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Alex Ansary - Outside the Box TV
Assyrian Tablets Documented Massive Solar Activity Changes 2700 Years Ago
Published 19th October 2019
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Evidence of unusual solar activity that potentially represents three huge solar storms has been discovered in ancient Assyrian cuneiform tablets. The magnetic storms documented in astrological reports correspond to tree ring data indicating events took place around 660 BC.
This potentially helps scientists to predict future magnetic storms from our sun—events that have the potential to cause major disruption to the technology systems on Earth we currently rely on.
Astronomers started observing sunspots with telescopes around 1610. These are dark patches that appear on the sun's surface and are associated with solar flares—sudden explosions that send a huge amount of radiation out into space. If solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are directed toward Earth, this radiation can result in geomagnetic storms. This is where the particles from the sun interact with Earth's atmosphere, interfering with communication systems, satellites and power grids.
"These space weather events constitute a significant threat to a modern civilization, because of its increasing dependency on an electronic infrastructure," scientists led by Hisashi Hayakawa, from Osaka University, Japan, said in a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Astronomy.com article: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/1...nce-of-auroras
Observatoire Géophysique, Val Terbi
Sprites Over France
Published 21st October 2019
Recorded in Montsevelier (ValTerbi) Jura with Sony a7sII, Samyang 85mm f1.4, 32000 ISO, 1080p25. On 20th October 2019
Nemesis Maturity
Planets Aligning In The Sunset Sky
Published 21st October 2019
The five brightest planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have been known since ancient times. They can easily be seen with the naked eye if one knows when and where to look. This is the best time of the year to catch the Fab Five.
First try to see Mars sitting low in your eastern sky just before dawn.
Mars comes up only a short while before the break of day, so you don't have plenty of time to catch it. See also Regulus and Spica, two of the brightest stars in the night sky.
Four in a row after sunset
That will also be a perfect evening to see Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn at the same time.
Mercury and Venus are low to the west, sitting side by side. Bright Jupiter shining to the southwest, and completing the set of four is Saturn, higher up in the south southwestern sky. See also a red supergiant star sitting between the planets. This is Antares, the brightest object in the constellation of Scorpius.
Of all the four planets, Mercury is the faintest and therefore hardest to see, so having bright Venus as a signpost to Mercury is always an advantage. Keep in mind, Mercury was at Greatest Eastern Elongation a few days ago, and this is the best time to observe the innermost planet.
Planetary Lineup
Three out of the four planets will be beautifully aligned across the sky.
From top to bottom, this planetary lineup showcases Saturn, Jupiter and Venus.
Clear Skies Everyone!
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Shooting Stars From Halley's Comet to Light up Night Sky
Published 20th October 2019
Earth is entering a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Oct. 21-22 with as many as 20 meteors per hour.
The best time to look is during the hours before local sunrise when the constellation Orion is high in the sky.
UniverseToday.com
Comets & Interstellar Objects Could Be Exporting Earth Life Out Into The Milky Way
Published 21st October 2019
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For over a century, proponents of Panspermia have argued that life is distributed throughout our galaxy by comets, asteroids, space dust, and planetoids. But in recent years, scientists have argued that this type of distribution may go beyond star systems and be intergalactic in scale. Some have even proposed intriguing new mechanisms for how this distribution could take place.
For instance, it is generally argued that meteorite and asteroid impacts are responsible for kicking up the material that would transport microbes to other planets. However, in a recent study, two Harvard astronomers examine the challenges that this would present and suggest another means – Earth-grazing objects that collect microbes from our atmosphere and then get flung into deep-space.
Read all about it here: https://www.universetoday.com/143781...the-milky-way/
Seeker
NASA Is Planning To Slam A Spacecraft Into An Asteroid
Published 21st October 2019
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What if a deadly asteroid was on a collision course to Earth? NASA and the ESA have come up with a solution.
Asteroids impacting Earth can be devastating—killing all the dinosaurs in existence level devastating. But even the asteroids that aren’t mass-extinction huge can be a serious threat.
Every few thousand years Earth (a.k.a. you and I) get hit with a massive asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, so what is the plan when we get hit with the next asteroid?
We get hit with an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza every few thousand years, and when the next one hits it could cause massive damage to an entire region. So when we spot the next one coming, what’s the plan?
Enter: NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination office.
The Planetary Defense Coordination office is tasked with coming up with ways to protect the planet from threats from outer space.
And one of their great ideas is to smack a spacecraft head on with an oncoming asteroid to see if it can be slowed down and deflected. Members of NASA, the European Space Agency, and others are informally collaborating with a pair of missions that together are known as the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment, or AIDA.
NASA is up first with a mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. The launch window opens on July 22, 2021, and the goal is to nail an asteroid by late September or early October the following year.
Pretty cool, huh?
The target DART is aiming at is one of a pair of binary asteroids called Didymos B. Didymos is Greek for twin, hence the Double part of DART.
While the asteroid is not on a trajectory to hit Earth, it is an ideal candidate to see just how much of an impact will affect it because Didymos B is a moonlet 160 meters across that’s orbiting the much larger asteroid Didymos A, and as luck would have it, from our perspective it passes in front and behind the larger body, causing changes in the system’s brightness that we can measure.
When DART hits Didymos B at 6.6 kilometers per second, the asteroid’s speed will change by a fraction of a percent, but that’s enough to change the time it takes to orbit Didymos A by several minutes. Enough to be detected by telescopes roughly 11 million kilometers away here on Earth.
And not any old spacecraft will do when it comes to smashing into Didymos B.
Find out more about the spacecraft that will be used on this asteroid deflection mission and more on this episode of Elements.
Read More:
We’re going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to deflect it
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...to-deflect-it/
"An Earth-bound asteroid wouldn’t have to be huge to be a problem. Even something just a couple of hundred feet across could cause widespread devastation if it hit a town or city."
DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test
https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Mission/
"An on-orbit demonstration of asteroid deflection is a key test that NASA and other agencies wish to perform before any actual need is present."
EARTH’S FIRST MISSION TO A BINARY ASTEROID, FOR PLANETARY DEFENCE
https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/...netary_defence
"Planning for humankind’s first mission to a binary asteroid system has entered its next engineering phase. "
Phys.org
The Rotation Of Venus
Published 21st October 2019
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Venus is covered in a thick layer of clouds, one reason that it appears so bright in the sky. Ancient astronomers had a good idea of what (since Copernicus) we know as its orbital period; the modern measurement is that Venus takes 224.65 days to complete one revolution around the Sun, a Venusian year. Because of the clouds, however, it has been difficult to measure the length of the Venusian day since the nominal method of watching a visible surface feature rotate around 360 degrees is not possible.
Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-rotation-venus.html
John Michael Godier
Is Venus' Atmosphere Being Altered By Life?
Published 21st October 2019
An exploration of recent research that suggests that Venus' atmosphere may be being altered by the presence of microbial life.
Papers: "Long-term variations of Venus' 365-nm albedo observed by Venus Express, Akatsuki, MESSENGER, and Hubble Space Telescope", Yeon Joo Lee et al, 2019
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09683
NASA JPL
Alina Kiessling & Jason Rhodes | Darkness Surrounds Us: The Other 95% Of The Universe
Streamed & Published 17th October 2019
All the material we can see is just a small fraction of the universe. The rest, a full 95 percent, is invisible and mysterious. These are the enigmatic dark matter and dark energy. While dark matter keeps things like galaxies together, dark energy acts in an opposite way – it pushes groups of galaxies apart and expands the universe itself. This event will discuss how astronomers are working to map the universe’s dark matter so they can see the effects of dark energy. The results could help us understand if the universe will expand at an accelerating rate forever.
New Thinking Allowed
Edward R. Close | The Constancy Of The Speed of Light
Published 21st October 2019
Edward R. Close, PhD, is author of Transcendental Physics. He is coauthor (with Vernon Neppe) of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift That Works. He is also author of a lengthy chapter titled "The Mathematical Unification of Time, Space, Matter, Energy, and Consciousness" in Is Consciousness Primary? edited by Gary Schwartz and Marjorie Woollacott.
Here he elaborates on several ostensible paradoxes associated with Einstein's theories of relativity. The normal laws that we associate with space and time in our daily lives break down. Ironically, while people associate Einstein with relativity, he considered himself a determinist. Close proposes that paradoxes of space and time are resolved once we bring consciousness into the picture. His model includes 3 dimensions of space, 3 dimensions of time, and 3 dimensions of consciousness. He elaborates on his view of higher consciousness.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration.
Ancient Astronaut Archive
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Bernie Taylor | Paleolithic Astronomy
Published 21st October 2019
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Bernie Taylor is an independent naturalist, thought leader and author whose research explores the mythological connections and biological knowledge among prehistoric, indigenous and ancient peoples. His works in these areas include Biological Time (2004) and Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero (2017). Before Orion is premised on Joseph’s Campbell’s hero's journey monomyth that is at the core of stories worldwide among indigenous peoples, the ancients, and our modern society. Before Orion explores a deeper root for this monomyth by looking at how hunter-gatherers viewed themselves within the natural and spiritual worlds through Paleolithic cave art from 40,000 ago. Taylor proposes that select cave paintings are fundamental pieces in the human journey to self-realization, the foundation of written language, and a record of biological knowledge that irrevocably impacted some of the artistic styles, religious practices, and stories that are still with us. Taylor addresses a profound archaeological elephant in the room by opening up an uncharted place in our history, which points to the cultural ancestors of mankind in western North Africa.
Reference:
Before Orion
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...a6b469334c44a5
Scott Manley
Why NASA's SOFIA Telescope On A Plane Is "Perfectly Balanced"
Published 21st October 2019
The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a marvel of modern engineering, a 2.5 Meter Infrared telescope flying in a specially modified 747, able to fly high above the water vapour that makes IR astronomy almost impossible for ground based observatories. This facility is a joint project between NASA and DLR and is based out of the Armstrong flight research center in California.
However making a telescope that can fly in a plane and still be stable enough to do the required science is an engineering challenge. It's one that's solved by smart engineering rather than just brute force active gimbal control, a solution which Thanos would approve of.
Find out more about SOFIA at the project's website: https://www.sofia.usra.edu/
TMRO
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Robin Hague | Is Skyrora The Next Big New Space Company?
Broadcast & Published 20th September 2019
Skyrora is building a new small sat launcher that is environmentally conscious, possibly reusable and unlike anything else on the market. This week we're joined by Skyrora Lead Engineer Robin Hague to talk about what they are building and when we can see it fly!
Bloomberg.com
Want To Be A Trillionaire? Try Space Mining
Published 22nd October 2019
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There are millions of asteroids in our solar system. Because some are full of materials that are rare on Earth, they have been valued at stupendous amounts. But the most valuable resource in space may be something that's abundant back on the ground.
Read all about it here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/video...e-mining-video
(Please watch video)
Asteroid Station
Asteroid (2019 UT) Closest Approach
Published 21st October 2019
Asteroid (2019 UT) Closest Approach On October 22, 2019
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Asteroid 481394 (2006 SF6) | Sky Scraper Size Object Approaching Earth In Late November
Published 22nd October 2019
Asteroid Station with news of a celestial event which is due to take place later next month.
NASA Goddard
Fossils Of Planet Formation: Lucy Mission Teaser
Published 21st October 2019
Beyond the asteroid belt are "fossils of planet formation" known as the Trojan asteroids. These primitive bodies share Jupiter's orbit in two vast swarms, and may hold clues to the formation and evolution of our solar system. Now, NASA is preparing to explore the Trojan asteroids for the first time. A mission called Lucy will launch in 2021 and visit seven asteroids over the course of twelve years - one in the main belt and six in Jupiter's Trojan swarms.
Lucy is named for the famous hominid fossil that shed light on our early human ancestors; by making the first exploration of the Trojan asteroids, the Lucy mission will improve our understanding of the early solar system, and be the first to uncover these fossils of planet formation.
Learn more about the Lucy mission: https://www.nasa.gov/lucy
Nature.com
A Fresh Mechanism For How Buckyballs Form In Space
Published 21st October 2019
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The spectroscopic fingerprints of buckyballs have been observed in space, but questions remain about how these large molecules form. Laboratory experiments have revealed a possible mechanism.
Read all about it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03139-6
Anton Petrov
Wow, Nine Out Of Ten Crops Flourish In Lunar & Martian Soil!
Published 21st October 2019
In this video Anton will talk about an incredible discovery that crops and plants in general could grow in lunar regolith and Martian soil.
Related paper:
John Michael Godier's Event Horizon
Fraser Cain | Is Earth The Best Type of Planet For Life?
Published 21st October 2019
What type of planet is the best for life in the universe?
Are other exoplanets better for life than earth? What about ocean worlds? Also, what is the latest with the JWST and Oumuamua and Comet Borisov.
And is Avi Loeb's plan for putting a telescope around the moon to watch for interstellar object impacts feasible?
Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today and host of his own youtube channel.
Can SpaceX Get Starship to Mars? Featuring Fraser Cain
https://youtu.be/sOZ03_gsvDM
What is the Future of Astronomy? Featuring Fraser Cain
https://youtu.be/SD1bZSQ-stA
Fraser Cain's links:
Newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/universetoday
Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday
The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...restrial-life/
A Real-Time Search for Interstellar Impacts on the Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08543
Paul Stonehill Paranormal Research
CIA, "Flying Saucers", USSR, & Espionage…
Published 20th October 2019
Nations spy on each other…especially when it comes to UFOs, USOs and paranormal phenomena.