earth, we would now be bracing for a moderately strong geomagnetic storm.

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Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 14:54

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 9th September 2020 | Sun, Climate, Space Dust, MWA Hunts Aliens

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Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 15:00

Volcano Time-Lapse

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

Recorded & Published 8th September 2020

At 00:36 Hrs Guatemala time a double explosion was recorded.

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Recorded 8th & Published 9th September 2020

Two cloud obscured explosions at 19:04 & 19:30 Hrs. Guatemala time. Clouds were a big deal last night, very few openings.

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Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 15:06

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9th September 2020, 15:16

SciShow Space

The Cosmic Ladder That Lets Us Map The Universe

Published 9th September 2020

Considering how massive our universe is, we know the distances to cosmic objects surprisingly well. What tools and clues do scientists use to measure distances that are so enormous they sound like made-up numbers?

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Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 15:21

Ethan Siegel

A Flight Through the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey Field

Published 9th September 2020

This visualization traverses the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field to showcase the varied appearances of galaxies and their three-dimensional distribution. The sequence features a dense cluster of galaxies about 6 billion light-years away and extends to galaxies at more than twice that distance. Because the light from these galaxies has travelled for billions of years across space, the images show the galaxies as they appeared billions of years ago. In addition, the expansion of space has redshifted the light of these galaxies toward longer wavelengths (i.e., to the red end of the visible-light region and into the infrared-light region). The changes seen in galaxies during the fly-through illustrate the changes in galaxy structure and appearance over billions of years of cosmic history.

CANDELS is an acronym for the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey project. One of the largest projects ever done with the Hubble Space Telescope, CANDELS surveyed five fields to study the development of galaxies over time. The CANDELS observations of the UDS field complement ground-based observations from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.

Astronomers and visual artists extracted over 26,000 galaxies from the Hubble UDS images and created a computer model based on the measured and estimated properties. Note that the distances used in the visualization are significantly compressed for cinematic purposes.

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Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 15:32

Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 16:13

DailyMail.co.uk

Forty-Five Known Exoplanets Possess An Earth-Like Atmosphere & Liquid Water Capable Of Sustaining Life, Study Suggests

Published 9th September 2020

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Astronomers have found at least 45 planets orbiting distant stars that possess Earth-like qualities including a similar atmosphere and life sustaining liquid water.

Experts from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, created a new way to determine the habitability of these distant worlds by studying their atmosphere.

The team found a way to use information on 'atmospheric species', that is chemicals in the atmosphere, and how fast they escape into space to determine how close an exoplanet is in terms of temperature and composition to the Earth.

Read all about it here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8713993/Forty-five-known-exoplanets-possess-Earth-like-atmosphere.html

Source paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2020.0148

Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 16:18

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Alejandro Rojas | Open Mind To TTSA?

Recorded 7th & Streamed 8th September 2020

In this episode, our guest is Alejandro Rojas. We are going to take the deep dive into what may make TTSA one of the most important contributors to Disclosure.

Alejandro is Director of Operations for Open Minds Production, the host for Open Minds UFO Radio, editor and contributing writer for OpenMinds.tv, and emcee for the International UFO Congress. The 'Congress' is happening this week... and it, like everything else, has been forced into a virtual format.

Alejandro was also the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with regular appearances on Coast to Coast AM and FADE to BLACk. He has been featured on the Travel Channel, Syfy, National Geographic, and E!.

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Star Tsar

9th September 2020, 16:22

The Richard Dolan Show

The Future Of UFO Research

Streamed & Published 8th September 2020

Are we moving past the era of analyzing and investigating unidentified aerial objects? Or to put it differently, are UFO investigations the best way to discuss the idea of "aliens among us?" We have been studying UFOs for a long time and there is much we have learned. But we are also moving at full speed into a new world, one that may make doing standard UFO investigation less important, while moving into other areas to prove an alien presence might give more payback.

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Star Tsar

13th September 2020, 12:02

HotAir.com

Looks Like The Pentagon Has No Intention Of Sharing UFO Information

Published 10th September 2020

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Some disappointing news on the UFO front came out this week, likely dampening the hopes of many people in the ufology community who have been eagerly looking forward to some sort of forthcoming disclosure from the government on this subject. As regular readers are already aware, there was considerable excitement in the air this summer following a number of revelations and surprising announcements on the topic of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). First we saw a request from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Marco Rubio, for a public report from the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force. This came as quite a surprise to people, including many in the government, who didn’t even know that we had a UAP Task Force.

That was followed by an official announcement of the formation of the task force by the Pentagon. After that, major newspapers such as the New York Times began digging into the subject, even raising the prospect of the potential disclosure of additional programs that might even include an acknowledgment of a government “crash retrieval program” that could be in possession of “off-world materials.

Read all about it here: https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/09/10/looks-like-pentagon-no-intention-sharing-ufo-information/

Star Tsar

13th September 2020, 12:28

Exploring The Bizarre

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Nick Redfern | UFOS & Holograms

Published 9th September 2020

Exploring the Bizarre's (KCORradio.com) Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz welcomes British born UFOlogist Redfern delves into the likelihood that at least some "space craft" may not be nuts and bolts ships from the stars, but could be projections by the military, or the space people, to confuse the issue of UFO reality even more. Nick checks in with his latest research on the Bentwaters landing. Was it "real," or "Memorex"?

Please do check out his blog: http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com/

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Star Tsar

13th September 2020, 12:36

Code-One

UFO Newspaper Articles 1957 To 1987

Published 13th September 2020

Here are some vintage UFO newspaper articles...

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Star Tsar

13th September 2020, 13:02

ScienceMag.org

How Big Money Is Powering A Massive Hunt For Alien Intelligence

Published 10th September 2020

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In 2015, Sofia Sheikh was at loose ends. Her adviser at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, with whom she studied hot, giant exoplanets, had left for a new job. Browsing reddit, she saw a post about a lavishly funded new search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and noticed that its leader was also at UC Berkeley: astrophysicist Andrew Siemion. She asked her former adviser for an introduction and met with Siemion when he was still unpacking boxes in a new office. “Everything’s kind of history from there,” says Sheikh, who became the team’s first undergraduate student.

Sheikh is now a Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, where she led a radio survey of 20 nearby star systems aligned with Earth’s orbital plane. If an intelligent civilization inhabited one of these systems and pointed a powerful telescope our way, they would see Earth passing in front of the Sun, and they might detect signs of life in our atmosphere. They might even decide to send us a message. The results, published in February in The Astrophysical Journal, were unsurprising. “Spoiler alert: no aliens,” Sheikh jokes.

SETI researchers are used to negative results, but they are trying harder than ever to turn that record around. Breakthrough Listen, the $100 million, 10-year, privately funded SETI effort Siemion leads, is lifting a field that has for decades relied on sporadic philanthropic handouts. Prior to Breakthrough Listen, SETI was “creeping along” with a few dozen hours of telescope time a year, Siemion says; now it gets thousands. It’s like “sitting in a Formula 1 racing car,” he says. The new funds have also been “a huge catalyst” for training scientists in SETI, says Jason Wright, director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, which opened this year. “They really are nurturing a community.”

Read all about it here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/how-big-money-powering-massive-hunt-alien-intelligence

Star Tsar

14th September 2020, 08:46

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 10th - 13th September 2020

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Star Tsar

14th September 2020, 08:57

Nemesis Maturity

Three Weeks Without Sunspots - NASA, NOAA To Discuss Solar Cycle Prediction During Media Teleconference

Published 12th September 2020

The Sun has been blank for 22 days--more than three weeks without sunspots. Solar Cycle 25 started months ago, but the new cycle is not yet strong enough to break the icy grip of Solar Minimum. Until sunspots reappear, solar activity will remain low.

At the moment there are no nascent sunspots on the solar disk, so the spotless days counter is likely to keep ticking. Stay Tuned for more blank Suns.

NASA, NOAA to Discuss Solar Cycle Prediction During Media Teleconference

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will discuss predictions for the upcoming solar cycle during a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 15. Tracking the solar cycle is a key part of better understanding the Sun and mitigating its impacts on human technology and infrastructure.

During the teleconference, experts on the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel will discuss recent updates in solar cycle progress, and the forecast for the upcoming cycle, Solar Cycle 25.

The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity lasting approximately 11 years. During the most active part of the cycle, known as solar maximum, the Sun can unleash immense explosions of light, energy, and solar radiation – all of which create conditions known as space weather. Space weather can affect satellites and astronauts in space, as well as communications systems – such as radio and GPS – and power grids on Earth. When the Sun is most active, space weather events become more frequent.

The teleconference audio will stream live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

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Star Tsar

14th September 2020, 09:27

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 266

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Published 12th September 2020

Record wildfires continue to consume the remaining forests on the US West Coast, producing a constant canopy of toxic smoke over vast and highly populated regions. Elsewhere in the US relentless deluges have now become the norm. Of all the sources of damage to our once thriving planet, climate engineering operations are inflicting the greatest toll. Through it all, the engineered CV-19 scenario is being pushed forward by those in power. As the ominous quote from the notorious Josef Mengele states: “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it”.
With each passing day Earth's remaining life support systems continue to deteriorate.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-september-12-2020-266/

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Star Tsar

14th September 2020, 09:57

Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Sandstorm - Ankara, Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara)

Recorded & Published 12th September 2020

A freak sandstorm hit Ankara on Saturday, the Turkish capital’s mayor said, as officials said six people were injured after strong winds.

A spectacular video shared by the mayor’s office showed a large beige dust cloud enveloping buildings.

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Tropical Storm Sally - Key West, Florida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West)

Recorded 12th & Published 13th September 2020

Tropical Storm Sally may have already churned past South Florida, but its effects still linger, in the form of heavy rainfall, strong winds and widespread flooding.

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Sandstorm - Khartoum, Sudan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum)

Recorded & Published 13th September 2020

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Star Tsar

14th September 2020, 11:58

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 14th September 2020 | The Coldest Star, Correcting Bad Science, Weather

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Star Tsar

14th September 2020, 14:53

Seeker

This Massive Wall Of Galaxies Is Lurking Beyond The Milky Way

Published 14th September 2020

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Cosmographers recently revealed a massive wall of galaxies lurking shockingly close by. But why was it hidden from our view for so long?

Cosmographers’ goal is to map out the observable universe, and from their findings we can not only learn more about the structures that make up everything we can see, we also gain insight into the things we cannot see.

The universe is full of massive structures hidden from our view, like the area of the sky above the South Pole that has been dubbed the “Zone of Avoidance,” in our very own Milky Way.

Some cosmographers pulled out some clever tricks to peer into the Zone of Avoidance. Using a catalog of the motions and distances of 18,000 galaxies called Cosmicflows-3, the scientists noticed that some galaxies were moving faster or slower than expected, and seemed to be drawn to something in the middle, something hidden in the Zone of Avoidance.

Computer models revealed a wall made up of thousands of galaxies at least 600 million light-years deep and 1.4 billion light-years across, forming a bow shape over the southern hemisphere’s sky.

Read More:

Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/science/astronomy-galaxies-attractor-universe.html
"Astronomers have discovered a vast assemblage of galaxies hidden behind our own, in the “zone of avoidance.”"

Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8vg7/scientists-discovered-a-gigantic-structure-in-a-hidden-zone-of-space
"An international team of scientists has discovered a filament of a fundamental structure known as the cosmic web hiding in the 'Zone of Avoidance,' and it's one of the biggest structures ever seen by humans."

How to See the Invisible Universe
https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-see-the-invisible-universe/
"Likewise, observations of the invisible universe, detectable in long wavelength photons in space were first found by accident, in 1964."

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Star Tsar

14th September 2020, 15:05

Dr David Butler's presentations where the very first presentations that got me interested in all things cosmic...

Dr David Butler

The Virgo Supercluster

Published 12th September 2020

In this segment of our “How far away is it” video book, we cover our local supercluster, the Virgo Supercluster.

We begin with a description of the size, content and structure of the supercluster, including the formation of galaxy clusters and galaxy clouds. We then take a look at some of the galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster including: NGC 4314 with its ring in the core, NGC 5866, I Zwicky 18, the beautiful NGC 2841, NGC 3079 with is central gaseous bubble, M60, M100, M77 with its central supermassive black hole, NGC 3949, NGC 3310, NGC 4013, the unusual NGC 4522, NGC 4710 with its "X"-shaped bulge, NGC 1052, Hanny’s Voorwerp, NGC 3256 and NGC 4414. Then we continue with galaxy gazing with: NGC 1427A, NGC 3982, NGC 1300, NGC 5584, the dusty NGC 1316, NGC 4639, NGC 4319, NGC 3021 with is large number of Cepheid variables, NGC 3370, NGC 1309, and 7049.

At this point, we have enough distant galaxies to formulate Hubble’s Law and calculate Hubble’s Red Shift constant. From a distance ladder point of view, once we have the Hubble constant, and we can measure red shift, we can calculate distance. So we add Red Shift to our ladder. We end with a review of the distance ladder now that Red Shift has been added.

Music:
@00:00 Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons - Winter Concerto in F Minor – Largo; from the album “The Most Relaxing Classical Music”, 1997
@03:17 Saint-Saëns: “The Carnival of the Animals - The Swan”; from the album “The Most Relaxing Classical Music” 1997
@08:37 Mascagni: “Intermezzo”; Philharmonia Orchestra - from the album “The Most Relaxing Classical Music” 1988
@15:27 Puccini - Le Villi - Opera in 2 Acts _ Act 1 – Prelude; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Riccardo Chailly; from the album “Puccini Without Words” 2006
@18:31 Schubert - Andante con moto (from Symphony No. 8); from the album “Meditation: Classical Relaxation”, 1991

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Star Tsar

15th September 2020, 11:28

Fraser Cain

Q&A 128: Which Supernova Created the Solar System? & More... With Astronaut Terry Virts

Streamed & Published 13th September 2020

In this week's questions show, Fraser wonders about the supernova that formed our Solar System, how astronauts deal with air pressure differences, and how we're going to handle the cold temperatures on Mars.

Featuring Astronaut Terry Virts
https://terryvirts.com/

00:00 Start
01:07 Where are the supernovae that created the Solar System?
03:38 Can astronauts get infected on Mars or in space?
05:19 When a black hole forms, is there still a neutron star inside?
07:59 Why is the CMB in its current location?
09:22 Is the idea of a primordial black hole absurd?
12:49 Why does the simulation get support while UFOs don't?
15:43 Could the Solar System capture a rogue planet?
17:46 Can we see the Orion arm of the Milky Way?
19:56 Handling the cold on Mars?
22:22 How much can we mine the Moon?
23:42 Will Pluto and Neptune ever collide with each other?
24:36 How do astronauts deal with ear pressure differences?

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Star Tsar

15th September 2020, 11:33

Insane Curiosity

The Strangest Black Holes In The Universe!

Published 14th September 2020

You all must have come across the term Black Hole. But do you know what exactly a Black Hole is? Black holes are objects that are so dense that not even light can escape their gravity, and since nothing can travel faster than the light, nothing can escape from inside a black hole. To put it in simple words, Black hole is an object so dense that not even light can escape its surface. Have you ever wondered if light can’t escape a black hole, how can we see black holes?

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Venus Facts & History

Published 12th September 2020

The History Of Venus
Before we get into the facts and figures and the numbers behind the planet that is Venus, we probably should talk about how we discovered it. After all, Astronomy has been going on for a very long time, and people have found planets like Venus like before you would expect them to.
In the Old Babylonian period, the planet Venus was known as Ninsi'anna, and later as Dilbat. The name "Ninsi'anna" translates to "divine lady, illumination of heaven", which refers to Venus as the brightest visible "star".

The ancient Greeks initially believed Venus to be two separate stars: Phosphorus, the morning star, and Hesperus, the evening star. Pliny the Elder credited the realization that they were a single object to Pythagoras in the sixth century BCE, while Diogenes Laërtius argued that Parmenides was probably responsible for this rediscovery. Though they recognized Venus as a single object, the ancient Romans continued to designate the morning aspect of Venus as Lucifer, literally "Light-Bringer", and the evening aspect as Vesper, both of which are literal translations of their traditional Greek names.

When the Italian physicist Galileo Galilei first observed the planet in the early 17th century, he found it showed phases like the Moon, varying from crescent to gibbous to full and vice versa. When Venus is furthest from the Sun in the sky, it shows a half-lit phase, and when it is closest to the Sun in the sky, it shows as a crescent or full phase. This could be possible only if Venus orbited the Sun, and this was among the first observations to clearly contradict the Ptolemaic geocentric model that the Solar System was concentric and centered on Earth. Which was one of many theories about how about our world and our universe were at the 'center of it all" when it fact that couldn't be further from the truth.

The atmosphere of Venus was discovered in 1761 by Russian polymath Mikhail Lomonosov. Venus's atmosphere was observed in 1790 by German astronomer Johann Schröter. Schröter found when the planet was a thin crescent, the cusps extended through more than 180°. He correctly surmised this was due to scattering of sunlight in a dense atmosphere. Later, American astronomer Chester Smith Lyman observed a complete ring around the dark side of the planet when it was at inferior conjunction, providing further evidence for an atmosphere.
Believe it or not, it wasn't until the 1900's when more details and research was done on Venus, mainly because its shape, distance and phases didn't give a lot of clues as to its various inner workings. Radar observations in the 1970s revealed details of the Venusian surface for the first time, thus giving scientists much more to work with.

The first robotic space probe mission to Venus, and the first to any planet, began with the Soviet Venera program in 1961. The United States' exploration of Venus had its first success with the Mariner 2 mission on 14 December 1962, becoming the world's first successful interplanetary mission, passing 34,833 km (21,644 mi) above the surface of Venus, and gathering data on the planet's atmosphere.
Since then, numerous probes and satellites have been taken to Venus to study it in some capacity. There has even been talks of putting a rover on the planet in the same style that NASA has done with Mars, but that hasn't happened as of yet.

Orbits and Rotations
Venus is known as our "sister planet", because in many ways it's like Earth. It's only a little bit smaller, has an atmosphere that is full of gasses, and we do know that it has a definitive surface like certain other planets in our solar system, but we'll get to that more later.

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Star Tsar

15th September 2020, 11:43

Cool Worlds

Dr Caleb Scharf - Did We Just Detect Life On Venus?

Published 14th September 2020

The announcement of the detection of a possible biomarker in the atmosphere of Venus has shook up the field of astrobiology and grabbed headlines across the world. Today, we explore why Venus could plausibly host life, how this detection was made, and whether it really means that we've finally found extraterrestrial life. Written and presented by Prof Kipping, featuring guest Dr Caleb Scharf.

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Star Tsar

15th September 2020, 11:56

Fade To Black Radio

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Deep Prasad | Studying ET/UFOs With Physics

Aired & Streamed 14th September 2020

In this episode, Our guest is Deep Prasad, the CEO of ReactiveQ, is one the great young minds in science, and also offers a professional perspective in the UFO field.

We are going to discuss UFO research and how to apply modern science and physics to the known and unknown data.

Deep and his company are aiming to create the world’s first quantum computer, as well as work on producing superconductors and meta materials. Prasad is also an avid UFO advocate and tonight we'll discuss ET and much, much more. Part of ReactiveQ’s mission statement is that they are “actively engaged with engineers from TESLA, Lockheed Martin, Volkswagen and NASA in order to validate solution.”

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Star Tsar

15th September 2020, 12:02

OmniTalk Radio

The Pacific UFO Mystery

Published 14th September 2020

In the summer of 2000, Neb Borkovich and his sailing companion, Donald Begay, sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a twenty nine foot sailboat. They became eyewitnesses to a series of UFO flyovers throughout their inbound journey from Baja, California to Hawaiian Islands and outbound journey to San Francisco. These encounters transformed Neb into an unyielding seeker of real purpose behind the UFO phenomena.

Neb’s book “Followed” (2002) is a narrative about these events and he just re-released it. It is available from these digital stores:
https://books2read.com/ufonaut

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Star Tsar

15th September 2020, 12:10

New Thinking Allowed

Leslie Kean | The United States Military's Interest In UFOs

Published 13th September 2020

Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. In 2010, her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record was a New York Times bestseller. She is also coauthor of Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity as well as Henry Hyde's Moral Universe.

Here she discusses recent articles she has coauthored that were published in the New York Times concerning ongoing government interest in UFOs. The Navy now acknowledges that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are real, and some officials say the unexplained objects seem to have capabilities beyond our current earthly technology. Additionally, it appears that materials have been collected and are being studied. Much of this interest is highly classified.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

Her website is http://www.survivingdeathkean.com/

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Star Tsar

15th September 2020, 14:55

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 15th September 2020 | Magnetic 6th Sense, Electric Superstorms, GMOs, Aliens?

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 09:11

Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov

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Solar Storm Forecast | Our Sun Has Bad Aim With Storms To The East & West

Published 15nd September 2020

This week our Sun continues to fire solar storms, but with some terrible aim! One in particular that launched to the west of Earth gave us in a beautiful display in coronagraphs. The source of this storm was not visible on the Earth-facing Sun, but it likely came from the filament regions we watched cross through our field of view last week. Sadly, the bright regions that fired the other non-Earth directed solar storms have since fizzled and we are hovering at the low edge of marginal-to-poor radio propagation this week on earth's dayside. We do have another bright region that will rotate into Earth- view in a few days, but it may only give us a slight boost in the solar flux so amateur radio operators will just have to hang in there this week. Meanwhile we also have a remnant coronal hole rotating into the Earth-strike zone over the next couple days that will send us a burst of fast wind. This should give aurora photographers at high latitudes a bit of a show, especially by mid week. Overall. though the storm is expected to be pretty mild. This is good news for GPS reception, which should be good everywhere, except possibly near the aurora. Learn the details of the near misses, catch up on aurora photos from recent solar storms, and see what else our Sun has in store this week!

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 09:16

NASA Goddard

How To Track The Solar Cycle

Published 15th September 2020

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Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s powerful outbursts can disturb the satellites and communications signals traveling around Earth, or one day, Artemis astronauts exploring distant worlds. NASA scientists study the solar cycle so we can better predict solar activity. As of 2020, the Sun has begun to shake off the sleep of minimum, which occurred in December 2019, and Solar Cycle 25 is underway. Scientists use several indicators to track solar cycle progress.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-scientists-around-world-track-solar-cycle-sunspots-sun

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 09:20

NASA

Our Next Solar Cycle

Streamed & Published 15th September 2020

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The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity approximately every 11 years, and tracking these cycles is a key part of better understanding the Sun and mitigating its impacts on human technology and astronauts in space. Join NASA and NOAA experts Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 3:00 p.m. EDT as they discuss predictions for the upcoming solar cycle.

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 09:36

Insane Curiosity

What's Inside The Sun?

Published 15th September 2020

We all know the sun as the huge ball of fire in the sky that keeps our planet from freezing and turning into a ball of ice, and keeps the Earth and the rest of the solar system in its place.

But what gives the sun its mighty energy and heat power? And what is happening inside of it that keeps its fire burning?

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 09:42

Scott Manley

Measuring The Distance To The Moon Using Only A Smartphone Camera

Published 15th September 2020

2000 years ago it took one of the smartest people in the world years of observation to measure the distance to the moon, but nowadays it’s possible for anyone to measure this distance, and to do so using a powerful scientific tool many people don’t recognize.
Smartphones aren’t just communications devices, they’re packed with sensors and backed up by processing power, and using these I was able to perform a measurement of the distance to the moon on a whim. In the modern world science is not something that’s gated by access to technology, but is available to all. This experiment is a beautiful illustration of how accessible science has become and makes me incredibly hopeful for humanity’s future!

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 09:49

SciShow Space

The Telescope That Revealed The X-Ray Universe

Published 15th September 2020

Some of the most exciting phenomena in space can’t be seen from Earth because our atmosphere soaks up high-energy light. That’s why NASA built Chandra, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever launched, and the observatory has helped scientists make major discoveries about high-energy events in space, including the processes surrounding the birth and death of stars!

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 09:53

Learn The Sky

Cygnus

Published 1st September 2020

Cygnus the Swan Constellation, also sometimes called the Northern Cross (as an asterism), is a beautiful star pattern to find in the summer months. It is part of the summer triangle asterism. The bright star Deneb, along with Vega and Altair, are the three stars the make up the summer triangle. If you can identify these stars, you can find Cygnus this way. Cygnus also sits within the Milky Way Galaxy. Be sure to look for this brilliant constellation in the summer sky.

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Celestial Objects Of Cygnus - Star Clusters, Nebulae, & Galaxies

Published 8th September 2020

Cygnus the Swan constellation has a wide variety of celestial objects to view within its boundaries. Learn about a few of the objects, including Messier Objects 37 and 27, the North America Nebula, Cygnus X Stellar Nursery, and Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever detected.

0:00 - Introduction
0:40 - Overview of Cygnus the Swan constellation
1:47 - Celestial Objects Overview
2:13 - Celestial map of Cygnus
3:07 - Star Clusters Messier 27 and Messier 37
3:30 - Nebulae of Cygnus
12:07 - Galaxies of Cygnus
14:23 - Hidden Celestial Objects (Stellar Nurseries and a Black hole)
18:31 - Outro
18:57 - Photo Attributes

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Albireo

Published 15th September 2020

Albireo is a beautiful optical double star in the constellation of Cygnus. It is represented as the 'head of the swan', and when you view it in a telescope, two stars can be seen...one is blue and the other is orangish-gold. It has been debated for some time about whether this is a binary system or an optical binary. Research points to this being an optical double between the orange and blue star. However, the orange star has binary companion of its own! So when you are looking at this star, you are looking at a triple star system.

On a personal note, Albireo is special to me because I named my cat after this star. He has one blue eye and one golden eye, which is a genetic condition known as heterochromia. Meet him in this video!

0:36 - Introduction
1:32 - Albireo and Deneb
2:30 - Albireo the Gold and Blue star system (optical double)
3:26 - Meet my kitty Albireo!
4:14 - Characteristics of Albireo - a TRIPLE star system
5:42 - Distance of Albireo
6:12 - Practice finding Albireo
8:25 - Pure happiness when I see this!
8:38 - Photo Attributes

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 10:03

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Galactic Voids Could Be Hiding Exotic Objects Explaining Dark Energy

Published 15th September 2020

In this video Anton will talk about a fascinating idea that might explain the reason why the universe is expanding while also solving a few other mysteries as well - the idea of GEODEs - General Objects of Dark Energy.

Read all about it here: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/09/01/location-novel-candidate-dark-energy/

Papers: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab32da & https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abad2f

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Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 10:25

Phys.org

Strongest Magnetic Field In Universe Directly Detected By X-Ray Space Observatory

Published 10th September 2020

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The Insight-HXMT team has performed extensive observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 and has discovered a magnetic field of ~1 billion Tesla on the surface of the neutron star. This is the strongest magnetic field conclusively detected in the universe. This work, published in the Astrophysical Journal, was primarily conducted by scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-strongest-magnetic-field-universe-x-ray.html

Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abac05

Star Tsar

16th September 2020, 12:59

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 16th & 17th September 2020

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Star Tsar

20th September 2020, 13:36

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 267

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Published 19th September 2020

The US West is not the only part of the world that is incinerating, the Amazon and Siberia are also in flames. What agendas and objectives do the fires and smoke fulfill for the geoengineers and those they serve? Moisture from Gulf of Mexico hurricanes is being utilized by the weather makers for manipulating Eastern US cool-downs. International agencies are warning about imminent starvation, chaos, and carnage. The CV-19 global lockdown scenario is completely interwoven with it all.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-september-19-2020-267/

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Star Tsar

20th September 2020, 14:07

NASA

NASA Satellites Spot Nanojets On The Sun

Published 19th September 2020

In pursuit of understanding why the Sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface, and to help differentiate between a host of theories about what causes this heating, researchers turn to NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. IRIS was finely tuned with a high-resolution imager to zoom in on specific hard-to-see events on the Sun.

A paper published in Nature on Sept. 21, 2020, reports on the first ever clear images of nanojets — bright, thin lights that travel perpendicular to magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere called the corona — in a process that reveals the existence of one of the potential coronal heating candidates: nanoflares.

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Star Tsar

20th September 2020, 14:12

Nemesis Maturity

September Equinox 2020

Published 18th September 2020

The Equinox is when the Sun's rays are directly over the equator. That happens twice a year when day and night are almost equal in lengths.

The 2020 September Equinox happens on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 13 31 UTC. Although the equinox happens at the same moment worldwide, your clock time will depend on your time zone. For time zones in the continental U.S., this equinox comes early in the morning on September 22 (9 31 a.m. EDT, 8 31 a.m. CDT, 7 31 a.m. MDT and 6 31 a.m. PDT).

Why does Earth have seasons?
The Earth has seasons not because it gets closer to the Sun in the summer and then further away from the Sun in the winter. It does get a little closer and further from the Sun in its orbit, but what really causes the seasons is the fact that the Earth is tilted.

Winter Solstice
High summer for the Southern Hemisphere, Winter for the Northern Hemisphere.

What happens in Spring and Fall?
Equinox: The time when the Sun crosses the plane of the Earth's equator, making equal length of night and day.

Enjoy the September Equinox – a seasonal signpost in Earth’s orbit around the Sun!

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Star Tsar

20th September 2020, 14:26

Space.com

Auroras, Moon & Venus Rise In Stunning Space Station Time-lapse

Published 18th September 2020

The moon, Venus, aurora borealis and the M44 Beehive Cluster can be seen in a recent International Space Station pass over Europe and Russia.

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 09:30

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 18th - 20th September 2020

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 09:35

Volcano Time-Lapse

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

Recorded 20th & Published 21st September 2020

At 03:46 Hrs Guatemala time explosions were recorded.

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

Recorded 20th & Published 21st September 2020

A four-hour span of time at Sakurajima caught a mild eruption and a steady glow from the crater, meaning magma has moved up into the crater. Things have been slow and it's nice to see this view of Sakurajima.

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 09:44

Weather Events

Cyclone Ianos - Karditsa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karditsa), Greece

Recorded & Published 19th September 2020

Greece's weather agency warned of damage and threat to life as it issued alerts for many areas.

An elderly woman was found dead in a flooded house in Farsala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farsala), while a 63-year-old shepherd was swept away and killed in Karditsa.

Authorities said a woman who ignored warnings not to drive into an area near a bridge is also missing.

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Flooding - France, Spain & Portugal

Recorded 18th - 19th & Published 20th September 2020

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 09:53

Asteroid Station

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Asteroid (2020 SW)

Published 20th September 2020

Asteroid (2020 SW) is a recent discovery and is set to buzz close to Earth this week. The asteroid will flyby 10,000 miles away from Earth which is a lot closer than the Moon. The asteroid is around 30 feet in diameter and traveling over 17,000 miles per hour. Impact is not expected.

Upcoming Asteroids Watch List
(2018 VP1) Impact Risk Sentry - Earth Impact Monitoring
https://youtu.be/3vqkQ9NY-w0

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 10:00

TheRichest

Elon Musk Is Set To Mine A Golden Asteroid Worth $700 Quintillion

Published 18th September 2020

Out there in space, right now above our heads, is a wealth of knowledge. And in this case, we mean that literally. Believe it or not, in our very solar system, there is an asteroid that is thought to be the remnants of a planet core. And that means that all those pricey metals that we have to dig for here on Earth, are exposed, and ripe for the taking. Estimates put this giant space faring gold mine at 10,000 quadrillion dollars, and who knows, if we can get up there to explore it up close, we may find that it is worth even more. What would this do to our economy? Just how rich would this make everyone on earth if it was split evenly? Are there any missions planned to get up there? Oh, we got your answers right here. In today’s video we are getting scientific, while making sure to not skimp out on the riches, so we can give you the scoop on this nearby, giant, golden asteroid. If it piques your interest, you’re not alone. None other than Elon Musk has made comments about his thoughts on mining this bad boy, and considering SpaceX will be the company that supports NASA in this quest, you better believe it’s something we should all take seriously. It would bring all new meaning to the phrase, the rich only get richer. So sit back, relax, and get ready to countdown from ten, as we fire all the thrusters and blast off into the final frontier to give you the scoop on the absurd amount of gold floating around in our solar system.

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 10:13

Meteorite Videos

Meteorite NWA 13367 Martian Peridotitic Shergottite 4.30 gram

Published 17th September 2020

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 10:33

Phys.org

Meteorite Study Calls Into Doubt A Popular Theory About The Early Solar System

Published 16th September 2020

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It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject to an intense period of meteoric bombardment referred to as the late heavy bombardment. However, researchers have found evidence that suggests this period occurred slightly earlier than thought and was less intense but also more prolonged. Such details about this period could impact theories about the early Earth and the dawn of life.

Around 4 billion years ago, the solar system was far less hospitable than we find it now. Many of the large bodies we know and love were present, but probably looked considerably different, especially the Earth. We know from a range of sources, including ancient meteorites and planetary geology, that around this time there were vastly more collisions between, and impacts from, asteroids originating in the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-meteorite-popular-theory-early-solar.html

Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X20304416?via%3Dihub

Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 16:23

NASA Goddard

Meteorites From Vesta Found On Asteroid Bennu

Published 21st September 2020

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In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids and on the violent origin of Bennu, which is a “rubble pile” asteroid that coalesced from the fragments of a massive collision.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/bennu-vesta-meteorites

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 16:26

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 21st September 2020 | Electroquakes, Salinity Science Confirmed, Space Tornado

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Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 16:30

Star Tsar

21st September 2020, 16:34

Lowell Observatory

Sagas In The Sky | Aries

Published 19th September 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the story of Aries, which represents the Golden Fleece from the story of Jason and the Argonauts.

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Star Tsar

22nd September 2020, 08:49

Flagstaff Festival Of Science

Bryan Bates: Images In The Sky: Navajo Constellations & Their Meaning

Published 21st September 2020

Bryan Bates shares how Native people watched the movement of the Sun, Moon and Stars, and how they were celebrated through ceremony. The Navajo did not have a consistent horizon to use as a reference for their observations. Find out how they used constellations as their guide!

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 08:24

Lowell Observatory

Sagas In The Sky | The Pleiades

Published 26th September 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the story of the Pleiades, commonly known as the "Seven Sisters."

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 08:28

Space Telescope Science Institute

Tonight's Sky: October 2020

Published 24th September 2020

Crisp, clear October nights are full of celestial showpieces. Find Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek myth, to pinpoint dense globular star clusters and galaxies, and keep watching for space-based views of M15, NGC 7331, and the Andromeda Galaxy.

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 08:32

Lunar Princess

October 2020 Astrological Events

Published 26th September 2020

From two Full Moons, a Star named Spica, to a Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio, October 2020 is going to be anything but boring. We will also experience a Rare Halloween Blue Moon that will close out the Month.

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 08:52

Thunderbolts Project

Space News | Andrew Hall: Scars Of Plasma Dragons

Published 20th September 2020

For the last five years, on this series, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall has presented an extraordinary reconstruction of catastrophic events on Earth, exploring the telltale clues these events imprinted on our planet’s surface. As Andy has explained, many of the fractal patterns we see on Earth cannot be explained through any traditional geological process. However, these geological features find intriguing analogues in some of the highest energy atmospheric phenomena seen in our solar system today.

In part one of this two part presentation, Andy presents the seventh installment of his "Eye of the Storm" series with an examination of the remarkable filamentary and dendritic patterns seen on planet Earth — patterns whose explanation may be found in the ancient events that created the cultural memory of a mythical creature, the dragon.

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Space News | Andrew Hall: Electric Earth & The Cosmic Dragon

Published 26th September 2020

Previously, in Part One of this presentation, our guest Andrew Hall began his Seventh Episode of "Eye of the Storm" – a series devoted to exploring some of the most dramatic and puzzling geological features on planet Earth.

In Part 2 of his visual essay for "Eye of the Storm" — Episode 7, Andy goes into detailed examination of the lifelike emanations of electrified plasma which tell us much about mysterious dendritic and filamentary geological patterns. Nor is it coincidental that plasma filaments find a stunning analog in a global mythical archetype: the sinuous form and fiery breath of the cosmic dragon.

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 08:58

SentIntoSpace

Sunset Over The Earth

Published 25th September 2020

8K HDR is the future of video. In a world first, we modified a RED Helium 8K camera to shoot 8K video fo the Earth in space. This incredible 8K video was shot over Belgium at sunset, capturing the sun's rays reflecting off the clouds minutes before it descends below the horizon. Shot using a Zeiss CP.3 T2 15mm XD lens, this video shows the Earth's true curvature with no barrel distortion from 120,000 feet (36,000 metres) altitude.

This stunning technical achievement was only possible thanks to the collaboration between our engineering department and the team at RED. Working closely with exclusive access to their design specs and internal software, we were able to modify the camera's thermal control system to develop a completely novel combined temperature regulation method which uses the extreme cold of space to offset the camera's own heat output. That's one way to void a warranty!

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 09:05

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 22nd To 26th September 2020

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 09:13

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 268

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Published 26th September 2020

Heat, wildfires and smoke in the US West have been relentless. The climate engineers can continue the trend for as long as they choose. The scheduled weather for the West is for more of the same. In the eastern half of the US a round of engineered winter weather is being staged. As food crops and fish harvests around the world continue to collapse, the CV-19 societal lockdown scenario is being advanced. How long till forced vaccinations are a part of the equation? The following quote is from a statement just given to Geoengineering Watch by a medical physician, Dr. Anthony Parkes:
"When doctors refuse to even look at evidence on vaccine injuries or genetically engineered viruses, simply dismissing them as conspiracy theories, I truly fear for the future of humanity"~Anthony C Parkes MB, ChB, FRCS (London). To hear the entire statement from Dr. Parks, tune in to this week's broadcast.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-september-26-2020-268/

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 09:19

Force Thirteen

Tropical Weather Bulletin For September 27th 2020

Published 27th September 2020

The tropics remain fairly quiet, but there are signs of new activity in the Pacific Ocean.

In the Western Pacific, a broad area of interest has developed into Tropical Depression 15W, which is unlikely to affect significant land areas. Another area of interest persists to its west, with a low chance of formation.
In the east, a system or perhaps two could form off the coast of Mexico near the end of the five day forecast period. Chances also remain, albeit very slim, for a tropical cyclone near the Bahamas this weekend or early next week.

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 09:32

Volcano Time-Lapse

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

Recorded & Published 26th September 2020

At 01:58 Hrs & 05:15 Guatemala time explosions were recorded.

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 12:48

Nemesis Maturity

Full Harvest Moon

Published 26th September 2020

According to folklore, the Harvest Moon is the Full Moon that falls closest to the autumnal equinox, the beginning of northern autumn. In the days before light bulbs, farmers relied on moonlight to help them harvest their crops. Many crops ripen all at once in late summer and early autumn, so farmers found themselves extremely busy at this time of the year. They have to work after sundown. Moonlight became an essential part of farming and thus, the Harvest Moon was born.

There's more to the Harvest Moon, however, than just an old-fashioned name. It realy is special. Throughout the year the Moon rises, on average, about 50 minutes later each day. But near the Equinox, this difference shrinks to only 30 minutes.

The reason is, at the beginning of autumn the Moon's orbital path makes a narrow angle with the evening horizon. For several nights in a row around the time of the Harvest Moon, the Moon rises almost at sunset.

And you know what happens when the Moon rises at sunset? Low-hanging Moons are reddened by clouds and dust. Not only that, they are swollen to outlandish size by the Moon illusion, a well known but still mysterious trick of they eye, that makes low-hanging Moons seem much larger than they really are.

When you add these effects together the Harvest Moon often looks like a great pumpkin. The experience is repeated for several nights in a row around the Equinox. A great pumpkin-colored Moon rising in the east is a nice way to end the day.

At sundown on October 1-2, go outside, face east and enjoy the Harvest Moon.

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 12:56

Dr Becky Smethurst

How Do We Know How Heavy The Earth Is?

Published 24th September 2020

The Earth is 6 septillion kilograms - but how in the Universe do we know that? Plus go to https://kiwico.com/drbecky for 30% off the first month of any crate (available in 40 countries!)

Recreation of Eratosthenes experiment to measure the size of Earth by @Kurtis Baute: https://youtu.be/YaPa4esJJx4

Cavendish (1798) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/106988.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af5ee52d07bfd19b912434a0d747d9602
Recreation of Cavendish experiment by @Andrew Bennett: https://youtu.be/Mcg2h--JDv4

00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Method 1: Geometry
01:52 - Method 2: Gravity
04:08 - The radius of Earth
07:09 - The acceleration due to Earth's gravity, g
10:39 - Strength of gravity, G
13:55 - Calculating the mass of the Earth

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 13:07

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 27th September 2020 | Cosmic Rays Trigger Lightning, Cold Wave

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Star Tsar

27th September 2020, 13:13

Dr Maggie Lieu

Have We Found Life On Venus?

Published 27th September 2020

This week Dr Lieu talks about the recent discovery of a biosignature on Venus - phosphine gas - could this mean we've found alien life?

Extra reading:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06593

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 14:17

The Conspiracy Show

Paul Hellyer | The Cabal Controlling America & UFO Disclosure

Published 27th September 2020

In the first hour, Richard and special guest-host Victor Viggiani welcomes Canada's former Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister to discuss the 15th anniversary of his groundbreaking statement on UFOs at the University of Toronto, as well as his views on the "sinister cabal" he says is controlling our political and financial institutions.

GUEST: The Hon. Paul Hellyer was Canada’s youngest Member of Parliament when he was first elected in 1949 and the youngest cabinet minister appointed to Louis S. St. Laurent’s government eight years later. Although Hellyer is best known for the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces and for his 1968 chairmanship of the Task Force on Housing and Urban Development, he has maintained a life-long interest in macroeconomics. This led him to form Action Canada, a populist movement dedicated to the concepts of full employment and low inflation with an emphasis on quality-of-life issues. Through the years, as a journalist and political commentator, he has continued to fight for economic reforms and has written several books on the subject. In recent years he has become interested in the extraterrestrial presence and their superior technology that we have been emulating. In September 2005 he became the first person of cabinet rank in the G8 group of countries to state unequivocally "UFO’s are as real as the airplanes flying overhead.

Open lines in the second hour.

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 14:21

It's [Redacted].

The Bariloche Mystery

Published 27th September 2020

July 31st, 1995. A Boeing 727 carrying 102 passengers is on final approach to the airport of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. According to the radio transcripts, flight crew and personnel on the ground witnessed a rapid-moving, luminous…something. In the pilot’s words, “the object has bright flashing lights...this...is...we think it's a flying saucer.”

How many trained observers saw this? Did it perform an "impossible" maneuver seemingly defying the laws of physics? And what did the Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Argentine Air Force) conclude this was? One of the most interesting and truly lesser known strange encounters is covered in this weekly episode of It's [redacted].

0:00 Intro
0:42 Declassified transcripts
1:57 "Impossible" maneuver
3:17 Three ground observers
4:30 Air Force analysis
7:14 Our thoughts

Source documents and credits listed here: https://itsredacted.com/the-bariloche-mystery-pilots-see-impossible-object/

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 14:29

WFHN FUN 107 FM (https://fun107.com/)

Possible UFO Sighting Over Massachusetts

Published 28th September 2020

River Fall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_River,_Massachusetts)

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Wareham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wareham,_Massachusetts)

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 14:35

Somewhere In The Skies

Witness Accounts: Volume Thirteen

Published 27th September 2020

On episode 180 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we hear from another powerful group of witnesses from all over the world and their personal experiences with UFO/UAP phenomena. How did these events impact the lives of those involved? From saucers in the skies of the United States to a mid-air dog fight between two different UFOs in Australia. It's yet another scary, exciting, and always mysterious volume of Witness Accounts. My special thanks to each and every individual who submitted their stories and shared their personal thoughts and theories. The conversation can only continue with your help, so if you'd like to share your UFO story, be sure to reach out to Ryan to discuss further!

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 14:43

The Black Vault

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FBI Files On The Socorro UFO Landing, April 24th 1964

Published 28th September 2020

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The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO close encounter. It occurred on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about 5:50 p.m., on the outskirts of Socorro, New Mexico. Several primary witnesses emerged to report their version of the event, which included the craft’s approach, conspicuous flame, and alleged physical evidence left behind immediately afterward. Lonnie Zamora, a Socorro police officer who was on duty at the time, claimed to have come closest to the object and provided the most prolonged and comprehensive account. Some physical trace evidence left behind—burned vegetation and soil, ground landing impressions, and metal scrapings on a broken rock in one of the impressions—was subsequently observed and analyzed by investigators for the military, law enforcement, and civilian UFO groups. The event and its body of evidence is sometimes deemed one of the best documented and most perplexing UFO reports.

It was immediately investigated by the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and FBI, and received considerable coverage in the mass media. It was one of the cases that helped persuade astronomer J. Allen Hynek, one of the primary investigators for the Air Force, that some UFO reports represented an intriguing mystery. After extensive investigation, the Air Force’s Project Blue Book was unable to come up with a conventional explanation and listed the case as an “unknown”.

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 14:55

Eye To The Sky Radio

Dr Jeffrey Bennett | The UFO Synopsis

Published 27th September 2020

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Join Dee Andrew as author and scientist Jeffrey Bennett takes us on a whirlwind tour of the scientific search for life in the universe, the remarkable things we already know about any aliens who might be visiting us, and the astonishing implications of the search for life to our own future as a species.

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 15:04

Martian Colonist

When Will Alien Life Be Found On Exoplanets?

Published 20th September 2020

How long will it be before we find alien life on exoplanets? Exoplanet astronomer Dr. Ryan MacDonald explains how biosignatures can be found in exoplanet atmospheres. He also reveals how the discovery of the first close-in planet around a white dwarf could dramatically accelerate the hunt for alien life beyond the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope.

0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Worlds Beyond Earth
2:26 - Early Exoplanet Discoveries
4:10 - Transiting Exoplanets
5:26 - Transmission Spectroscopy
6:24 - Exoplanet Atmospheres
9:15 - The James Webb Space Telescope
10:33 - Signatures of Life on Earth
14:57 - Exoplanet Biosignatures
16:34 - The Small Star Opportunity
17:52 - Case Study: TRAPPIST-1
19:44 - When Stars Die
20:51 - White Dwarfs
22:27 - The Discovery of WD 1856b
24:04 - Earth-like Planets Around White dwarfs
25:10 - The White Dwarf Opportunity

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 15:08

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 28th & 29th September 2020

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Star Tsar

29th September 2020, 15:13

BBC Sky @ Night Magazine

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What To See In The Night Sky, October 2020

Published 29th September 2020

What can you see in the night sky tonight? Astronomers Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal their stargazing tips for October 2020, and show you the best things to see in the night sky this month.

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Dr Stuart Clark | The History Of Ancient Astronomy

Published 2nd October 2020

Have you ever wondered what early humans thought as they looked up at the night sky? How did our ancestors interpret the motion of the stars, constellations and planets? How did it develop into the science of astronomy as we know it today?

This episode Dr Stuart Clark discusses his new book Beneath The Night, and how stargazing has shaped the development of our species.

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 12:59

Lowell Observatory

Sagas In The Sky | Auriga

Published 3rd October 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the story of Auriga, the Charioteer.

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 13:10

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 30th September - 4th October 2020

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 13:17

Geoengineering Watch

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Global Alert News | Episode 269

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Published 3rd October 2020

Weather extremes and geoengineering, is there a connection?

The geoengineers are deciding who is impacted by weather cataclysms, and who isn’t. Droughts, fires, floods, all are being heavily influenced by the ongoing climate engineering operations. Populations all over the globe are now facing changes and challenges that were formerly unimaginable to most. What agendas and objectives are being carried out by those who control the levers of power from behind the curtain? Will rapidly deteriorating societal circumstances finally compel populations to objectively investigate frontline facts?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-october-3-2020-269/

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 13:34

Volcano Time-Lapse

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

Recorded & Published 3rd October 2020

At 16:35 JST an explosion was recorded. This is the first explosion that produced a plume since August 9th of 2020.

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

Recorded & Published 3rd October 2020

At 04:23 an explosion was recorded.

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

Recorded & Published 3rd October 2020

At around 20:30CDT an eruption started at Popocatepetl Volcano in Mexico. Several flashes and lava outbursts were seen but no ejecta was witnessed.

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 13:50

Asteroid Station

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Asteroid (2020 SO) A 1960's Rocket Booster Or Asteroid?

Published 3rd October 2020

Asteroid (2020 SO) is a small object that was first discovered on August 19, 2020, and it is speculated to be a man-made object. The artificial object is thought to be a 1966 rocket booster from the Surveyor 2 Centaur which was launched to explore the Moon on September 20, 1966. It's Earth-like orbit and low-velocity also support the idea that this tiny object is the rocket booster.

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 13:59

Associated Press

NASA Prepares To Touchdown On Asteroid Bennu

Published 28th September 2020

NASA's OSIRIS-REx is preparing to touch down on asteroid Bennu's surface on October 20th. The spacecraft will go down to collect rock and dust samples from an area scientists are calling the Nightingale Crater.

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 14:10

Nemesis Maturity

The Total Destruction Of A Sungrazing Comet Witnessed Exclusively By SOHO

Published 3rd October 2020

Total Destruction of a Sungrazing Comet Witnessed Exclusively By SOHO on October 3, 2020.
A moderately bright SOHO Kreutz-group comet was observed disintegrating yesterday! As seen in SOHO/LASCO C2, the object displayed a bright head accompanied by a short tail.

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 14:17

Meteorite Videos

Erg Chech 002

Published 2nd October 2020

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More info on Erg Chech 002:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=72475

Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 14:28

SciShow Space

We Know More About That Underground Lake On Mars

Published 2nd October 2020

Scientists have taken a look at the underground lake found on Mars in 2018, and it might not be the only one! Plus, new clues might help us understand why the Sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface!

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Star Tsar

4th October 2020, 15:02

John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

Amir Siraj | What Is Planet Nine?

Published 2nd October 2020

The mystery of planet nine deepens as a new theory from Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb of Harvard attempts to explain what exactly might be hiding in the oort cloud. A primordial black hole? Or. The suns lost twin? Was the Sun a binary twin and is that twin our planet nine?

The Case for an Early Solar Binary Companion
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.10339.pdf

Amir Siraj website and twitter:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/siraj
@TheAmirSiraj

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Star Tsar

8th October 2020, 10:09

Dr Maggie Lieu

Can Planets Exist In Binary, Triple Or Even Bigger Star Systems?

Published 4th October 2020

This week Dr Lieu talks about mult-star systems and their environments for life.

Extra reading:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08693

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Star Tsar

8th October 2020, 10:14

Suspicious Observers | Space News | 5th - 8th October 2020

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Star Tsar

8th October 2020, 10:20

Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov

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Solar Storm Forecast | A Bright Region Leaves & Solar Storm Wanes With A Mini-Storm Kiss

Published 6th October 2020

This week we are settling down from an extended period of solar storming, but not before we get one last little kiss from our Sun. After reaching G2 storm levels last week from some fast solar wind, we have been slowly quieting down, but then over this past day, a mini-solar storm has hit from a stealthy storm launch. Since Earth's magnetic shield has been so rattled recently, this mini-storm has bumped us back up to active conditions. So this means we could get more sporadic aurora over the next day or so, especially at high latitudes. On top of that, this mini-storm may cause additional issues for satellite operators in GEO as the high energy fluxes with build up again in the wake of this mini-storm. Radio operators and GPS users will appreciate the ending of the recent storming, but with bright region 2773 rotating to the Sun's farside, this means solar flux is returning to the low 70s, bringing with it poor radio propagation on Earth's dayside. Sadly, these conditions will likely last for another week or more, as we do not yet see any bright regions on the Sun's farside that will rotate into view over this next week. However, GPS users will appreciate the low flux as it means GPS reception will improve even at low latitudes. Learn the details of the recent solar storming, catch up on aurora photos over this past week, and see what else our Sun has in store!

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Star Tsar

8th October 2020, 10:27

What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Could Exotic Life Exist Inside a Star? This Paper (https://osf.io/j6gux/) Suggests So

Published 6th October 2020

In this video Anton will talk about an idea of exotic life surviving and thriving inside stars

Dragon's Egg book (https://amzn.to/34Cba5A)

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SETI Just Searched 10 Million Stars For Alien Civilizations...Found Nothing

Published 7th October 2020

In this video Anton will talk about new updates on the search for the existence of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life nearby and 10 000 000 stars that were investigated.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.03267.pdf

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Star Tsar

8th October 2020, 10:31

Podcast UFO

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Timothy Brigham PhD | UFO Encounters Direct Impact On Human Consciousness

Streamed & Published 7th September 2020

Guest Timothy Brigham discusses topics such as: What can Psychology, particularly Jungian Psychology, tell us about the meaning of the UFO experience? He further talks about examining the psychic dynamics involved in the experience of high strangeness, and discusses how an investigation of the social and psychological context of the witness can illuminate the meaning behind UFO encounters.

BIO: Timothy Brigham obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Georgia and is a former professor of psychology. He is a contributing member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) and has presented to the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE). He served as contributing editor to ‘Saucer News,’ Earth’s longest-running ufo publication! Timothy grew up in Gulf Breeze, FL during a major wave of UFO sightings, which began his lifelong interest in the phenomenon. He now works as an educator in the biomedical industry.

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Star Tsar

8th October 2020, 10:37

Spaced Out Radio

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Malcolm Robinson | UFOs In The UK

Broadcast 5th & Published 6th October 2020

One of the most incredible close encounter cases ever to have occurred in Scotland occurred on November 9th, 1979 when forestry worker Robert (Bob) Taylor encountered a hovering dome shaped object above a clearing in Dechmont Woods near Livingston, Central Scotland. He was then 'attacked' by two spherical objects with spikes that rushed out from beneath this object and pulled him towards the larger object. This case stands head and shoulders above any other Scottish UFO case and has the prestigious hallmark of being the only case officially investigated by the police and forensic science laboratories in Great Britain. UFO researcher Malcolm Robinson was one of the investigators on this astonishing case and in this blockbusting book he provides all the facts and figures. The Dechmont Woods Incident stands the test of time as being one of the biggest UFO cases in the annals of British UFOlogy.

Starts at 8:10

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Star Tsar

8th October 2020, 10:41

UFO Research Queensland

Robert Fleischer | UFOs: The Situation In Germany

Published 2nd October 2020

UFOs don't exist in Germany - officially, at least. While the German government denies any interest in flying saucers, its military seriously claims that they never had anything unusual on their radar screens which they could not eventually identify. Thus, you hardly ever hear anything from Germany about UFOs. The German journalist and researcher Robert Fleischer is trying to change that. For more than 13 years, he has been working to find out what the German government really knows about UFOs, digging into government archives and asking questions to politicians and the military. In his presentation, he discusses what the German Bundestag knows about Flying Saucers, how the German intelligence agency BND investigated UFO reports during the Cold War, what politicians say about the subject and how it all relates to the situation in Germany after World War II.

About Robert Fleischer: Robert is a TV journalist, presenter and filmmaker. He has worked for a number of German public broadcast TV networks and writes articles for magazines in Germany and abroad. In 2007, he founded Exopolitics Germany (www.exopolitik.org) and in 2013, he launched ExoMagazin.tv, a subscription-based online TV magazine for open-minded people.
He not only reports on UFOs and the paranormal but also on a wide array of subjects, including politics, future sciences and consciousness research. His work has been featured in major TV and radio shows as well as newspaper articles. He holds a university degree in conference interpreting for French and Spanish and has given talks in many European countries, including
Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic and the UK.

*Information and opinions presented at these meetings do not necessarily reflect the views of UFO Research Queensland Inc and are presented by speakers for research purposes only.

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