Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the US Lead the Way?

MOJAVE, California — The world is at the start of a renaissance in supersonic and hypersonic flight that will transform aviation, but the effort will need steady commitment and funding if the United States wants to lead the way, congressional leaders and industry officials said at a forum late last month.

"What's exciting about aerospace today is that we are in a point here where suddenly, things are happening all across the board in areas that just haven't been happening for quite a while," said former U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Bedke.

"There was a period where engine technology had just sort of stagnated — a point where all materials technology was going along at about the same pace," Bedke added. "There just wasn't much happening. But suddenly, in all sorts of areas that apply to aerospace, things are happening." [NASA's Vision of Future Air Travel (Images)]

Bedke was one of five panelists to speak Oct. 27 at the Forum on American Aeronautics here at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Sponsored by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the forum was hosted by committee chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and member Steve Knight, R-Calif. Bedke, Smith and Knight were joined by David McBride, director of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, and Craig Johnson, director of business strategy and development for Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. Former Mojave Air and Space Port CEO Stu Witt moderated.

Knight has taken the lead on the House Science Committee in getting NASA's aeronautical program to focus on a new set of experimental aircraft. He said his passion for these programs isn't just about improving American aviation — it's personal.

"In 1967 was the last time we went hypersonic in an airplane," Knight said, referring to an X-15 flight piloted by his late father, William J. "Pete" Knight. That flight reached Mach 6.7 — 6.7 times the speed of sound — a record for piloted aircraft that still stands nearly 50 years later. (Hypersonic flight is generally defined as anything that reaches Mach 5 or greater. "Supersonic" refers to any flight that exceeds Mach 1.)

Since that time, the U.S. has conducted two unpiloted hypersonic research programs, X-51 and X-43. However, there was no continuity in the work, Knight said. [Going Hypersonic: Air Force's X-51A Waverider in Pictures]

"We collected an awful lot of data," he said. "But what I would like to see is that we can move that data into something, whether we are going to move into an aircraft that we're going to put people into or we're going to use it for some other program. We've got to have that continuity and move forward."

 

Knight noted that it still takes the same 4.5 hours or so to fly from New York to Los Angeles today as it did 30 years ago. Supersonic aircraft flights over land have been banned for decades because of the sonic booms they produce. No supersonic passenger planes have been in operation since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003. 

NASA wants to change that. In February, the space agency awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for the design of an experimental plane to test technologies that can significantly reduce the sonic booms caused by aircraft. If the program is successful, the ban on overland supersonic flights could be lifted.

"We're poised on the brink of a new era in air transportation," McBride said. "We do need to go faster. There is a market for supersonic flight over land in an efficient manner that can fly without being an annoyance to everyone on the ground."

NASA also is exploring ways to improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impacts of subsonic aircraft. Engineers are experimenting with blended wings and other innovations.

Smith admitted that the difficulty that Congress and the president have experienced in passing budgets has caused problems in sustaining research.

"None of that is conducive to good work getting done in an efficient way," Smith said. "And we can do better. We need to get to the point where continuity actually lasts beyond just one administration, much less beyond tomorrow. And we're with you on that."

Bedke said there is no time to waste in moving these programs forward.

"It is inevitable that hypersonic technologies are going to happen," he said. "It is not inevitable that we are going to be the country to do it first. But we can be the country to do it first, but we're going to have to put our minds to it, and we're going to have to stop the history of fits and starts, of throwing money at a big program, achieving a wild success, and then having no follow-up. Or throwing a lot of money at too big a program, taking too giant a bite, failing miserably and then deciding hypersonics isn't going anywhere. Neither of those must be allowed to happen in the coming years."

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14-11-2016 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

NASA to Launch 'Swarms' of Small, Earth-Observing Satellites

Small satellites have several advantages," he said during the teleconference. "They reduce the risk and cost of demonstrating precursor technologies and infusing them into larger flight projects. They're used for flight testing and demonstrating new proof-of-concept components. And they enable affordable distributive science observation systems using constellations or swarms of small satellites to achieve broad coverage."

For example, eight identical spacecraft in NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission slated to launch Dec. 12 will fly in formation over the Earth's most hurricane-prone latitudes to monitor the weather and improve storm-forecasting capabilities. 

Another mission, the Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes (RAVAN) project, aims to encompass the globe with several orbiting satellites that will monitor the greenhouse gas effect and Earth's changing climate. The first RAVAN is a three-unit CubeSat, or mini satellite, scheduled to launch later this month, said Bill Swartz, the mission's principal investigator. If all goes well, RAVAN satellites may someday swarm around the entire planet.

In a separate mission, a swarm of 12 CubeSats will study tropical cyclones while also measuring and tracking air pollution. This mission is called TROPICS, short for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats. Each satellite will use a radiometer instrument to measure temperature and water vapor profiles of storms. William Blackwell, the principal investigator for TROPICS, said during the teleconference that the satellites are about the size of a milk carton and weigh about 8 lbs. (3.6 kilograms) each. 

These new missions mark the beginning of a new era in satellite technologies. Missions like those mentioned above may also pave the way for swarms of mini satellites to orbit around the moon, Mars and other objects in the solar system, Stofan said in the teleconference. And the initiative is making it easier than ever for space researchers outside of NASA to get involved in small satellite projects.

Stofan said that the agency is "actively promoting the small spacecraft approach as a paradigm shift for NASA and the larger space community," through contracts with industry, NASA directive projects, collaborations with universities and partnerships with other space agencies.

Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her@hannekescience. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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13-11-2016 om 23:52 geschreven door peter  

'Impossible' Space Engine Might Actually Work, Study Suggests

An experimental propulsion system that seems to violate the laws of physics may actually work, a new study suggests.

A controversial and puzzling engine design known as the EmDrive generated small amounts of thrust in a lab test, NASA researchers reported in the study, which has yet to be published or peer-reviewed but was recently leaked online.

The EmDrive, which was developed by British researcher Roger Shawyer more than a decade ago, generates thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside a cone-shaped chamber. According to Newton's third law of motion— for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction — this shouldn't work, because there's no exhaust expelled out of the EmDrive system. (Think about rockets, which get their oomph by blasting superheated gases and other material out of nozzles at high speeds.) [Superfast Spacecraft Propulsion Concepts (Images)]

But the NASA team, led by Harold "Sonny" White of the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, did measure some thrust. Specifically, their EmDrive variant produced about 1.2 millinewtons of force per kilowatt of energy. That's about 100 times more thrust than solar-sailing spacecraft, which harness the momentum of photons streaming from the sun, are able to achieve, White and his colleagues wrote.

Like solar sails, the EmDrive requires no propellant; a spacecraft equipped with this propulsion system could generate all the microwaves it needs using solar panels. So the EmDrive could make space travel much cheaper and faster, theoretically opening up the heavens to greater exploration, advocates have said.

Don't get too excited — that's a long way from happening, if it happens at all. The new study is just a proof of concept, and further testing is needed to definitively rule out all possible sources of experimental error, White and his team said. (For example, it's possible that air within the EmDrive system could have heated up and expanded, causing some of the observed effect, the researchers wrote.)  

But the new result is the latest in a series of apparent successes for EmDrive technology. Shawyer reported generating thrust with his version, as did Chinese researchers who tested their own variant in 2012. And White and his colleagues reported a positive result back in 2013 as well.

So this seemingly impossible engine may actually work — perhaps by somehow harnessing the energy of subatomic particles that are constantly popping into and out of existence, White and his team have speculated. (Shawyer has his own ideas about what's happening inside the EmDrive, and he doesn't think Newton's Third Law is being violated at all. Check out his explanation here: http://emdrive.com/faq.html.)

Stay tuned!

You can read the leaked paper online here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU/view

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13-11-2016 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

'Men in Black' Figured out Alien Relations Before Scientists

19 years later, the best alien movie ever made teaches us a thing or two about what life with aliens might actually look like.

Neel V. Patel

The most important movie of 1997 was not Titanic; it was Men in Black. MiBgrossed less than half of what James Cameron’s flick made (although nearly $600,000 is still plenty of money). It won exactly zero Academy Awards — or any film accolades, for that matter. The film was not responsible for launching any of its cast members into superstardom, and it certainly possess no iconic scene of a nude portrait in progress — despite how badly the public was clamoring to see a naked Tommy Lee Jones grace the silver screen.

And yet, 19 years later, Men in Black has maintained a bigger influence on our lives than an overwrought piece of historical fiction directed by a megalomaniacal director — because it’s a movie about the future, or at the very least, a version of what our future might be.

The existence of extraterrestrials has been pondered endlessly since heliocentric theory was accepted as fact by the world’s scientists. Once the globe understand that the Earth was not at the center of the universe, people became more open to the idea that life — even intelligent life — could have evolved on other planets. And of course, the notion that life might exist elsewhere also meant those beings could possess some of the more gruesome qualities that humans do.

Namely, that they might be hostile.

So the 20th century was filled with stories and films depicting aliens invading us puny Earthlings, thereby forcing us to band together and fight off oppressors from across the galaxy. Although movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) and E.T. (1982) demonstrated a more positive version of what a chance meeting with aliens might look like, the ‘90s saw a push for much more grim views of extraterrestrials visiting the third rock from the sun. Independence Day(1996) gave us the destructions of Earth’s major cities. The X-Files was smack in the middle of stoking ideas about government conspiracies, alien abductions, and an alien invasion that substituted lasers and guns for viruses and clandestine operations. Mars Attacks! was hilarious but also demented, showcasing an alien force composed of equal parts technological intelligence and id.

Men in Black changed all of that. It flipped the script of a half-century’s worth of stories about governmental secrecy, and presented a world where aliens were pretty much as dumb, simple, and happy-go-lucky as most human beings. Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) do spend a bit of their time firing guns and chasing down baddie extraterrestrials, but for the most part, they are playing the insanely dull role of having to just talk to people (or rather, aliens disguised as people) and help them with their problems.

Why are they so good at their jobs? Simple: they’re good at communicating with others. For Agent K and (to some extent) Agent J, a world with aliens is actually really mundane. They’re just people with more arms, ugly faces, and hotter tempers.

Men in Black posits the idea that maybe a scenario in which humans learn they aren’t alone is actually just as boring a universe as it is right now. And paradoxically, this is actually as crazy as the idea that aliens would come to this planet to wage war and conquer our species — because how the hell could lifeforms who have mastered interstellar travel be so consumed with, well, consumption?

But that’s exactly what makes Men in Black so brilliant. The film’s dry sense of humor demonstrates that, perhaps, if aliens ever do show up at our doorsteps, we shouldn’t heed hysterical notions that they’ll take over our world – nor should we consider that revelation as a foundational shift in our ideas about humanity. Instead, we should reaction to aliens the way we do most scientific findings: “hey, this is some pretty neat shit, and I can’t wait for our lives to be transformed by it, but for now I’m gonna get on with sharing cat gifs with all my buddies!”

The scientists who spend their days looking for aliens have still not found anything. To make your life’s work the search of something that has never before experienced any success must be existentially daunting. Men in Black highlights that a self-effacing approach to this absurd task at hand is exactly what allows you to pursue a difficult passion without becoming obsessively consumed by it.

As space travel and exploration moves faster, and allows us to peer off into far away worlds, the idea that we might one day meet extraterrestrials is feeling closer than ever before. We should look at Men in Black as a lesson that if and when that day arrives, let’s not lose our shit. Be like Agent K and just remember that everything and everyone is still pretty bad — and that the best thing we can do is to focus on our jobs, take care of the little things, and let the big things work themselves out.

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13-11-2016 om 23:02 geschreven door peter  

Universe Sandbox Uses Physics to Simulate the End of the World as We Know It

Personalizing the apocalypse with some help from a physics simulator.

Bryan Kelly

When T.S. Eliot wrote that, he was considering the end of WWI and the dissolution of his marriage and the Treaty of Versailles, he was not (consciously at least) contemplating physics-based simulator. But he almost certainly would have been enamored of the visual poetry that Universe Sandbox2puts on offer. It’s a worlds-building game, an attempt to take the Sim genre to its logical conclusion, but it’s also a way to craft a personal vision for the end of Earth. And it is a profound reminder that we exist at the mercy of larger forces.

“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”

The lifelike simulator allows users to inject carbon dioxide into Mars’ atmosphere to try to make life or reenact the Big Bang, or, and this feels so inevitable, crash shit into Earth to see what happens.

To describe the simulated destruction of Earth as satisfying is to undersell the delight of a child with a magnifying glass and some plastic soldiers. Or a skilled Mortal Kombatant given the go ahead to “Finish Him.” Here’s how it might go down if it was me, not God (or whatever), in charge….

Despite being extremely unlikely, the scenario that immediately springs to mindis the collision of Earth and the Moon. It’s a visit that would not end well for humanity.

Beyond being immediately catastrophic, the collision would fundamentally alter the earth’s rotation, as this GIF demonstrates. Consequently, every extant ecosystem would have its weather changed. Time, indeed, might run backwards. (Sure, but would broken coffee cups come back together?)

Roughly 17 hours from impact, the release of energy from impact has increased Earth’s surface temperature to 1657 degrees Celsius, according to the physics simulator (which allows you to track surface conditions of your experiments, including atmospheric measurements).

Earth’s a goner….

A similar possibility: Mars gets hit and pieces from that detonation rocket into Earth’s atmosphere….

Predictably, this is no better a scenario for Earth’s chances than contact by the Moon. Surface temperature of the Earth about 12 hours after impact is actually hotter, 2205 degrees Fahrenheit, and the result doesn’t look much more liveable than the post-Moon impact world.

Fortunately, that’s still pretty unlikely.

The luminosity of the Sun is a function of both its size (measured by radius) and the surface temperature. Astronomers suppose the Sun’s luminosity will increase by 1% every 100 million years.

A projection of the Earth after 1.5 billion years have passed and the Sun’s luminosity has increased by 15% shows things already getting hot:

The most widely-agreed-upon endpoint for Earth as a life-sustaining force (all other disaster scenarios notwithstanding) is the increasing luminosity of the Sun, which is expected to make Earth so hot as to be entirely unlivable in three billion years.

An analysis of the Earth at this point reveals a surface temperature of 101.9 degrees celsius, or just past the boiling point of water — consistent with projections that one of the first things to disappear from late-stage Earth will be the oceans.

The surface temperature of the earth has more than tripled, to 376 degrees Celsius—according to the simulation—while the Sun’s radius has expanded from the current 696,300 km to 702,020 km. This is consistent with predictions that at the three billion year point, Earth’s temperature will resemble Venus’s (with a present temperature of 462 degrees celsius)….

Another well-known end times prediction from scientists states that our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearest galaxy, Andromeda, will collide in about 4 billion years.

Supposing that we’ve already found a way to get off the burning rock Earth will have become and colonize Mars or a planet further on, scientists speculate that the merging galaxies will make life difficult by ejecting our Solar System into outer space or, at minimum, moving us further from the galactic core.

The goods news is that we probably won’t hit anything. Scientists actually expect this interaction to feature few real collisions because the amount of space between celestial bodies is vast. Still, things get iffy when supermassive black holes are in play.

Universe Sandbox2 is like a physics lesson on the ultimate meaninglessness of life. Perhaps the most nihilistic game on the market, it serves as a stark reminder that the Trump presidency will be nothing more than a galactic hiccup — barely worth worrying about at all.

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13-11-2016 om 22:49 geschreven door peter  

Chasing a Totally Unattainable Freedom - Time Travel is an Impossible Human Right

James Gleick went looking for a way to time travel. What he found was confounding.

Sarah Sloat

Everyone understands time, and no one knows how it works. And that may be the least contradictory thing about something that feels like a solid, inflexible part of reality, but consistently bends under the weight of culture and psychology. To live is to time travel and people experience that trip in different ways, but no one can reverse course or alter speed — a collective dream since H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895. Author James Gleick wanted to know why, so he dug in, talking with philosophers and black hole-hunting theoretical physicists.

Though his book, Time Travel: A History, fails to offer practical tools for chronological self-determination, it does offer readers the opportunity to grapple with one of the few remaining restraints on human movement. Gleick spoke to Inverse about pulling on that last restraint.

Time Travel isn’t a new topic, and it isn’t a reality, so why does it fascinate us? Is there anything in particular about being a human in 2016 that draws us to the idea of time travel?

When I started the book, I did have in the back my head that sort of wacky, speculative idea that maybe time travel was basically over. That it had run its course and all the things that needed to say had been explored. That was in 2011 or 2012 — now I just think that’s a stupid thing to have thought, because that’s not what happened at all. As I was working on this book, incredibly interesting new variations on the theme of time travel appeared. Even this Fall I think there are at least three network television shows that have a time travel theme.

Why is this? Because our relationship with time is as froth, intense, and anxiety producing as ever. Probably even more so than before because everything in the world is going so fast — all the complications and confusions that come from living in a network existence, where we are getting information on multiple channels. Those channels come to us as though they are a part of our present. We’ve gotten good at different versions of time shifting, like instant replay or tape delay. So, for better or for worse, we’re filling our lives with things that resemble time travel. No wonder we are still interested in it.

Doctor Who's Tardis is England's most prominent modern time machine.

Do you think our perception of time will change or has?

I’m comfortable believing that we are never going to arrive at any kind of complete, final, satisfactory answer to what time is. I’m constantly resisting the bumper sticker slogans as to what time is, sayings like “time is what happens when nothing else does” and “time is nature’s way of keeping everything apart.” I love them, but I resist them.

There are serious physicists trying to answer the question of what time is. They are the ones with the official answer, if you believe in science, like I do. But I also believe that there is no official answer, and that the physicist’s version of time is only a part of the picture. We also have psychological time, which is different from that.

It’s my view that we have to accept that we have a very complicated view of something that we expect to understand simply.

Your book makes the case that literal time travel, as in going back and forth in time, is impossible exist. Did you encounter any scientists in your research who disagreed?

Yes. Lots. As you say, my view is that the literal view of time travel is an impossibility. I say that because of my view of what time is. There are people who don’t agree with me and I hope there are many of them because I’m raining on my own parade.

The kind of person most likely to say, ‘Well, we can’t be sure that time travel is impossible’ is your modern, up-to-date, theoretical physicist. There are lots of them who want to remain open to the possibility of time travel and they are a lot smarter than I am. I have a great respect for the way they think about these issues.

There are also theoretical physicists who think that a literal understanding of time travel implies a kind of view of reality that probably isn’t the right one — mainly, that the future is already there in some way, waiting for us to arrive in our machine. Or, that the past is also still there in some way and it’s not irretrievably gone so, if you had the right kind of machine or portal, you could go there. I don’t think that’s how it is and I think in their heart of hearts, most physicists don’t either. It’s just that with equations and models for reality, it’s hard for them to rule it out.

I appreciate a scientist who likes to keep an open mind.

When I was reading your book, it dawned on me that people probably wouldn’t want to time travel if they realized it would most likely mean they would slip into a black hole and hope that a worm hole would spit them out. That’s less appealing than jumping in a pod and going to 1920s Paris.

That’s right. We want there to be a good glass of wine waiting for us at the other end and to have the chance to talk to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Exactly. Do you think that popular culture will ever shift, and portray this more realistic version of time travel? Much of what we receive now seems to be a regurgitation of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.

Of course — and that’s good. That’s what attracted me to the subject in the first place. Even if I don’t think that we’re literally able to get into a time machine, I do think that it’s a real and powerful way of thinking about the world and helps us.

A recurring theme in my book is how time travel presentation has paralleled the evolution of ideas in popular culture and in science. H.G. Wells said that time in the fourth dimension was a gimmick, a trick that he was playing to get the reader to believe his story.

He didn’t imagine that, 10 years later, this German fellow Albert Einstein would be putting forward a whole theory of the universe in which it’s very useful to view time as a fourth dimension. That would in fact become modern orthodoxy. It’s not because Einstein read “The Time Machine*; it’s because they were both living in the same universe where, for many reasons, it was becoming more natural to think of time as space.

If you went back in time and saw the 2002 movie 'The Time Machine' than someone would have.

But even Einstein couldn’t nail down time.

Advances in physics during the last century have increased our knowledge of the world we live in, to an astonishing degree and — it can’t be underestimated — contributed to answering philosophical questions about the nature of reality. It’s interesting that, to an extent, these questions are still wide open.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Photos via Doctor Who/BBC, Back to the Future, The Time Machine, Wikimedia Commons

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13-11-2016 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

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13-11-2016 om 22:29 geschreven door peter  

Spoiler Alert: Hundreds of Stars Have “Strange, Alien Signals”

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope stands out against the breaktaking backdrop of the Sacramento Mountains. 234 stars out of the Sloan's catalogue of over 2.5 million stars are producing an unexplained pulsed signal.

Image: SDSS, Fermilab Visual Media Services

13-11-2016 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

These Stunning Photos Show How the Cosmos Looks With Radio Waves

 

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IN BRIEF

• The universe appears dramatically different depending on what light spectrum you look through.
• New images from the GLEAM survey show how the universe looks through radiowaves compared to different spectrums.

NASA

SUPER VISION

Modern astronomy lets us image and look at the skies in much more detail than ever before. Telescopes like the ROSAT, the Fermi Telescope, and the Planck Telescope have allowed us to see the universe in many different lights.

Now, a new astronomical survey reveals the heavens under a different spectrum — radio waves. The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) shows what 300,000 galaxies look like if we could see radio waves.

Humans can only see everything under visible light. But any physics student can tell you visible light is but one of many spectrums of light out there. Humans can also see with only three primary colors, while the GLEAM survey imaged galaxies with 20 primary colors.

The GLEAM survey used data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a radio telescope in the Australian outback. While previous observations have imaged parts of the sky using radio waves, this is the most comprehensive one yet.

Below are remarkable photos of the Milky Way galaxy in all its glory via different lenses.

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13-11-2016 om 22:03 geschreven door peter  

THE MOST MYSTERIOUS UFO DISCOVERIES IN ROMANIA

Romania is the country where many puzzles, mysteries and fantastic discoveries have their place. Most times, nobody talks about them, ignoring them for convenience or because they are almost impossible to explain. Perhaps a more thorough investigation of these facts would open new horizons for understanding the history distant planet and about human evolution. Why not speak about these findings? The answer remains a mystery that will probably not be elucidated again.

UFOs carved stones Neamţului Mountains: among others, here they were found tablets of clay, printed icons which may constitute forms of the oldest writings in the world, and two strange stone structures, one resembling striking a UFO and the other bringing, as striking with the famous Sphinx in Bucegi. The oldest blast furnace metals worldwide was discovered in Câmpeni. It has existed for over 8000 years.

Mysteries of Sarmizegetusa. Here it is assumed that there are several underground rooms where secrets are kept mankind. So far no one had the curiosity to explore the area. I'm wodering why? Baciu Forest, near Cluj-Napoca, is considered "the paranormal", otherwise it's all over the world knowing the shocking details.

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13-11-2016 om 21:12 geschreven door peter  

THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE MISSING CAPSTONE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID!

The hidden secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza have intrigued explorers and experts for a long time.

There are probably many hidden chambers that are still left untouched which could give us a lead to the true purpose of this colossal pyramid.

But one mystery surrounding the mega structure is the fact that the capstone is missing. How come? Was there a capstone in the first place?

Some researchers say that the capstone may have been completely built in gold, so, if it was in fact made of such a solid material then how did they achieve on removing such a large massive piece with aproximately 9 meters in height?

Another theory suggests that the pyramid had a large sphere in it's summit, which served as a conductor of cosmic energy and would turn the pyramid into a massive power plant. The sphere could also be associated with the "Eye of Horus" and the brightest star in the sky "Sirius".

Watch the following video to learn more! 

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13-11-2016 om 21:02 geschreven door peter  

THIS IS WHY WE HAVEN NOT SEEN ALIENS YET & IT’S NOT GOOD ACCORDING TO BRIAN COX

In recent days, two research directions in this direction have been published. The first comes from René Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System (Germany) and Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University ( Canada). These scientists have simply reflected the way we detect exoplanets and overthrew the problem: what are the moments and the most favorable locations to detect and observe the Earth when it is far away in space?

One technique for observing planets around other stars is to use the time they spend in front of their sun. This is the so-called "transits," which could even afford to get details on the composition of the atmosphere of exoplanet studied, and thus to discover traces of life.

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Heller and Pudritz suggest to focus on the stars may be in the "gray area" in which, seen from there, the Earth would pass before the sun. If we shine our instruments on these stars, we could detect potentially habitable planets. Moreover, we could "hear" these planets, particularly with specialized radio telescopes in attempts to detect extraterrestrial intelligence, looking for signals that these "aliens" would send us after realizing that the Earth meets the conditions necessary for life and perhaps even found our electromagnetic emissions.

The second possibility, published a few months ago but back on the center stage this week, is more a hypothesis testing, one of the aliens already know about us, watching us but do not wish to contact us. This is one of the answers to the Fermi paradox, called "the zoo hypothesis ." In the style of the "prime directive "non-interventionist "Star Trek, "those brave Aliens have decided to let us live our lives peacefully watching us from afar.

Physicist and Astronomer Brian Cox was the latest to address the Fermi Paradox in a recent interview. Although his outlook is relatively pessimistic, it is still a very real possibility. Cox says, “One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaborative solutions to prevent that.” He continues, “It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster. We could be approaching that position.”

For what reasons? There's a gaggle of possibilities. For example, they can wait until we have reached a certain level of technology required for a first contact, considering it necessary that a civilization develops by itself without outside help. Perhaps instead they look at us with bewilderment wondering when we're going to self-destruct, unwilling to get caught in such molasses. Their motivations are perhaps so foreign to our thinking that we can not imagine.

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Morgenochtend is de grootste supermaan sinds 1948 te zien (al blijkt dat vooral psychologie) - HLN.be

Bron: de Volkskrant

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Er wordt al lang over gesproken en geschreven, maar morgenochtend is het zover. Dan kan u - als de bewolking wat meezit - een supermaan zien. En die supermaan wordt niet zomaar een supermaan, het wordt de grootste sinds 1948. Bovendien krijgen we eenzelfde groot fenomeen niet meer te zien tot november 2034. En toch is de impact van het verschijnsel vooral psychologisch.

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Eerst de feiten. Morgenochtend krijgen we een zogenaamde supermaan te zien. Daarbij staat de maan ruim 48.000 kilometer dichter bij de aarde, dan op het verste punt. Bovendien gaat het om een volle maan, waardoor de maan in totaal 30 procent helderder en de maanschijf 12 procent groter zal zijn.

Een supermaan komt wel vaker voor, vorige maand op 16 oktober nog, maar een dergelijke grote en heldere maan is heel zeldzaam. Zo zeldzaam dat het sinds 1948 geleden is dat de maneschijn dergelijke proporties aannam. En de volgende keer dat het gebeurt zal pas op 25 november 2036 zijn.

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The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments

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INTRO: Super soldiers

A super soldier program produces Marvel superhero Wolverine in the movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," along with rivals Sabretooth and Weapon XI. Now LiveScience looks back on real experiments that the U.S. government ran on soldiers and citizens to advance the science of war.

The military didn't replicate Wolverine's indestructible skeleton and retractable claws. Rather, they shot accident victims up with plutonium, tested nerve gas on sailors, and tried out ESP. While some of the tests seem outlandish in hindsight, the military continues to push the envelope in seeking new warfare techniques based on cutting-edge science and technology.

"My measure of success is that the International Olympic Committee bans everything we do," said Michael Goldblatt, former head of DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, while talking with reporters. And that's not a Hollywood script.

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1. Build your inner armor

Perhaps super soldiers may not be far off after all, if efforts such as DARPA's "Inner Armor" project find success. Consider efforts to give humans the extreme abilities of some animals, such as the high-altitude conditioning of the bar-headed Goose that has been known to crash into jet aircraft at more than 34,000 feet. Scientists are also eying the Steller sea lion, which redirects blood flow away from non-critical organs during deep sea dives and reduces oxygen demand. "I do not accept that our soldiers cannot physically outperform the enemy on his home turf," said Dr. Michael Callahan, who heads the project at DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, during a 2007 presentation. The goal is to make soldiers "kill-proof" against all sorts of conditions, including infectious diseases, chemical, biological and radioactive weapons, temperature and altitude extremes, and harsh natural environments. Sounds like a certain mutant superhero.

2. 24/7 Warrior

Sleep can be a warrior's worst enemy, whether during day-long battles or long-duration missions flown from halfway around the world. But various military branches have tried to change that over the years by distributing "go pills" or stimulants such as amphetamines. More recently, the military has tested and deployed the drug modafinil – more commonly known under brands such as Provigil – which has supposedly enabled soldiers to stay awake for 40 hours straight without ill effect. And the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding even more unusual anti-sleep research, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation that zaps the brain with electromagnetism.

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3.  Psychic vision

Psychics may not hold much credibility among scientists, but the Pentagon spent roughly $20 million testing extrasensory (ESP) powers such as remote viewing from 1972 to 1996. Remote viewers would try to envision geographical locations that they had never seen before, such as nuclear facilities or bunkers in foreign lands. Mixed results led to conflicts within the intelligence agencies, even as the project continued under names such as "Grill Flame" and "Star Gate," and led to spooks finally abandoning the effort. The CIA declassified such information in files released in 2002.

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4. Nerve gas spray

Threats of chemical and biological warfare led the U.S. Department of Defense to start "Project 112" from 1963 to the early 1970s. Part of the effort involved spraying different ships and hundreds of Navy sailors with nerve agents such as sarin and VX, in order to test the effectiveness of decontamination procedures and safety measures at the time. The Pentagon revealed the details of the Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) project in 2002, and the Veterans Administration began studying possible health effects among sailors who participated in SHAD. This was just one of many chemical warfare experiments conducted by the U.S. military, starting with volunteer tests involving mustard gas in World War II.

5. Hallucinogenic Warfare

Psychoactive drugs such as marijuana, LSD and PCP don't just have street value: Researchers once hoped the drugs could become chemical weapons that disabled enemy soldiers. U.S. Army volunteers took pot, acid and angel dust at a facility in Edgewood, Md. From 1955 to 1972, although those drugs proved too mellow for weapons use. The Army did eventually develop hallucinogenic artillery rounds that could disperse powdered quinuclidinyl benzilate, which left many test subjects in a sleep-like condition for days. The National Academy of Sciences conducted a study in 1981 that found no ill effects from the testing, and Dr. James Ketchum published the first insider account of the research in his 2007 book "Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten."

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6. Falling near the speed of sound

When the U.S. Air Force wanted to find out how well pilots could survive high-altitude jumps, they turned to Captain Joseph Kittinger, Jr. The test pilot made several jumps as head of "Project Excelsior" during the 1950s. Each time involved riding high-altitude Excelsior balloons up tens of thousands of feet, before jumping, free falling and parachuting to the desert floor in New Mexico. Kittinger's third record-breaking flight on August 16, 1960 took him up to 102,800 feet, or almost 20 miles. He then leaped and freefell at speeds of up to 614 mph, not far from the speed of sound's 761 mph, and endured temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit.

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7. Pacifist guinea pigs

Most soldiers don't sign up to fight deadly viruses and bacteria, but that's what more than 2,300 young Seventh-Day Adventists did when drafted by the U.S. Army. As conscientious objectors during the Cold War who interpreted the Bible's commandment "Thou shalt not kill" very literally, many volunteered instead to serve as guinea pigs for testing vaccines against biological weapons. Volunteers recalled being miserable for several days with fever, chills and bone-deep aches from diseases such as Q fever. None died during the secretive "Operation Whitecoat," which took place at Fort Detrick, Maryland from 1954 to 1973.

Credit: Credit: US Air Force

8. Rocket rider

Before man could launch into orbit and to the moon, he rode rocket sleds on the ground first. NASA scientists developed decompression sleds that could race at speeds of more than 400 mph before screeching to an abrupt halt, and early testing often had fatal results for chimpanzee subjects that suffered brain damage. Starting in 1954, Colonel John Stapp of the U.S. Air Force endured grueling tests that subjected his body to forces 35 times that of gravity, including one record-setting run of 632 miles per hour. As a flight surgeon, he voluntarily took on the risks of 29 sled runs, during which he suffered concussions, cracked ribs, a twice-fractured wrist, lost dental fillings, and burst blood vessels in both eyes.

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9. Get your plutonium shot

As the United States raced to build its first atomic bombs near the end of World War II, scientists wanted to know more about the hazards of plutonium. Testing began on April 10, 1945 with the injection of plutonium into the victim of a car accident in Oak Ridge, Tenn., to see how quickly the human body rid itself of the radioactive substance. That was just the first of over 400 human radiation experiments. Common studies included seeing the biological effects of radiation with various doses, and testing experimental treatments for cancer. Records of this research became public in 1995, after the U.S. Department of Energy published them.

Credit: Credit: U.S. Army/Sgt. Mike Alberts

10. Seeing infrared

The U.S. Navy wanted to boost sailors' night vision so they could spot infrared signal lights during World War II.However, infrared wavelengths are normally beyond the sensitivity of human eyes. Scientists knew vitamin A contained part of a specialized light-sensitive molecule in the eye's receptors, and wondered if an alternate form of vitamin A could promote different light sensitivity in the eye. They fed volunteers supplements made from the livers of walleyed pikes, and the volunteers' vision began changing over several months to extend into the infrared region. Such early success went down the drain after other researchers developed an electronic snooperscope to see infrared, and the human study was abandoned. Other nations also played with vitamin A during World War II – Japan fed its pilots a preparation that boosted vitamin A absorption, and saw their night vision improve by 100 percent in some cases.

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Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs -  PART II

 UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Object

Tucson — I was in my front yard and am always looking at the sky on November 4, 2016, and I saw a bright silver moving object. At first I didn’t know what it was but was thinking it was a missile, as it got closer than I know.
The object was moving North West from Mexico towards some strange clouds. When I seen it my first thought was a missile but then I could make out a rounder image. I lost it in the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Object

Edwards — We were driving east, passing Edwards Air Force Base and I noticed an object traveling very fast across the highway on November 4, 2016. It had a wobble to it because the suns reflection wasn’t constant and it couldn’t be seen unless it tilted. I happened to take two pictures of it while it was reflecting the sun with my Canon digital camera. I have raw images that can be examined further, but will only submit a jpeg at this time due to the size of the raw image. It was moving too fast to get a good focus. Raw image can be sent if you would like. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Connecticut Lights

Higganum — My 18 year old son went out on my porch early before work at 5:40 am on October 31, 2016, and took a picture for his girlfriend. After taking the picture my son realized there was some type of craft in the picture that was invisible to his naked eyes. The lights were directly over the church steeple across the street from our house. He looked up at the sky and still saw nothing then came inside to show me the picture. He was pretty surprised at what was in the picture. He felt it was alien and this needed to be shared with others. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Orb

Lakeland — About 2:45 pm, I had just existed off the ramp onto Kathleen Road from Interstate 4 when I noticed, an object while waiting for the light to change on September 10, 2014. As I began, to focus in on the object, it became evident that it wasn’t an aircraft rather, something entirely different. I then, used my camera phone to capture this beautiful object that was in the distance. It was there one second and gone the next.  Fortunately, I was able to get at least one picture of this tiny object, before it disappeared entirely. It was a green object the first of many to be shared. The heavens are full of life. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Georgia Object

Johns Creek — About five weeks ago while walking our dog, we were noticing a bright flashing light in the sky on October 1, 2016. It was brighter than any star and flashing, but not moving. After three nights of seeing this in the same place, we decided to observe with our telescope. The object is round, and surrounded by bright lights. The lights seem to be in rows, lining the outer edges changing color – white, red, yellow, blue and green. The object moves slowly in a diagonal track for 30 minutes at the same time each night and disappears. We have attached a 35mm digital camera to our telescope and have been able to take pictures and video. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Orb

Romeoville — I was standing outside smoking a cigarette with my friend when I looked up on October 17, 2016, and to the west I saw a green line with two pulsing red lights on each side standing still in the sky. After 20 minutes or so it slowly moved to the west and then back to the east very slowly and silently. The object was moving from side to side three times across the sky from east to west. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kansas Disc

Wichita — I was taking a photo of an awac aircraft being refueled a couple miles down range at about 9,000 feet in November 3, 2016.

When I got home and loaded film onto my computer I noticed the two objects. They were flying too high for birds. Five minutes before this an F-18 Super Hornet took off from the airport which was very weird. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Light

Brick — On Drump Point Road myself and two others were leaving work on October 24, 2016, the lady with me said, “OMG what’s that?” When I looked up I saw a fire ball, coming from roughly the NW area. First thought was a ufo. As I have seen many videos and documentaries about sightings. I immediately remembered seeing other videos about the same thing I’m witnessing. As it comes closer I grab my camera as is just above us. Watching on my phone while recording it looked more like a fiery plasma ball rotating and pulsating. The other guy came out and also saw the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Objects

 Long Beach — This is a resubmission of my past posting with editing notes for clarification on November 5, 2016. I was informed by a Mufon investigator that he was unable to see the objects I described in my photos. Driving on the Meadowbrook Parkway I saw a white orb so I took a picture. I took other pictures in different locations at various times. My pictures include sightings form the Meadowbrook Parkway, Loop Parkway and Lido Blvd. My pictures however showed a lot more detail such as multiple orbs blue and white, a white triangle, and a white curved line and a purple rectangle. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Dakota Object

Fargo – I saw these objects on November 6, 2016 of six small orange points of light passing slowly overhead in triangular formation, crossing the night sky in about 60 seconds. Then few minutes later, two strings of 8 each travelling parallel flew back across sky at much higher rate of speed, passing over in the space of few seconds. Last night, I saw 16 flying objects in a close v formation at high altitude and at high rate of speed, crossing sky in four seconds, till they were out of sight. These craft did not hold tightly to their v formation as some on the outer edges of the formation spread apart. These craft emitted steady pale orange glow, and were about the size and brightness of an average star in the night sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Pill

Fairborn — I was at Maplewood Park with my girl friend on the swings. I looked up and saw a shiny, pill shaped UFO flying overhead. It was completely silent and really high floating across the sky. So I pulled out my cell and started recording. My girl friend and I just watched it and may have been a satellite or a blimp.  I was only a couple miles away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I lost sight of the object when it flew away. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Chemtrails

All I am saying is that I felt their presence and it’s possible. I did see the continuation of the chemtrails today (DSC00672A). A lot seemed to be flying into and around (unknowingly to them) what I am calling a cloaked mother ship (DSC05145A). Here’s what I wrote yesterday. “On Friday, I was at the Monroe Institute by the big crystal and I saw something similar to the photos you forwarded re: the Crystal Ship. I saw wispy clouds forming and within 5 minutes they dissipated. They would grow from nothing, and then grow a bit and eventually dissipated all within about 5 minutes. Before they did, 10 maybe more round white spheres would be left and then they dissipate like the clouds.” These white spheres looked very similar to the ones in the picture minus the huge alien spacecraft that suddenly appeared in the sky. This round anomaly showed up right next to the airplane.”Ihave a theory. Maybe the chemtrails are serving a purpose other than what the powers that were intended them to be. Maybe the chemtrails are a cloaking device that ETs use when there are no clouds. Maybe I did witness a huge mother ship today, and maybe the smaller ships were in the chemtrails where they can vacuum the chemtrails more readily.” Thanks to Dan Johnson

Washington Lights

Ellensburg — Taken by a friend I was video chatting with on Saturday night June 17, 2016, at 11:00 PM. My light was out and his was also on his side. My bathroom light was on, so I could see the computer. Whatever it is had to be right behind me. I have experienced some odd things, waking up to an old table with a 50 pound marble top moved, loud bangs, seeing shadows, and my daughter said, “She saw a tall man once in front of the fire place.”
They investigated this and concluded that it was a grey. A roommate saw a couple of UFO’s three days ago sighted towards Mt. Rainer.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington DC Object

Fort Lincoln –I was aboard Amtrak from New York to Florida when I was taking pictures but I didn’t notice the object until after I got home months later while reviewing the pictures. The picture was taken in Fort Lincoln, Washington, DC on August 2nd, 2016 at 8:51 am. I had experienced some interference with my cell phone reception but at the time I ignored it. The images before and after do not show the object. I’m just curious as to what it is above the busy bridge?

Wisconsin Orb

Burlington — I was waiting in a store parking lot, leaning against my car and looking at the cirrus cloud whips on November 6, 2016. I noticed a bright pinpoint. It went behind the high cloud but was still faintly visible. When the cloud passed, it was still there and I spotted eight other stationary lights/reflections nearby, so I grabbed my phone to take a picture so I could zoom in. I goggled iridium flare, just to try to explain. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Objects

My partner and I were lying on the hood of the vehicle looking up at the stars in the middle of nowhere on November 6, 2016, I spotted a moving object. Showing my partner I told him it was moving way to quick to be a satellite. Then we spotted two more that changed direction. They moved in near the same area like it was a road for UFOs. After they disappeared with a flash we spotted flashes around one star forming a circle. They kept flashing randomly making a circle. It looked like a big flying object that I tried to film, but it was too dark to film. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Disc

Haroldo Westendorff 20 years ago spotted a UFO from his aircraft. One of the most extraordinary sightings of a pilot in Brazil took place in Rio Grande do Sul, on the Lagoa dos Patos.

Haroldo circled the giant UFO three times with his small plane

Wednesday is a special day for the Brazilian Ufology, celebrating twenty years of one of its most impressive cases. On 5 September 1996 the pilot gaucho Haroldo Westendorff, Brazilian bi-champion of acrobatics, flying a plane near the city of São José do Norte. At 10.30 AM on a sunny day 1,800 meters above sea level, Haroldo suddenly faced with a huge object slowly flying over the region.

The UFO had a pyramid shape and base was 100 meters and its height was 50 to 60 meters. Westendorff noted that the object had eight sides and each of these there were three protruding wedges. Noting that detail, he realized that the UFO slowly rotating around its axis. In addition, the top had an oval dome and immediately contacted Harold pellets Airport. An operator of the tower was also able to observe the UFO, but the military radar did not detect any traffic.

The pilot approached the UFO cautiously and began circling it while describing everything via the radio. Suddenly, the upper dome of the object opened and a smaller UFO in the shape of two superposed plates, emerged from there upright, leaned over and fired at extremely high speed, heading for the sea. Haroldo estimated his speed at Mach 10, or ten times the sound and described what came to consider: “I thought I’d take a dip with the plane of the opening of the ship to see what was inside, but gave up when that opening came a column of reddish and undulating rays that scared me so I moved 200 meters from the ship.”

A few moments later, the giant UFO shot vertically enormous speed, causing fear in the pilot, He did not notice any wind or noise. The operator of the Pelotas tower, Airton Mendes da Silva, stated, “I saw an object in the form of a gray triangle with rounded edges.” The Case Haroldo Westendorff is one of the most impressive and emblematic Brazilian ufology, The UFO shot away at high speed after releasing a column of red rays.  Thanks to Google Translate and Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Objects

Don Mills — I was walking home from work on November 1, 2016, and noticed there were more stars than normal. At first, I thought it was the moon or a star changing into various colors but was not moving. I instantly froze and my body became cold. Then I ran pulled out my phone and began trying to get the clearest recording of it that I possibly could. The night before on my way home from work I also observed north of me that there was a huge black triangle with five lights shaped like an upside down Y. I also got really scared and ran inside. The flashing orb I saw the second time did not move but only kept changing colors. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Cypress Light

Pafos — While on holiday with my fiancée we spotted this in the sky on September25, 2016, l decided to capture a few shots to see if l could capture their emitting frequency and lights. l have zoomed into some of the pictures but have left the originals for your own experiment or perception. Although l am convinced as UFOs have followed me all my life as mufon stated in my last sighting. I look forward to your views. Hope this helps prove one more piece existence of life is not just earth and us. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Greece Sightings

Nea Moudani — My friends were going to drink coffee and having fun on October 20, 2016. It was 23:30 hours and my friends started taking selfies with their phones. I took a picture with my smart phone that look like two objects with orange lights that look like dots or missiles, also one object with three white lights that looks like a triangle shape.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Lights

Crumlin — I was on the phone in my backyard on October 13, 2016. I looked up to see a large black diamond/cone shaped object. It was about 5.30 PM, when I saw a wobbling object a few miles away. It suddenly changed direction and flew NW away from me into cloud cover which is when I managed to take a picture! It all happened so fast, suddenly it was gone. I live in the country near an airport so I’m use to seeing lights/objects in the sky. You see them all out here, 99.9% I can explain. This one I can’t. It seemed too big for a balloon and was oddly shaped for one. I saw a UFO instead of something that can be explained. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Mysterious x-rays coming from Pluto leave scientists baffled

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A space observatory has detected X-rays coming from Pluto, despite the fact that scientists believe that the dwarf planet is incapable of producing high-energy photons.

The X-rays were detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory on four separate occasions between February 2014 and August 2015.

X-rays are usually produced by the interaction of solar wind, the flow of charged particles from the sun, and the neutral gas atoms around a planet or comet.

READ MORE: NASA releases spellbinding details of Pluto’s surface (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Scientists did not think it was possible for Pluto to produce x-rays because, when the New Horizons spacecraft flew by it in 2015, it found that the dwarf planet has no measurable magnetic field and its atmosphere is a very tenuous layer of gases.  

However a new study has found that a very small amount of x-rays are still leaking from the planet.

READ MORE: Scientists reveal how Pluto got its mysterious love heart

Chandra detected 174 kiloseconds worth of X-rays ‒ amounting to just seven photons ‒ over the course of about two days’ observation time. This is a tiny amount of data, but is still considerably more than the researchers were expecting, and they are struggling to explain why the X-rays are there, as the paper The Puzzling Detection of X-rays From Pluto by Chandra outlines.

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It’s thought that the observation could lead to further discoveries. Pluto is the largest entity in the Kuiper belt, an icy disk in the solar system that is largely made up of small bodies. Scientists believe that if the X-rays coming off Pluto are also being emitted by other objects in the belt, then X-ray observations could help find them.

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