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Fraser Cain

Which Are The Real Pictures Of Space? What’s A Photo & What’s An Illustration?

Published 21st March 2018

Have you ever wondered how those amazing pictures of space are gathered? Which are photographs, which are illustrations, and which are total fakes?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q41hLHcKyUM

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CatchNews.com

60 Years In Orbit For ‘Grapefruit Satellite’ – The Oldest Human Object In Space

Published 21st March 2018



Sixty years ago, a grapefruit-sized aluminium sphere with six antennas and some tiny solar cells was launched into Earth orbit. The Vanguard 1 satellite is still up there and is the oldest human-made object in space. It’s our first piece of space archaeology.

Other early satellites – such as Sputnik 1, the first satellite to leave Earth in 1957, and Explorer 1, the first US satellite – have long since re-entered the atmosphere and burnt up.

Vanguard 1’s legacy, as we enter the seventh decade of space travel, is a new generation of small satellites changing the way we interact with space.

Read all about it here: http://www.catchnews.com/science-tec...ce-104048.html &

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Deep Astronomy

DIY NASA Data Processing For Fun & Profit

Published 21st March 2018

This week, we re-visit processing data from NASA missions yourself. Our guest this week is Kevin M. Gill, a very talented image processor who's work has included images from most major NASA space telescopes and other missions.

You can see some of his work here: https://www.instagram.com/apoapsys/?hl=en & https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/

If you've ever wanted to learn tips and techniques about processing space images yourself, then this is the hangout for you!

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

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SkyTour Radio



Episode Eight | More Than Meets The Eye

Published 18th March 2018

In this episode of SkyTour Radio, we will highlight Ross 128b and Kepler 446b as we continue to focus on some of the most promising star systems in our weekly Exoplanet Round Up. We will also discuss in detail asteroids, their material makeup, and the various categories they fall into and why. We also look at their origins as well as what it could mean for our future and the future of the universe.

Ross 128b

A confirmed Earth-sized exoplanet, Ross 128b is thought to be a likely rocky exoplanet, which orbits within the inner habitable zone of the red dwarf Ross 128 at a distance of about 11 light-years from Earth and is considered one of the best candidates for habitability.
The planet is only 35% more massive than Earth, receives only 38% more sunlight, and is expected to be a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface, if it has an atmosphere.
The exoplanet was found using a decade’s worth of radial velocity data with the HARPS spectrograph (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Kepler 446b

Kepler-446b is the first of the three exoplanets discovered around the star Kepler-446, in the constellation of Lyra, 391.4 light years from Earth. Their finding was confirmed in 2015, after the Kepler Space Telescope detected several transits of the object in front of its star. It has a radius almost within the limit established by experts that separates terrestrial bodies from gaseous ones, therefore, making it a possibly rocky planet.
If confirmed to be a terrestrial planet, Kepler 446b could possess canyons, craters, mountains and volcanoes and most importantly, secondary atmospheres.

Asteroids

The term asteroids has historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disc of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet.
Millions of asteroids are thought to be the shattered remnants of planetesimals, bodies within the young Sun’s solar nebula that never grew large enough to become planets.
The large majority of known asteroids orbit in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, or are co-orbital with Jupiter, however, other orbital families exist with significant populations, including the near-Earth objects.
We will discuss all types of asteroids, including Near Earth Objects, Centaurs, Kuiper Belt Objects, Scattered Disc Objects, Sednoids and Oort Cloud Objects..

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SpacePolicyOnline.com

Hyten Not Ready To Endorse Space Force

Published 20th March 2018



Gen. John Hyten, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), declined to endorse President Trump’s call for creation of a Space Force at a Senate hearing today. However, he is happy the President is talking about space as a warfighting domain and proposing increases in DOD’s space budget. Separately, he expressed strong support for a space-based sensor element of ballistic missile defense, but not space-based interceptors.

Gen. John Hyten, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee, March 20, 2018.
Hyten testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) today on the broad range of issues he oversees as USSTRATCOM commander, of which space is only one part. He is a former commander of Air Force Space Command (AFSC), however, so is extremely well versed about national security space programs.

Read all about it here: https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/h...e-space-force/

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The Richard Dolan Show



Alternative Research Still Fears UFOs!

Published 19th March 2018

Richard comments political & exopolitcal happenings & then demonstrates how the alternative research community still fears the UFO phenomena!

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Podcast UFO



Greg Bishop | UFOs and Much More!

Published 21st March 2018

Alejandro Rojas with UFO Updates, guest Greg Bishop will discuss his most recent book: It Defies Language, Essays On UFOs and Other Weirdness, stories & blogs he has written over his many years involved in the UFO field.
Bio: In 1991, Greg Bishop co-founded a magazine called The Excluded Middle, which was a journal of UFOs, conspiracy research, psychedelia and new science. Wake Up Down There!, a collection of articles from the magazine, was published in 2000 by Adventures Unlimited Press.

Greg’s second book was Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth which documented a government campaign of disinformation perpetrated against an unsuspecting U.S. citizen. Weird California, a portrait of strange and eerie history and places in the Golden State, was released in 2006. UFO Mystic with Greg Bishop and Nick RedfernFrom December 2007 to November 2011, Greg blogged for the UFO and paranormal site Ufomystic. His current book It Defies Language, is composed for the most part of entries from that blog along with older material and brand new articles written just for the collection.
From 1998 to 2000, Greg hosted The Hungry Ghost, a radio show of interviews and music airing on pirate FM station KBLT in Los Angeles. Radio Misterioso has been broadcasting almost continuously since then, for many years on the internet station Killradio before moving to an independent format in mid-2016. He is licensed by the FAA to fly aerial photography drones for commercial clients, and is also a certified paraglider and ultralight pilot as well as holding a private pilot’s license.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R50lTOOzO30

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EarthFiles



Special Report | Something's Not Right In Southern Oregon

Broadcast 21st March 2018

This weeks special report is all about animal mutilations & disappearances that are beening report across the US.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VuKJO4kZpBI

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FinancialTimes.com

Scientists Discover The Origins Of Gold In Space

Published 21st March 2018



A collision in an obscure galaxy, recorded last year, has revealed its violent birth.

Read all about it here: https://www.ft.com/content/15d33cc8-...e-a7c1c7c13aab

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PBS Space Time

Scientists Have Detected The First Stars

Published 21st March 2018

What do the first stars in the universe, dark matter, and superior siege engines have in common?

Sometimes space news sneaks by without getting much attention. Not everything wows like gravitational waves or spacefaring sportscars. That’s the case with the recent discovery of earliest stars in the universe. In a Nature paper published a few weeks ago, Judd Bowman and collaborators report a signal from the very first stars to form in our universe. The same result also hints at brand new physics that may help explain the nature of dark matter. This result flew under the radar in part because it’s a subtle and clever result that requires a bit of interpretation. Today we’re doing a Space Time Journal Club to explain this discovery. We’ll follow that with the solution to our recent trebuchet challenge question.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-R9F2_D76TE

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 22nd March 2018 | Solar Watch, Volcano, Gamma Rays

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zR849w3qqhc

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Space.com

On This Day In Space | 22nd March 1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp Flies By Earth

Published 22nd March 2018

On March 22, 1997, a super bright comet by the name of Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth. It was bright enough for people to see without telescopes or binoculars for over 18 months. Comet Hale-Bopp still holds the record for being visible to the naked eye for longer than any other comet, and it was probably the most-viewed comet in history. It passed by Earth at a safe distance of about 120 million miles before continuing its orbit around the sun. As it got closer to the sun, its two blue and white tails grew bigger and brighter. By the time it made it to the sun on April 1, it was shining brighter than every star in the sky except for Sirius.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rpnVpUvM4YE

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NASA Johnson

Rooting For Answers : Simulating G-Force In Plants

Published 22nd March 2018

On Earth, plants use gravity and light to orient their roots and shoots, but in space, microgravity is too weak to provide a growth cue. The Gravity Perception Systems (Plant Gravity Perception) investigation germinates normal and variant forms of thale cress, a model research plant, to study the plants’ gravity and light perception. Results provide new information about plants’ ability to detect gravity and adapt to an environment without it. The investigation continues efforts to grow plants for food on future missions.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hKrSGGINxT4

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Deep Astronomy

Angelos Vourlidas & Ryun Young Kwan | Shock Waves From The Sun : Space Weather In 3d

Published 22nd March 2018

Eruptions from the Sun cause Aurora and are the drivers of space weather throughout the solar system.

Creating beautiful night time displays and interesting features in the atmospheres of outer planets

like Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, space weather can also disrupt communications

on Earth and damage power grid equipment. But understanding space weather is complex and requires a 3 dimensional understanding of the magnetic structure of solar eruptions and how they propagate outwards. How is that done? By combining data from several spacecraft spread around Earth’s orbit and constructing 3D computer models a team of researchers is examining what happens when an ejection occurs and creates a shock wave. In particular, they are examining data from ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)and the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) satellites.

Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on March 22 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with Angelos Vourlidas (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab) and Ryun Young Kwan (George Mason University) how they visualize the Sun’s Coronal Mass Ejections and what significance such events have for solar system weather.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c_RhQcb39KM

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Thunderbolts Project

Space News | Electric Comets : Born From Fire

Published 22nd March 2018

Of all the entrenched beliefs that took hold in 20th-century science, few have proved less successful than the dirty snowball hypothesis of comets. The discovery of rocky and complex comet nuclei was an explicit prediction of the electric comet theory, which has proposed for decades that comets are neither dirty snowballs nor billions of years old. Rather, the chief principles of the Thunderbolts project have proposed that comets were recently electrically blasted from the surfaces of planets and moons. But of course, the evidence for the electric comet goes far beyond the appearance of comet nuclei.

In part one of this two-part presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Peter Mungo Jupp offers an overview of some of the most compelling evidence for electric comets.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aoVWuRo6D9Y

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UFO Planet

UFO Sightings Submissions Compilation #116 | 20th - 22nd March 2018

Published 22nd March 2018

The most recent UFO images and videos submitted for investigation from:

MUFON 90909 Marco Island, FL, USA 2018-03-17
MUFON 90918 Montreal, QC, Canada 2018-03-20
MUFON 90921 Graz, AT 2018-02-21
MUFON 90926 Managua, Nicaragua 2010-02-13

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yez0mvNY_a8

Livestream of 2018's submissions

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sR2p_zkOVoY

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John Michael Godier

The Clarke Exobelt : Detecting Alien Satellites

Published 22nd March 2018

An exploration of the possibility of detecting alien geostationary satellites in light curves.

Papers:

"Possible Photometric Signatures of Moderately Advanced Civilizations: The Clarke Exobelt", Socas-Navarro, 2018

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07723

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2QFh-UbwB_I

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Eventimus

Stanton Friedman's Retirement

Published 19th March 2018

The man deserves a round of applause, twenty years past pension age!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uk7mpyM2FDU

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Open Minds UFO Radio



Stanton Friedman | UFO Research Pioneer

Published 20th March 2018



After more than 50 years of researching and publicly speaking about UFOs, former nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman is doing his victory lap. After a historic career conducting over 700 lectures, writing six books, and countless media interviews, Stanton is retiring from Ufology. To honor Stanton’s work and learn from his unique experience, Open minds UFO Radio will conduct several interviews with him over the next few months. In this interview, we talk about how Stanton got started becoming the face of ufology.
For more about Stanton, visit: www.stantonfriedman.com

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Veritas Radio

Project Vox Populi | The Terry Lovelace Story

Published 22nd March 2018

This is my true story. Terry Lovelace, a 64 year-old lawyer and former assistant attorney general. In 2012 a routine x-ray of my leg found an anomalous bit of metal the size of a fingernail with two tiny wires attached. What followed were horrific nightmares, spontaneous recall and intrusive thoughts surrounding a 1977 camping trip I took with a friend to Devils Den State Park in Northern Arkansas. For fear of losing my job and my standing in the legal community I've kept this secret for 40 years. But the 2012 discovery of this object, one and one-half inches deep in my thigh, initiated a flood of nightmares I could not control.

My poor health and the horrific memories were the catalyst to come forward and finally disclose what happened back in 1977. My friend and I were on a two-day camping trip to photograph eagles and wildlife. Rather than stay in the campground we chose to drive deep into an isolated area and set-up our camp on a high plateau that offered a scenic view of the wilderness. Late in the evening of our first night in camp a group of three very bright stars in the western sky caught our attention. Arranged in a triangle configuration we speculated as to what it could be? We eliminated aircraft lights due to the triangle configuration. Then it moved. The three stars rotated as if on an axis and slowly ascended upward. As it rose the three points of light spread apart, each equidistant to the others.

The stars grew larger and brighter. As the triangle passed over stars they would blink-out for a moment and then blink-back again as it moved over them. The area inside the triangle was black, darker than the night sky. As the points expanded they were eventually devouring entire fields of stars as it traveled higher and moved closer to our camp. It eventually halted directly over us. It was huge. A third of the sky was covered by this black triangle overhead without a single star in between the three points. It was as if someone had cut an enormous triangle out of a sky filled with a billion stars. It descended until it was about thirty feet over the floor of the meadow. The size of the object was unbelievable. Each side of the triangle was a city block in length. I estimated its height at fifty feet or more.

The size of a five story office building it sat motionless above the floor of the meadow. What followed was a horrific abduction experience. We both suffered badly from burns and dehydration and were hospitalized for two nights. I was interviewed by special agents from the USAF Security Police's "OSI" or Office of Special Investigations. They mistakenly believed I had photographed the object and I was viciously interrogated by two of their special agents. They demanded my film. My home and car were searched by consent and I was hypnotized to assist my recall. It was a nightmare that left my wife and I sour on the whole UFO and the allegations surrounding our experience.

I never intended to tell anyone. But the events of 2012 opened a door to memories about the abduction experience I had long forgotten and had no desire to even remember. In 2016 and in poor health I decided it was the right time to disclose everything I knew and everything we experienced. The piece of metal in my leg was the genesis of this story. There is so much more that happened.

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Terry Lovelace is a six-year veteran of the USAF. He completed a bachelor's degree in Psychology at Park University in 1979. He later earned a Juris Doctor at the University of Michigan Law School, TMC campus in Lansing, Michigan. He passed the Michigan Bar Examination on his first attempt. His legal career began in private practice, handling a variety of civil litigation and criminal defense cases. He entered public service as an Assistant Attorney General and later as General Counsel for LBJ Tropical Medical Center in the US Territory of American Samoa. He retired in 2012 as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Vermont.

Images located @ http://www.veritasradio.com/guests/2...ovelace-s1.php

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GVYnna_A3yI