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Ethan Siegel

A Flight Through the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey Field

Published 9th September 2020

This visualization traverses the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field to showcase the varied appearances of galaxies and their three-dimensional distribution. The sequence features a dense cluster of galaxies about 6 billion light-years away and extends to galaxies at more than twice that distance. Because the light from these galaxies has travelled for billions of years across space, the images show the galaxies as they appeared billions of years ago. In addition, the expansion of space has redshifted the light of these galaxies toward longer wavelengths (i.e., to the red end of the visible-light region and into the infrared-light region). The changes seen in galaxies during the fly-through illustrate the changes in galaxy structure and appearance over billions of years of cosmic history.

CANDELS is an acronym for the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey project. One of the largest projects ever done with the Hubble Space Telescope, CANDELS surveyed five fields to study the development of galaxies over time. The CANDELS observations of the UDS field complement ground-based observations from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.

Astronomers and visual artists extracted over 26,000 galaxies from the Hubble UDS images and created a computer model based on the measured and estimated properties. Note that the distances used in the visualization are significantly compressed for cinematic purposes.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EQLf42KEGTc

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Learn The Sky

Cygnus

Published 1st September 2020

Cygnus the Swan Constellation, also sometimes called the Northern Cross (as an asterism), is a beautiful star pattern to find in the summer months. It is part of the summer triangle asterism. The bright star Deneb, along with Vega and Altair, are the three stars the make up the summer triangle. If you can identify these stars, you can find Cygnus this way. Cygnus also sits within the Milky Way Galaxy. Be sure to look for this brilliant constellation in the summer sky.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1pqeDo0kwng

Celestial Objects Of Cygnus - Star Clusters, Nebulae, & Galaxies

Published 8th September 2020

Cygnus the Swan constellation has a wide variety of celestial objects to view within its boundaries. Learn about a few of the objects, including Messier Objects 37 and 27, the North America Nebula, Cygnus X Stellar Nursery, and Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever detected.

0:00 - Introduction
0:40 - Overview of Cygnus the Swan constellation
1:47 - Celestial Objects Overview
2:13 - Celestial map of Cygnus
3:07 - Star Clusters Messier 27 and Messier 37
3:30 - Nebulae of Cygnus
12:07 - Galaxies of Cygnus
14:23 - Hidden Celestial Objects (Stellar Nurseries and a Black hole)
18:31 - Outro
18:57 - Photo Attributes

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

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DailyMail.co.uk

Forty-Five Known Exoplanets Possess An Earth-Like Atmosphere & Liquid Water Capable Of Sustaining Life, Study Suggests

Published 9th September 2020



Astronomers have found at least 45 planets orbiting distant stars that possess Earth-like qualities including a similar atmosphere and life sustaining liquid water.

Experts from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, created a new way to determine the habitability of these distant worlds by studying their atmosphere.

The team found a way to use information on 'atmospheric species', that is chemicals in the atmosphere, and how fast they escape into space to determine how close an exoplanet is in terms of temperature and composition to the Earth.

Read all about it here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tmosphere.html

Source paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/d...rspa.2020.0148

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Alejandro Rojas | Open Mind To TTSA?

Recorded 7th & Streamed 8th September 2020

In this episode, our guest is Alejandro Rojas. We are going to take the deep dive into what may make TTSA one of the most important contributors to Disclosure.

Alejandro is Director of Operations for Open Minds Production, the host for Open Minds UFO Radio, editor and contributing writer for OpenMinds.tv, and emcee for the International UFO Congress. The 'Congress' is happening this week... and it, like everything else, has been forced into a virtual format.

Alejandro was also the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with regular appearances on Coast to Coast AM and FADE to BLACk. He has been featured on the Travel Channel, Syfy, National Geographic, and E!.

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

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The Richard Dolan Show

The Future Of UFO Research

Streamed & Published 8th September 2020

Are we moving past the era of analyzing and investigating unidentified aerial objects? Or to put it differently, are UFO investigations the best way to discuss the idea of "aliens among us?" We have been studying UFOs for a long time and there is much we have learned. But we are also moving at full speed into a new world, one that may make doing standard UFO investigation less important, while moving into other areas to prove an alien presence might give more payback.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlbF2seI_As

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HotAir.com

Looks Like The Pentagon Has No Intention Of Sharing UFO Information

Published 10th September 2020



Some disappointing news on the UFO front came out this week, likely dampening the hopes of many people in the ufology community who have been eagerly looking forward to some sort of forthcoming disclosure from the government on this subject. As regular readers are already aware, there was considerable excitement in the air this summer following a number of revelations and surprising announcements on the topic of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). First we saw a request from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Marco Rubio, for a public report from the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force. This came as quite a surprise to people, including many in the government, who didn’t even know that we had a UAP Task Force.

That was followed by an official announcement of the formation of the task force by the Pentagon. After that, major newspapers such as the New York Times began digging into the subject, even raising the prospect of the potential disclosure of additional programs that might even include an acknowledgment of a government “crash retrieval program” that could be in possession of “off-world materials.

Read all about it here: https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-sha...o-information/

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Exploring The Bizarre



Nick Redfern | UFOS & Holograms

Published 9th September 2020

Exploring the Bizarre's (KCORradio.com) Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz welcomes British born UFOlogist Redfern delves into the likelihood that at least some "space craft" may not be nuts and bolts ships from the stars, but could be projections by the military, or the space people, to confuse the issue of UFO reality even more. Nick checks in with his latest research on the Bentwaters landing. Was it "real," or "Memorex"?

Please do check out his blog: http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcqiF3NhXdg

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Code-One

UFO Newspaper Articles 1957 To 1987

Published 13th September 2020

Here are some vintage UFO newspaper articles...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o2ufsaKP_Gk

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ScienceMag.org

How Big Money Is Powering A Massive Hunt For Alien Intelligence

Published 10th September 2020



In 2015, Sofia Sheikh was at loose ends. Her adviser at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, with whom she studied hot, giant exoplanets, had left for a new job. Browsing reddit, she saw a post about a lavishly funded new search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and noticed that its leader was also at UC Berkeley: astrophysicist Andrew Siemion. She asked her former adviser for an introduction and met with Siemion when he was still unpacking boxes in a new office. “Everything’s kind of history from there,” says Sheikh, who became the team’s first undergraduate student.

Sheikh is now a Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, where she led a radio survey of 20 nearby star systems aligned with Earth’s orbital plane. If an intelligent civilization inhabited one of these systems and pointed a powerful telescope our way, they would see Earth passing in front of the Sun, and they might detect signs of life in our atmosphere. They might even decide to send us a message. The results, published in February in The Astrophysical Journal, were unsurprising. “Spoiler alert: no aliens,” Sheikh jokes.

SETI researchers are used to negative results, but they are trying harder than ever to turn that record around. Breakthrough Listen, the $100 million, 10-year, privately funded SETI effort Siemion leads, is lifting a field that has for decades relied on sporadic philanthropic handouts. Prior to Breakthrough Listen, SETI was “creeping along” with a few dozen hours of telescope time a year, Siemion says; now it gets thousands. It’s like “sitting in a Formula 1 racing car,” he says. The new funds have also been “a huge catalyst” for training scientists in SETI, says Jason Wright, director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, which opened this year. “They really are nurturing a community.”

Read all about it here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...n-intelligence

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 10th - 13th September 2020

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Nemesis Maturity

Three Weeks Without Sunspots - NASA, NOAA To Discuss Solar Cycle Prediction During Media Teleconference

Published 12th September 2020

The Sun has been blank for 22 days--more than three weeks without sunspots. Solar Cycle 25 started months ago, but the new cycle is not yet strong enough to break the icy grip of Solar Minimum. Until sunspots reappear, solar activity will remain low.

At the moment there are no nascent sunspots on the solar disk, so the spotless days counter is likely to keep ticking. Stay Tuned for more blank Suns.

NASA, NOAA to Discuss Solar Cycle Prediction During Media Teleconference

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will discuss predictions for the upcoming solar cycle during a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 15. Tracking the solar cycle is a key part of better understanding the Sun and mitigating its impacts on human technology and infrastructure.

During the teleconference, experts on the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel will discuss recent updates in solar cycle progress, and the forecast for the upcoming cycle, Solar Cycle 25.

The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity lasting approximately 11 years. During the most active part of the cycle, known as solar maximum, the Sun can unleash immense explosions of light, energy, and solar radiation – all of which create conditions known as space weather. Space weather can affect satellites and astronauts in space, as well as communications systems – such as radio and GPS – and power grids on Earth. When the Sun is most active, space weather events become more frequent.

The teleconference audio will stream live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VpecF7Pkxag

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Geoengineering Watch



Global Alert News | Episode 266



Published 12th September 2020

Record wildfires continue to consume the remaining forests on the US West Coast, producing a constant canopy of toxic smoke over vast and highly populated regions. Elsewhere in the US relentless deluges have now become the norm. Of all the sources of damage to our once thriving planet, climate engineering operations are inflicting the greatest toll. Through it all, the engineered CV-19 scenario is being pushed forward by those in power. As the ominous quote from the notorious Josef Mengele states: “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it”.
With each passing day Earth's remaining life support systems continue to deteriorate.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/...r-12-2020-266/

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Weather Events

Worldwide Wild Weather

Sandstorm - Ankara, Turkey

Recorded & Published 12th September 2020

A freak sandstorm hit Ankara on Saturday, the Turkish capital’s mayor said, as officials said six people were injured after strong winds.

A spectacular video shared by the mayor’s office showed a large beige dust cloud enveloping buildings.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=42uzHGghzEk

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Tropical Storm Sally - Key West, Florida

Recorded 12th & Published 13th September 2020

Tropical Storm Sally may have already churned past South Florida, but its effects still linger, in the form of heavy rainfall, strong winds and widespread flooding.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z63mbm4KWCM

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Sandstorm - Khartoum, Sudan

Recorded & Published 13th September 2020

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 14th September 2020 | The Coldest Star, Correcting Bad Science, Weather

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vI0DGZHXhbA

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Seeker

This Massive Wall Of Galaxies Is Lurking Beyond The Milky Way

Published 14th September 2020



Cosmographers recently revealed a massive wall of galaxies lurking shockingly close by. But why was it hidden from our view for so long?

Cosmographers’ goal is to map out the observable universe, and from their findings we can not only learn more about the structures that make up everything we can see, we also gain insight into the things we cannot see.

The universe is full of massive structures hidden from our view, like the area of the sky above the South Pole that has been dubbed the “Zone of Avoidance,” in our very own Milky Way.

Some cosmographers pulled out some clever tricks to peer into the Zone of Avoidance. Using a catalog of the motions and distances of 18,000 galaxies called Cosmicflows-3, the scientists noticed that some galaxies were moving faster or slower than expected, and seemed to be drawn to something in the middle, something hidden in the Zone of Avoidance.

Computer models revealed a wall made up of thousands of galaxies at least 600 million light-years deep and 1.4 billion light-years across, forming a bow shape over the southern hemisphere’s sky.

Read More:

Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/s...-universe.html
"Astronomers have discovered a vast assemblage of galaxies hidden behind our own, in the “zone of avoidance.”"

Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/x...-zone-of-space
"An international team of scientists has discovered a filament of a fundamental structure known as the cosmic web hiding in the 'Zone of Avoidance,' and it's one of the biggest structures ever seen by humans."

How to See the Invisible Universe
https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-see-t...ible-universe/
"Likewise, observations of the invisible universe, detectable in long wavelength photons in space were first found by accident, in 1964."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qn123Yr9_L4

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Dr David Butler

The Virgo Supercluster

Published 12th September 2020

In this segment of our “How far away is it” video book, we cover our local supercluster, the Virgo Supercluster.

We begin with a description of the size, content and structure of the supercluster, including the formation of galaxy clusters and galaxy clouds. We then take a look at some of the galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster including: NGC 4314 with its ring in the core, NGC 5866, I Zwicky 18, the beautiful NGC 2841, NGC 3079 with is central gaseous bubble, M60, M100, M77 with its central supermassive black hole, NGC 3949, NGC 3310, NGC 4013, the unusual NGC 4522, NGC 4710 with its "X"-shaped bulge, NGC 1052, Hanny’s Voorwerp, NGC 3256 and NGC 4414. Then we continue with galaxy gazing with: NGC 1427A, NGC 3982, NGC 1300, NGC 5584, the dusty NGC 1316, NGC 4639, NGC 4319, NGC 3021 with is large number of Cepheid variables, NGC 3370, NGC 1309, and 7049.

At this point, we have enough distant galaxies to formulate Hubble’s Law and calculate Hubble’s Red Shift constant. From a distance ladder point of view, once we have the Hubble constant, and we can measure red shift, we can calculate distance. So we add Red Shift to our ladder. We end with a review of the distance ladder now that Red Shift has been added.

Music:
@00:00 Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons - Winter Concerto in F Minor – Largo; from the album “The Most Relaxing Classical Music”, 1997
@03:17 Saint-Saëns: “The Carnival of the Animals - The Swan”; from the album “The Most Relaxing Classical Music” 1997
@08:37 Mascagni: “Intermezzo”; Philharmonia Orchestra - from the album “The Most Relaxing Classical Music” 1988
@15:27 Puccini - Le Villi - Opera in 2 Acts _ Act 1 – Prelude; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Riccardo Chailly; from the album “Puccini Without Words” 2006
@18:31 Schubert - Andante con moto (from Symphony No. 8); from the album “Meditation: Classical Relaxation”, 1991

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WuIGdOKXV48

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Fraser Cain

Q&A 128: Which Supernova Created the Solar System? & More... With Astronaut Terry Virts

Streamed & Published 13th September 2020

In this week's questions show, Fraser wonders about the supernova that formed our Solar System, how astronauts deal with air pressure differences, and how we're going to handle the cold temperatures on Mars.

Featuring Astronaut Terry Virts
https://terryvirts.com/

00:00 Start
01:07 Where are the supernovae that created the Solar System?
03:38 Can astronauts get infected on Mars or in space?
05:19 When a black hole forms, is there still a neutron star inside?
07:59 Why is the CMB in its current location?
09:22 Is the idea of a primordial black hole absurd?
12:49 Why does the simulation get support while UFOs don't?
15:43 Could the Solar System capture a rogue planet?
17:46 Can we see the Orion arm of the Milky Way?
19:56 Handling the cold on Mars?
22:22 How much can we mine the Moon?
23:42 Will Pluto and Neptune ever collide with each other?
24:36 How do astronauts deal with ear pressure differences?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZuLj42rojR8

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Insane Curiosity

The Strangest Black Holes In The Universe!

Published 14th September 2020

You all must have come across the term Black Hole. But do you know what exactly a Black Hole is? Black holes are objects that are so dense that not even light can escape their gravity, and since nothing can travel faster than the light, nothing can escape from inside a black hole. To put it in simple words, Black hole is an object so dense that not even light can escape its surface. Have you ever wondered if light can’t escape a black hole, how can we see black holes?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mnQ0O3UuGpQ

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Venus Facts & History

Published 12th September 2020

The History Of Venus
Before we get into the facts and figures and the numbers behind the planet that is Venus, we probably should talk about how we discovered it. After all, Astronomy has been going on for a very long time, and people have found planets like Venus like before you would expect them to.
In the Old Babylonian period, the planet Venus was known as Ninsi'anna, and later as Dilbat. The name "Ninsi'anna" translates to "divine lady, illumination of heaven", which refers to Venus as the brightest visible "star".

The ancient Greeks initially believed Venus to be two separate stars: Phosphorus, the morning star, and Hesperus, the evening star. Pliny the Elder credited the realization that they were a single object to Pythagoras in the sixth century BCE, while Diogenes Laërtius argued that Parmenides was probably responsible for this rediscovery. Though they recognized Venus as a single object, the ancient Romans continued to designate the morning aspect of Venus as Lucifer, literally "Light-Bringer", and the evening aspect as Vesper, both of which are literal translations of their traditional Greek names.

When the Italian physicist Galileo Galilei first observed the planet in the early 17th century, he found it showed phases like the Moon, varying from crescent to gibbous to full and vice versa. When Venus is furthest from the Sun in the sky, it shows a half-lit phase, and when it is closest to the Sun in the sky, it shows as a crescent or full phase. This could be possible only if Venus orbited the Sun, and this was among the first observations to clearly contradict the Ptolemaic geocentric model that the Solar System was concentric and centered on Earth. Which was one of many theories about how about our world and our universe were at the 'center of it all" when it fact that couldn't be further from the truth.

The atmosphere of Venus was discovered in 1761 by Russian polymath Mikhail Lomonosov. Venus's atmosphere was observed in 1790 by German astronomer Johann Schröter. Schröter found when the planet was a thin crescent, the cusps extended through more than 180°. He correctly surmised this was due to scattering of sunlight in a dense atmosphere. Later, American astronomer Chester Smith Lyman observed a complete ring around the dark side of the planet when it was at inferior conjunction, providing further evidence for an atmosphere.
Believe it or not, it wasn't until the 1900's when more details and research was done on Venus, mainly because its shape, distance and phases didn't give a lot of clues as to its various inner workings. Radar observations in the 1970s revealed details of the Venusian surface for the first time, thus giving scientists much more to work with.

The first robotic space probe mission to Venus, and the first to any planet, began with the Soviet Venera program in 1961. The United States' exploration of Venus had its first success with the Mariner 2 mission on 14 December 1962, becoming the world's first successful interplanetary mission, passing 34,833 km (21,644 mi) above the surface of Venus, and gathering data on the planet's atmosphere.
Since then, numerous probes and satellites have been taken to Venus to study it in some capacity. There has even been talks of putting a rover on the planet in the same style that NASA has done with Mars, but that hasn't happened as of yet.

Orbits and Rotations
Venus is known as our "sister planet", because in many ways it's like Earth. It's only a little bit smaller, has an atmosphere that is full of gasses, and we do know that it has a definitive surface like certain other planets in our solar system, but we'll get to that more later.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gfD3lfJu5AY

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Cool Worlds

Dr Caleb Scharf - Did We Just Detect Life On Venus?

Published 14th September 2020

The announcement of the detection of a possible biomarker in the atmosphere of Venus has shook up the field of astrobiology and grabbed headlines across the world. Today, we explore why Venus could plausibly host life, how this detection was made, and whether it really means that we've finally found extraterrestrial life. Written and presented by Prof Kipping, featuring guest Dr Caleb Scharf.

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

Royal Astronomical Society Press Briefing

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Deep Prasad | Studying ET/UFOs With Physics

Aired & Streamed 14th September 2020

In this episode, Our guest is Deep Prasad, the CEO of ReactiveQ, is one the great young minds in science, and also offers a professional perspective in the UFO field.

We are going to discuss UFO research and how to apply modern science and physics to the known and unknown data.

Deep and his company are aiming to create the world’s first quantum computer, as well as work on producing superconductors and meta materials. Prasad is also an avid UFO advocate and tonight we'll discuss ET and much, much more. Part of ReactiveQ’s mission statement is that they are “actively engaged with engineers from TESLA, Lockheed Martin, Volkswagen and NASA in order to validate solution.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s4L45er1dfg