First crop circles in 2020!

This heart-shaped crop circle was found in Southern England on 26th May 2020. The exact location is unknown at the moment.

Watch the video below to see more images about this circle from United Kingdom.

Videos, by peter2011

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28-05-2020 om 17:00 geschreven door peter  

International Space Station Records Thousands Of Alien Spacecrafts Leaving Earth

On May 18, 2020, a camera from the International Space Station (ISS) recorded something really unusual, thousands of strange objects that simultaneously shoot out from the surface of our planet and fly into outer space. 

This can be seen in the original video published on the project channel “High Definition Earth Visualization (HDEV)” on the Ustream platform or below we have posted the part of the video showing the alien spacecraft, the objects seem to take off at high speed and the remains are not the remains of liquid fuel rockets.

Skeptics believe that these are ice particles that detach from the ISS and that are reflected in the camera thanks to sunlight.

• Also Read – A UFO chases a jet and overtakes it in broad daylight (video was sent to MUFON)

But for experts in the field there is no doubt about it, it is the massive evacuation of thousands of UFOs leaving our planet.

Skeptics believe that these are ice particles that detach from the ISS and that are reflected in the camera thanks to sunlight. But for experts in the field there is no doubt about it, it is the massive evacuation of thousands of UFOs leaving our planet.

For them the images show that aliens have been very present on our planet since ancient times. This civilization or civilizations of other worlds have their own underground and submarine bases on Earth, but the question some ask is, what has led them to evade Earth massively?

They consider that this strategy can only be carried out if our planet is doomed and it is very dangerous to be on it. But the threat would not be the coronavirus pandemic, as some have suggested, rather it would be from our closest star. NASA scientists have confirmed that the solar minimum they predicted three years ago has been met.

And scientists have warned that the Dalton minimum, one of the most extreme weather periods in history, will repeat itself. It lasted more than three solar cycles, from 1790-1830, and resulted in heavy snowfall, deep frost, and general cooling worldwide, in addition to drastic weather changes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and famine. It was hell on Earth.

And if the worst predictions are unfortunately fulfilled, perhaps we would find ourselves facing a mass extinction, just as happened with dinosaurs. The truth is that we do not know if this will be the case, but all the events that are happening in the last months seem to indicate that something will happen on our planet. And this video may be evidence that there isn’t much time left.

What do you think about the video of the ISS? Is it a massive UFO evacuation? Or do you have another explanation?

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28-05-2020 om 01:53 geschreven door peter  

This artist’s concept depicts a quasar, a type of active galactic nucleus, surrounded by a dusty donut shape (torus) and clumps called “clouds.” These clouds start small but can expand to be more than 1 parsec (3.3 light-years) wide. In this diagram, the clouds are at least 1 parsec from the torus.

Image via Nima Abkenar/ NASA.  Via NASA

Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word cloud no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the greater universe are clumpy areas of greater density than their surroundings.

Space telescopes have observed these cosmic clouds in the vicinity of supermassive black holes, those mysterious dense objects from which no light can escape, with masses equivalent to more than 100,000 suns. There is a supermassive black hole in the center of nearly every galaxy, and it is called an active galactic nucleus (AGN) if it is gobbling up a lot of gas and dust from its surroundings. The brightest kind of AGN is called a quasar. While the black hole itself cannot be seen, its vicinity shines extremely brightly as matter gets torn apart close to its event horizon, its point of no return.

But black holes aren’t truly like vacuum cleaners; they don’t just suck up everything that gets too close. While some material around a black hole will fall directly in, never to be seen again, some of the nearby gas will be flung outward, creating a shell that expands over thousands of years. That’s because the area near the event horizon – the threshold around a black hole where the escape velocity surpasses the speed of light – is extremely energetic; the high-energy radiation from fast-moving particles around the black hole can eject a significant amount of gas into the vastness of space.

Scientists would expect that this outflow of gas would be smooth. Instead, it is clumpy, extending well beyond 1 parsec (3.3 light-years) from the black hole. Each cloud starts out small, but can expand to be more than 1 parsec wide – and could even cover the distance between Earth and the nearest star beyond the sun, Proxima Centauri.

Astrophysicist Daniel Proga at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, likens these clumps to groups of cars waiting at a highway onramp with stoplights designed to regulate the influx of new traffic. He said:

Every now and then you have a bunch of cars.

What explains these clumps in deep space? Proga and colleagues have a new computer model that presents a possible solution to this mystery, published April 21, 2020, in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal Letters. Science suggests that extremely intense heat near the supermassive black hole can allow the gas to flow outward really fast, but in a way that can also lead to clump formation. If the gas accelerates too quickly, it will not cool off enough to form clumps. The computer model takes these factors into account and proposes a mechanism to make the gas travel far, but also clump. Proga said:

Near the outer edge of the shell there is a perturbation that makes gas density a little bit lower than it used to be. That makes this gas heat up very efficiently. The cold gas further out is being lifted out by that.

This phenomenon is somewhat like the buoyancy that makes hot air balloons float. The heated air inside the balloon is lighter than the cooler air outside, and this density difference makes the balloon rise.

University of Nevada doctoral student Randall Dannen led the study. Dannen said:

This work is important because astronomers have always needed to place clouds at a given location and velocity to fit the observations we see from AGN. They were not often concerned with the specifics of how the clouds formed in the first place, and our work offers a potential explanation for the formation of these clouds.

This model looks only at the shell of gas, not at the disk of material swirling around the black hole that is feeding it. The researchers’ next step is to examine whether the flow of gas originates from the disk itself. They are also interested in tackling the mystery of why some clouds move extremely fast, on the order of 20 million miles per hour (10,000 kilometers per second).

• Bottom line: A new study looks at how cosmic clouds form near black holes.
• Source: Clumpy AGN Outflows due to Thermal Instability

{ https://earthsky.org/ }

28-05-2020 om 01:40 geschreven door peter  

The location of Earth’s north magnetic pole appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. “The Siberian blob is winning,” according to scientists.

You probably know that a compass doesn’t point to true north. Earth’s geographic north pole – and magnetic north pole – were first recognized as two different places in 1831. Until the early 1990s, the magnetic North Pole was known to lie some 1,000 miles south of true north, in Canada. Yet, as scientists realized, the location of magnetic north was not fixed. Magnetic north was drifting at a rate of up to about 9 miles (15 km) a year. Since the 1990s, however, the drift of Earth’s magnetic north pole has turned into “more of a sprint,” scientists say. Its present speed is about 30 to nearly 40 miles a year (50-60 km a year) toward Siberia. And now – using satellite measurements – scientists in Europe have helped confirm a theory as to why Earth’s magnetic north pole is drifting so rapidly.

The European Space Agency (ESA) released this interesting article on May 14, 2020. It describes a new study in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience that describes the theory of “tussling magnetic blobs deep below Earth’s surface” at the root of the phenomenon of rapid magnetic pole drift since the 1990s. ESA said:

In late October 2017, [the magnetic north pole] crossed the International Date Line, passing within 390 km [242 miles] of the geographic pole, and is now heading south …

Tussling magnetic blobs deep below Earth’s surface appear to be at the root of the phenomenon of rapid magnetic pole drift since the 1990s.

Image via ESA.

At present, the Siberian blob appears to be winning in this magnetic “tug of war.”

Image via Phil Livermore/ BBC.

In our modern world, it’s not just compasses that are affected by the drift of Earth’s magnetic north pole. ESA explained:

One of the practical consequences of this is that the World Magnetic Model has to be updated periodically with the pole’s current location. The model is vital for many navigation systems used by ships, Google maps and smartphones, for example.

That’s why the subject of magnetic north is such a vital one to our world, and why ESA’s Living Planet Symposium last year featured a talk from scientists at the University of Leeds in the U.K. about their findings on magnetic north, using SWARM satellite data. The Swarm satellites carry sophisticated magnetometers. Their goal, in part, is to provide a survey of Earth’s magnetic field. ESA said:

The data showed that the position of the north magnetic pole is determined largely by a balance, or tug-of-war, between two large lobes of negative flux at the boundary between Earth’s core and mantle under Canada.

Phil Livermore, from the University of Leeds, said:

By analyzing magnetic field maps and how they change over time, we can now pinpoint that a change in the circulation pattern of flow underneath Canada has caused a patch of magnetic field at the edge of the core, deep within the Earth, to be stretched out. This has weakened the Canadian patch and resulted in the pole shifting towards Siberia.

The big question, these scientists say, is whether the pole will ever return to Canada or continue heading south. Livermore explained:

Models of the magnetic field inside the core suggest that, at least for the next few decades, the pole will continue to drift towards Siberia.

However, given that the pole’s position is governed by this delicate balance between the Canadian and Siberian patch, it would take only a small adjustment of the field within the core to send the pole back to Canada.

Bottom line: Scientists studying the drift of Earth’s magnetic north pole have pinpointed a change in the circulation pattern of magnetic blobs deep below Earth’s surface. They’ve learned a change in the flow underneath Canada has caused a patch of magnetic field at the edge of Earth’s core, deep within the Earth, to be stretched out. This has weakened the Canadian patch and resulted in the pole shifting towards Siberia.

• Source: Recent north magnetic pole acceleration towards Siberia caused by flux lobe elongation
• Via ESA
• Read more from the BBC: Scientists explain magnetic pole’s wanderings

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28-05-2020 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

FEATURE: Aliens have likely visited Tayside and Fife, says leading UFO investigator following US military revelations

 by Michael Alexander

As the US military releases videos of ‘unidentified’ flying objects, renowned Scottish UFO investigator and paranormal researcher Malcolm Robinson tells Michael Alexander why, after years of scepticism, he believes aliens have almost certainly visited Tayside and Fife.

When the US Department of Defense released three declassified videos of “unexplained aerial phenomena” at the end of April, the Pentagon said it wanted to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real”.

The videos, which had already been ‘leaked’ in 2007 and 2017, included a 2004 clip filmed by two US Navy fighter pilots which showed a round object hovering above the water, about 100 miles (160 km) out into the Pacific Ocean.

Two other videos filmed in 2014 showed objects moving through the air, one of which is spinning. In one, a pilot is heard saying: “Look at that thing, dude! It’s rotating!”
Inevitably, the videos have rekindled debate about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and conspiracy theories about government.

But do they really point to the existence of alien life?

Renowned Scottish amateur UFO investigator Malcolm Robinson has extensively researched thousands of cases over the past 40 years – including numerous cases in Tayside and Fife.
He says 95% of UFO sightings are explainable by “natural identifiable solutions”.

However, the self-confessed former UFO sceptic puts these American military videos firmly into the 5% unexplained category.
He stands by his now long-held view that “non-human intelligence” has probably been visiting Earth for hundreds if not thousands of years.

“What’s surprising when you look at the US military footage is that it involved a rather large military exercise involving the USS Nimitz – the pilots clearly don’t know what they are looking at, and the speed these things are moving at, around 2400 mph, is quite staggering,” said Mr Robinson.

“We have two possibilities when it comes to explaining what might have happened.

“The first possibility is it’s America’s own ‘black budget’ technology being tested and these film clips were released simply as a way of distraction. The US government and military would be happy for these lights to be masquerading as UFOs, like a smokescreen, knowing full well the video is going to come out.
“Let’s not forget that the stealth bomber was flying in America for 10 years before the American military finally put their hands up and said ‘yep it’s ours’. This had already given rise at the time to many false UFO reports.
“The other possibility is that these truly are UFOs – because similar things have been seen flying in our skies for millennia, right through recorded history. The speeds at which these craft have been described is superior to any Earth-based technology. It’s like tossing a coin I guess. You weigh up the options and you decide what you feel is right.

© UK Ministry of Defence 2019

UK F-35 Lightning jets flying in formation with two B-2 Spirit stealth bombers of the United States Air Force, as part of a deployment to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

“But if you want to know what I truly think, I don’t think it was black budget technology. The immense speed and manoeuvrability of these objects suggest to me we managed to capture something very mysterious on film and I’m just thankful we have that out in the public domain.”
Mr Robinson, a now 63-year-old East Sussex-based former newspaper advertising executive, was always interested in strange phenomena as a small boy growing up in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire.

But as he grew older he felt there was no validity to the claims of ghosts and poltergeists.
In 1979 he decided to start his own group – Strange Phenomena Investigations. His main aim was to disprove and show “what a lot of nonsense” they were. Yet as he learned more, he came “off the fence” and started doing lectures and more media work.

In 1992 he became one of the main investigators for the so-called ‘Bonnybridge Triangle’ multiple UFO sightings. Working with local councillor Billy Buchanan, he concluded 95% of the sightings reported over the Stirlingshire town had identifiable solutions.

The others, however, were less clear cut, and they petitioned Downing Street for answers. Their call for a government inquiry was turned down because the “objects did not pose a threat to the security of the UK”.
It was against this backdrop that he became involved in other investigations.

Mr Robinson said he remains deeply sceptical about many things. But his investigations over the years have thrown up more questions than answers and on balance he is “not embarrassed” to say he now believes in alien life.

“My studies over 40 years have clearly shown to me that we are dealing with a non-human intelligence that’s always been with us,” he said.
“It sounds fanciful. But at the end of the day there’s enough evidence to suggest that things have been seen in our skies – many in Scotland as well – which defy description. They do not conform to classic aircraft design or helicopters.

“They are in the main low level close proximity objects that you could more or less throw a stone at – some of them have been so close.
“The bottom line for me is there is a lot of nonsense out there – a lot of UFOs are misconstrued as the planet Venus, as satellites traversing the night sky etc etc. But believe you me, there is a substance to some of these accounts.

Let’s not forget we laughed at Marconi, we laughed at John Logie Baird with the invention of the television, we laughed at the Wright Brothers.

“What I’m trying to say with these analogies is just because something looks and sounds ridiculous, we shouldn’t laugh at it. Yes, we have to be very careful but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater or the egg could truly be all over our faces.”

TAYSIDE AND FIFE CASES

Throughout history, human kind has always had the desire to learn and know more about the paranormal.
But while investigating reports by “good honest people” over the years, Malcolm Robinson has also had to keep in mind that he’s dealing with human beings and will always look for a rational explanation first. For example, were they drunk or hallucinating? It’s also been suggested film and TV can influence what people think they’ve seen.

Mr Robinson spoke to a former cinema projectionist who, in 1954, was walking in woods near his home in Crieff when he was astonished to observe a “disk shaped object passing overhead at a uniform speed”. It made no noise whatsoever, and it continued on its journey in a northerly direction towards Perth. In prophetic words, the witness stated, “Had I not seen this with my own eyes, I would be an unbeliever about UFOs”.

The book also went into great detail about an incident at Blairgowrie in 1984 when a beam of light “shot out” onto the stomach of a woman doing tapestry work in her garden. Feeling a warm sensation, she looked up into the sky and observed a long translucent object above her house to the east. It was also witnessed by her husband and son who phoned the police. Helicopters later appeared above the house with police, who took soil samples, telling the family they were “conducting tests”….

Yet another unusual shaped UFO was sighted in Dundee in August 1995 when a former member of the Special Forces walking his dog spotted a “cone shaped light” which was coming out from a silver metallic looking object. It’s possible he saw an unusual plasma effect from the afterburner of an RAF Leuchars Tornado, but like most cases of its kind, this sighting remained unidentified.

Following various sightings around Dundee in 1996 – the same year as the alleged ‘Fife incident’ when a family driving near Newton of Falkland claimed they saw a large black triangular shaped ‘craft’ and numerous small grey ‘beings’ in front of some woods – a senior physicist at Dundee University told The Courier: “I would not rule out the possibility that there are aircraft of extra-terrestrial origin”.

The truth is, indeed, out there….

{ https://www.thecourier.co.uk/ }

28-05-2020 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation

28-05-2020 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

What are these mysterious lights in the sky seen from Daanbantayan, Cebu?

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Netizens are curious about unusual lights in the sky captured and shared by a photo enthusiast from Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu on Saturday evening, May 16, 2020.

Photo enthusiast Jack Ponpon captured the strange but beautiful display of lights from Libertad, Bagay, Daanbantayan and shared it on his social media account, creating a bit of a buzz online.

Here are some of the photos of the unusual sightings.

This wasn’t actually the first time the lights showed up.

“Ang first jud ani last week kay nag likod2x ko daplin sa dan then nahibung rako naay 5 ka lights (red, blue, green, white, red n green) nag sigeg blink2x nya dili stationary maong nag duda mi nga star haha,” said Ponpon.

(I first noticed these lights last week while I was sitting along the roadside and I noticed that there were five lights blinking in the skies, colors red, blue, green, white, red and green, so I suspected they were just stars.)

Ponpon even said that his neighbors were also fascinated by the lights in the skies and that they thought it was just Ponpon playing with his drones.

Out of his fascination and curiosity about these lights shining from the sky he took out his camera and took some shots, which he then posted on Sunday evening, May 17.

“It’s week 1 and some of our neighbors still think I was flying my drone for consecutive nights. 🌌 Have you seen some of these strange lights in your neighborhood as well? 🤔,” captioned Ponpon.

Whatever these fascinating lights were, they sure did catch the attention of netizens and the residents in the northern town. It also played with their imaginations, too.

Netizen Miko Butaslac commented on Ponpon’s post:  “Maski ngari sa Cebu City, Jack makakita ko ana permi bya gabie ako work. Unsa kaha na sa?”

(Even here in Cebu City, I see [these lights] always since my work is at night time. What could those be?)

André Erasmo also commented, “3 days nako nag bantay ana kuya Jack, hangtud ron, wa japon ko kaybaw ug unsa na )

(I’ve noticed that for three days, until now, I still don’t know what those are.)

CDN Digital asked the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) in Mactan about these lights but the country’s National Meteorological and Hydrological Services agency hasn’t replied yet  as of this posting.

Stay tuned for updates on this article. /bmjo

Update: 

• Mysterious sky lights seen from Cebu could be due to ‘planetary conjunction’ — Pagasa

Mysterious sky lights seen from Cebu could be due to ‘planetary conjunction’ — Pagasa

MOALBOAL, CEBU — The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) in Mactan may have answers to the “mysterious” lights seen in the sky from Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu.

Netizens were curious about unusual lights in the sky captured and shared by photo enthusiast Jack Ponpon from Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu on Saturday evening, May 16, 2020.

Ponpon captured the strange but beautiful display of lights from Libertad, Bagay, Daanbantayan and shared it on his social media account the day after.

• Read: What are these mysterious lights in the sky seen from Daanbantayan, Cebu?

Asked about this, the country’s National Meteorological and Hydrological Services agency said this could be due to planetary conjuction, a phenomenon where planets “align” in the night sky.

Nedz Saletrero – Deflin, weather specialist of Pagasa-Mactan, told CDN Digital that according to their PAGASA astronomy page, a conjuction of planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Neptune, have been seen lining-up with the waning Moon on May 12 until today, May 18, 2020.

The advisory also revealed that the conjunction of the planets will be observed in the southeastern horizon.

“Jupiter will lie among the background stars of the constellations Sagittarius, the Archer, while Saturn, Mars and Neptune will dwell together among the stars of the constellation Capricornus, the Sea Goat,” the advisory reads.

These “mysterious” lights caught the attention of netizens and the residents in the northern town after it was shared by Ponpon.

{ https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/ }

28-05-2020 om 00:35 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare doughnut-shaped galaxy that has been described as a “cosmic ring of fire”. Locate d approximately 11 billion light-years away from Earth, R5519 is about the same mass as our own Milky Way galaxy. What’s so incredibly strange about R5519 is that studies have indicated that it could possibly be a collisional ring galaxy and if that’s true, it would be the first one that’s ever been discovered in the early Universe.

A team of researchers from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, and Australia studied spectroscopic data of the galaxy from the WM Keck Observatory located in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. (A couple of pictures of R5519 can be seen here.)

Galaxy named R5519 has been described as a 'cosmic ring of fire' by scientists. It is 11 billion light-years away from Earth

The galaxy was imaged using pictures taken by NASA's Hubble Telescope

Lead researcher Tiantian Yuan who is from Australia’s ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) described the galaxy as being a “very curious object” and that it “looks strange and familiar at the same time”.

Milky Way Galaxy

The hole in the middle of the R5519 galaxy is so huge that its diameter measures about two billion times further than Earth is to our sun. And it’s currently quite active as stars are being created at a rate of 50 times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy. “Most of that activity is taking place on its ring, so it truly is a ring of fire,” Yuan said.

In a paper that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the researchers wrote in part, “Contrary to previous predictions, this work suggests that massive collisional rings were as rare 11 Gyr ago as they are today,” adding, “Our discovery offers a unique pathway for studying density waves in young galaxies, as well as constraining the cosmic evolution of spiral disks and galaxy groups.”

Astronomers have identified two types of ring galaxies – one where the hole was formed by internal processes which is the most common type; and the very rare occurrence when one galaxy has a violent collision with another one (called collisional galaxies).

R5519 is about 11 billion light-years away from Earth.

Kenneth Freeman, who is from the Australian National University and is one of the co-authors of the study, explained this further, “The collisional formation of ring galaxies requires a thin disc to be present in the victim galaxy before the collision occurs,” adding, “The thin disc is the defining component of spiral galaxies: before it assembled, the galaxies were in a disorderly state, not yet recognizable as spiral galaxies.”

He went on to explain, “In the case of this ring galaxy, we are looking back into the early Universe by 11 billion years, into a time when thin discs were only just assembling. For comparison, the thin disc of our Milky Way began to come together only about nine billion years ago.” “This discovery is an indication that disc assembly in spiral galaxies occurred over a more extended period than previously thought.”

I wonder if this is what Johnny Cash had in mind when he was singing his hit tune, “Ring of Fire”.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

27-05-2020 om 23:54 geschreven door peter  

It seems that no matter where one travels on Earth (Remember traveling? It will be back soon, just keep wearing masks), you can’t escape mice – the rodent kind, of course. That list now includes on frozen glaciers in Alaska, where researchers looking for microbes – long assumed to be the only things that can survive in the harsh environment – have been finding the ice mysteriously covered with small, green mice moving around in formation on the surface … so many of them that the scientists received funding to study them.

Did he say green mice moving in formation? Is this Earth or Mars? Are they planning an invasion?

“What the heck is this!”

That was the initial scientific assessment of University of Idaho glaciologist Tim Bartholomaus, co-author of the new study published recently in Polar Biology. He was referring to the day in 2006 when he arrived at the Root Glacier near the former mining town of Kennicott-McCarthy, Alaska. What Bartholomaus encountered were hundreds of mouse-sized furry green egg shapes covering the ice. (Photos here.) He bravely touched one and found it was a soft, moss-covered ball of dirt. (Sorry — not like the feature photo.) Upon finding a lack of information on what these might be, Bartholomaus called them “glacier mice” and decided to study them. The first thing he discovered is that the glacier mice are covered with different types of moss. However, the second thing is what prompted the six-year study.

Glacier mice in Iceland.

Ruth Mottram

Glacier mice can be composed of different moss species.

Timothy Bartholomaus

The research team tagged each moss ball with an identifying color sequence of beads to track them over months and years.

Sophie Gilbert

It’s not easy being not green either.

“They really do look like little mammals, little mice or chipmunks or rats or something running around on the glacier, although they run in obviously very slow motion.”

Study co-author and wildlife biologist Sophie Gilbert told NPR that they noticed the balls were in slightly different spots every day. Assuming the cause to be something like the wind that pushes tumbleweeds, they got down and dirty with the fuzzy dirt balls – attaching a thin loop of wire strung with identifying beads around 30 of them. That was in 2009. They measured the movements for 54 days, then left and returned in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and measured them again. The researchers found that the glacier mice were pretty indestructible. And they were surprisingly well-organized.

“We show that glacier moss balls move an average of 2.5 cm per day in herd-like fashion, initially to the south and later towards the southwest, and their movements are positively correlated with glacier ablation. Surprisingly, the dominant moss ball movement direction does not align with the prevailing wind or downslope directions, nor with the dominant direction of solar radiation. After attaining a mature size, glacier moss balls persist for many years, likely in excess of 6 years.”

Bartholomaus told NPR the movement was similar to a school of fish or a flock of birds and defied conventional explanation. They even changed directions and speeds over time. (Video here – not from this study.) The one thing for certain was that the glacier mice needed to move an inch a day so that the moss on their bellies would get sunlight.

Perhaps the movement and moss growth is required to feed their gut microbes. Yes, cutting open a glacier moss exposed water bears (tardigrades) and tiny worms. This fits in with prevailing theories that the microbial ecosystem on the glaciers depends on moss – something that could suffer with climate change.

I’m inside a moss ball? No way!

The team completed the study without going back since 2012 to see the original flock of glacier mice at Root Glacier. Batholomaus is hoping to return soon and see how many of the original group are still ‘alive’ and rolling.

They’re slow and they’re boring, but at least glacier mice don’t leave green mouse droppings everywhere.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

27-05-2020 om 23:36 geschreven door peter  

In the spring of 1959, a U.S. Air Force C-118, now called a Douglas DC-6, was doing training runs at McChord Air Force Base, also called McChord Field, in Pierce County, Washington. On April 1, the large cargo aircraft was doing take offs and landing training, particularly what are called “touch and go” landings, after which the plane would circle back around and do another run. On this day the plane had a very experienced crew, with seasoned pilot 1st Lieutenant Robert Roy Dimick, his co-pilot 1st Lieutenant Thomas E. Lasater, and flight engineers Technical Sergeant Guy J. Cunningham and Staff Sergeant Arthur T. Foote. Everything was going to plan and it was all considered to be pretty routine stuff, but then something very odd would happen that would launch this plane into an obscure but fascinating oddity of UFO history.

During one of the landing runs, the plane was told to hold off and let some approaching fighter jets land, so Dimick brought the aircraft into a holding pattern over nearby Bonney Lake while they waited. At some point during this holding pattern, which was a mundane maneuver the pilot had done many times before, the pilot allegedly suddenly made a panicked radio call, saying “We’ve hit something or something has hit us.” The plane then quickly lost altitude as the pilots struggled to maintain control, finally clipping some treetops in the surrounding wilderness, which heavily damaged the wing. The plane would then continue limping on, spewing flames the whole way, and finally come down just outside the town of Orting, killing everyone on board.

C-118

For the Air Force, there was nothing mysterious about it. They officially explained the crash as due to pilot error and a misunderstanding between the plane and ground control over who was tracking its altitude, all compounded by the fact that it was very dark and there were no ground lights in the wilderness they were over. For the Air Force is was just a tragic accident, move along, nothing to see here. However, some odd details would begin to emerge that seemed to point to something far stranger. In the days after the crash, some locals claimed that they had heard what sounded like sonic booms at around the time of the accident, and there were also some reports of seeing strange lights in the sky in the weeks before and even on the evening in question. When combined with the claim that the pilot had said they had hit something, this started to spawn rumors that the plane might have actually collided with a UFO. According to some researchers, the plane also did not seem to hit the ground at an angle, as one would expect, but rather it has been claimed that it seemed to have almost come down vertically, as if pushed down from above. Also, according to some witnesses there were sinister efforts by the military to quiet local officials in Orting from talking about it.

Pushing it all further into the realm of conspiracies is the fact that the original report on the incident seems to have had two whole pages redacted from it, and numerous requests for the information have allegedly been denied time and time again. Why should that be if this was a simple training accident involving pilot and ground tower error? Also, the doomed plane was flying in calm conditions on a routine run, and suddenly radioed a collision, before going down to take the lives of all aboard. With all of the reports of the lights and sonic booms and other strangeness surrounding this case, is it all as the Air Force says it was, or is there something else more mysterious going on here?

The case of the Bonney Lake incident is fairly obscure, but has all the makings of an intriguing case. What really caused that plane to go down back in 1959? What did those men potentially witness out there while soaring over that swath of wilderness? What did that call mean that they had hit something? What could that have been and how does that tie into the official explanation? Why the redacted pages? Although the military claims it was all an accident, these oddities and discrepancies have made sure that the case has still generated discussion in some circles, and considering we will probably never really know the full story it seems destined to do so for some time to come.

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27-05-2020 om 23:20 geschreven door peter  

Every now and again people contact me about the controversial Alien Autopsy Film that surfaced in 1995. When it was first aired I suspected that the film showed the body of someone who had a rare, strange, medical condition. Various syndromes were put forward by people in the medical community. For a while, I even mused on the possibility of the footage showing a genuine alien. The controversy rumbled on for years. Twenty-five years later, just about everyone in the field of Ufology (including me) takes the view that the whole thing was nothing but a hoax – albeit a very well made hoax, it must be said. There are, however, a few people in Ufology who still cling to the theory that the footage is the real deal – whether of an alien or of a human. They really shouldn’t, though. With that all said, I thought today I would share with you an aspect of the controversy that doesn’t get the coverage it should. At one point in the film, one of those in the autopsy room removes a pair of eye-lenses from the creature. It’s then that we learn the aliens do not have black eyes, after all. Those black eyes are actually just dark lenses that can be peeled off. Their eyes are pretty much like ours, but slightly bigger. This brings us to a certain U.K. television show called UFO.

UFO was a popular sci-fi show that aired in the U.K. in  1970. It ran for 26 episodes. It was the brainchild of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, who also created a bunch of other shows that entertained me when I was a little kid. They included Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, and Stingray. As for the theme of the show, the people at UFO Series.com state the following: “The series is set in what would have been ten years in the future – the early 1980’s. It had been discovered that Aliens are coming to Earth and kidnapping people for unknown reasons. A secret military defense organization named SHADO (‘Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization’) is set up and is just becoming operational in the first episode. SHADO’s main headquarters is secretly hidden beneath a London film studio, and many SHADO personnel double as film studio employees as a cover. SHADO also has a base on the moon (‘Moonbase’) and a fleet of submarines (‘Skydiver’). Incoming UFO’s are detected by an Earth orbiting satellite (‘Space Intruder Detector’, or ‘SID’).”

Gerry Anderson’s U.F.O Wiki note: “To protect their eyes the aliens wear opaque sclera contact lenses with small pinholes for vision. The show’s opening sequence begins by showing the image of one of these contact lenses being removed from an obviously real eye with a small suction cup, even though the lens is not shown in contact with the eye. The entire lens-removal sequence is shown in the pilot episode.” Of particular relevance is the fact that the SHADO team discovers that the aliens’ eyes are not what they appear to be when they perform an autopsy on the human-looking alien. In fact, in UFO the removal of one of the eye-lenses is the very first thing we see in the opening credits of the show!

As I said, the Alien Autopsy Film-UFO connection doesn’t surface too often. In my mind, though, it’s an integral part of the “AA” controversy that has lasted for twenty-five years. I’m sure those who still valiantly hang onto the claim that the film is genuine will find some way to squirm out of all this. And they will probably say that all of the above is just down to coincidence. But, with everything said, the most likely scenario is also the simplest one: certain aspects of UFO inspired the creators of the Alien Autopsy footage.

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27-05-2020 om 23:07 geschreven door peter  

NASA berekende overlevingskansen van twee astronauten die morgen met Crew Dragon van Elon Musk ruimte in geschoten worden - HLN.be

Bron: Business Insider, Corriere Della Sera

Lees ook

SpaceX biedt vier “tickets naar de ruimte” aan

Boezemvrienden

De Crew Dragon luidt een heel nieuwe periode in. SpaceX en vliegtuigbouwer Boeing kregen maar liefst 7,8 miljard dollar van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA om een opvolger voor de Spaceshuttle te ontwerpen. SpaceX was als eerste klaar. In maart vorig jaar slaagde al een eerste onbemande vlucht met de Crew Dragon naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS en nu is het tijd voor een bemande vlucht. Aan boord: Bob Behnken (49) en Doug Hurley (53).

De twee zijn boezemvrienden en hebben er al allebei twee missies met een Spaceshuttle opzitten. Behnken (die afkomstig is uit Missouri) en Hurley (die van New York is) ontmoetten elkaar 20 jaar geleden tijdens hun opleiding bij de NASA. Ze maakten deel uit van NASA Astronaut Group 18, een groep van 17 ruimtevaarders die in 2000 met hun training begonnen. Ze trouwden allebei met een collega-astronaut: Behnken met Megan McArthur en Hurley met Karen Nyberg.

In 2015 werden ze geselecteerd voor de eerste bemande missie van de Crew Dragon en sindsdien zijn ze nog onafscheidelijker. Hurley (een gepensioneerd kolonel bij de marine) zal verantwoordelijk zijn voor de lancering en de terugkeer op aarde van het toestel. Behnken (een ingenieur en kolonel bij de luchtmacht) zal het dokken van de Crew Dragon aan het ISS in goede banen leiden.

De tocht naar het ISS zal overigens nog geen 24 uur duren. Het is nog niet duidelijk hoe lang de twee er zullen verblijven. Dat zal tussen de één en de vier maanden zijn, afhankelijk van het verloop van de missie. “De missie zal zo lang duren als nodig is voor een testvlucht”, klonk het eerder.

Grapjes

Hoe geolied het team is, bleek onder meer op een persconferentie afgelopen vrijdag. Daarop werd niet alleen duidelijk hoe goed de twee technisch op elkaar zijn ingespeeld, maar ook hoe goed ze persoonlijk met elkaar kunnen opschieten. Getuige de grapjes die over en weer vlogen. Zo gaf Behnken toe dat Hurley gevoeliger is voor hygiëne en beter is in Trivial Pursuit.

SpaceX Zo zal het er in de ruimtecapsule uitzien.

SpaceX 

Een beeld van een controlekamer.

Normaal gezien passen er zeven bemanningsleden in de capsule, maar uit veiligheidsoverwegingen zullen nu maar twee astronauten de eerste bemande vlucht maken. De NASA maakte in de aanloop naar de lancering ook een berekening van hoe riskant de missie exact is.

Aan de nieuwssite Business Insider vertelde de ruimtevaartorganisatie dat er een kans is van 1 op 60 dat de missie mislukt zonder dat de bemanning daarbij omkomt. De kans dat de bemanning van de Crew Dragon het niet overleeft, is 1 op 276. En dat blijken beide astronauten prima te vinden. Behnken en Hurley verklaarden al dat ze zich “erg comfortabel” voelen bij de risico’s die ze lopen.

Zorgen

De vluchtleiding maakt zich overigens het meeste zorgen over ruimteafval en micrometeorieten die het toestel kunnen beschadigen. Daarom kreeg het ruimteschip extra bescherming aan de buitenkant. Het zal ook gefotografeerd worden vooraleer het weer vertrekt aan het ISS.

Artistieke impressie van de in-flight abort test

Ter vergelijking: het risico op een fatale missie voor de bemanning van de Spaceshuttles van de NASA was 1 op 68. In totaal werden er 135 missies uitgevoerd met de vijf toestellen van het programma: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis en Endeavour. Twee daarvan liepen fataal af: op 28 januari 1986 ontplofte de Challenger iets meer dan een minuut na de lancering en op 1 februari 2003 onderging de Columbia hetzelfde lot door een beschadiging van het hitteschild bij de terugkeer in onze atmosfeer. Bij allebei de ongevallen kwamen zeven astronauten om het leven.

AP 

Een beeld van de ontploffing van de Challenger in 1986.

AP 

De bemanning van de Challenger: Ellison S. Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Francis R. Scobee, Judy Resnik (bovenaan van links naar rechts), Gregory Jarvis, Ronald E. McNair en Mike Smith (onderaan van links naar rechts).

BELGA/AFP

De verongelukte bemanning van de Columbia: Rick D. Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William C. McCool (vooraan van links naar rechts), David M. Brown, Laurel B. Clark, Michael P. Anderson en Ilan Ramon (achteraan van links naar rechts).

Lees ook: 

• Verbaast Elon Musk de wereld opnieuw? SpaceX lanceert de ‘Crew Dragon’ met Amerikaanse astronauten aan boord (+)

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27-05-2020 om 21:51 geschreven door peter  

Sterrenstelsel ontdekt “dat eigenlijk niet kan bestaan” - HLN.be

Bron: Nature

Lange tijd werd gedacht dat sterrenstelsels zoals de Melkweg geleidelijk aan ontstonden. Astronomen gingen er immers van uit dat heet kosmisch gas samenklonterde. Het duurde vervolgens zeker een paar miljard jaar vooraleer dat gas voldoende afgekoeld zou zijn om sterren te vormen.

Lees ook

Dichtstbijzijnde zwart gat ontdekt, op slechts duizend lichtjaar van aarde

De ontdekking van de ‘Wolfe-schijf’ lijkt die theorie nu echter naar de prullenbak te verwijzen. Het platte sterrenstelsel dook onverwacht op via de meetgegevens van de ALMA-telescoop, ’s werelds grootste ontvanger van kosmische radiosignalen. Opmerkelijk: het natuurfenomeen is ‘slechts’ anderhalf miljard jaar oud. Geen miljarden jaren dus.

Computersimulaties

“Volgens traditionele scenario’s kan dit sterrenstelsel helemaal niet bestaan”, zegt astronoom Marcel Neeleman van het Max Planck-instituut voor astronomie in de Duitse stad Heidelberg. Ter info: het heelal zelf bestaat al 13,8 miljard jaar.

Recente computersimulaties lijken het wel bij het juiste eind te hebben. Zij lieten uitschijnen dat zo’n schijfstelsel geboetseerd kan worden uit koud gas, een proces dat aanzienlijk korter duurt. “Maar niemand wist of die theorie echt klopte. Nu hebben we daar wel zekerheid over gekregen.”

Onder de indruk

Ook astronoom Joop Schaye (Universiteit Leiden) is onder de indruk van de vondst. “We hadden weet van stelsels die 3 miljard jaar na de oerknal ontstaan zijn, maar dit exemplaar is dus twee keer zo jong.”

En de toekomst oogt veelbelovend. “Normaal vinden we sterrenstelsels door te kijken naar het licht van hun sterren. Deze keer hebben onderzoekers net het tegenovergestelde gedaan: ze zochten naar licht dat verdween, door het gas dat zich tussen de sterren bevindt.”

“Met die techniek kunnen we in de toekomst misschien tientallen sterrenstelsels vinden die ook nog eens heel andere kenmerken hebben dan we gewend zijn. En dan kunnen sommige van onze huidige theorieën definitief op de schop.”

Lees ook:

•  Ideaal voor trage lockdownavonden: sterrenkijken voor beginners

The cluster, named IDCS J1426.5+3508

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27-05-2020 om 21:32 geschreven door peter  

China wil in juli missie naar Mars lanceren - HLN.be

Bron: ANP

WETENSCHAP & PLANEET China wil in juli een missie naar Mars lanceren. Een vanop afstand bestuurbare robot moet het oppervlak van de rode planeet gaan verkennen, laat het bedrijf dat het project uitvoert weten. De Marsmissie is een van de vele projecten van China’s peperdure ruimteprogramma. 

De missie naar Mars stond al een tijd op de agenda van de Chinese regering. De China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) heeft nu laten weten dat de missie binnen enkele maanden kan vertrekken. “Het grote project loopt volgens plan en we mikken op een lancering in juli”, liet CASC zondag weten.

Lees ook

NASA zoekt komische astronaut om de sfeer erin te houden tijdens missie naar Mars

55 miljoen kilometer

De missie kreeg de naam Tianwen, wat letterlijk vertaald “vragen aan de hemel” betekent. Het project houdt in dat er een satelliet in een baan rond Mars gaat vliegen en dat een robot het landoppervlak van de planeet gaat verkennen en de bodem gaat analyseren. Het kost naar verwachting maanden om Mars te bereiken. De afstand van de aarde naar Mars bedraagt dan ook ruwweg 55 miljoen kilometer.

China voerde eerder al een soortgelijke maanmissie uit. In januari 2019 lieten de Chinezen als eersten een klein landvoertuig de duistere zijde van het maanoppervlak verkennen. De Verenigde Staten hebben intussen al vier verkenningsvoertuigen naar Mars gestuurd. De bedoeling is dat deze zomer een vijfde vertrekt, die ongeveer in februari volgend jaar moet aankomen. De Verenigde Arabische Emiraten willen hun eerste Arabische Marsmissie lanceren vanuit Japan op 15 juli.

Ruimtestation

Andere doelen van China zijn onder meer om Chinese astronauten op de maan te zetten en in 2022 een eigen ruimtestation te hebben. Het land wil zo op hetzelfde technologische niveau komen als de Verenigde Staten en haar status als wereldmacht onderstrepen.

Lees ook:

• NASA wil maanwater als brandstof gebruiken
• Chinees ruimtetuig slaagt er niet in terug te keren naar de aarde
• Jacht naar (vorig) leven op mars gaat verder: complex plan moet gesteente naar de aarde brengen

Video's , geselecteerd door peter2011

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27-05-2020 om 21:20 geschreven door peter  

Warning: Killer Asteroids Headed Our Way

More news from space you can’t use; this time it’s gravity. Apparently Earth is losing its grip:

Earth’s magnetic field, critical to all life, may be in danger from ‘leaking core’

Of course if you read beyond the sensational headline you will discover that not only is it leaking, “but that it has been for about 2.5 billion years.” So our task is monumental: that’s a helluva curve that needs flattening.

And that’s not even the bad news:

Unexplained anomaly weakening Earth’s magnetic field is EVOLVING and SPLITTING in two, warn scientists

The European Space Agency (ESA) has deployed its constellation of satellites to investigate unusual weaknesses in Earth’s magnetic field. It appears that the strange anomaly believed to be responsible is now evolving and splitting in two.

That’s worse than a mutating virus. But once again, as they say, read the whole thing. If you do you’ll discover that this too is a natural phenomenon and has occurred before, most likely many times.

Indeed, the Earth’s magnetic field is known to flip the poles altogether every few hundred thousand years, and we are now long overdue such a flip. This recent unexplained magnetic activity(in) the Atlantic may be a sign of an impending flip…

It’s completely out of our hands, just like Earth’s previous periodic warming and cooling cycles that have occurred repeatedly over many millennia, but the danger is imminent. And you should be afraid, very, very afraid:

For now, the effects of this anomaly are restricted to technical malfunctions aboard spacecraft and orbital satellites. However, because Earth’s magnetic field shields us from solar winds and cosmic radiation, it’s a critical part of our planetary defense system, along with our atmosphere, which protects us from daily asteroid bombardment.

So until such time as scientists can reach consensus on

1) which one of the poles should be designated ‘North’ in perpetuity,

2) how our burning of fossil fuels is causing the shift currently underway and

3) Al Gore can get in on the selling of magnetic core credits, the entire planet will remain vulnerable to asteroids falling out of the sky due to manmade malfunctioning gravitational forces.

Incoming: killer asteroid!

And we only have 20 years left to figure it out. In the meantime scientists recommend that you take all necessary precautions: stay home as much as you can, wash your hands frequently, wear a facemask and get a hard hat.

© CNET

An artist's impression of the asteroid slamming into the Greenland ice sheet

Source: 

• http://www.michellesmirror.com/2020/05/warning-killer-asteroids-headed-our-way.html

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27-05-2020 om 20:54 geschreven door peter  

US Military's Secret UFO Investigations - We Almost Have Too Much Information

COAST TO COAST AM –

Retired U.K. Ministry of Defence official Nick Pope spoke about his new documentary Aliens at the Pentagon, which untangles the numerous threads of the December 2017 revelation about the US military’s secret UFO investigation– the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

“With the AATIP story,” he remarked, “we almost have too much information,”– the public has been presented with a barrage of details including alleged mystery metals, video footage of anomalous objects, and various players like the wealthy entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, Senator Harry Reid, and rock star Tom DeLonge.

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27-05-2020 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

Locals claim seeing a giant creature on a mountain range near San Luis Potosí's Huasteca Region, Mexico last week and even they photographed the creature with their cellphones. 

Witness report:

"I was with my husband, playing with our child, when we heard a boom, like an explosion. Then we looked toward the hillside, from where we thought the sound originated. We thought it was a landslide," said Mrs. Antonia, who could not believe what her eyes were seeing: a tall, thin man. "Like a giant."

"The time was around five thirty in the afternoon; I was very frightened. My husband mocked me, but when he saw that 'thing' he got scared and said we should get into the house, even though we were far away." This is the account of a young native woman who claims having seen something strange - a large being, immense, looking like a giant. 

Antonia's story matches the testimony given by other residents of the "Ojo de Agua" ejido and adjacent localities in the municipality of Ciudad Valles in San Luis Potosí's Huasteca Region.

The event caused fear and uncertainty among residents of the Tének indigenous region, frightened by the prospect of the giant in the mountains. The news was disseminated through photographs. Given the amount of interest generated, an investigation into the subject has been requested.

According to the statement issued by Agustín Hernández, a representative of the indigenous area, there has been much talk about the enormous figure appearing in the heights of the mountain range. 

Most of the inhabitants of the Tének Mountains, specifically the occupants of the "Ojo de Agua" ejido, have expressed their concern at these events.

The elders are the most given to believe in these subjects, but have remained silent. According to most authorities, there has never been a sighting of this kind before, which has caused a sensation. Other stories suggest an agreement within the tribe to "keep silent."

Thanks to Inexplicata (Translation Scott Corrales, IHU with thanks to Claudio Mora) - Images credit: Inexplicata - el sol de san luis.

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27-05-2020 om 20:17 geschreven door peter  

Hidden details within the many photos NASA releases to the public may be all the proof we need of extraterrestrial civilizations in our solar system. 

Billy Carson, the founder of 4biddenknowledge, heads a team of anomaly hunters who tirelessly pore over every feature in these photos in the pursuit to uncover out of place artifacts strewn about the solar system. 

Take a look at this image, a statue of a human figure, a human face wearing a hat, suggesting that this statue may have been carved by an ancient breakaway civilization that once lived on the planet Mars. 

The next images show what looks like two big hairy creatures, the images left show the back of the being, the images right show a similar being standing behind a rock. 

Could it be that there are still certain (bigfoot) creatures, maybe belonging to an ancient breakaway civilization, walking around on the planet Mars? 

Statue and creatures - link: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/219291.

As we continue to push the limits of disclosure, a number of credible sources are now willing to come forward to confirm what has been discovered in the data released by NASA.

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27-05-2020 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

Flashing lights over Bossier City, Louisiana 5-Jan-2020

Flashing objects were filmed in the sky above Bossier City in Louisiana on 5th January 2020. Some commenters said they could be a part of SpaceX Starlink but those satellites are not flashing!

Similar UFO footage was filmed 1 week ago over UK.

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27-05-2020 om 17:56 geschreven door peter  

Credit: Dr Tiantian Yuan, ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), Hubble Space Telescope

The galaxy, which has roughly the mass of the Milky Way, is circular with a hole in the middle, rather like a titanic doughnut. Its discovery, announced in the journal Nature Astronomy, is set to shake up theories about the earliest formation of galactic structures and how they evolve.

“It is a very curious object that we’ve never seen before,” said lead researcher Dr Tiantian Yuan, from Australia’s ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D). “It looks strange and familiar at the same time.”

The galaxy, named R5519, is 11 billion light-years from the Solar System. The hole at its centre is truly massive, with a diameter two billion times longer than the distance between the Earth and the Sun. To put it another way, it is three million times bigger than the diameter of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87, which in 2019 became the first ever to be directly imaged.

“It is making stars at a rate 50 times greater than the Milky Way,” said Dr Yuan, who is an ASTRO 3D Fellow based at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology, in the state of Victoria.

“Most of that activity is taking place on its ring – so it truly is a ring of fire.”

Working with colleagues from around Australia, US, Canada, Belgium and Denmark, Dr Yuan used spectroscopic data gathered by the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii and images recorded by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to identify the unusual structure.

Publication:

• A giant galaxy in the young universe with a massive ring
  DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-1102-7
  Tiantian Yuan1,2, Ahmed Elagali3,2, Ivo Labbe1, Glenn G. Kacprzak1,2, Claudia del P. Lagos3,2,4, Leo Y. Alcorn5,6, Jonathan H. Cohn5, Kim-Vy H. Tran5,7,2, Karl Glazebrook1,2, Brent A. Groves3,8,2, Kenneth C. Freeman8, Lee R. Spitler9,10,2, Caroline M. S. Straatman11, Deanne B. Fisher1, Sarah M. Sweet1,2,12
• 1 Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia.
• 2 ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), Australia.
• 3 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), M468, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
• 4 Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Denmark.
• 5 George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
• 6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MJ3 1P3.
• 7 School of Physics, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia.
• 8 Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2611, Australia.
• 9 Research Centre for Astronomy, Astrophysics & Astrophotonics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
• 10 Department of Physics & Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
• 11 Sterrenkundige Observatorium, Universiteit Gent, Krijgslaan 281 S9, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
• 12 School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

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27-05-2020 om 00:49 geschreven door peter