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Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov
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Space Weather News | Solar Cycle 25 Stirs & Mercury Crosses The Sun
Published 7th November 2019
This week the action is all about the Sun! Not only have we had several bright regions grace the Sun's face this past week, but one of them was a sunspot from the upcoming Solar Cycle 25. This sunspot (2750) even fired off a few low-level solar flares before receding beneath the Sun's surface. In addition, we may have yet another Solar Cycle 25 bright region on the Sun's farside as seen by STEREO. However, it will be a few days before this region rotates into Earth-view so we will just have to wait until we can take a closer look. Meanwhile, on November 11, we will have yet another treat passing across the Sun's face and that is the rare transit of Mercury! This passage will coincide with some fast solar wind hitting Earth, so field reporters at high latitudes might be enjoying Mercury's transit by day and an aurora show at night! Learn more about the transit of Mercury like when and where you can watch it, what these new bright regions are all about, and see what else our Sun has in store this week.
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Anton Petrov
Formation Of The Largest Object In The Universe Captured In This Photo
Published 7th November 2019
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Anton talks about a discovery of what seems to be the largest object in the universe in the making - one of the largest supercluster collisions known as Abell 1758.
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Fraser Cain
Q&A 105: Why Not Send Earth Life To Europa? & More
Streamed & Published 7th November 2019
In this week's questions show, I tackle questions about seeding Europa with hardy Earth life, what makes galaxies spin, what are we competing with aliens for, and why is it so hard for second stages of rockets to land?
01:46 Why not take Earth life to Europa?
04:00 What if the aliens are aligned to Planet 9?
06:09 What makes a galaxy spin?
07:22 What are we competing with aliens for?
09:39 Are we constantly reusing atmosphere on ISS?
11:33 Should we settle ice worlds?
13:52 Why can't second stages be landed?
17:03 Does Sag A* spin the same way as the Milky Way?
20:22 Is the search for life in space a waste of time?
21:59 Could asteroid mining change their orbits?
23:51 Would SpaceX send NASA astronauts to Mars?
24:25 How much fuel does ISS need?
25:01 What kind of training do astronauts get?
25:52 What is Max Q?
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics
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Evgenya Shkolnik | Blast From The Past: Ultraviolet Investigations Of Exoplanet Systems And Their Habitability
Published 7th November 2019
Roughly seventy-five billion low-mass stars (a.k.a. M dwarfs) in our galaxy host one or more small planets in the habitable zone (HZ). The stellar ultraviolet (UV) radiation from M dwarfs is strong and highly variable, and impacts planetary atmospheric loss, composition and habitability. In fact, superflares occur daily in their first ~100 Myr, and these effects are amplified by the extreme proximity of their HZs. Understanding the UV environments of M dwarf planets is crucial to understanding atmospheric composition and evolution, and providing context for measured exoplanet spectra. For HZ terrestrial planets, characterization of the UV provides a key parameter in a planet’s potential for habitability as well as for discriminating between biological and abiotic sources of observed biosignatures. Our efforts to study the stellar UV span past, present and future space telescopes: the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and the upcoming NASA-funded Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), due for launch at the end of 2021. SPARCS will be a 6U CubeSat completely devoted to continuous photometric monitoring of M stars, measuring their variability, flare rates and evolution, while also being a pathfinder for much-needed future UV missions.
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The Richard Dolan Show
Intelligent Disclosure | Frederick Valentich: "It's Hovering & It's NOT AN AIRCRAFT."
Streamed & Published 5th November 2019
The tragic disappearance of young pilot Frederick Valentich over the Bass Strait in Australia in 1978 has forever been wrapped in mystery. Richard and Tracey examine this event in an even-handed way without pretending to solve it. The case is a fascinating one, and it's not hard to see why some believe it was a genuine encounter with a UFO.
Richard Dolan is one of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFOs and believes that they constitute the greatest mystery of our time. He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State, both ground-breaking works which together provide the most factually complete and accessible narrative of the UFO subject available anywhere. He also co-authored a speculative book about the future, A.D. After Disclosure, the first-ever analysis not only of how UFO secrecy might end, but of the all-important question: what happens next?
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UFO Denmark
Dr Bob Jacobs
Published 6th November 2019
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UFO Denmark has begun a series of online lectures + Q&A with UFO researchers and experiencers to learn more.
Link to info on Bob Jacob and Robert Hastings book:
https://www.theufochronicles.com/201...bductions.html
One can buy the book here:
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Robert Kiviat & Paul Price | The Court Case That Could End UFO Secrecy
Published 7th November 2019
Kerry interviews Robert Kiviat & Paul Price regarding the supposed CIA "technoscam" used the Firmage Corporation ...MANY ONE/INTERNASA, VIA USWEB to raise funds with a false anti-gravity technology. Bob Kiviat is an injured party...having been hired to produce media, shows, documentaries and other promotional materials to support this scam (or real anti-gravity technology) and never paid the $300,000 he was supposed to be paid.
Related article: https://medium.com/@kalkorff/here-co...t-71580f28d6d4
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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 8th November 2019 | Pulsar Micronova, Deadly Quake, Plasma Filaments
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The Eight Planets & Two Dwarf (For Now) Planets
Published 3rd November 2019
The Eight Planets and two dwarf planets. There are many more dwarf planet candidates, but they aren't mapped so aren't included. Shown: rotation, tilts (obliquity to orbit), sidereal day lengths.
Animation by Dr James O'Donoghue.
The Eight Planets And Two Dwarf Planets Now To Scale!
Published 8th November 2019
The Eight Planets and two dwarf planets. There are many more dwarf planet candidates, but they aren't mapped so aren't included.
Shown: rotation, tilts (obliquity to orbit), sidereal day lengths.
Animation by Dr James O'Donoghue. @physicsJ
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Space News | Gigantic Jets & The Electric Earth
Published 8th November 2019
A recently released video clip provides stunning support for the Electric Universe interpretation of one of the most dramatic atmospheric phenomena on Earth — above clouds lightning. The clip reveals the top of the cloud from which a "gigantic jet" emerges, affording an opportunity for groundbreaking insights into the phenomenon.
In this episode, we explain the importance of the image in providing an understanding of above clouds electrical discharges, and Earth's electrical environment.
A Shocker: Solar Wind Provokes Lightning on Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67wOTlKmeoA
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Alex Ansary - Outside the Box TV
Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals & Civilizations In Upheaval & Reset
Published 8th November 2019
Mr Ansary reports on Earth's magnetic field reversals & The current state of our civilization.
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Anton Petrov
And Now A Study Suggests Universe Is Not Flat - It's Curved!
Published 8th November 2019
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Anton talks about a new scientific suggestion that says the shape of the universe could be different from what we believed - it could be a sphere after all!
Scientific paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0906-9
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APOD Podcast
NGC 3572 & The Southern Tadpoles
Published 8th November 2019
In today's image, we see the young star cluster known by the catalog designation NGC 3572. This cluster is energizing and eating away at the emission nebula nearby.
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Scott Manley
What Are Hypergolic Rocket Fuels? (Other Than Explosive, Corrosive, Toxic, Carcinogenic & Orange)
Published 8th November 2019
Hypergolic fuels are a core technology in rocket science, propellents that will spontaneously combust when mixed together. This makes them attractive for rocket designers, who generally aren't the people who have to get in a the protective gear to load the stuff. So, what are they made of, and why do designers pick one option over another?
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Fraser Cain
Why Launch Solar Panels When You Can Print Them Directly In Space? Printing Perovskite Panels
Streamed & Published 8th November 2019
Solar energy is the ideal way to power a spacecraft. There’s no weather, there’s no pesky atmosphere, just pure photons streaming from the Sun to harvest for whatever you need. Well, as long as you’re within the inner Solar System.
But solar panels are complicated and fragile made of sensitive electronics and glass - not to mention, really heavy. Any spacecraft equipped with solar panels needs to handle the gravity down here on Earth for the construction and testing, then the shaking and high Gs of launch. The solar panels need to unfold perfectly once they get to space. And the total amount of energy you can harvest is limited by the size of your rocket’s launch fairing.
Maybe there’s a new strategy. NASA is currently funding research into a new type of solar panel that can be carried into space as a liquid and then sprayed onto a surface to turn it into a power generating surface.
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Asteroid (2018 VP1) Impact Earth Risk Approach In 2020
Published 8th November 2019
Asteroid assess the risk from Asteroid (2018 VP1) which has been designated as a Earth impact risk object.
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Rusty Schweickart | We Must Learn How To ‘Slow Down & Speed Up Asteroids’ To Avoid Fate Of Dinosaurs
Published 8th November 2019
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Humanity can very easily learn how to save lives when a destructive asteroid appears – and not by blowing it up or changing its course, the pilot of the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, Rusty Schweickart, has told RT.
“[The asteroids] go around the Sun the same way that the Earth does, but their paths occasionally cross the orbit of the Earth,” Schweickart told RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze.
“And, sooner or later, the Earth and the asteroid will be in the intersection at the same time. It’s just like two cars.”
The famed astronaut co-founded the non-profit B612 Foundation, which advocates for building a global asteroid defense shield. He believes humanity should run a comprehensive asteroid database and focus on creating technology able to spot the incoming cosmic bodies.
The database will also help to calculate their trajectory years before they would be detected as being on collision course with our planet, Schweickart said.
He explained that the next step to deal with the asteroid would be to “to slow it down or speed it up a little bit, using space technology, so that it arrives slightly ahead of the Earth or behind the Earth.”
That’s a deflection. We don’t have to blow it up. We don’t have to change its orbit. We just change its arrival time at that intercept.
The astronaut is confident that the nations of the world can access such technology sometime in the future, if they choose to invest enough money and effort. Impact events are relatively rare but the stakes are still high, he stressed, recalling the Chelyabinsk meteor, which fell from the sky in broad daylight Russia in 2013 and, by sheer luck, didn’t kill anyone.
“There have been mass extinctions in the past. And the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 64 million years ago wiped out 75 percent of all life that existed,” Schweickart warned.
“So, yes, a city can be destroyed, a continent can be destroyed, and life on the planet can be destroyed. Civilization is very fragile, frankly. So, it doesn’t take much to destroy civilization.”
Read all about it here: https://www.rt.com/news/472944-astro...eroid-defense/
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KT Ramesh | Johns Hopkins University | Armageddon: Can Tech Be Used To Break Up An Asteroid?
Published 6th November 2019
Tonya Hall talks to KT Ramesh, professor at Johns Hopkins University, to learn more about how technology can be used to break an asteroid into tiny pieces, along with the hazards that come from this.
⏰TIMESTAMPS:
0:25 - Background in outer space research
1:37 - Computer model for destroying asteroids
4:11 - Hazards of breaking asteroids
6:40 - Determining an asteroid's composition
10:22 - How to reach KT Ramesh
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Western University
Simulated View Of Arrival Of Interstellar Asteroids Oumuamua & 2I/Borisov
Published 7th November 2019
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Astonishingly, not one but two interstellar asteroids have been detected entering our solar system since 2017.
The first was given the Hawaiian name ‘Oumuamua, meaning ‘messenger from afar,’ after its discovery by Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk. The second, 2I/Borisov, was named for its discoverer Gennadiy Borisov.
Paul Wiegert from Western University’s Institute for Earth & Space Exploration is now tracing the origins of these far-travelling bodies with his former undergraduate student Tim Hallatt, the lead author on the paper, now a graduate student at McGill University.
Preliminary findings from the Western-led team were submitted today to Astronomical Journal
Read all about it here: https://mediarelations.uwo.ca/2019/1...investigation/ & http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/interstellar/
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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 9th November 2019 | "11,000 Scientists" Debunked, Space Mysteries, Major Storms
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