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Dr. Lucas Paganini | Plumes Of Water Vapor Detected On Europa

Published 27th November 2019



Dr. Lucas Paganini and a team of NASA scientists have used Keck observatory to confirm the detection of water vapor on the Jupiter moon Europa.

NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...apor-on-europa

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_-a_QdkAlr8

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 28th November 2019 | Solar Wind, Food Supply, Magnetic Plasma

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9Xj5njqwo

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

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NASA

NASA, French Space Laser Measures Massive Migration Of Ocean Animals

Published 27th November 2019



Every night, under the cover of darkness, countless small sea creatures – from squid to krill – swim from the ocean depths to near the surface to feed. This vast animal migration – the largest on the planet and a critical part of Earth’s climate system – has been observed globally for the first time thanks to an unexpected use of a space-based laser.

Researchers observed this vertical migration pattern using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite -- a joint venture between NASA and the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales -- that launched in 2006. They published their findings in the journal Nature Wednesday.

“This is the latest study to demonstrate something that came as a surprise to many: that lidars have the sensitivity to provide scientifically useful ocean measurements from space,” said Chris Hostetler, a scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and co-author on the study. "I think we are just scratching the surface of exciting new ocean science that can be accomplished with lidar.”

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...-ocean-animals

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TMRO



Space News | NASA Wants Humans Back On The Moon ASAP

Published 27th November 2019

We have a flurry of Space News this week. As always Jared takes us through Launches followed by a barrage of stories including NASA working to get their human lunar ambitions closer to reality -- Lets just hope congress is willing to fund those ambitions! China has a Martian lander they have revealed. Boeing is making real progress on their commercial crew tests. And back to NASA, they have a very complex series of spacewalks to fix some dark matter detectors on the Space Station.

Dr. Tamitha Skov joins us to bring us the latest in our solar system weather.

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

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Anton Petrov

Japanese Asteroid Samples That Could Lead To Space Gold Rush In 2020

Published 27th November 2019

Anton talks about about the recent updates of Hayabusa 2 mission from Japan and the exciting reasons for how Japan might transform space mining.

Mission in detail: https://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sas/...3_fs_23_en.pdf

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Srl5H3Eh3mY

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Cool Worlds

Is Earth Being Watched?

Published 27th November 2019

In the last few decades, our astronomical techniques have developed to the point that we can now detect planets orbiting other stars. Planets which transit their star make up most of our catalogs, because they are so easy to find and can reveal so much more information about the planets. For example, in the near future we might even be able to detect life remotely on these worlds. This makes us wonder - could someone out there already be using this method on us? Here, we explore which stars are best placed to detect us using the transit method, what they might learn about us and the possibility of reciprocal transit configurations, enabling a possible means of direct communication across the stars.

Written and Presented by Prof. David Kipping. All planet images/videos shown are artistic impressions and not real photographs, except for the pixelated image of TRAPPIST-1 (see below)

References:
► Rauscher, B. J. et al., 2016, "Detectors and cooling technology for direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization", JATIS, 2, 041212: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/j...212.full?SSO=1
► Burke, C. J., Mullally, F., Huber, D., 2018, "K2 Exoplanet Ecliptic Survey - KEES": https://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/d...2072_Burke.pdf
► Kipping, D. & Teachey, A., 2016, "A Cloaking Device for Transiting Planets", MNRAS, 459, 1233

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G71yqev301Q

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The Exoplanets Channel

Where Is Earth 2.0?

Published 30th November 2019

In this video we talk about which nearby exoplanet could be Earth 2.0.

Habitable Planets Size Comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDV9v7pTle4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MEou5_yTxus

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Nemesis Maturity

A Trio Of Bright Planets And The Crescent Moon Line Up After Sunset

Published 29th November 2019

December starts off with a lovely string of pearls — with Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and the crescent Moon forming a lineup at dusk on December 1st.

You'll need a pretty clear view toward the horizon to see Jupiter, which is setting soon after the Sun these days. Look for an unobscured view toward the southwest about half an hour after sunset. Of the three planets Venus and Jupiter are the two brightest. You can also see Vega and Altair, two of the brightest stars of the night sky.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xMP7jM79rF0

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Anton Petrov

NASA Finds One More Serious Danger Of Space Travel

Published 29th November 2019

Anton talks about a new scary discovery that blood could stop or flow backwards in space.

Related paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2755307

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0NT4g5MvBrg

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Space News | Wal Thornhill: Big Bang – Time To Wipe The Chalkboard Clean

Published 22nd November 2019

Scientists generally use the term "crisis in cosmology" to describe the numerous and growing evidences that contradict or undermine the Big Bang theory. For decades, numerous scientific papers have been published on the discordancy between the so-called expansion rate in the “early universe,” and the expansion rate in the “later Universe.”

In fact, recently the Keck Observatory issued a press release on the reported most reliable verification to date that the discordancy is real. And as we've reported ad nauseam on this series, the cosmological crisis runs much deeper and includes "surprising" discoveries at all scales throughout the cosmos.

In part one of this two-part presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill discusses some of the foundational problems with the standard cosmological model, and the real alternatives that the Electric Universe offers.

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

Space News | Wal Thornhill: No Islands In Our Electric Universe

Published 29th November 2019

In part two of our discussion with physicist Wal Thornhill, we continue to explore the ongoing "crisis in cosmology." We ask Wal for his thoughts on a number of recent discoveries which stunningly affirm a core tenet of the electric cosmology – no "islands" exist in a Universe where the predominant organizational force is electromagnetism.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=myMNSThwxD8

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Seeker

Scientists Just Witnessed The Birth Of Two Stars in Stunning Detail

Published 29th November 2019



Our knowledge of the early lives of stars is limited, but an exciting new observation provides a closer look at how stars are born.

An image that features two circumstellar disks in which baby stars are growing illustrates the first time ever that astronomers have witnessed the complex birth of binary stars in such vivd detail.

Astronomers had already seen a rough outline of the two protostars and their surrounding structures that were captured in the historical image, but these images offer an unprecedented look into the detailed network of gas and dust filaments circling them.

Scientists are hoping that these new observations will shine a light on stars’ mysterious origins. Stars are defined by all kinds of identities, from white dwarfs to blue giants. And stars also take on different social statuses.

And while our star, the Sun, remains the sole provider of Earth’s light, most stars travel in packs where two or more stars are gravitationally bound to one another.

There’s some debate as to why this is, but a recent statistical model suggests that all stars initially form as binaries, then drift apart over a million years.

Even the Sun is thought to have a long-lost twin out there somewhere in the galaxy.

Find out more about this breakthrough in high-tech stargazing and the origins of stars on this episode of Elements.

Read More:

Stunning Images Reveal The Complex Birth of Binary Stars For The First Time
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the...f-binary-stars
"The team estimates that material falls into the binary at a rate of about 0.01 Jupiter masses per year, although one of the stars is more massive, and is therefore slurping up material from its disk at a higher rate."

If Stars Are Born in Pairs, Why Is Ours Single?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...born-in-pairs/
"Almost all the binary stars they saw were very young, less than a few hundred thousand years old. Most of the older stars were single, and those that were in binaries were closer together."

Astronomers Glimpse Signposts of Universe’s First Stars
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...s-first-stars/
"The further back in time you go, the harder it is to spot stars directly, using instruments such as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. For starters, there are fewer and fewer stars to find. And until about 500 million years after the Big Bang, the universe was suffused with neutral hydrogen atoms, which are good at blocking light."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QUq1e-Sf0iE

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 29th November 2019 | Two Space Mysteries, Record Snow, Volcano, Climate

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RrKsxikIlW8

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Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov



Space Weather News | A Coronal Hole In The Strike Zone & A Meteor Explodes Over Wisconsin

Published 28th November 2019

Space Weather remains unsettled this week as we have some more fast solar wind from a southern hemisphere coronal hole hitting Earth in the next day or so. Although this fast wind will be pretty weak overall, it should keep us at unsettled conditions through the weekend. It will also bring aurora shows to high latitudes in through the weekend before settling down. Although the aurora never made it very far south during the previous solar storm last week, we do have the Unicorn meteor shower to thank for the bolide that exploded over southern Wisconsin a few days ago. As reports continue to surface, it turns out that this bolide was seen by many people over a large geographical range. Though most sightings were in Wisconsin, there have been multiple reports in places like California, South Dakota, and Ontario Canada! Learn the details of the coming fast solar wind, watch the new cycle 25 bright region peek up through the coronal hole and boost solar flux back into the marginal range for radio propagation, and see what else our Sun has in store for us!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yrxSkVTS5aI

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Forbes.com

This Is Why We Can't Just Do All Of Our Astronomy From Space

Published 27th November 2019



There is an existential threat to astronomy as we know it, and it comes from humanity itself. On two simultaneous fronts, Earth's night sky, as seen from the surface, is being polluted as never before. Over the past few decades, the growth of human populations, sprawling urban areas, and technological advances like LED lighting have led to an explosion of light pollution, where truly dark skies have become an increasing rarity.

At the same time, the coming advent of mega-constellations of satellites — where networks of thousands to tens-of-thousands of large, reflective satellites are poised to become commonplace in the night sky — will translate into hundreds of bright, moving objects visible from any location where telescopes are common. If we ruin Earth for ground-based astronomy, we won't be able to simply replace them with space-based observatories for a number of important reasons.

Read all about it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startsw.../#1ebed8fd2704

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Fraser Cain

Q&A 108 | Why Are There Meteor Showers Every Year? & More, Featuring Paul Geithner From JWST

Streamed & Published 29th November 2019

In this week's questions show, I explain why we can see meteor showers every year, why we're not 3D printing telescopes in space, why there aren't any plans to launch telescopes with SpaceX Starship. And a lengthy answer to one of the most common James Webb questions we get: can it be refueled? This was answered by Paul Geithner, a Deputy Project Manager for James Webb during a recent livestream.

01:00 Why do we see meteor showers every year?
02:49 Why not also use 3D printing for space telescopes?
04:40 Why don't they design telescopes for Starship?
07:20 Could there be a privately backed telescope?
09:54 Is there glass on the Moon to build telescopes?
11:46 Could ISS help build new space telescopes?
13:47 Space telescopes on the far side of the Moon?
15:06 Is Andromeda actually much closer?
16:27 Why spend money on science?
19:20 Why is the dark side of the Moon illuminated?
21:34 Can James Webb be refueled?

Watch the full livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX0iCqCTKzE

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Yuaog6P-WY

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New Thinking Allowed

Edward R. Close | Mathematics & The Physical Universe

Recorded September 20th & Published 29th November 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 points out that most mathematicians regard regard the findings of mathematics to be ontologically real. Some would go further and say that the physical universe is fundamentally mathematical. Edward Close focuses on the fact that, because physical reality is quantized, mathematical equations that have integer solutions (known as Diophantine equations) are particularly important. He goes into detail regarding his application of Fermat's Last Theorem toward the mathematical unification of the physical universe and consciousness.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a8qp2TNFO6A

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 30th November 2019 | Geomagnetic Quakes, Field Reversals, Galactic Trigger

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HbWo3eQu5Pw

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APOD Podcast

Star Trails For A Red Planet

Published 30th November 2019

In today's image, we see a set of star trails. The star Polaris is located near the north celestial pole of the Earth and all of the other stars appear to revolve around it. However, because the axes of other planets are orientated in different directions, they will not point towards Polaris, but towards different directions in the sky. So, while the constellation patterns would remain the same for any observer in the solar system, what would be seen as the North Star would be different. In many cases, there would not even be a bright star that happens to be located near the celestial pole as the Earth's northern hemisphere has at the present time.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=07S6jp812d0

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John Michael Godier

Ten Unsolved Mysteries Of Titan

Published 30th November 2019

An exploration of the mysteries of Saturn's moon Titan and what we might learn in the future about this tiny world.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3M1etFO4nQ0

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 1st December 2019 | Solar Risk, Weather Warnings, Torus Jet Revealed

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CGWar5mfRbQ