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SciShow Space

Starquakes Could Be Behind Three Cosmic Mysteries

Published 25th February 2020

We’ve detected seismic activity all around the solar system, from earthquakes to moonquakes, marsquakes to venusquakes. But the most dramatic quakes we know of actually happen on stars!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gr3RjZneLI0

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Seeker

This Massive Black Hole Is Blasting A Jet at 99% The Speed Of Light

Published 26th February 2020

Jets of particles appear to be streaming from the center of the supermassive black hole M87* faster than the speed of light. But how could that be the case??!

For the first time ever, Chandra X-ray Observatory observations show that sections of a jet are moving at greater than 99 percent the speed of light. A jet is a cloud of high-speed, high energy particles spewed out from the center of a black hole. And in this case, the black hole in question is M87*.

M87* exists in the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy Messier 87, and is roughly 55 million light-years away. Astronomers have been observing the supermassive black hole for some time now, watching M87*’s jet of material for years in different wavelengths including radio, optical and x-ray.

And just last year, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first-ever image of a black hole: an image of M87*, which helped contribute to the black holes fame.

Astronomers have announced that M87* has now been observed shooting jets of physical material out into space at extreme speeds that might break the cosmic speed limit.

So how fast is the material actually moving and what causes the jets in the first place?

Read More:
Black Hole Spits Out High-Energy Jets at Near Light-Speed
https://www.livescience.com/65357-me...axy-image.html
A stunning new image reveals two jets of high-energy material being spewed at nearly light-speed from the first-ever photographed black hole. The supermassive black hole, M87 — dubbed Pōwehi — lives 55 million light-years away from Earth in a galaxy called Messier 87. The new image of M87 was released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A Powerful Energy Beam in Space Seems to Exceed the Speed of Light
https://futurism.com/a-powerful-ener...speed-of-light
The Hubble Space Telescope monitored its development between 1995 and 1999 and, after four years of photos, they saw the plasma ripple outwards faster than what was being emitted from the black hole, meaning it must be moving faster than the speed of light. In 2013, after 13 years of images, it appeared to move in corkscrew-like spirals, making this strange occurrence even more mystifying.

How are galaxies moving away faster than light?
https://phys.org/news/2015-10-galaxies-faster.html
Light emitted by the galaxies is moving towards us, while the galaxy itself is traveling away from us, so the photons emitted by all the stars can still reach us. These wavelengths of light get all stretched out, and duckslide further into the red end of the spectrum, off to infrared, microwave, and even radio waves. Given time, the photons will be stretched so far that we won't be able to detect the galaxy at all.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GdahCi9c_78

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 27th February 2020 | Betelgeuse Brightening, Storms, The Climate Stories

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIsDhQ8rRKM

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Space.com

Earth Has A New Mini-Moon, Temporarily

Published 26th February 2020

The Catalina Sky Survey has discovered a small object, designated 2020 CD3, that may have been temporarily captured by Earth's gravity.

Read all about it here: https://earthsky.org/space/new-natur...earth-2020-cd3

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DpsuIHzk1Y8

Related musical interlude:

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Volcano Time-Lapse

Meteor | Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico

Recorded & Published 27th February 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uQPv8ZUCDD8

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Geoengineering Watch



Global Alert News | Episode 238



Published 29th February 2020

Is our seasonal weather natural? Is there anything natural that can be found today?
The Coronavirus continues its advance while stock markets rapidly retreat all over the world. Even now, very few in first world nations understand the gravity and immediacy of what is unfolding, biosphere collapse is core to the equation. We are not facing a temporary scenario, we are free falling into a completely overturned paradigm. Those who actually control governments are concerned only with retaining their power no matter what the cost. Are the power brokers willing to cull populations in order to maintain their stranglehold of control till the brutal bitter end? What do you think?
Can our collective efforts still make a difference? How can we know for certain, unless we try?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/...y-29-2020-238/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=THcVCSVy0Aw

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 28th February - 1st March 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MXVky76RO48

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Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov



Solar Storm Forecast | Solar Wind Pockets & Solar Orbiter Surprise

Published 28th February 2020

Space Weather has been calming down over this past week, but activity is about to pick up again. We have several small pockets of fast solar wind that will hit Earth over the next few days and bump us up to unsettled and possibly active conditions in through the weekend. Aurora photographers, especially at high latitudes should expect some nice views. However, views at mid-latitudes will likely be elusive and sporadic. Our Sun also has several new bright regions rotating into Earth view over the next few days. One of these regions might be from the new solar cycle. Expect solar flux to rise into the mid-70s by early next week, which should give a nice boost to radio propagation on Earth's dayside. Learn the details of the coming fast solar wind, get new insights on the recent launch of the Solar Orbiter mission to study our star, and see what else our Sun has in store!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMvi3DwwY1E

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Thunderbolts Project

Space News | Wal Thornhill: "Impossible" Stars Or Electric Stars?

Published 1st March 2020

Physicist Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor of The Thunderbolt Project, joins us to discuss a number of recent scientific discoveries relating to the nature of stars. These discoveries confound or are irreconcilable with standard ideas about how stars form, where their energy comes from and why they go supernova.

In part one of our conversation, Wal explains why these new discoveries are not surprising at all from the Electric Universe viewpoint.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZEMSVgGb38I

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World Science Festival



Kim Binsted, Yvonne Cagle, Ellen Stofan & Michelle Rucker | We Will Be Martians

Published 29th February 2020

There is little doubt that Mars will be the next step in our continuing march to the skies, with some predicting we will take that giant leap within the next decade. Who among us will be the intrepid explorers to settle Mars? How will they survive on that barren world? What will life be like for the first human Martians? As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, join us for a wondrous journey guided by a crew of experts who will explore the challenges—technological, physiological, and psychological—of sending humans to Mars.

This program is part of the BIG IDEAS SERIES, made possible with support from the JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oCrnA4bYCag

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SciShow Space

The First Results From NASA's Insight Lander!

Published 28th February 2020

We finally have some results from the InSight lander’s measurements on Mars, and the Japanese Space Agency is moving forward with a probe that will explore Mars’s moons.

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

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Martian Wolf

Where Could NASA Go Next?

Published 29th February 2020

Where is NASA going next? What is NASA's Discovery Program? What missions does NASA have to choose from?

Recently, NASA has announced the four finalists for the upcoming Discovery Program mission. These four missions were ideas include missions to Venus, Jupiter's moon Io, and Neptune's moon Triton. The main goal of the Discovery Program is to allow scientists to recommend their own missions, to try and uncover something new.

The four missions are DAVINCI+, Io Volcano Observer, TRIDENT, and VERITAS. In this video, we discuss all four of these missions, where they plan on going, and what they are aiming to discover. NASA can only select up to two missions, so a couple of these won't make the cut.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QKW1nWg4qUg

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Space.com

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Observes A Black Hole

Published 2nd March 2020



NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission captured x-ray imagery of a “flaring black hole in the constellation Columba,” according to the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...-of-black-hole

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-AXGLS2Xbgc

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What Da Math? With Anton Petrov

Biggest Explosion in the Universe Found...Again!

Published 2nd March 2020

Anton will talk about the discovery of the largest explosion in the universe...again.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.01291.pdf
Don Lincoln's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZdvSJyHvUU

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ajRlp3aXlIQ

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Parallax Nick

Your Guide To Betelgeuse, Your Friendly Red Supergiant

Published 2nd March 2020

Betelgeuse probably isn't about to explode, but that's no reason not to get to know it...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMTELVNr6x4

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NASA JPL

What's Up: March 2020 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Published 2nd March 2020

Looking for astronomy highlights for March 2020? This month, early risers enjoy a planetary grouping of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the early morning sky. Plus a closer look at Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, and spot a lovely trio at sunset on March 28.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wf5ZE15ocCo

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Learn The Sky

Ursa Minor - The Little Dipper

Published 1st March 2020

Ursa Minor is an important constellation to know and recognize since it contain Polaris, or the North Star, which is the only star in the sky that appears not to move. This constellation is classified as a circumpolar constellation, which is one that can be seen all year round in the northern hemisphere. Ursa Minor is also known as the asterism called the Little Dipper, and the best way to find it is to use the Big Dipper asterism. Explore the stories behind this pattern, discover the easiest ways to find this constellation, and examine the celestial objects that lie within boundaries of Ursa Minor.

0:35 - Intro to Ursa Minor
2:38 - Legend of Ursa Minor (Greek myth)
3:43 - Pattern of Ursa Minor
7:02 - Differences between Big Dipper and Little
8:32 - Polaris, the North Star
10:39 - Celestial Objects in Cassiopeia
11:25 - Review of Cassiopeia
12:42 - Photo Attributes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zCfWIxAIo2A

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The Carl Sagan Institute

Carl Sagan Institute LIVE - March 2020

Streamed & Published 1st March 2020

On March 1 2020 at 14:00 EST, researchers at the Carl Sagan Institute will answer your questions about the search for life in the Universe.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=691VUrmz478

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UFO News Network Sunday



Daymond Steer

Published 3rd March 2020

Daymond Steer, The Conway Daily Sun reporter, joins us to discuss his UFO question for presidential candidates.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S0CW291q_l4

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Somewhere In The Skies

Leslie Kean & Diana Walsh Pasulka: COSMIC CONVERSATION

Published 1st March 2020

On episode 150 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, Ryan welcomes first-time guest, Leslie Kean, and past guest, Diana Walsh Pasulka to the podcast.

The UFO topic has gone mainstream like never before, and these two individuals were at the forefront of that huge cultural shift. Leslie Kean is the author of the New York Times Best-Selling book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. She also co-authored the 2017 bombshell New York Times article, Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program. This article immediately went viral and showed the world that the Pentagon, against all public knowledge and statements, were investigating UFOs. Diana Walsh Pasulka, a professor of religious studies, is the author of the groundbreaking book, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, which follows several high tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who are deeply entrenched in the UFO topic and are spending a lot of time and money investigating the Phenomenon. The book also shows how the topic is gradually becoming a new age religion as more and more people start to believe in an extraterrestrial presence both in our skies and possibly even here on our planet. In this episode, Leslie and Diana dig deep in to the hard questions and the fundamental shift in our way of thinking when it comes to flying saucers and an extraterrestrial presence.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x6LbPPWCHRk