Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
09-01-2020
Navy Admits It Has More Information/Video On The Nimitz UFO Encounter That They’re Not Sharing
Navy Admits It Has More Information/Video On The Nimitz UFO Encounter That They’re Not Sharing
JAZZ SHAW
There’s been an interesting, if not terribly informative development in the story of those UFOs encountered by the Nimitz aircraft carrier battle group back in 2004. As you may recall, there were three videos released over the past couple of years by the Navy through the efforts of To The Stars Academy (TTSA) showing encounters with bizarre flying objects exhibiting performance characteristics that defy much of our understanding of physics. One was from the Nimitz incident and the others were from a much later encounter involving the carrier Roosevelt. The videos were somewhat grainy and short in length. Many journalists have attempted to find out if more such videos exist, or at least if longer, clearer versions of the ones we’ve seen are available. All such requests were answered in the negative.
That is… until now. One researcher named Christian Lambright submitted a FOIA request to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) back in October looking for some very specific information along these lines. He finally received a response recently. The military didn’t supply him with any new videos or documents, but they did concede that they located other documents and another video that would be applicable to his request. They could not release them, however, because the documents were classified TOP SECRET and the video footage was SECRET. Their release, the Navy claims, could cause “grave damage” to national security. This information was published recently by Paul Dean. (Emphasis added)
Our review of our records and systems reveal that ONI has no releasable records related to your request. ONI has searched our records for responsive documents. We have discovered certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET. A review of these materials indicates that are currently and appropriate Marked and Classified TOP SECRET under Executive Order 13526, and the Original Classification Authority has determined that the release of these materials would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States. Specifically, under Section 1.4, the materials would trigger protections under subcategory c), the Intelligence Activities of the United States, as well as the Sources and Methods that are being used to gather information in support of the National Security of the United States. In addition, the materials would trigger protections under subcategory e), Scientific and Technological Matters related to the National Security of the United States. For this reason, the materials are exempt from release under the (b) (1) Exemption for Classified Matters of National Defense. As a result these records may not be released and are being withheld.
We have also determined that ONI possesses a video classified SECRET that ONI is not the Original Classification Authority for. ONI has forwarded your request to Naval Air Systems Command to make a determination on releasability…”
We should immediately place these revelations in context, so let’s review a couple of important points.
Starting early last year, the Pentagon seemed to grow tired of fielding all of these questions about UFOs and started referring all journalistic inquiries to a single spokesperson, Susan Gough. This is an important point to make because we’ve heard testimony from several of the sailors from the Nimitz battle group who witnessed these events saying that they remembered seeing longer videos. However, when journalists asked the Pentagon about this, Ms. Gough informed us on multiple occasions that those three videos were the only ones they had and no longer or clearer versions existed.
Now ONI has gone on record stating that there is at least one additional video from the Nimitz encounter and it can’t be released because it’s classified SECRET. (They are reviewing that classification to see if it can be changed now so perhaps we’ll eventually see it.) So once again we have the Pentagon, through Ms. Gough, saying there are no more videos and we have ONI saying there is at least one more. Both of these things can not be simultaneously true. In other words, somebody is lying… again.
Who should we believe? We might able to apply a bit of a logic test to this situation and come up with a pretty good guess. One possibility is that someone at the Office of Naval Intelligence has decided to fabricate a fairy tale about nonexistent UFO video footage and send it out to researchers and journalists to… I don’t know. Gaslight them?
The other possibility is that when the Pentagon was asked about additional videos they lied to us. You may recall that I wrote a rather lengthy screed about a month ago about the Pentagon (and really most of the government) and their somewhat dubious relationship with the truth. This is the same Susan Gough who told us repeatedly for many months that the AATIP program was real and it investigated UAPs. (That’s their term for UFOs now.) Then on December 7th, she inexplicably put out a statement saying that AATIP had never had anything to do with UAPs. She also told us that TTSA’s Louis Elizondo was never in charge of or associated with AATIP (which may still be true) while numerous other sources claim that he ran the program and his name shows up on one of the only verifiable documents about AATIP associated with Harry Reid.
So I don’t know, sports fans. If we have to decide whether ONI is fibbing or the Pentagon is, which way are you leaning?
One additional thing to note here is that the response from ONI speaks of a set of briefing slides and a single video. But if you follow the link and look at Lambright’s FOIA request, you’ll note that it is structured very specifically to request information relating to UAP encounters happening in relation to the Nimitz battle group over a period from 10-16 November 2004. Having battled through the FOIA process myself on a number of occasions, I can assure you that the government never, ever gives up more than they have to under the law. Lambright apparently got exactly what he asked for, but nothing more.
To put it bluntly, ONI might be sitting on thousands of documents and as many videos. But if they originated from any time prior to November 10, 2004, or any date from November 17th of 2004 to the present, or if they happened anywhere else in the world but the Nimitz training exercise area, they would not include those items in the response.
What does that mean? Well, we’ve heard from the pilots involved in both the 2004 Nimitz encounter and the 2015 Roosevelt incident that they’ve been seeing these things “all the time.” This happens frequently enough to alarm some senior people in the military and they want answers. If that’s the case, do you really think they only managed to record three (or now possibly four) videos in the past sixteen years (at a minimum)? Unlikely in the extreme.
This is yet another example that’s turned up of the government feeding us bogus information on this subject and being caught. More than likely they have a mountain of evidence and they’re withholding it all. And they’re still lying about it. Mind you, this still doesn’t automatically mean that any of this has anything to do with extraterrestrials. For example, why was the slide presentation and the other video so classified? Perhaps that evidence might reveal some secret program of ours or the Russians or the Chinese demonstrating incredible technological advancements. You could understand how that might need to be classified. But without emptying the bag entirely, they should tell us whether it’s one or the other. And just as a favor… STOP. LYING. TO. US.
UFO sightings in North America jumped to nearly 6,000 in 2019
UFO sightings in North America jumped to nearly 6,000 in 2019
California, Florida and Washington top the rankings for most UFO sightings.
By IVAN PEREIRA
There was a rise in the number of North Americans who looked up into the sky in 2019 and found something that didn’t look like a bird or a plane.
The National UFO Reporting Center, which tracks calls and messages from people around the U.S. and Canada about strange sightings in the sky, reported that it received 5,971 sightings in 2019 -- a jump from 3,395 in 2018.
Peter Davenport, who runs the independent organization that's based in Davenport, Washington, said he couldn’t explain why more people called about seeing flashing white lights, fireballs, disc-shaped objects or other oddities in 2019.
"One of the mysteries of ufology is there is a fluctuation in the number of reports over the years," he told ABC News in a phone interview. "Some years it’s been low, but it’s gotten higher recently."
California led the country last year with the most number of UFO observations to the site: 485 in total, an increase of 182 sightings from 2018. Florida came in second with 385 sightings in 2019, which was 156 more reports than in 2018, according to UFO Reporting Center data.
Washington came in third with 222 reports last year, which represented an increase of 51 from 2018, according to the site.
Davenport’s site takes reports from callers and online submissions, many of which are anonymous, and lists them with as much detail as possible. For example, on April 15, a man and his girlfriend reported they saw a formation in the sky near Bakersfield, California.
"We witnessed 3 unidentified objects, one in middle being the larger escorted by two other smaller unidentified objects one to the left and one on the right having no lights and no sound and dark colored objects heading southeast traveling at an unknown speed and disappeared into the clouds beyond sight," the report said.
Davenport said he does not investigate any of the claims he collects and noted that some of the sightings may have been the same object that was seen by multiple people.
Rick Fienberg, a spokesman for the American Astronomical Society, emphasized that the "u" in UFO stands for unidentified, and many people are unaware of astronomical goings on in space on any given day. For instance, Jupiter and Venus were more visible to Earth last year and they can stand out in the night sky, according to Fienberg.
He also noted that Space X launched 180 new satellites into space last year, and those devices have lit up the night skies.
"If you’re not keeping up with the news and not familiar with the skyline, you might mistakenly see an unidentified flying object. It may be unidentified to you, but known to others," Fienberg said.
'It looks like a craft': UFO ball which 'interacted with the light' spotted in the skies of West Yorkshire
'It looks like a craft': UFO ball which 'interacted with the light' spotted in the skies of West Yorkshire
A blue-purple ball UFO which 'interacted with the light' was spotted in the skies of West Yorkshire by a concerned resident, a freedom of information request revealed.
The object was spotted after a resident was woken by a 'bright white light'.
The resident reported the sighting to police after filming video footage of the 'craft' "turning to her as she looked at it".
Weather conditions at the time were fine and it was not raining, the log states.
UFO spotting cc Adobe
The resident told police the UFO - which was spotted in Bradford in April 2018 - 'sounded like a helicopter'.
A police officer was not dispatched to the incident, the log confirmed.
Another caller in Bradford reported a 'triangle shaped red and blue' craft moving in the skies in August 2017.
The log states: "His friend stated it may have been a satellite but he does not think it is."
In August 2015, a Bradford resident also spotted an 'oblong shape with three flashing blue lights' moving exceptionally fast, according to the call log released by police.
The rocket core is headed to Mississippi for a "green run" test.
The first completed core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is guided toward the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020, ahead of its forthcoming journey to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Teams rolled the core out from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the barge in preparation for the core stage “green run” test series.
The heart of NASA's first Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is on the move.
The 212-foot-long (65 meters) SLS core stage rolled out of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Wednesday (Jan. 8) and was loaded onto a barge, agency officials announced.
That barge will soon depart for NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where the booster will endure a crucial, months-long "green run" test designed to demonstrate its fitness to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and other deep-space destinations.
A jazz band from a local high school escorted the booster out to the road Wednesday, said John Shannon, SLS vice president and program manager at Boeing, the prime contractor for the rocket's core stage.
"It was just a fantastic way to celebrate this historic milestone — sending the most complicated vehicle that's ever been built at Michoud, by far, out on its way to the test facility," Shannon said during a call with reporters on Wednesday afternoon.
The journey to Stennis will take about 9 hours, he added. The voyage is not yet underway, however; the travel date depends on the weather.
The SLS is key to NASA's human spaceflight plans. The rocket's first iteration, known as the Block 1, will stand 322 feet (98 m) tall and generate 8.8 million lbs. of maximum thrust at liftoff — 15% more than the agency's iconic Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo missions to the surface of the moon. The SLS core stage's four RS-25 engines will provide about 2 million lbs. of that thrust; the rest will come from two strap-on solid rocket boosters.
The future Block 2 SLS will be even brawnier, producing nearly 12 million lbs. of maximum thrust at liftoff.
NASA's Space Launch System rocket’s core stage, complete with all four RS-25 engines, is transported from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. (Image credit: NASA)
The core that just left Michoud will fly in the Block 1 configuration, on the very first flight of the SLS. That mission, known as Artemis 1, will launch NASA's Orion capsule on an uncrewed journey around the moon. Artemis 1 is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than November of this year.
But the SLS core has to pass the green run before Artemis 1 can get off the ground. That test series will put the core stage through its paces, checking out its many complicated and interconnected subsystems and ultimately lighting up the four RS-25 engines for a full 8 minutes — the amount of time they'll fire on an actual mission to the moon. (The "green" in "green run," by the way, refers to the previously untested nature of the hardware on the stand.)
If everything goes well with the green run and Mother Nature cooperates, the test campaign could wrap up by July or August, Shannon said. But weather issues, and the need to refurbish the core after various subtests, may well push completion into October, he added.
After the green run is done, the core stage will take another, much longer barge trip — an eight- to 12-day trek around Florida's west coast and back up the state's east side to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the Artemis 1 launch site.
Artemis 1, in turn, is just the first of many planned missions in NASA's Artemis program, which seeks to land two astronauts near the lunar south pole by 2024 and establish a long-term, sustainable human presence on and around the moon by 2028.
Artemis 2, another lunar flyby, will be the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion. That mission is currently targeted for late 2022.
The SLS program has endured a series of cost overruns and delays. Indeed, a 2015 assessment estimated that the first core stage would be done by the end of 2017, Shannon said.
"So, we're about two years late," he said. "Boeing completely owns that."
Shannon cited two main issues that led to this latest delay. The first involved the new tooling used to weld the core stage together, as well as problems with the welding process itself.
"The other issue, I think, that caused us some difficulty was, we really underestimated the complexity of building the engine section, which is the very bottom of the rocket that holds all of the propulsion elements and all of the TVC [thrust vector control] and hydraulic elements," Shannon said.
But Boeing learned a great deal from this first build and is already applying the lessons, he added, stressing that the second SLS core is coming together at Michoud 40% faster than the first one did.
NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard — who also participated in today's call, along with NASA SLS Program Manager John Honeycutt — said that delays are to be expected when building something as big and complex as an SLS core stage for the first time. And Morhard stressed that the future is bright for SLS and the Artemis program.
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But in the constellation of Ophiuchus, about 400 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are almost ready to become one.
The galaxies are in the process of violently crashing into one another. Astronomers estimate it will take them another 10 to 20 million years to fuse completely; at that point, they'll form a new galaxy called NGC 6240.
Both galaxies contain a supermassive black hole in their center, and those are expected to merge as well.
This whole process is difficult to capture on camera, however. Black holes' gravity is so strong that nothing can escape — not even light — so astronomers attempting to see them have to rely on light from the matter that gets sucked in (before it disappears). The first-ever photograph of a supermassive black hole was published in April 2019.
But an international team of astronomers recently captured a sharp photo that shows how two supermassive black holes are caught in the galactic collision that's forming the NGC 6240 galaxy.
The astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a powerful telescope funded in part by the US National Science Foundation, to assemble the image. They presented their research at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Sunday.
The black holes themselves aren't visible in the photo, but you can see the glowing gas that surrounds them (the blue stuff in the images below).
NGC 6240 as seen with ALMA (top right) and the Hubble Space Telescope (bottom right). ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), E. Treister; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA HubbleThat gas is located within the black holes' "sphere of influence" — the innermost region of a galaxy where the black hole is the dominant force of gravity. The two black holes are feeding on the gas, which causes them to grow bigger as the galaxies merge. Previous images weren't able to capture this gas in such detail.
'A chaotic stream of gas'
Ezequiel Treister, an associate astronomy professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, told the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that the gas doesn't form a rotating disk, as some scientists anticipated.
"We don't find any evidence for that," he said. "Instead, we see a chaotic stream of gas with filaments and bubbles between the black holes. Some of this gas is ejected outwards with speeds up to 500 kilometers per second. We don't know yet what causes these outflows."
Gas that isn't ejected from the sphere of influence will likely get sucked into the black hole.
The black holes are less massive than researchers expected
An artist’s impression of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. Key features of black holes are labeled in red. ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser; Business Insider
The image also challenges astronomers' ideas about the masses of these particular black holes. By observing the photo, the team found that a lot of the gas was stuck in the spheres of influence instead of the black holes themselves. That means the black holes are much less massive than anticipated.
Until recently, astronomers believed that the supermassive black holes in the NGC 6240 galaxy had a mass equivalent to about 1 billion suns. The new photo suggests, however, that the black holes are about as massive as a few hundred million suns.
The finding suggests black holes involved in other galaxy collisions could also be smaller than expected.
"This galaxy is so complex that we could never know what is going on inside it without these detailed radio images," Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, a researcher at the NRAO, said in a statement. "We now have a better idea of the 3D structure of the galaxy, which gives us the opportunity to understand how galaxies evolve during the latest stages of an ongoing merger."
Our own Milky Way galaxy is expected to merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years.
Young stars have been found in an old part of our galaxy
Young stars have been found in an old part of our galaxy
A star cluster in the Milky Way’s halo may come from gas torn from two other galaxies
A cluster of young stars (marked with blue stars) in the outer reaches of the Milky Way may have formed from gas torn off two smaller galaxies falling toward our own galaxy.
HONOLULU – A cluster of young stars in the Milky Way is hanging out where it seemingly shouldn’t exist.
Our galaxy is enveloped in an extensive halo of old stars and hot gas — gas which can’t cool down enough to clump together and form new stars. And yet, a flock of relatively new stars is hurtling through the halo, researchers reported January 7 during a news conference at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
The star cluster is about 120 million years old and sits about 94,000 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers found it by sifting through data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite for young stars clumped together and moving in the same direction across the sky.
The cluster “didn’t have time to form somewhere else, so it was probably born near where we see it,” said Adrian Price-Whelan, an astrophysicist at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. “But how did it form there, where there’s very little cold gas that you need in order to form a new generation of stars?”
A clue, he said, lies with the Magellanic Clouds, two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The cluster appears to be speeding ahead of a stream of gas being torn from those galaxies by the Milky Way’s gravity, suggesting that perhaps new stars are popping out of shredded remains of these satellites.
If the cluster and the stream are connected, they reveal unknown conditions in the halo, said David Nidever of Montana State University in Bozeman at the same news conference. The stars appear to plow ahead, while gas in the halo drags on the stream, slowing it down. Taking into account the star cluster’s age and its 17,000-light-year distance from the leading edge of the stream, Nidever said that gas in the halo may be 10 times as dense as previously thought.
A newfound star cluster (blue dots) sits far above the spiral disk of the Milky Way (white dots) and likely formed out of material from the Magellanic Clouds (purple dots), two satellites of our galaxy.A. PRICE-WHELAN, SIMULATION BY J. HUNT
Europe has confirmed its participation in humanity's first full-on planetary-defense demo.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially approved the Hera mission, which will assess the results of NASA's asteroid-walloping Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
DART is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in July 2021 and reach the Didymos two-asteroid system in October 2022. The NASA probe will then slam into "Didymoon," the 540-foot-wide (165 meters) satellite of the 2,540-foot-wide (775 m) space rock Didymos.
Telescopes here on Earth will document how the impact affects Didymoon and its orbit around Didymos, helping researchers gauge the effectiveness of the "kinetic impactor" asteroid-deflection strategy. The DART team had long hoped that such long-range data would be supplemented by up-close observations, and now that vision will become reality.
Hera will likely launch in 2023 or 2024 and get to the Didymos system two years later. The European spacecraft will gather a variety of types of data about the space rocks with the aid of two tiny cubesats, both of which will perform asteroid landings, ESA officials have said.
The Asteroid Prospection Explorer (APEX), which was provided by a Swedish-Finnish-Czech-German consortium, will investigate the interior structure and surface composition of both asteroids in the system. And Juventas, which was built by the Danish company GomSpace and the Romanian company GMV, will study Didymoon's structure and gravity field.
DART will also feature a cubesat. The Italian Space Agency's briefcase-sized Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIA) will separate from DART shortly before the big probe hits Didymoon; LICIA will observe the impact from a safe distance, beaming data and photos home to Earth.
Originally, by the way, an ESA craft was supposed to do this real-time impact-observing work. The Didymoon-whacking project, in its first incarnation, was a joint NASA-ESA effort called the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA). An ESA spacecraft called AIM (Asteroid Impact Mission) would have gotten to the Didymos system before DART arrived, collecting information both pre- and post-collision. But AIM was canceled in 2016, so AIDA was no more.
But the decision to approve Hera, which ESA announced last week at a gathering of European space leaders in Seville, Spain, means that NASA won't go it alone on this planetary-defense test.
"We are very pleased by the European Space Agency's decision to fund the Hera mission, a critical part of humanity's first attempt at deflecting an asteroid," the #SupportHera campaign, which has been advocating for the mission, wrote in a statement. "One day, the Hera mission could be crucial to protecting our planet from asteroids."
Kinetic impactors like DART aren't the only way to nudge dangerous asteroids away from Earth. For example, if the potential impact is far enough out in the future — a few decades, say — we could launch a "gravity tractor" probe out to the asteroid. This spacecraft would fly along with the rock, tugging it slightly but continuously onto a different trajectory.
And if the possible collision is just weeks or months away, we might be forced to go with the nuclear option, literally. Exploding nuclear bombs on or near the asteroid could blast the rock apart or at least push it off course, researchers have said.
DART won't be the first probe to smack an asteroid. Earlier this year, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft sent an impactor barreling into the space rock Ryugu. That collision will likely help scientists better understand Ryugu's internal structure, so the Hayabusa2 mission could have planetary-defense applications. But that impact was designed primarily to unearth pristine material for sample collection.
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Gigantic Wave of Star-Forming Gas Is Largest Known Structure of Its Kind in Milky Way
MICHELLE STARR
In 1879, astronomer Benjamin Gould identified what looked to be a ring in the sky, measuring about 3,000 light-years across, made of dust and gas and young stars - interconnected stellar nurseries. Now, a new discovery has shattered our understanding of this structure, which has been known for 150 years as Gould's Belt.
According to data collected by the Gaia mapping survey of the Milky Way galaxy, Gould's Belt is just part of a much larger structure - a colossal, serpentine wave of gas and dust 9,000 light-years long, 400 light-years wide, and extending 500 light-years above and below the galactic plane.
This wave - newly named the Radcliffe Wave, after Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, where the research was conducted - includes many of the stellar nurseries found in Gould's Belt, and others besides.
It's the largest gaseous structure identified in the Milky Way (although not the largest structure in the galaxy; the Fermi gamma-ray bubbles, for example, span 50,000 light-years).
"No astronomer expected that we live next to a giant, wave-like collection of gas - or that it forms the local arm of the Milky Way," said astronomer Alyssa Goodman of the Smithsonian Institution, and co-director of the Science Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
"We were completely shocked when we first realised how long and straight the Radcliffe Wave is, looking down on it from above in 3D - but how sinusoidal it is when viewed from Earth. The Wave's very existence is forcing us to rethink our understanding of the Milky Way's 3D structure."
The Gaia satellite was launched in 2013, and has been collecting data ever since to produce the most accurate 3D map yet of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This is what the researchers were studying to try to get a better understanding of the structure of Gould's Belt - to determine if the clouds do, in fact, form a ring in three dimensions.
They also used recently developed techniques based on the colour of stars to map the 3D distribution of dust around them, and to accurately measure the distances to stellar nurseries - regions where clumps of dust and gas collapse under their own gravity to form new stars.
Yet, as they looked closer at the data, they realised they were looking at a structure of these interconnected regions, but also a structure that was much bigger than Gould's Belt itself.
"Instead, what we've observed is the largest coherent gas structure we know of in the galaxy, organised not in a ring but in a massive, undulating filament," said physicist and astronomer João Alves of the University of Vienna in Austria.
"The Sun lies only 500 light-years from the Wave at its closest point. It's been right in front of our eyes all the time, but we couldn't see it until now."
radcliffe wave
(Alve et al., Nature, 2019)
If you look at it from the top down (obviously we can't physically do this, but we can simulate the perspective with a computer-generated map), the Radcliffe Wave is more or less a straight line. Come back down to the galactic plane and look at it side-on, however, and it has an impressive sinuous wiggle.
It's a peculiar shape, and it's not entirely clear how it came about. "It could be like a ripple in a pond, as if something extraordinarily massive landed in our galaxy," Alves said.
We know such a thing is possible - Gaia data have also helped previously identify giant ripples across the Milky Way's disc, thought to have been created by the collision with a dwarf galaxy less than a billion years ago. But the team's paper offers no speculation about the event that could have created the Radcliffe Wave, although those investigations could form the basis of a future study.
What they do know is that it does, on occasion, (harmlessly) interact with the Sun.
"[The Sun] passed by a festival of supernovae as it crossed Orion 13 million years ago," Alves said, "and in another 13 million years it will cross the structure again, sort of like we are 'surfing the wave'."
HONOLULU — Mysterious ultra-fast pinpricks of radio energy keep lighting up the night sky and nobody knows why. A newly discovered example of this transient phenomenon has been traced to its place of origin — a nearby spiral galaxy — but it's only made things murkier for astronomers.
The problem concerns a class of blink-and-you'll-miss-them heavenly events known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). In a few thousandths of a second, these explosions produce as much energy as the sun does in nearly a century. Researchers have only known about FRBs since 2007, and they still don't have a compelling explanation regarding their sources.
"The big question is what can produce an FRB," Kenzie Nimmo, a doctoral student at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said during a news briefing on Monday (Jan. 6) here at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Scientists were given some help in 2016, when they discovered an FRB that repeated its quick-pulsing radio tune in random bursts. All previous examples had been one-off events.
The repeating FBR was eventually traced back to a dwarf galaxy with a high rate of star formation 3 billion light-years away, Nimmo said. The galaxy contains a persistent radio source, possibly a nebula, that could explain the FRB's origin, she added.
Astronomers have also managed to determine that three non-repeating FRBs came from distant massive galaxies with little star formation going on. This seemed to provide evidence that repeating and non-repeating FRBs arose from different types of environments, Nimmo said. But the new discovery challenges this simple story.
FRB 180916.J0158+65, as the object is known, is a repeating FRB discovered by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) observatory, a radio telescope near Okanagan Falls in British Columbia that Nimmo called "the world's best FRB-finding machine."
Follow-up observations by a network of telescopes in Europe allowed the research team to produce a high-resolution image of the FRB's location. This location turned out to be a medium-sized spiral galaxy like our Milky Way that is surprisingly nearby, only 500 million light-years away, making it the closest-known FRB to date. The results were published yesterday (Jan. 6) in the journal Nature.
Image of SDSS J015800.28+654253.0, the host galaxy of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 180916.J0158+65. The green circle shows the location of the FRB. The image was captured by the 8-meter Gemini-North telescope. (Image credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF’s Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA)
Despite precisely locating the FRB, the team was unable to detect any radio sources in the spiral galaxy that could explain the mysterious outbursts. Even worse, this new entity seems not to fit the patterns established by previous repeating and non-repeating FRBs.
"This is completely different than the host and local environments of other localized FRBs," Benito Marcote, a radio astronomer at the Joint Institute for VLBI European Research Infrastructure Consortium and lead author of the Nature paper, said during the news briefing.
The researchers hope that subsequent data might help them get a handle on what this FRB is telling them. But until then, they might have to continue scratching their heads over these puzzling phenomena.
194 UFO sightings reported in Wash. state last year
194 UFO sightings reported in Wash. state last year
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DAVENPORT, Wash. - Some 194 UFO sightings were reported in Washington state last year - about one every 45 hours on average, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.
That's greater than the 160 observations reported in Washington in 2018, and reflects a worldwide upturn in sightings of "unidentified aerial phenomena," as the U.S. military now terms these reports.
The National UFO Reporting Center, based in Davenport, Wash., receives reports from all around the world, but says it makes no claims as to the validity of the information in any of these reports.
“Obvious hoaxes have been omitted, however most reports have been posted exactly as received in the author's own words," the center says. "We hope that this information will prove to be useful to the general public and the UFO community at large.”
The center reports that Washington state has the third-highest number of total sightings in its database, behind California (No. 1) and Florida (No. 2).
The reports from the Evergreen State are diverse. Many described triangular- or cigar-shaped objects, spheres, lights, disks, fireballs and even formations of multiple objects.
The reports came from all over the state at all times of the day and night. Some sightings lasted only two or three seconds while others continued for several minutes or, in rare cases, an hour or more.
Some excerpts from those reports:
March 24 nighttime sighting of pulsating orange light off the Washington coast at Ocean Shores: "I could see a particularly bright red pulsing light stationary towards the west over the ocean. I (awakened) my wife and I told her she has to see this. ... By the time she got up and was observing it it had doubled in magnitude. ... This was orange red and it began pulsing. We both were in amazement. ... After several minutes of it getting progressively brighter, all of a sudden it got very bright then completely just vanished. I am a retired school teacher and my wife a real estate agent and are rational people but this was as clear as it could be. We have not seen anything like it before over the ocean at night here at our beach home."
-Jan. 13 nighttime encounter with a "17- to 20-foot tall alien robot" at a large business campus in Federal Way: "I was sitting in my car while my dogs were out for a run. ... About 100 yards away, I saw colored lights high up in the trees. In that same glance I saw my dogs very rapidly, running back and forth while jumping and running repeatedly. ... I could tell it was something standing (that) I quickly concluded was some kind of machine or a robot. ... It had a large round red light in the center of its head. ... On the right side and a bit lower was round medium dark blue light. On the left side was a green light and a white/yellow light. ... The robot was taller than the trees. ... The robot was looking for something and it swayed gently from side to side with each step.
Feb. 28 sighting of a multi-colored triangle in Lakewood at about 4 a.m.: "I was outside with my dog (when I see) a light hovering behind the trees. ... It slowly starts moving out from the trees and its orange, blinking quickly. Suddenly once I had full view it started blinking a weird pattern of green and red, and moved to the east of me behind a building. Five minutes later ... I see a very bright light approaching me super slowly at tree top level, it flew right above me ... and it was a triangle. It had a red and green flashing light ... and it almost looked transparent, if all lights were off you wouldn't be able to see it. ... I've never seen anything like this before but I got a warm feeling from it, no fear. Welcome our visitors with love, don't be afraid."
May 18 daylight sighting by a couple of a black craft near Fife: "I turned my truck towards the south and we immediately spotted a black craft moving strangely. It was shaped like a cell phone, kind of rectangular. It was falling like a leaf, then shooting forward for a distance before coming to a stop and spinning. When it would shoot forward, it would move very fast and come to a stop without noticeably braking. Just an instant stop. It would then fall like a leaf again, swaying side to side and slowly dropping, before shooting forward again. While we were watching this, another object appeared. A silver sphere. ... I turned the corner, parked again and could not see either object again. I saw neither leave."
May 31 nighttime sighting of of an orange orb and a "human like greenish thing" in North Seattle: "I just witnessed a bright orange orb or ball across the street from 24th Ave. NW and 95th Ave. About 1:30 a.m. I walked out to have a cigarette, looked to my right, saw the orange light object at roof level and then as I watched, a streak of a grey/green human shape leaped into it from the side and then it vanished. I felt like something realized it was being watched so it stopped whatever it was doing. ... Anyway, it has me shaken up. I feel like I saw something, like a shooting or a kidnap, and I know that no one will believe me. Since I'm the only witness to this."
June 7 daytime sighting of a "shimmering wing shape" traveling at ultra-fast speed near Port Angeles: "I was standing on the back deck, with a beautiful, mostly sunny day. ... Something caught my eye, coming from the south, moving very fast! By my calculations, it traveled from directly over my house, to east of Victoria, B.C., in two seconds! Made a 90-degree turn and headed towards Whidbey Island. ... There seemed to be a shimmer around what looked like, a wing shape, with no fuselage visible. ... The leading edge of the wing appeared dark. Looked like a flying wing. And jet engine noise. The estimated distance traveled in two seconds was fifty miles!!!"
Aug. 13 sighting of an "ambient glowing cloud sky ghost" over Tacoma just after midnight: "As I was driving I kept an eye on it because it just seemed so out of place. ... What caught my eye is that it was changing shape, almost dancing in a very graceful way around the top of the moon. I’m not religious but I could say it looked like a huge angel. ... It wasn’t a solid “craft” or “vessel” of any sort but something that could be literally not of this physical world. ... I’m not on anything, I saw this completely sober. I’ve never seen anything like it. ... We really don’t know what’s going on up there."
Sept. 7 nighttime sighting of a circular object in the clouds that followed a husband and wife as they drove home near Rochester: "As I made the second curve, I almost wrecked the car! I caught sight of the craft just to the left of me and a bit ahead. ... You could see 6 white lights rotating in a pattern and 4 red lights that spun, then the white lights ran to the inside or center of the craft, made a star formation, then reversed direction and made a circle around the center star like light. ... As we parked, the craft stopped and hovered. ... There was no engine noise at all! ... We got the dogs out of the kennel ... they had been raising holy hell, and were frantic! ... As I walked up the road I looked and saw at least 25 rays of light pointing up to the sky, they were like spotlights and were bouncing all over the place! ... I am still shaken up, and just a bit afraid they will come back."
Oct. 2 sighting of a fleet of triangular craft by a father and son as they were seated around a campfire at night in the Port Orchard area: "The entire formation moved as one and traveled sideways. Each triangle appeared to be separate. There was nothing visible that connected them. ... There was no sound. It seemed to move with great speed. ... There were no lights we associate with aviation. The only light was a white-yellowish glow coming from each triangle."
Oct. 12 nighttime sighting of 25 to 30 white pulsating objects by a retired firefighter and his wife in University Place: "The objects seemed to rise into view from the north and proceed in a relatively quick manner to the south. The objects made no sound. ... Where we live is near Joint Base Lewis McChord and we are very familiar with the various aircraft that fly in the area skies. ... These objects were not rotary or fixed wing aircraft using the regular flight paths. ... This event lasted for about 10-12 minutes and consisted of approximately 25, to as high as 30 objects."
Nov. 30 nighttime sighting of a bright circular object emitting rays at about 2:20 a.m. over Redmond: "Woke up looking out window with open blinds. ... (Observed) very bright (appx 4x more than Venus) light emitting six to eleven rays. ... Woke up wife/partner. Asked her to stand up and report what was seen outside. Both (of us) viewed something never seen before. Both sober. Both viewed rays from object moving as if defying law of gravity. Only white in color. Only watched for appx 30 minutes."
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Het was laatst weer zover. Ik sprak met iemand en op een gegeven moment hadden we het over spiritualiteit en spirituele zaken. Ik kreeg meteen een blik van ‘geloof jij daarin dan?’
Ik zei: “ja, natuurlijk geloof ik daarin. En het gaat verder dan geloven. Het is meer weten”.
Hij lachte een beetje schuin, keek naar beneden en zei: “Al die onzin. Ik geloof alleen maar wat tastbaar is en wat ik kan zien met mijn blote ogen”.
Ik zei, wat ik al vaker tegen mensen zei: “Ooh, zit het zo. Goh. Weet je… Zou je iets willen doen voor mij? Kom even mee”…
En ik stond op en trok hem aan zijn arm mee. Ik liep demonstratief naar een stopcontact en zei:
“Kijk, dit is een stopcontact. Er staat 220 volt op. Alleen ik zie dat niet. En ik denk dat jij dat ook niet met je blote ogen kunt zien.
Nou wil ik graag zien wat er gebeurt als je even beide vingers tegelijkertijd in die gaatjes daar steekt. Nou past dat natuurlijk niet, maar pak even twee ijzeren paperclips en buig ze open en steek ze dan erin. Kijken wat er gebeurt, oké?”
Ik kreeg de blik van een waanzinige. “Nee, natuurlijk doe ik dat niet”, zei hij.
“Aha, maar je kunt het niet zien met je blote ogen. Dus je gelooft er niet niet in. Dat waren je eigen woorden… Of vergis ik mij nu?” zei ik.
Hij lachte… “Nee, dat was anders…”
“Oh. Dit is anders. Oké.”
Dus ik vroeg hoe zit het dan met radio en tv-signalen die door de lucht verstuurd worden. Die zie je ook niet met je blote ogen. Maar ze zijn er wel. Zelfs nu gaan deze signalen door jou en mij heen. Je ziet of voelt ze niet, maar ze zijn er wel.
En op dezelfde manier zijn er veel meer dingen die we niet meteen kunnen zien. Onze ogen, jóuw ogen, kunnen maar een heel klein gedeelte van het electromagnetisch spectrum opvangen. Bovendien zijn er energieën, die niet electromagnetisch van aard zijn. Die kun je sowieso niet opmerken met je zintuigen. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ze niet bestaan.
Hij knikte en zei, “Ja, als je het zo bekijkt”…
Het kwartje was gevallen
En dat was de eerste stap voor hem om in te zien dat de wereld waarin we leven zo veel meer is dan wat je kunt zien met je ogen. En als je alles bij elkaar zou nemen, het zichtbare en het onzichtbare, dan kun je dat ook wel het ‘AL’ noemen. Of het universum.
Signalen uit het universum
Om signalen uit het universum op te kunnen vangen zijn er een aantal dingen nodig. Als eerste moet er iets zijn dat signalen creëert en/of uitzendt. Ten tweede moet je een ontvanger hebben. En je zult een koppeling moeten hebben tussen beide.
De signalen zijn er al. En de ontvanger ook. Elk mens is in staat om te kunnen ontvangen. Wat interessant is, is die koppeling. Die bepaalt per mens of deze de signalen wel of niet ontvangt. Met andere woorden: of deze mens is afgestemd op die signalen.
Het werkt ongeveer als een radio. Als deze is afgestemd op zender 1, dan worden de signalen van zender 2 niet omgezet in geluid. Je hoort alleen zender 1. Ondanks dat de signalen van zender 2 ook gewoon door de ruimte gaan.
Natuurlijke koppeling met het universum
Sommige mensen hebben van nature een koppeling met het universum. Zij zijn van nature daarop afgestemd. Daardoor kunnen zij dingen waarnemen die anderen niet waarnemen. Deze mensen worden dan spiritueel begaafd genoemd. Zij kunnen bijvoorbeeld dingen zien, voelen, horen of weten, wat volgens de fysieke wetten onmogelijk lijkt.
En dit fenomeen komt veel vaker voor dan je je realiseert. Er zijn zelfs mensen die afgestemd zijn op het universum die het niet weten of niet willen.
Marco
Zo kan ik mij een voorval herinneren van Marco, het zoontje van een vroegere kennis. Marco was een jaar of 8 en had enorm last van mensen die tegen hem spraken. Dit gebeurde vooral ’s avonds. Hij hoorde en zag mensen die anderen niet zagen. Het deed mij een beetje denken aan de film ‘The sixth sense’. En het gebeurde daar vlak voor mijn ogen. Het kind kon er niet door slapen.
Als eerste werd er natuurlijk gedacht aan een levendige fantasie. Daarna dacht men dat het kind een mentale stoornis had en ze wilden hem naar een psychiater sturen. Gelukkig werd dat geweigerd door zijn ouders.
De reden was dat zij geloofden in van hun zoontje zei. En uiteindelijk werd aangetoond dat Marco dingen kon vertellen die hij met geen mogelijkheid kon weten. Dingen van vroeger die hem nooit verteld waren en die hij ook nergens op had kunnen zoeken.
Er was dus meer aan de hand. Dit kind had een connectie met de andere kant. Met een ander deel van het universum. Uiteindelijk werd er een professional bijgehaald die ervoor zorgde dat hij tot zijn achttiende ‘afgesloten’ werd voor dit soort communicatie. De rust keerde terug en hij kon na lange tijd weer rustig slapen. Deze professional was zeker geen arts of psychiater. Het was een specialist op spiritueel gebied.
Interessant fenomeen
Ondanks dat sommige mensen liever niet afgestemd zijn op het universum, zoals Marco, zijn er veel meer mensen die dat wel graag willen. En terecht! Het kan je leven op ongekende wijze spiritueel verrijken.
Hoe interessant zou het zijn als je het vermogen hebt om direct in contact te komen met de krachten van het universum? En als je de informatie die je krijgt zou kunnen gebruiken in je dagelijkse leven?
Je zou een geheel nieuwe kijk op het leven kunnen ontwikkelen en beter gebruik kunnen maken van de enorme potenties die het universum je biedt.
De schakel tussen jou en het universum
Contact leggen met het universum is eenvoudig. Het enige dat je hoeft te doen is je onderbewustzijn toestaan dit te doen voor je. Je onderbewustzijn is de schakel tussen het universum en je bewustzijn.
En wanneer je jouw onderbewustzijn de instructies geeft om signalen van het universum tastbaar te maken voor je, dan kun je dingen gaan zien, horen en voelen die voor anderen verborgen blijven.
Wanneer je jouw onderbewustzijn afstemt op het universum, dan ervaar je dat er veel meer is dan alleen de zichtbare fysieke wereld en krijg je het vermogen om deze kennis te gebruiken in je voordeel.
En om jouw onderbewustzijn af te stemmen op het universum hoef je alleen maar enkele keren te luisteren naar een speciale sessie. Deze sessie kost € 49,99, maar nu tijdelijk kun je hem krijgen voor slechts 27 euro.
Het is een geweldig mooie manier om je spirituele vermogens te ontwikkelen of te versterken.
Repeterende ‘snelle radioflits’ uit een spiraalstelsel vergroot het mysterie over de oorsprong van deze signalen
Repeterende ‘snelle radioflits’ uit een spiraalstelsel vergroot het mysterie over de oorsprong van deze signalen
Telescopen van het European VLBI Network (EVN) hebben een repeterende fast radio burst (FRB) waargenomen in een spiraalstelsel zoals het onze. De FRB is de dichtstbijzijnde die ooit is gelokaliseerd en is aangetroffen in een omgeving die radicaal afwijkt van eerdere gevallen. Door deze ontdekking moeten wetenschappers hun ideeën over de oorsprong van dit geheimzinnige extragalactische verschijnsel opnieuw bijstellen.
Een van de grootste astronomische raadsels is de vraag waar de korte, hevige uitbarstingen van radiostraling vandaan komen die bekendstaan als fast radio bursts (FRBs) oftewel ‘snelle radioflitsen’. Hoewel deze uitbarstingen maar een duizendste van een seconde duren, zijn er tot nu toe al honderden van gedetecteerd. Maar slechts van vier FRBs is de exacte bron bekend.
In 2016 werd vastgesteld dat een van deze vier gelokaliseerde bronnen zich op onvoorspelbare wijze herhaalde. De betreffende radioflitsen kwamen steeds uit hetzelfde stukje hemel. Sindsdien maken onderzoekers onderscheid tussen FRBs waarvan slechts één uitbarsting is waargenomen (‘niet-repeterende’) en die waarvan meerdere radioflitsen zijn geregistreerd (‘repeterende’).
‘De meervoudige flitsen die we van de eerste repeterende FRB hebben gezien, kwamen voort uit heel specifieke en extreme omstandigheden in een heel klein (dwerg)sterrenstelsel’, zegt Benito Marcote van het Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC en hoofdauteur van het huidige onderzoek. ‘Die ontdekking vormde het eerste stukje van de puzzel, maar riep meer vragen op dan zij beantwoordde, zoals de vraag of er een fundamenteel verschil bestaat tussen repeterende en niet-repeterende FRBs. En nu hebben we een tweede repeterende FRB gelokaliseerd, die onze eerdere ideeën over wat de bron van deze radioflitsen kan zijn in twijfel trekt.’
Op 19 juni 2019 deden acht telescopen van het European VLBI Network (EVN) gelijktijdige waarnemingen van een radiobron die bekendstaat als FRB 180916.J0158+65. Deze bron was al in 2018 ontdekt met de CHIME-telescoop in Canada, en dat stelde het team onder leiding van Marcote in staat om met het EVN met zeer hoge resolutie naar FRB 180916.J0158+65 te kijken. In de loop van vijf uur detecteerden de onderzoekers vier radioflitsen die stuk voor stuk minder dan twee duizendsten van een seconde duurden. De hoge resolutie werd bereikt door radiotelescopen die verspreid over de wereld staan opgesteld met elkaar te combineren. Dankzij deze techniek, die Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) wordt genoemd, kon worden vastgesteld dat de radioflitsen allemaal afkomstig waren uit een slechts ongeveer zeven lichtjaar groot gebied. Deze lokalisatie is vergelijkbaar met het vanaf de aarde opsporen van een mens op de maan.
Met behulp van deze locatie kon het team waarnemingen doen met een van de grootste optische telescopen ter wereld, de 8-meter Gemini North op de Mauna Kea (Hawaï). Door de omgeving van de bron te onderzoeken kon worden vastgesteld dat de radioflitsen afkomstig waren uit een spiraalstelsel (SDSS J015800.28+654253.0 geheten) dat 500 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd is, en specifiek uit een gebied in dat stelsel waar veel stervorming plaatsvindt.
‘De gevonden locatie is compleet anders dan die van de eerder gelokaliseerde repeterende FRB, maar verschilt ook van alle andere onderzochte FRBs’, legt Kenzie Nimmo, promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, uit. ‘De verschillen tussen repeterende en niet-repeterende snelle radioflitsen zijn dus minder duidelijk, en we denken nu dat deze verschijnselen niet gebonden zijn aan een specifiek type sterrenstelsel of omgeving. Het zou zomaar kunnen zijn dat FRBs op een grote verscheidenheid aan locaties in het heelal kunnen optreden en alleen specifieke omstandigheden vereisen om waarneembaar te zijn.’
Hoewel het huidige onderzoek eerdere aannames in twijfel trekt, is deze FRB de meest nabije die ooit is waargenomen. Dat stelt astronomen in de gelegenheid om dit verschijnsel gedetailleerder dan ooit te onderzoeken.
‘We hopen dat verder onderzoek duidelijk zal maken onder welke omstandigheden deze geheimzinnige flitsen ontstaan. We streven ernaar om meer FRBs nauwkeurig te lokaliseren en uiteindelijk hun ontstaan te begrijpen’, besluit Jason Hessels, corresponderend auteur van het onderzoek, van het Nederlands Instituut voor Radioastronomie (ASTRON) en de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Publicatie
B. Marcote, K. Nimmo, J. W. T. Hessels, S. P. Tendulkar, C. G. Bassa, Z. Paragi, A. Keimpema, M. Bhardwaj, R. Karuppusamy, V. M. Kaspi, C. J. Law, D. Michilli, K. Aggarwal, B. Andersen, A. M. Archibald, K. Bandura, G. C. Bower, P. J. Boyle, C. Brar, S. Burke-Spolaor, B. J. Butler, T. Cassanelli, P. Chawla, P. Demorest, M. Dobbs, E. Fonseca, U. Giri, D. C. Good, K. Gourdji, A. Josephy, A. Yu. Kirichenko, F. Kirsten, T. L. Landecker, D. Lang, T. J.W. Lazio, D. Z. Li, H.-H. Lin, J. D. Linford, K. Masui, J. Mena-Parra, A. Naidu, C. Ng, C. Patel, U.-L. Pen, Z. Pleunis, M. Rafiei-Ravandi, M. Rahman, A. Renard, P. Scholz, S. R. Siegel, K. M. Smith, I. H. Stairs, K. Vanderlinde & A. V. Zwaniga. 2020. A repeating fast radio burst source localised to a nearby spiral galaxy. Nature.
Bijschrift: Artistieke impressie van de lokalisatie van Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 180916.J0158 + 65 (a.k.a. "R3") in zijn gaststerrenstelsel, SDSS J015800.28 + 654253.0. De afbeelding van het gaststerrenstelsel is gebaseerd op echte waarnemingen met behulp van de Gemini-North telescoop bovenop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. De FRB afkomstig uit het sterrenstelsel is gebaseerd op echte gegevens die zijn vastgelegd met de 100-meter Effelsberg-radiotelescoop in Duitsland. De 8 radio schotels die worden afgebeeld, maken deel uit van het European Very-long-baseline-interferometry Network (EVN). Dit wereldwijde netwerk van radiotelescopen werd gebruikt om de locatie van de FRB te bepalen in een stervormende regio in het gaststerrenstelsel. De afgebeelde telescoopkoepel is die van de Gemini-North optische telescoop, die het gaststerrenstelsel observeerde om zijn roodverschuiving te bepalen, wat aangeeft wat de afstand is.
Bijschrift: Afbeelding van SDSS J015800.28 + 654253.0, het gaststerrenstelsel van Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 180916.J0158 + 65 (ook bekend als "R3") - geobserveerd met de Gemini-North telescoop van 8 meter. Afbeeldingen verkregen in SDSS g ', r' en z’ filters worden respectievelijk gebruikt voor de blauwe, groene en rode kleuren. De positie van de FRB in de spiraalvormige arm van het melkwegstelsel wordt aangeduid door witte markeringsstreepjes.
Uit dit sterrenstelsel komen geheimzinnige signalen, en niemand snapt er iets van
Uit dit sterrenstelsel komen geheimzinnige signalen, en niemand snapt er iets van
Met behulp van telescopen zijn vreemde signalen, een zogeheten repeterende snelle radioflits, waargenomen uit een ander sterrenstelsel.
Het gaat om de dichtstbijzijnde snelle radioflits die ooit is geregistreerd.
Daarnaast wijst de omgeving waarin hij is gevonden radicaal af van die van eerdere flitsen.
Geen idee
De ontdekking, die is gepubliceerd in Nature, heeft ervoor gezorgd dat astronomen hun ideeën over de raadselachtige signalen opnieuw moeten bijstellen.
Sterrenkundigen hebben geen idee wat de bron van de korte uitbarstingen van radiostraling is.
De signalen van de eerste repeterende snelle radioflits kwamen uit een klein sterrenstelsel.
Meer vragen
De signalen kwamen voort uit heel specifieke en extreme omstandigheden, legt hoofdonderzoeker Benito Marcote uit.
“Die ontdekking riep meer vragen op dan zij beantwoordde,” zegt hij.
“En nu hebben we dus een tweede repeterende snelle radioflits gelokaliseerd, die onze eerdere ideeën weer in twijfel trekt,” vervolgt hij.
Tweeduizendste van een seconde
Op 19 juni vorig jaar werden met acht telescopen vier radioflitsen ontdekt die minder dan tweeduizendste van een seconde duurden.
Ze bleken afkomstig te zijn uit het spiraalstelsel SDSS J015800.28+654253.0 op 500 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde.
Omstandigheden
Het gaat om een ‘compleet andere’ locatie dan die van eerdere repeterende én gewone radioflitsen, reageert astronoom Kenzie Nimmo van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Coauteur Jason Hessels zei te hopen dat verder onderzoek duidelijk zal maken onder welke omstandigheden deze geheimzinnige flitsen ontstaan.
The Truth About Reptoids in the Past, Present and Future
The Truth About Reptoids in the Past, Present and Future
According to John Rhodes, people have reported interacting with half-human and half-reptile beings in various parts of the world since the dawn of mankind. While most of these ancestral memories or mythologies are symbols of ancient religious self-identification, a few appear to be relating actual encounters, similar to those reported in the modern UFO culture.
While most reptiles are wild and shy away from humans, reptoids have exhibited a marked degree of intelligence and an intense curiosity of the humans they encounter. These are the most mysterious of all. Because so few people are aware that the majority of life on and in Earth has yet to be encountered by mankind, when something unusual and intelligent like a reptoid is encountered, they are misidentified as ET’s or “aliens.”
Some of these elusive animal-beings have been encountered by accident, some of the intelligent ones appear to be encountering humans on purpose, in the middle of the night or in disguise by day for various undeterminable reasons.
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UFO Encounters Of Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
UFO Encounters Of Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
A JAL cargo flight from Paris to Tokyo reported having observed a pair of UFOs shadowing them as they passed Iceland and Alaska in November 1986. The crew were not prone to be confused any flying objects with balloons or clouds as they were experienced flyers. They all agreed that they spotted an unknown aerial vehicle.
The unidentified tube or possibly square-shaped craft was observed with glowing thrusters and heated the cabin of the JAL jumbo at closest approach.
The captain of the jumbo Kenju Terauchi, who was also a fighter pilot, had over 10,000 hours flight experience.
He said that one of the UFO was moving as if there was no such thing as gravity. The craft sped up, stopped, and then flew at their speed, in their direction. The next instant, the UFO changed course like it was defying the gravity.
Moments later, a second, larger craft appeared to match the flight path of the 747.
Radar returns brought two or more interpretations with civilian and military stations reporting different results.
The sighting lasted for around 50 minutes. Captain Terauchi was grounded for a lengthy period after the incident. He only returned to flight duties many years later.
SpaceX rocketed another 60 internet-providing Starlink satellites at once on Monday night, adding to 120 previously launched to space.
The more than 170 working satellites makes the company, founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, the single-largest operator of spacecraft in orbit around Earth.
On Tuesday, Musk tweeted there would be “no training required” for users to connect to SpaceX’s globe-encircling network: Just point a device that looks like a “UFO on a stick” at the sky and plug it in.
Starlink is one of several “megaconstellations” of thousands of satellites that companies plan to launch this decade. SpaceX plans to launch up to 42,000 before the end of the decade, which may boost the company’s value up to $120 billion.
On Monday evening, SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, blasted a fresh batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The mission added 60 new versions of the spacecraft to a network of 120 already circling Earth – a total of 180 launched into space.
Though several experimental Starlink satellites launched in May have stopped working, SpaceX now manages more private space satellites than any company, according to Ars Technica. (About 2,200 functional spacecraft orbit Earth today.)
SpaceX is just getting started, though: The company plans to launch 60 more satellites about every two weeks in 2020, perhaps ramping up missions to get as many as 42,000 flown before the end of the decade. The network should boot up after several hundred are in space, ostensibly getting early adopters online later this year.
But there remains an open question of how, exactly, anyone will connect to SpaceX’s next-generation satellite internet network.
During a press call earlier this year, Musk described a computer-powered antenna terminal that would look like “a small to medium-size pizza.”
On Tuesday, Musk tweeted a colorful new description of a terminal:
Looks like a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick. Starlink Terminal has motors to self-adjust optimal angle to view sky. Instructions are simply:– Plug in socket– Point at skyThese instructions work in either order. No training required.
Foto: An animation of SpaceX’s Starlink providing internet coverage to the Americas.
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Musk previously said Starlink terminal antennas would be “electronically steered,” allowing one to switch connections from one satellite flying out of view to one coming into view “in less than a millisecond.”
The addition of a steering motor, according to Musk’s tweet, suggests electronic switching alone is not be enough to maintain a reliable connection to satellites in typical use cases.
Musk said in 2015 that SpaceX’s terminals (before they earned the name Starlink) would cost $100 to $300 each. However, the cheapest any manufacturer is selling such devices for today is about $1,000, according to Tim Farrar, an industry analyst. As with Starlink satellites themselves, SpaceX is designing and manufacturing the terminals, which President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told reporters in October was no trivial task.
“This is very different business for SpaceX,” she said, according to Space News. “It’s leveraging space technology, but it’s a consumer business.”
Foto: An illustration of SpaceX’s Starlink in orbit around Earth.
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Starlink is not alone in the push to launch megaconstellations of internet-providing satellites. Iridium is beefing up its network, as is OneWeb. Larger tech powerhouses like Amazon are also looking to establish their own fleets. Apple is also quietly working on the tech, according to Bloomberg.
Though these fleets could bathe Earth in unprecedentedly fast, pervasive, and low-cost internet, not everyone has taken a liking to them.
Astronomers have repeatedly and loudly voiced their complaints about the brightness of the satellites in the night sky (which have prompted many reports of UFOs). SpaceX, to its credit, has coated the Earth-facing side of its new Starlink satellites with a substance to make it less shiny, though the move is experimental.
UFO encounters always skirt the realm of the fantastical and weird, always perplexing and begging for answers on whether they really happened or not. Often there is no real evidence, and we are left with mere stories with no discernible substance, free to swirl about in the limbo of speculation and debate. Yet, there are those cases that are well-documented, recorded, and which serve to be genuine enigmas that stand out among the rest. Truly one of the great UFO cases of recent memory revolves around a flight of an experienced crew, and which was fully verified by numerous sources at the time to firmly cement itself into UFO legend.
It was July of 1957, and a highly advanced RB-47H reconnaissance aircraft loaded with state-of-the-art electronic countermeasure equipment was preparing for a mission. The 6-man crew was highly experienced, consisting of seasoned pilot Lewis D. Chase, copilot James H. McCoid, and navigator Thomas H. Hanley, as well as monitors John J. Provenzano, Frank B. McClure, and Walter A. Tuchscherer. It was to be a routine training mission beginning at Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas, and flying out over Gulf of Mexico to perform navigation and enemy radar detection exercises before returning back across the south-central U.S., after which they were to be deployed to Germany. The crew was seasoned and tested, the aircraft cutting edge, with the most sophisticated electronic intelligence available, and when they took off in the early morning hours of July 17, 1957 in clear, calm, and cloudless weather there was no reason to think this would be anything other than a by-the-books, typical training exercise, but it was soon to prove to be anything but.
At approximately 4:00 AM, the first part of the mission had already been completed without incident, and the aircraft was making its way back over Gulfport, Mississippi, to continue its exercises when an anomalous airborne signal was picked up by McClure to the rear of the aircraft somewhere out over the Gulf of Mexico. It was first thought that this signal was coming from a ground radar installation due to the nature of its frequency, but it was soon determined that the signal was moving at a rather fast clip, indeed surpassing the plane’s 500 mph airspeed to circle around it to fade and then disappear out over Mississippi. At this point no visual confirmation had yet been made of the object, and indeed McClure made no mention of it at the time, thinking it must have been due to a glitch.
In the meantime, the rest of the crew was oblivious to the whole strange incident, and the aircraft continued on its course over Jackson, Mississippi, where they were due to engage in a series of simulated war exercises against Air Force ground radar units stationed there. Things went smoothly until over Winnsboro, Louisiana pilot Lewis Chase noticed a rather odd sight up ahead. He reported a bright light approaching at a very fast speed. He at first took this to be possibly from the landing lights of an airliner, but it soon became clear that there were no navigational lights, and that the object was a singular very bright bluish-white light moving toward them at a dangerously high speed, and was described as being as big as a house. Alarmed, Chase warned the crew to prepare for evasive maneuvers, but before they even had time to get ready the light had sped by them in a flash and vanished. At this time only the pilot and copilot had actually visually seen the anomaly, and they described it to the rest of the crew even as they reconfigured their equipment to try and pick up whatever it was. McClure at this point came clean about his own odd experience, and they managed to pick up the signal again on several pieces of equipment, showing that this was no glitch, this time seeming to be keeping perfect speed with the RB-47H, and it was agreed that this was not from any ground based radar or normal aircraft.
Throughout all of this the pilot radioed it in and found that ground radar at the Carswell Air Force Base Ground Controlled Intercept (GCI) station was also picking up an unexplainable signature of something up there with them, and he asked for permission to approach the mysterious object, which was granted. However, as soon as the RB-47H moved in to intercept, the signal rapidly dropped over 20,000 feet in altitude almost instantaneously, beyond what any known aircraft was capable of. The mysterious object would then toy with the plane for over an hour, elusively evading them for over 600 miles, all while ground radar registered it and it emitted a powerful radar signal of its own. It was seen to change directions suddenly, speed up, slow down, and rise or dip far beyond what any known aircraft was capable of, as well as intermittently “winking out,” during which time it would be invisible to both ground radar at several locations and the plane’s instruments, before appearing again as if from nowhere. It also was starting to take on the appearance of a bright red light, and this was all very unsettling for the crew.
Low on fuel by this point, the RB-47H was forced to stop trying to engage the object and headed north into Oklahoma to land. The mysterious object showed up on their readings all the way up to Oklahoma City, before fading away, this time for good. In Edward U. Condon’s 1969 book Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, he would report that shortly after landing “electronic counter-measures, graphic data, and radar scope pictures which had been taken during the flight were removed from the plane by Intelligence personnel,” the crew was interrogated heavily, and the whole thing was kept very hush hush, with a “security lid” placed over the incident. Indeed, the case of the RB-47H would remain classified for years, and it was only with its declassification that it ever got out into the wild to be discussed and debated by the UFO community.
In the end it is all a rather harrowing encounter that is notable for the fact that it was fully registered visually by the crew of the plane, picked up on the aircraft’s on board electronic detection devices, and also documented by ground based radar in several locations, which when taken with the experienced crew on board points to this being one of the most authentic and credible reports of a UFO and airplane encounter on record. Nevertheless, Project Bluebook would try to wave it off as a misidentification of a passenger airliners, which, considering all of the available evidence and what was seen and detected, is rather absurd. What was it that harassed that crew up there? Surely it could not have been any normal plane. Was this some sort of experimental aircraft or something else, and why should it deem this training flight to be the subject of its game? Although we may never know, the account of the RB-47H remains one of the best documented and genuine unexplainable UFO cases out there, and will probably hold that title for some time to come.
Today’s article demonstrates – in a strange way – how the mind can provoke false memories of the UFO type. Before we get to that specific issue, however, we must first take a look at a series of books that are among my favorites. From 1990 to 1991, the late author David Bischoff penned a trilogy of novels: Abduction: The UFO Conspiracy; Deception: The UFO Conspiracy; and Revelation: The UFO Conspiracy. If you are into UFOs, cosmic cover-ups and the world of fiction (and all rolled into one), then if you have not read this great series, you really should. They are, in my opinion, the definitive UFO novels. While I won’t reveal the complete plot-line that links all three of the books – in case you plan on purchasing copies after reading this! – I will explain my enthusiasm for them. Imagine a combination of The X-Files meets The Fugitive meets Robert Ludlum meets The Invaders and you’ll have some idea of what this series is all about. Except that Bischoff’s books predate Mulder and Scully by a couple of years.
The overall theme of these highly entertaining, fictional tales is an intriguing one: a shadowy, powerful group in the U.S. government – a group that is pretty much answerable to no-one at all – has, for years, been secretly fabricating UFO incidents, and particularly so “alien abduction”-based encounters. So, does that mean there are no real aliens visiting us, after all? Well, no it does not mean that. Or maybe it does. Then again, perhaps it’s a bit of both. And that’s what makes the UFO Conspiracy series so entertaining: it keeps you on your toes and guessing from the very first page to the absolute last. As for the characters, they are a fine and equally entertaining bunch. We have maverick journalist Jake Camden (think of Mickey Rourke’s character of private-detective Harry Angel in Alan Parker’s 1987 movie, Angel Heart and that’s the closest thing you’ll get to Jake Camden). We also have Dr. Everett Scarborough, a UFO skeptic, and a best-selling author on books that the Flying Saucer faithful absolutely loathe. And there’s Marsha Manning, a gutsy character who provides the romance factor for Scarborough, while Camden prefers booze-filled, coke-fueled hook-ups in motel-rooms with UFO groupies.
Now, it’s time to return to the opening sentence of this article. Namely, the matter of false memories and the UFO phenomenon. A week or so before Christmas I received an email from a guy who said that he had read one of my two books on Roswell (The Roswell UFO Conspiracy) and wanted to make a few points. He said he knew that aliens came down not too far from Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. He also said that in terms of the bodies allegedly found on the Foster Ranch, they were not the large-headed, small creatures that most people associate with when it comes to the famous case. Rather, he said that the aliens at Roswell actually looked just like us, for the most part. He also said that the aliens were genetically designed so that when they died on the ranch, their bodies decomposed extremely quickly – and, as a result, the U.S. government never had the chance to study their rapidly decaying remains. On top of that, he said that he had read all of this in one of the controversial Majestic 12 documents that surfaced from the 1980s to the 1990s; but which, oddly, he could no longer find.
The guy assured me that this was the correct scenario for Roswell. I said he was wrong. Rather, I explained, this is the exact scenario presented in the second novel in David Bischoff’sThe UFO Conspiracy series. No, I was wrong, he told me. He said he only ever read UFO non-fiction, rather than saucer-themed fiction. Well, he got back to me two days later, and lo and behold, he said that he did have these very three books – after all – on one of his many bookshelves, which he had read when they were published. While he was searching his shelves, I spent a couple of hours going through my own copies of the trilogy looking for the relevant page on the decomposing aliens. I finally found it, on page 233 of Deception. When we chatted again I told him to turn to page 233 and read it. He did. Three decades after reading Deception, and after we chatted again, he realized his error. In the early 1990s he had read Deception (and not Majestic 12-themed documents at all); but around thirty years later his mind and memories had turned the Bischoff scenario for Roswell into a real event, rather than what it really is: a fine piece of entertaining UFO conspiracy-fiction.
Of course, there was no attempt on the part of the guy to deceive me. Rather, his memories had deceived himself. It’s a cautionary, UFO-themed story of how the passage of time can turn one thing into something very different.
Astronomers discovered an Earth-sized planet located in the habitable zone of a nearby star that could potentially contain liquid water. A group of NASA exoplanet astronomers (Josh Schlieder and his students Emily Gilbert, Tom Barclay, and Elisa Quintana) were looking at data from TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) when they found the planet and it’s really not that far from Earth. In fact, it’s so close that its atmosphere may potentially be observed by using the James Webb Space Telescope or even large ground-based telescopes.
The Earth-sized exoplanet’s host star is called TOI-700 (or TESS of Interest number 700) and it’s relatively small and dim. It’s only around 40% of the size of our own sun and approximately 1/50 of its brightness. It’s located in the constellation Dorado – which can be viewed from the Southern Hemisphere – and is approximately 100 light-years away from Earth. To put this into better perspective, Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to us, is located 4.2 light-years away from us and would take us around 20,000 years to travel there. So, although it’s quite far away, it’s still relatively close in comparison to other stars and exoplanets that have been found.
In the past decade, around a dozen Earth-sized exoplanets have been discovered that are located in the habitable zone of their host stars; however, most of them are between 600 and 3,000 light-years away from us and are pretty much impossible to study and observe.
Three planets surround TOI-700 and are simply named b, c, and d. Planet d is the one that’s located in the habitable zone and is around the same size as Earth. What’s even more interesting is that it orbits its star every 37 days. Planet b is also Earth-sized but orbits its star at a very close range (Planet c is mini-Neptune sized). For comparison, Venus receives twice the amount of sunlight that Earth gets and the planet is dry and extremely hot. Planet b receives five times that amount of sunlight.
And since liquid water is essential for life, it’s very important for astronomers to figure out if there is any on Planet TOI-700 d and what its atmosphere is like. Based on different models studied by the astronomers, if the planet’s atmosphere has a combination of methane or carbon dioxide, or water vapor, it could possibly be habitable. Hopefully the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to confirm or deny these hypotheses when it’s launched next year.
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