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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Say Cheese! Memes Flood Internet After Report Claims NASA Hired 24 Theologians to Study Human Reaction to Aliens
Say Cheese! Memes Flood Internet After Report Claims NASA Hired 24 Theologians to Study Human Reaction to Aliens
NASA has reportedly hired priests and religious experts (theologians) to assess how humans will react if alien life is discovered on another planet.
Memes Flood Internet After Report Claims NASA Hired 24 Theologians to Study Human Reaction to Aliens
Viral News: Needless to say, search for alien life has been a matter of fascination for humankind for centuries. There’s something really alluring and interesting about the unknown which teases our imagination. In a bid to find about the same, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has reportedly hired priests and religious experts (theologians) to assess how humans will react if alien life is discovered on another planet. NASA also wants to assess how such discoveries could impact our ideas of gods and creation, New York Post reported.Also Read - From New Virus, Tsunami to Alien Attack: Here Are Blind Mystic Baba Vanga's Predictions For 2022
According to reports, the agency is hiring 24 theologians to take part in its program at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University in New Jersey, which NASA gave a $1.1 million grant to in 2014. The programme aims to assess how the world’s major religions would react to the news that life exists in worlds beyond our own. It also aims to answer questions that have been puzzling us for a long time, such as, What is life? What does it mean to live? Where do we draw the line between humans and aliens? Is it possible that life exists elsewhere?
Meanwhile, the news has sparked a lot of curiosity, humour and memes (of course) on Twitter. Many were excited at the possibility of human contact with aliens, while others didn’t support the idea of hiring priests and bringing religion in the picture.
In October, the Australian Space Agency and NASA signed a deal to send an Australian-made rover to the moon under the Artemis program, with a goal to collect lunar rocks that could ultimately provide breathable oxygen on the moon.
Although the moon does have an atmosphere, it’s very thin and composed mostly of hydrogen, neon, and argon. It’s not the sort of gaseous mixture that could sustain oxygen-dependent mammals such as humans.
That said, there is actually plenty of oxygen on the moon. It just isn’t in a gaseous form. Instead it’s trapped inside regolith—the layer of rock and fine dust that covers the moon’s surface. If we could extract oxygen from regolith, would it be enough to support human life on the moon?
The Breadth of Oxygen
Oxygen can be found in many of the minerals in the ground around us. And the moon is mostly made of the same rocks you’ll find on Earth (although with a slightly greater amount of material that came from meteors).
Minerals such as silica, aluminum, and iron and magnesium oxides dominate the moon’s landscape. All of these minerals contain oxygen, but not in a form our lungs can access.
On the moon these minerals exist in a few different forms including hard rock, dust, gravel, and stones covering the surface. This material is the result of impacts of meteorites crashing into the lunar surface over countless millennia.
Some people call the moon’s surface layer lunar “soil,” but as a soil scientist I’m hesitant to use this term. Soil as we know it is pretty magical stuff that only occurs on Earth. It has been created by a vast array of organisms working on the soil’s parent material—regolith, derived from hard rock—over millions of years.
The result is a matrix of minerals which were not present in the original rocks. Earth’s soil is imbued with remarkable physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. Meanwhile, the materials on the moon’s surface are basically regolith in its original, untouched form.
One Substance Goes In, Two Come Out
The moon’s regolith is made up of approximately 45 percent oxygen. But that oxygen is tightly bound into the minerals mentioned above. In order to break apart those strong bonds, we need to put in energy.
You might be familiar with this if you know about electrolysis. On Earth this process is commonly used in manufacturing, such as to produce aluminum. An electrical current is passed through a liquid form of aluminum oxide (commonly called alumina) via electrodes, to separate the aluminum from the oxygen.
In this case, the oxygen is produced as a byproduct. On the moon, the oxygen would be the main product, and the aluminum (or other metal) extracted would be a potentially useful byproduct.
It’s a pretty straightforward process, but there is a catch: it’s very energy hungry. To be sustainable, it would need to be supported by solar energy or other energy sources available on the Moon.
Extracting oxygen from regolith would also require substantial industrial equipment. We’d need to first convert solid metal oxide into liquid form, either by applying heat, or heat combined with solvents or electrolytes. We have the technology to do this on Earth, but moving this apparatus to the Moon—and generating enough energy to run it—will be a mighty challenge.
Earlier this year, Belgium-based startup Space Applications Services announced it was building three experimental reactors to improve the process of making oxygen via electrolysis. They expect to send the technology to the Moon by 2025 as part of the European Space Agency’s in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) mission.
How Much Oxygen Could the Moon Provide?
That said, when we do manage to pull it off, how much oxygen might the Moon actually deliver? Well, quite a lot as it turns out.
If we ignore oxygen tied up in the Moon’s deeper hard rock material—and just consider regolith which is easily accessible on the surface—we can come up with some estimates.
Each cubic meter of lunar regolith contains 1.4 tons of minerals on average, including about 630 kilograms of oxygen. NASA says humans need to breathe about 800 grams of oxygen a day to survive. So 630 kilograms of oxygen would keep a person alive for about two years (or just over).
Now let’s assume the average depth of regolith on the Moon is about ten meters, and that we can extract all of the oxygen from this. That means the top ten meters of the Moon’s surface would provide enough oxygen to support all eight billion people on Earth for somewhere around 100,000 years.
This would also depend on how effectively we managed to extract and use the oxygen. Regardless, this figure is pretty amazing!
Having said that, we do have it pretty good here on Earth. And we should do everything we can to protect the blue planet—and its soil in particular—which continues to support all terrestrial life without us even trying.
The James Webb Space Telescope, shown in this artist's illustration, successfully unfolded its mirrors and sunshield after launch.
Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez/NASA GSFC/CIL
After several tense days of unfurling and clicking its various parts into place, the biggest and most sophisticated space telescope ever launched is now complete.
On 8 January, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope slowly swung the last 3 of its 18 hexagonal mirror segments into position, locking them together into one 6.5-metre-wide, gold-coated cosmic eye. The move capped an essentially flawless two weeks of engineering manoeuvres — the most complex astronomical deployments ever attempted in space — since the telescope’s Christmas Day launch.
“The Webb deployments have been perfect,” says Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s astrophysics division in Washington DC.
“I am feeling absolutely elated," says Antonella Nota, the European Space Agency's project scientist for Webb. "We are now all part of history as we watch this magnificent machine getting ready to explore the Universe.”
The US$10-billion observatory still faces many significant tasks, such as aligning its mirror segments and calibrating its 4 scientific instruments. But it has finished the riskiest engineering moves, without which it would have been inoperable. Those include deploying a kite-shaped, tennis-court-sized sunshield to shade the telescope from the Sun’s heat, and positioning its primary and secondary mirrors to capture light from stars, galaxies and other cosmic objects.
Photons are now bouncing between Webb’s mirrors, making it an operational observatory. “This is unbelievable,” said Bill Ochs, NASA’s project manager for Webb, in a 5 January webcast from mission control at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. “We actually have a telescope.”
Smooth moves
Webb, which launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is now more than one million kilometres from Earth. It should reach its final destination, a gravitationally stable point in space known as L2, on 23 January. From there, it will study astronomical phenomena such as the most distant galaxies in the Universe, newborn stars enshrouded in dust and the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
Unlike its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb detects infrared wavelengths of light. That allows it to peer into previously unexplored realms, but also requires it to work at extremely cold temperatures, so that it can spot faint heat signals coming from the distant Universe. Webb’s sunshield is crucial to achieving that frigidity.
Engineers on Earth test the sunshield opening up in this high-speed footage.
Credit: NASA
That’s why many scientists were most nervous about opening it and stretching it into place. After launch, Webb had to unfold two rectangular pallets containing the sunshield, unroll its protective covers, pull it into a kite shape and finally tug its five gossamer layers to be taut. The process had been tested multiple times in a laboratory on Earth, but never in zero gravity in space, which could have introduced unexpected problems.
“I think I was just nervous about deploying something big and floppy,” Hertz says. No other space observatory has had such a shield, so it is “new and unfamiliar”, he adds.
Any step could have failed dramatically, but none did. Webb pulled the last of its sunshield layers into the correct tension on 4 January. “There was a lot of joy — a lot of relief,” said Hillary Stock, an engineer with Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, which designed and built the sunshield. After that, Hertz says, he wasn’t nervous anymore.
But other scientists were anxious until the next day, when Webb deployed its secondary mirror. This process involved extending a giant hinged tripod out in front of the telescope’s primary mirror to lock its 74-centimetre-wide secondary mirror into place. Light bounces off the concave primary mirror and hits the convex secondary mirror, which focuses the light and sends it back through a small hole in the primary mirror and into the scientific instruments for analysis. Once the secondary mirror was deployed, Webb became an operational telescope by definition.
Cool it now
The last major step came at 10:29 a.m. US Eastern time on 8 January, when the final segment of the primary mirror swung into place. That mirror is so large that, like the sunshield, it had to be folded up for launch to fit atop the Ariane 5 rocket that carried it to space.
Other successful deployments during the past two weeks include swinging out a radiator that will funnel excess heat away from the telescope’s scientific instruments and dump it into space.
Next up, Webb will begin tweaking the positions of the primary mirror’s 18 segments to align them to properly focus light that they collect. The telescope also continues to cool down towards its operating temperature of around 40 °C above absolute zero, or –233 °C. It is currently nearly –200 °C on its cold side, behind the sunshield.
After Webb reaches L2 in about two weeks, it will have around five more months of set-up before it can start returning science results. "I cannot wait to see the first data," Nota says.
Webb took three decades to develop and repeatedly ate into NASA’s budget. The European and Canadian space agencies are also partners in the project.
NASA SAYS SPACE DEBRIS WILL DEFINITELY SLAM INTO THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
NASA SAYS SPACE DEBRIS WILL DEFINITELY SLAM INTO THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
IT'S ALL PART OF THE PLAN.
ADRIANA MANRIQUE GUTIERREZ/NASA
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is “fully deployed,” according to the agency’s science administrator Thomas Zurbuchen — and that’s certainly a reason to celebrate after decades of hard work and tens of billions of dollars spent.
But the massive space observatory isn’t out of the woods just yet. As it spins around the Sun in a chaotic orbit, it will likely encounter plenty of space debris along the way — and an impact, its team says, is likely inevitable.
“Some small impacts from micrometeorites will happen,” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Michelle Thaller said during a livestream over the weekend. “You know, over the lifetime of the mission there will be some damage to the mirrors of the telescope.”
The telescope itself is indeed vulnerable, but the team says it’s likely it’ll be able to survive some damage.
“Let’s say a piece of debris hits it,” said Julie Van Campen, a NASA engineer, during the stream. “And then we had a problem like that broke a mirror.”
In terms of protection, there’s “not much,” she explained. “What you see is what you get.”
However, Van Campen said, if a micrometeor were to rip a tear into the telescope’s protective sunshield there would be at least four more layers to keep the shield together.
“It was part of our lifetime calculations,” she added.
Things could get pretty hairy for the JWST team back on the ground, though, as there is no way to actually service the observatory in person. That’s unlike NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which the agency’s Space Shuttle visited five times between 1993 and 2009 for repairs and upgrades.
But there’s one crucial difference: Hubble was operating in a much more cluttered orbit in low-Earth orbit. The JWST will be orbiting the Sun at L2 (Lagrange Point 2), a far more distant location that allows it to form a straight line with the Earth and Sun.
“It’s actually a very nice place to be,” Thaller explained during the stream, adding that it is a “cleaner place when it comes to space junk.”
Fortunately, engineers have thought ahead and also built in some additional redundancies. The telescope’s mirrors, for instance, are designed to take some damage without forcing its scientific endeavors to grind to halt.
NASA has set the ambitious goal of having the JWST last for at least ten years, a number that’s primarily limited by the amount of fuel the telescope needs to keep itself in orbit and running its instruments.
For now, the pressure is off. Engineers pulled off a huge feat with the telescope’s unfolding, a harrowing process that involves hundreds of steps.
But space debris and meteorites will always be a threat — even when extra precautions are being taken.
The “most eccentric” exoplanet ever found has been detected by a team of international researchers led by the University of Bern. This exoplanet, which has been named TOI-2257 b, is a “sub-Neptune” which means that it is smaller than the furthest planet in our Solar System.
Thanks to data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a small red dwarf star was found and studied for four months. Experts were able to gather important additional data by using the SAINT-EX telescope in Mexico. TOI-2257 b was detected by the transit method which means that it was seen passing in front of its host star by causing a dip in the red dwarf’s brightness.
(Not TOI-2257 b)
The researchers found that the exoplanet has a short orbital period and may possibly have water as explained by the University of Bern, “With its 35-day orbital period, TOI-2257 b orbits the host star at a distance where liquid water is possible on the planet, and therefore conditions favorable for the emergence of life could exist.” But don’t get excited yet, as there probably isn’t any life since its radius is approximately 2.2 times bigger than Earth’s which “suggests that the planet is rather gaseous, with high atmospheric pressure not conducive to life.”
Nicole Schanche from Bern University noted, “In terms of potential habitability, this is bad news,” adding, “While the planet’s average temperature is comfortable, it varies from -80°C to about 100°C depending on where in its orbit the planet is, far from or close to the star.”
Another discovery they made was that the planet has a very odd orbit around its star. “We found that TOI-2257 b does not have a circular, concentric orbit,” Schanche said. It has even been described as being the “most eccentric planet” that has ever been found orbiting a cool star.
(Not TOI-2257 b)
As for why it has such an unusual orbit, one possibility is that there could be a massive planet located further away from the star which is affecting the orbit of TOI-2257 b. However, that is just a theory for now as further analysis needs to be conducted in order to know for sure.
For the first time ever, researchers from Northwestern University and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) watched as a red supergiant star died out and went supernova. In fact, they were able to observe the star during the last 130 days of its life prior to exploding. The massive star, which was about ten times larger than our sun, was located in the NGC 5731 Galaxy which is approximately 120 million light-years away from us.
Based on previous observations, it was thought that red supergiant stars were pretty much dormant prior to going supernova; however, this latest observation has completely changed that theory. Throughout the last months before the star exploded, observations detected bright radiation from it. This means that the internal part of the star would have went through a lot of changes just before emitting gas and collapsing.
The star was first spotted during the summer of 2020 by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for AstronomyPan-STARRS on Haleakalā, Maui. Then just a short time later, during the fall of that year, the star went supernova. Researchers were able to watch this supernova, which has been named 2020tlf (or SN 2020tlf), by using the W.M. Keck Observatory’s Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi.
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, who is the lead author of the study, discussed the significance of watching the star just before it exploded, “This is a breakthrough in our understanding of what massive stars do moments before they die,” adding, “Direct detection of pre-supernova activity in a red supergiant star has never been observed before in an ordinary type II supernova. For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode.”
Raffaella Margutti, who is an adjunct associate professor at CIERA and the senior author of the paper, described the moments before the explosion, “It’s like watching a ticking time bomb.” “We’ve never confirmed such violent activity in a dying red supergiant star where we see it produce such a luminous emission, then collapse and combust, until now.”
Jacobson-Galán finished off by stating how this observation will affect future research in regards to the moments prior to a star going supernova, “Detecting more events like SN 2020tlf will dramatically impact how we define the final months of stellar evolution, uniting observers and theorists in the quest to solve the mystery on how massive stars spend the final moments of their lives.” Their study was published in The Astrophysical Journal where it can be read in full.
A short video depicting the supernova can be viewed here.
Britten vinden grote en bijna complete ‘zeedraak’ van 180 miljoen jaar oud: “Eén van de beste fossielenvondsten in het Verenigd Koninkrijk ooit”
Britten vinden grote en bijna complete ‘zeedraak’ van 180 miljoen jaar oud: “Eén van de beste fossielenvondsten in het Verenigd Koninkrijk ooit”
Een grote prehistorische ‘zeedraak’ die is teruggevonden in de Engelse Midlands wordt omschreven als één van de beste fossielenvondsten in de geschiedenis van de Britse paleontologie. Het gaat over een ‘ichthyosaurus’, dat waren enorme zeereptielen die miljoenen jaren geleden in onze wateren leefden. Het g
evonden exemplaar is maar liefst 180 miljoen jaar oud.
Het fascinerende fossiel werd ontdekt in februari 2021, tijdens een routineuze drooglegging van een lagune-eiland bij het waterreservoir van Rutland, nabij de stad Leicester. Het skelet is zo’n 10 meter lang, de schedel weegt ongeveer een ton. Het gaat om het grootste en meest complete fossiel in zijn soort ooit bovengehaald in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, schrijft de Britse krant The Guardian maandag.
Ichtyosaurussen, die ook wel ‘zeedraken’ worden genoemd door hun erg grote en angstwekkende tanden en ogen, verschenen voor het eerst zo’n 250 miljoen jaar geleden en raakten zo’n 90 miljoen jaar geleden uitgestorven. Ze varieerden in grootte tussen 1 tot wel 25 meter. Als je kijkt naar de algemene lichaamsbouw van de zeewezens lijken ze het meest op enorme dolfijnen, met agressievere kenmerken.
De eerste ichtyosaurussen werden in de vroege 19de eeuw ontdekt door de beroemde Engelse fossielenjager en paleontoloog Mary Anning. Nu mag Joe Davis van het ‘Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust’ zich de ontdekker van dienst noemen.
De resten werden in augustus en september door een team van experten uit heel het Verenigd Koninkrijk uitgegraven. In de jaren 70 werden tijdens de constructie van het waterreservoir in het natuurreservaat van Rutland overigens al eens twee onvolledige en veel kleinere ichtyosaurussen gevonden. Maar de recentste onthulling is veel groter, en ook het eerste complete exemplaar.
Dean Lomax, een paleontoloog die al jaren de soort bestudeert en de kolos mee opgroef, legt bij The Guardian het belang van de vondst uit: “Hoewel er meerdere fossielen van deze zeereptielen zijn teruggevonden in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, is de ichtyosaurus van Rutland het grootste skelet dat hier ooit is blootgelegd. Het is werkelijk een ongeëvenaarde ontdekking en één van de grootste vondsten in de Britse paleontologische geschiedenis.”
Mark Evans van de Britse overheidsorganisatie ‘British Antarctic Survey’ bestudeert al meer dan 20 jaar specifiek de reptielenfossielen uit Rutland en Leicestershire. Hij zegt dat het al vanaf de eerste glimp van het gedeeltelijk blootgelegde fossiel duidelijk was dat het om de grootste ontdekking in de regio ooit ging. “Het was echter pas na onze verkennende opgraving dat we beseften dat het fossiel praktisch compleet was, van top tot teen.”
Nadat het fossiel zorgvuldig door het team was opgegraven, werd het kwetsbare skelet in een gipsen omhulsel met houten spalken gewikkeld, meldt watermaatschappij Anglian Water nog, de beheerder van het waterreservoir van Rutland. “Deze conserveringsmethode biedt extra bescherming voor de overblijfselen en maakte het mogelijk om ze in delen van de grond te tillen en veilig naar een onderzoeksfaciliteit te verplaatsen voor verdere analyse.” De maatschappij hoopt de vondst na onderzoek tentoon te kunnen stellen.
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Ross Coulthart UFOs Journalism Investigating the UAP Story!
Ross Coulthart UFOs Journalism Investigating the UAP Story!
Ross Coulthart is an investigative journalist, most recently for Australian news and current affairs program 60 Minutes on Channel Nine. He was previously chief investigations reporter for the Sunday Night news program. Coulthart has won five prestigious Walkley journalism awards, including the most coveted top award for Australian journalism.And has recently been heavily involved in investigating UFO’s.
REMEMBER THE “MOON CUBE”? CHINA JUST PUBLISHED A NEW PHOTO AND UHHHHH
REMEMBER THE “MOON CUBE”? CHINA JUST PUBLISHED A NEW PHOTO AND UHHHHH
THIS IS WHAT WE GET FOR GETTING OUR HOPES UP.
CNSA
Dark Side of the Moon
It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to what appeared to be a bizarre cube on the Moon — and just like that, now it turns out the object was little more than an optical illusion.
As SpaceNews correspondent Andrew Jones tweeted, the latest Chinese images of the “Moon Cube” from closer up now show that the mysterious object appears to be… well, a perfectly normal Moon rock. Sorry, folks. Sometimes space is boring.
“Oh, this is amazing,” Jones wrote. “Close to tears.”
Moonsta Hut
The latest photos of the “mystery hut,” as it was originally known in Chinese media, show that this relatively small rock sitting on the edge of a lunar crater isn’t extraordinary in any way — and as the SpaceNews reporter wrote, the newly-dubbed “jade rabbit” is “so underwhelming it’s brilliant.”
“The Moon’s surface is 38 million square kilometres of rocks, so it would have been astronomically exceptional for it to be anything else,” Jones wrote in a subsequent tweet. “But while small, the jade rabbit/玉兔 rock will also be a monumental disappointment to some.”
Galaxy Brain
Before this underwhelming discovery, conspiracy theories about the Moon Cube abounded, with netizens half-jokingly comparing it to the scourge of monoliths that plagued Earth in the first pandemic summer, and others still advising the Chinese Yutu 2 rover to “go back in the other direction” and avoid it as if contaminated.
There was always a great likelihood that the cube was going to be a plain ol’ rock. But this does, if nothing else, set a hilarious tone for what’s gearing up to be a huge year in space exploration.
CHINA SAYS ITS LANDER HAS DETECTED WATER ON THE MOON
CHINA SAYS ITS LANDER HAS DETECTED WATER ON THE MOON
HYDRATION STATION!
GETTY / FUTURISM
Drink Up
A global team of scientists led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing says they’ve detected water under the surface of the Moon using data the China National Space Administration provided from the country’s Chang’e-5 lander — a stunning technical achievement on its own, as the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976.
The team used a panoramic camera, lunar mineralogical spectrometer (LMS) and lunar penetrating radar to look for evidence of water, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances this week in collaboration with researchers from the National Space Science Center of CAS, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of CAS and Nanjing University.
“It’s like a ‘field trip’ out on the Moon, the first opportunity to detect signs of water at close range and high resolution on the lunar surface,” said lead author and Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Lin Honglei, according to a statement obtained by the South China Morning Post.
It’s Complicated
The team observed signals indicating the presence of water in reflectance spectral data acquired by the Chang’e-5 lander. The theory is that solar wind has gradually swept hydrogen atoms toward the Moon, according to SCMP‘s reporting, where it
We’ll be honest. Given the recent Moon cube moment that turned out to be — like we suspected — a humble rock, we’re a little skeptical of any big space claims by China. But scientists have long suspected that there’s likely ice and water on the Moon — and, if the research holds up, water would be a tantalizing resource for a long-term presence on the Moon by human astronauts.
The first humans emerged on Earth about 4 million years ago, but new evidence from the study of human evolution has revealed compelling evidence that a small group of these hominins was genetically modified by ancient alien visitors to create the first Homo sapiens.
Researcher and author Daniella Fenton has thoroughly analyzed humanity’s earliest origins and its sudden acceleration in brain development nearly 800,000 years ago, and this research has led to a major revelation.
“Homo sapiens is the creation of ancient astronauts who came through a wormhole in the Pleiades star cluster more than 780,000 years ago.”
The Australian researcher, an expert in equine lineages and gene expression, discovered numerous genetic changes that mark humans as abnormal when compared to modern primate species, some so extreme that they are best explained by advanced genetic engineering.
In her book, titled “Human Hybrids: Scientific Evidence for Our 800,000-Year-Old Alien Legacy,” Daniella Fenton highlights a series of profound changes in genes associated with brain size, neural structures, and information processing.
These changes include suddenly appearing genes made up of so-called ‘junk DNA’ and gene fragments that have been snipped, copied, and reinserted.
Fenton points to the mysterious fusion of chromosome 2 at the same time as these other changes, about 780,000 years ago, as further evidence of extraterrestrial experimentation.
This fusion is found in all large-brained human types, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, but not in any other primate species.
She explains that the chromosome 2 fusion should have been a one-time mistake that disappeared in the next generation or perhaps led to a small population of people with 46 chromosomes among a more substantial number of those carrying 48.
Instead, all humans after 780,000 years ago exhibited the ‘mutation’.
This strongly infers that there was an enormous benefit associated with the fusion and that it appeared suddenly in a considerable number of individuals, allowing chromosome 2 to become a permanent and dominant trait.
This does not match the known natural mutations in the human genome. Fenton explains:
“Someone created an entire generation of breeding pairs that carried the chromosome-2 fusion. The chromosomal modification is such that it would have an impact on the development of the brain, the immune system and the reproductive processes ”.
Humans also have unique changes in the FOXP2 gene that changed synaptic connectivity and improved our ability to transform new experiences into routine procedures, this had a huge influence on our ability to produce meaningful speech.
Fenton points out that this change is not observed in other primates and it seems that our creators wanted us to be able to quickly form new habitual behaviors in the use of particularity language.
“It is not only genetic changes 780,000 years ago that inform us that Homo sapiens is a species created by alien beings, we have also identified physical material left behind by these stars, materials dated to the same specific point in time.”
In addition, he offers a detailed explanation of why these visitors ended up abandoned here and the motivations that led them to modify the first hominids in his book “Human Hybrids: Scientific Evidence for Our 800,000-Year Alien Legacy.”
The story of Christa Tilton, a resident of the American state of New Mexico, is one of those rare cases where victims of alien abductionremember a lot of details of what happened to them and what they saw.
The Alien Abduction Of Christa Tilton
This happened in July 1987, when Christa Tilton suddenly “passed out” in the afternoon, and when she regained consciousness, she found that she had “disappeared” for three hours, during which she did not know where she was and what happened to her.
At first, she did not give it much concern, thinking that she had passed out from fatigue or something else. But soon she began to suffer from nightmares, in which she saw strange things but felt a strong fear. And somehow, Tilton decided that these nightmares were the result of her “lost” three hours.
This led Christa Tilton to look for similar cases that happened to other people, after which she realized that she could be a victim of alien abduction. And then Tilton, on the advice of one of the ufologists, decided on regressive hypnosis.
During the hypnosis sessions, a whole wave of lost memories, very vivid and detailed, washed over her. The first thing Christa Tilton remembered was that she had not just lost consciousness, but this happened after two small humanoid creatures approached her and grabbed her by the arms.
Her next memory was that she was inside the “ship” on the table and another humanoid approached her, whom she later gave the nickname “guide”.
Christa Tilton’s Drawing Of Aliens
He gave her a glass of some liquid and told her to drink, and when Tilton drank, she immediately felt incredibly cheerful and “charged with energy.” After that, the humanoid took her out of the “ship” and she found herself in a deserted area next to a small hill.
“It was dark, but I saw a faint light near what looked like a cave. We approached this place, and then I saw a man (or a very humanoid-like one) dressed in a red military-style jumpsuit, like the pilots. Mine the guide seemed to know the man because he greeted him as we got closer, and I noticed that he had some sort of patch on his uniform and that he was carrying an automatic weapon.
When we entered the cave, we found ourselves in a tunnel and I realized that we were going directly under a large hill or mountain. There we were met by another guard in red, and then I saw a computerized checkpoint with two cameras on each side. To my left there was a large groove where a small transit vehicle was parked. To my right, it looked like a long corridor with many offices.
We got into a transit car and, it seemed, took a very long time to drive to another protected area. Then I was told to stand on some kind of scale-like device facing the computer screen. I saw the lights flash and some calculations were done, and then a card was issued with holes punched in it. Later I realized that it was used for identification inside the computer.
I asked my guide where we were going and why. He replied sparingly that he should show me some things that I need to know for future use. Then he told me that we had just entered the first level of the “institution.” I asked what institution it was, but he did not answer. “
Christa Tilton
The guide then took her to a large elevator with no door and they went downstairs, while she noticed that they were going down to “Level 2”.
There were offices and seemingly ordinary people who walked back and forth, seemingly not paying any attention to the presence of Tilton and the guide, just going about their business, as if they were not there.
All this looked more like an ordinary office building if you do not pay attention to the armed guards in colored overalls, standing everywhere, and at some point, Christa Tilton and the conductor walked past what looked like some kind of huge factory, next to which there was a transport a medium similar to a small “flying saucer”.
When she looked at this factory and the strange ship, she saw the typical “Gray Aliens” handling the ship’s maintenance, who also ignored her as if she had every right to be there in this world.
After that, Christa Tilton was transferred to another elevator to Level 5, where she was asked to change. By this point, she began to experience intense fear, but her guide assured her that nothing bad would happen to her. She put on a hospital gown, was weighed, and scanned with some kind of electrical device, after which she was escorted past another security post and down another corridor.
Drawing Of The Facility By Christa Tilton
It was here that a wave of overwhelming stench suddenly hit her, similar, according to Tilton, to the strong smell of formaldehyde. She knew what formaldehyde smelled like because she worked as a nurse when she was young.
The guide assured her that everything was in order, but the smell was very depressing.
“We approached a large room and I stopped to look inside. I saw huge large tanks with computerized sensors attached to them and a huge hand-like device that extended from the top of some tube down into the tanks. The tanks were about 4 feet high, so from where I was, I could not see what was inside them.
I heard a humming sound, and it looked like something was moving inside the tanks. I began to approach the containers, and just then my guide grabbed my hand and dragged me roughly into the corridor. He told me that there was no need to see the contents of the containers and added that this would only complicate matters.
We walked down the hall, and then he led me into a large laboratory. I was amazed because I used to work in a laboratory and here I saw equipment that I had never seen before. At some point, I turned around and saw a small Gray creature standing with its back to me, who was doing something at the counter. I heard the clink of metal on metal. I heard a similar sound when I was preparing surgical instruments for my doctor in surgery. “
Christa Tilton
Then Tilton was ordered to sit on a table in the middle of the room, and now she again had a very strong feeling that something was wrong, fear began to grip her harder. While she sat and thought about what to do and what was happening, a human doctor entered the room, greeted the guide, and then looked at Tilton:
“My guide smiled at me and said that he would wait outside, and I would only be there for a few minutes. I cried. I cry when I’m scared. The gray alien looked at me and turned to continue what he was doing. The doctor called an additional help, and then another gray alien entered.
The next thing I remember, I was very sleepy. I knew that they were examining my body outside and inside, and when I looked up, I saw this terrible gray alien looking at me with big black eyes. It was then that I first felt stabbing pain. I screamed, and then a human doctor stood next to me and rubbed something on my stomach. It was cold. The pain subsided immediately.
I could not believe that this was happening to me and that it was happening over and over again. I begged them to let me go, but they continued to work methodically. When they finished, I was told to get up, go to the small room and change. I noticed blood between my legs, as if I had started my period, but I just continued to dress and when I left, I saw that my guide was talking to the doctor in the corner of the room.
I just stood there, completely helpless. Then I felt more lonely than ever in my life. I also felt like a guinea pig. When we left the laboratory, I was silent. I was angry with the guide for letting this happen to me. But he said it was necessary. Then he said that I would forget it.
I saw other aliens walking past us along the corridor. Again, I was like a ghost to them, they didn’t notice me. I asked my guide to explain to me what this place is. He said that this is a very important place and that I will be returning here in the next few years. “
Christa Tilton
Then Tilton got into the transit car with her guide again, and they drove to where Tilton saw the most frightening thing in all this time:
“I saw what seemed to me to be people of various types, they were standing against the wall inside a transparent chamber that looked like a pipe. I came closer and it seemed to me that they were wax figures. I cannot understand what I saw there.
I also saw animals in cages. They were alive. They looked like they were in suspended animation. I went to the transparent cells in which they were kept. I put my hands on the glass and leaned over to see if I could get some kind of answer. But no, I could not understand whether they were alive or dead at that moment.
They just didn’t move, and I couldn’t see if there was a liquid in the cells, like formaldehyde. I think there was no liquid in this particular case. “
Christa Tilton
Thereafter, her guide took her back to the waiting alien ship that had abducted her, and she was taken to where she was found and her memory erased.
The recollection of this experience under hypnosis marked the beginning of Tilton’s compulsive search for answers to the question of what happened to her. Although she was never told directly where she was taken, she concluded that she was most likely taken to that very secret underground base near Dulce, New Mexico.
The site has been the center of all sorts of conspiracy theories since at least the 1970s and is a hotbed of UFO activity, cattle mutilation, and talk of top-secret underground bases.
In addition to this, Tilton claims that after this initial experience, she was abducted several more times and taken to various underground facilities that she claims exist thanks to the government in various locations in the United States.
“I am aware of many, many, many underground structures or bases that are used for different purposes. Most of the underground bases are used for secret or other purposes involving the government, which conduct certain types of tests underground.
And then there are bases, one, in particular, north of Tucson, Arizona, where I am almost sure that I was taken, it passes under the code or real name “Evergreen Aviation”. They have all the flying objects there and in ten years of research I have found that this institution is founded or supported by the CIA.
Once I got very close to this object, I climbed over a wire fence and made my way there with my pilot friend, after which I took some great pictures of black helicopters. These black helicopters are unmarked. There were other types of aircraft there, and so we really believe that there are many secret bases in many states. I have heard of such bases in almost every state in the United States. “
Christa Tilton
Later, Christa Tilton wrote a book about her experience in Dulce, which is directly called “Underground Alien Biolaboratory in Dulce”, and talked a lot about these underground bases and aliens in general.
Over the years, her stories about it became more and more bizarre. In particular, Tilton assured that she was repeatedly used as a “birthing machine” to produce hybrid children. And that she is probably a hybrid herself.
She has written extensively about her encounters with various types of alien beings, including what she calls “light beings,” reptiles, Nordics, and many others. All of these creatures have repeatedly told Tilton about the mission of aliens on Earth – from supporters of strict laissez-faire to imperialist factions wishing to conquer Earth.
Tilton was especially frightened by the Gray humanoids.
“The Grays seem to have a massive collective consciousness. I noticed that they are constantly doing something together, but practically do not communicate with each other. / or people.
I can tell you right now that the main weakness of the Grays is that they have no soul, they are soulless. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. It is known that some of them are trying to impose some type of false religious philosophies on the people they have abducted, and the point is that you have to understand that these aliens have their own plans and are not at all good for humans.
The Grays can be described as empty, like an empty suitcase. They essentially have nothing but a higher-level brain in the cranial region. They are mainly used by other beings to transfer various technologies and provide us with information, but as far as trusting them, I do not trust them. “
Christa Tilton
It’s hard to figure out what to do with this rather impressive case, and with all the additional details and statements from the victims of alien abduction, sounding like science fiction. Over the years, Tilton has acquired many believers in her case, but almost as many skeptics and ill-wishers.
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Brightly Lit UFO Sighted Cruising Over Orangeburg, South Carolina. January 6, 2022
Brightly Lit UFO Sighted Cruising Over Orangeburg, South Carolina. January 6, 2022
The witness stated the following: "Went out for a smoke and took pictures of the front yard, as i see frequent UFO activity and like to record proof. i have seen many UFOs that were far off but this was the first time anything has come so close. the craft came from the tree line pulsing multicolored lights. after a few seconds, two orbs came out of it and began to pulse/blink red. it was like they were trying to memos a large aircraft; however, i worked on c-17s in the air force and know that this no aircraft.
These crafts were moving slow towards the neighbors and disappeared in the trees. i went to the backyard and observed them descend down into the back woods behind the house (swamp land). you can see the red orbs change from vertical to horizontal close to the end of the video.
When it comes to the matter of Area 51, the 1970s, and secret aircraft, there are two important issues that cannot be ignored. And they should not be ignored. One was the early development, out at Area 51, of what has become known as “Stealth” technology for aircraft. We’ll get right to the matters of the stealthy kind. It was in 1988 that both the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighterand the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit were unveiled for one and all to see. The completely black, triangular-shaped aircraft caught the world’s attention, primarily because of their strange, angular shapes. It’s intriguing to note that in 1982 a wave of encounters with what became known as “Flying Triangles” began over portions of New York State, specifically in Hudson Valley. In their 1988 book, Night Siege, authors Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno and Bob Pratt wrote: “Can 7,000 eyewitnesses be wrong? They were there to witness the huge, hovering object in the sky, three flashing lights, the eerie silence. They are ordinary people from all walks of life: stay-at-home moms, kids, business people, engineers. They tell their stories here, and they all agree on one thing: they saw the same massive object cruising over their backyards. And it was like nothing they had seen before…”
At the time when the Hudson Valley encounters were at their peak, it was reasonably assumed by UFO researchers just about here, there and everywhere that aliens had invaded and were scoping out the area to a massive degree. When, however, the Stealth planes were unleashed in 1988 – planes that looked eerily like the Hudson Valley “UFOs,” more than a few of those same ufologists came to wonder if what was seen over Hudson Valley was actually a top secret variation on the Stealth Fighter and the Stealth Bomber. Regardless of whether or not the Hudson Valley UFOs originated in the United States, or on a world far, far away, one of the most intriguing revelations that surfaced when the Stealth planes were revealed was the startling fact that they had been secretly flying not just for a few years, but since the 1970s – at Area 51. And, the secret (the top secret) had been skillfully contained for more than a decade.
If there is one thing that just about any and all military agencies want, it’s for their aircraft to be completely invulnerable. Well, while that’s a tall order, steps were taken in the early 1970s to create an aircraft that could not be detected on radar. It would, then, be the ultimate predator: quietly and carefully approaching its completely oblivious target. That is, until it was all too late. Lockheed Martin, the company which was secretly contracted to come up with a stealth-driven fighter, state that a pair of engineers, Dick Sherrer and Denys Overholser, “developed a computer program based on obscure German and Russian theories, which postulated that radar beams could be reflected by a series of carefully angled triangular panels,” which is precisely why both the B-2 and the F-117 look so odd. But, cool, too.
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The late U.K. researcher, Omar Fowler, with a model of a “Flying Triangle”-type UFO
The most important development came in 1976. That was the year in which a program designated “Have Blue” was established as, to quote Lockheed Martin, “the stealth demonstrator that would lead to the F-117A Nighthawk.” Built out of aluminum and not much else, the aircraft was typified by the angular shape and futuristic-look. Although the Nighthawk remained unknown to virtually everyone until 1988, it was first test-flown on June 8, 1981, just one year before the Hudson Valley “UFOs” were first seen. Notably, the Nighthawk – while in test stage – was flown exclusively at night. And, while it seems unlikely that the F-117A was the culprit at Hudson Valley, perhaps a far more advanced stealth plane was. One of the most notable of all the missions that the Nighthawks took part in revolved around the invasion of Iraq in January of 1991. The radar-systems of the Iraqi military were woefully inadequate and, as a consequence, they flattened close to forty targets in no time at all; something which helped to bring the conflict to a close in a little more than forty days. Today, the Nighthawk is no more. It has been mothballed. But, how many other stealth aircraft – of highly advanced forms and technologies – remain hidden from prying eyes is anyone’s guess.
When China’s Yutu 2 rover spotted a mysterious cube-shaped “hut” on the moon, theories began spreading like wildfire, especially the thought of it possibly being an alien base. The rover began traveling towards the unexplained object in order to determine what exactly it was and the results are in.
The rover noticed the object on the horizon in December and the image was released by the China National Space Administration through the Weixin website. The rover then made its way towards the object. It seemed so much larger while looking at it from a distance, but as Yutu 2 got closer to it, it was actually a lot smaller than originally anticipated. Additionally, it wasn’t cube-shaped at all and had more of a rounded shape. When it finally reached its destination, the rover took images of the object and sent them back to Earth.
Lunar surface
That’s when the team realized that the mysterious object was just a rabbit-shaped rock that looked as though it was eating some “carrots” as there were smaller rocks located in front of it. What’s even funnier is that there were a few tiny round-shaped rocks behind it which looked like bunny poo. The Yutu 2 rover team even gave it the nickname of “jade rabbit”, which is interestingly what “Yutu” translates to.
While the bunny-shaped rock is certainly cute, many people are deeply disappointed that it is not an alien base as stated on Twitter by space journalist Andrew Jones, “The Moon’s surface is 38 million square kilometres of rocks, so it would have been astronomically exceptional for it to be anything else.” “But while small, the jade rabbit/玉兔 rock will also be a monumental disappointment to some.”
Lunar surface
Now that the “hut” mystery has been solved, the rover will continue studying the large Von Kármán crater. Even though we did get a good laugh at the alien-base-turned-bunny-rock mystery, the Yutu 2 rover’s mission has been going very well since landing on the moon in 2019 with approximately 1,000 meters of the lunar surface explored so far. In fact, it is the first rover to investigate the far side of the moon and it is still going strong.
There are no aliens living on the moon – at least none that we have found thus far. But an adorable bunny-shaped rock is just as exciting, right? Perhaps not. Nevertheless, pictures of the rabbit-shaped rock can be viewed here.
Here's the image that caught people's attention last month.
CNSA/CLEP/Red circle by Amanda Kooser/CNET
The "mystery hut" rock on the moon now has a more fitting name: "jade rabbit."
Even during the pandemic shutdown, no groups spend more time at high altitudes looking out windows than airline pilots and their passengers … yet UFO sightings by either group seem few and far between. Are they not seeing anything? That seems unlikely. Are they afraid of ridicule or, in the case of pilots, reprimanding? That seems more the case, especially if they have no proof or corroborating witnesses. This makes two UFO sightings this week especially significant – one is by two pilots, one is by two airline passengers and both have videos of the UFOs. Will they be believed?
“Was flying along at 39,000 feet in an airbus a320 somewhere over georgia. took out my phone to take photos of the beautiful milky way. using the new iphone 13 pro max. tried to take a video of another aircraft flying just above us opposite direction at 40,000 ft. as i was filming this aircraft fly over us, i noticed this v shaped object appear.”
An Airbus 380 with plenty of windows for UFO spotting.
That report comes from the UFO Stalker website (which appears to have reposted it from the MUFON site) and implies that the witness was in the cockpit of an Airbus A320 passenger plane flying over Georgia on 1/3/2022 when the sighting occurred. The video of the sighting can be seen here or here.
Unfortunately, there’s no indication that the crew attempted to contact the other aircraft in their view at the time to determine if they also saw the UFO. The witness merely says “both captain and i agreed we would like to remain anonymous” and “nothing was reported to faa or atc.” ATC is air traffic control and a call to it or the FAA would have required logging the sighting in the newly approved Pentagon database. Are pilots still afraid of reporting UFOs? The video is at night and poor quality, possibly due to the limitations of even the latest smartphone cameras. Other than the quick cut to the control panel, nothing else in the video can be used for perspective. One commenter suggested these are lights reflected from inside the cockpit on its window … but what pilots would make that mistake? At this point, there’s no way to positively identify these lights over Georgia.
“I was flying from Glasgow to London with my girlfriend. We left Glasgow Airport around 6am. Just before we prepared to land in Gatwick Airport I saw this strange object. I started to film it and took some pictures as well. It was far away from the plane that’s why you can’t see it very clear. It was roughly three to four miles away from our plane. It was hard to film it because you see it on video the plane was getting ready to land.”
Why don’t more passengers watch for UFOs?
Marjol Cela saw her UFO out a plane window on 1/4/2022 and managed to get a clear but far away video of it. She gave the video to Glasgow Live and claims her fellow passenger also saw and recorded it. Cela somehow determined the UFO was four miles away and not a plane but “a flying object in disguise” that was not moving but “hovering.” Watch the video here.
Do you think it’s hovering? At first (and second and third) glance, it looks like another plane (sorry Marjol), a rocket launch or a meteor. Glasgow Live did not appear to investigate the UFO event any further, so there’s no positive identification yet. However, kudos go to Marjol Cela for quickly getting a decent video and reporting it to the media using her real name. It’s only with reports like these and follow-up investigations by the media or the government that UFOs will be identified.
That is, if the government really wants them to be identified.
In the meantime, keep looking out the windows and up at the sky … and keep your phone charged and ready.
NASA's James Webb Telescope successfully deploys its 70-foot sunshield that will protect the $10 billion device's scientific instruments at temperatures under -380F
NASA's James Webb Telescope successfully deploys its 70-foot sunshield that will protect the $10 billion device's scientific instruments at temperatures under -380F
James Webb Space Telescope has fully deployed its massive 70-foot sunshield
The five-layered sunshield will protect the telescope from the light and heat of the sun, Earth and moon
It is designed with five plastic sheets about as thin as a human hair and coated with reflective metal
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has fully deployed its massive 70-foot sunshield while it hurls through space on a journey to what is known as the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2), which is nearly a million miles from Earth.
'All five layers of the sunshield are fully tensioned,' said an announcer at 11:59am ET at the observatory's control center in Baltimore, where team members cheered.
It took just one and a half days to tighten the ultra-thin layers using motor-driven cables, half the expected time.
The sunshield – about the size of a tennis court at full size – was folded to fit inside the payload area of an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket's nose cone prior to launch, which took place on Christmas Day.
The shield is designed with small plastic sheets, each of which are about as thin as a human hair and coated with reflective metal, providing protection on the order of more than SPF 1 million.
The five-layered sunshield will protect the telescope from the light and heat of the sun, Earth and moon, but keeping its scientific instruments below -380 degrees Fahrenheit.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has fully deployed its massive 70-foot sunshield while it hurls through space on a journey to what is known as the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2), which is nearly a million miles from Earth
Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington, said in a statement: 'This is the first time anyone has ever attempted to put a telescope this large into space.
'Webb required not only careful assembly but also careful deployments. The success of its most challenging deployment – the sunshield – is an incredible testament to the human ingenuity and engineering skill that will enable Webb to accomplish its science goal.'
The tightening of the sunshield was set for January 2, but was delayed by NASA to ensure it was in 'prime condition' before it is tightened.
Webb launched on Christmas Day, following several days throughout its progress that had some fearing to would never leave Earth.
The shield is designed with small plastic sheets, each of which are about as thin as a human hair and coated with reflective metal, providing protection on the order of more than SPF 1 million
It is hoped that the observatory, a replacement for the 30-year-old Hubble telescope, will by travelling so far out be able to peer back in time 13.5 billion years – to a point within a mere 100 million years of the Big Bang
It is hoped that the observatory, a replacement for the 30-year-old Hubble telescope, will by travelling so far out be able to peer back in time 13.5 billion years – to a point within a mere 100 million years of the Big Bang.
At 7:20am ET the world's most powerful space telescope, equipped with an Ariane 5 rocket, took off from the European Spaceport facility in French Guiana in magnificent form before blasting skywards over the Atlantic Ocean.
Cheers were on pause for another nerve-wracking 27 minutes as the rocket ejected its boosters and soared to an altitude of 870 miles before finally detaching the telescope to begin its own journey.
The sunshield – about the size of a tennis court at full size – was folded to fit inside the payload area of an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket's (pictured) nose cone prior to launch, which took place on Christmas Day
Tuesday's milestone was no simple feat it involved 139 of Webb's 178 release mechanisms, 70 hinge assemblies, eight deployment motors, roughly 400 pulleys, and 90 individual cables totaling roughly one quarter of a mile in length to pull off the unraveling of the shield
With its liftoff, a spokesperson for NASA said, 'Webb will usher in a new era of astronomy'.
And four days later, Webb began the unfolding its massive sunshield.
Now it is about halfway to the L2, an area of balanced gravity between the sun and the Earth, where it will spend more than a decade exploring the universe in infrared.
Tuesday's milestone was no simple feat it involved 139 of Webb's 178 release mechanisms, 70 hinge assemblies, eight deployment motors, roughly 400 pulleys, and 90 individual cables totaling roughly one quarter of a mile in length to pull off the unraveling of the shield.
Hillary Stock, a sunshield deployment specialist for Northrop Grumman, told reporters on a call: 'It was a wonderful moment. There was a lot of joy, a lot of relief.'
Jim Flynn, sunshield manager at Northrop Grumman, NASA's primary contractor for Webb, said in a statement: 'The sunshield is remarkable as it will protect the telescope on this historic mission.
'This milestone represents the pioneering spirit of thousands of engineers, scientists, and technicians who spent significant portions of their careers developing, designing, manufacturing, and testing this first-of-its-kind space technology.'
Webb still has another five months worth of setup before it is ready to explore the universe.
This includes deployment of the secondary mirror and primary mirror wings, alignment of the telescope optics, and calibration of the science instruments.
WHAT IS THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE?
The James Webb telescope has been described as a 'time machine' that could help unravel the secrets of our universe.
The telescope will be used to look back to the first galaxies born in the early universe more than 13.5 billion years ago, and observe the sources of stars, exoplanets, and even the moons and planets of our solar system.
The vast telescope, which has already cost more than $7 billion (£5 billion), is considered a successor to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope
The James Webb Telescope and most of its instruments have an operating temperature of roughly 40 Kelvin – about minus 387 Fahrenheit (minus 233 Celsius).
Officials say the cost may exceed the $8 billion (£5.6 billion) program cap set by Congress. The space agency has already poured $7 billion (£5 billion) into the telescope.
When it is launched in 2021, it will be the world's biggest and most powerful telescope, capable of peering back 200 million years after the Big Bang.
Moment van de waarheid geslaagd: nieuwe ruimtetelescoop klapt enorme spiegel uit
De nieuwe ruimtetelescoop James Webb heeft in de ruimte een metersgrote spiegel uitgeklapt die het licht uit het heelal moet opvangen. Het moment van de waarheid in de hele onderneming is dus geslaagd.
De James Webb is de opvolger van de beroemde ruimtetelescoop Hubble. Hij is ontwikkeld en gebouwd door de ruimtevaartorganisaties van Europa (ESA), de Verenigde Staten (NASA) en Canada (CSA).
Op eerste kerstdag werd de telescoop gelanceerd vanuit Frans-Guyana. De James Webb is ongeveer zo groot als een tennisbaan. Bij zijn vertrek was hij opgevouwen, zodat hij paste in de raket die hem naar de ruimte bracht. De kern van de ruimtetelescoop is een 6,5 meter grote spiegel, zes keer zo groot als die van de Hubble. Die spiegel vangt het licht uit de ruimte op en kaatst dat naar een tweede spiegel, die het licht bundelt en naar de meetinstrumenten aan boord stuurt.
Wetenschappers willen met de James Webb onder meer zoeken naar planeten waar misschien leven mogelijk is. Ook verre sterrenstelsels en sporen van de oerknal staan op de radar. De ruimtetelescoop kan een miljard jaar verder terug in de tijd kijken dan de Hubble.
De spiegel van de James Webb bestaat uit achttien zeshoeken die aan elkaar zitten, maar los van elkaar kunnen bewegen. De spiegel is gemaakt van beryllium, met daarbovenop een miniem laagje goud van 100 nanometer dik. Dat is duizend keer zo dun als een menselijke haar of een vel papier. Beryllium is licht, sterk en goed bestand tegen extreme kou. Goud zorgt ervoor dat de spiegel beter in staat is infrarood licht te zien.
Als de James Webb over een paar weken op zijn definitieve bestemming is, kan hij nog niet meteen aan de slag. Eerst moeten alle apparaten aan boord gekoeld worden tot 266 graden onder nul. Dat duurt ongeveer een maand. Daarna duurt het een paar maanden om te testen of alles goed werkt. In de zomer kan de James Webb de eerste metingen verrichten.
When China's lunar rover first discovered it, the rock appeared cube-shaped.
(Image credit: CNSA/Our Space)
A mysterious "moon hut" spotted by China's lunar Yutu 2 rover is actually … an adorable rabbit-shaped rock.
The rock has been nicknamed "jade rabbit" by the Yutu 2 team, which announced its rover's closer inspection of the object on Friday (Jan. 7). The nickname is apt, as the rover's name, Yutu, also translates to "jade rabbit."
The object first appeared in the field of view of Yutu 2's cameras in December, when it looked like a cube-shaped blur on the horizon. The rover is the first to explore the moon's far side, which always faces away from Earth and is more rugged and pitted by craters than the moon's near side. Because the object appeared irregularly symmetrical, with a strange flat top, researchers with the China National Space Administration outreach program Our Space joked that it might be the hut of alien pioneers, Live Science previously reported.
A closer look at a rock on the moon whose shape, seen from afar by China's Yuta-2 rover, had prompted curiosity and discussion.
(CNSA via The New York Times)
After a month-long traverse of the distance from the original spot where it snapped the "moon hut" image to the site of the object itself, the rover has now sent close-ups back to Earth. It turns out that the rock is much smaller than it appeared to be from afar. It's also much rounder and cuter. In fact, it looks a lot like a crouched bunny munching on a couple of carrots (which are actually smaller rocks). Some observers, likeCNET's Amanda Kooser, even see bunny poop in a couple of round pebbles near the rock's other end.
"The Moon's surface is 38 million square kilometres of rocks, so it would have been astronomically exceptional for it to be anything else," space journalist Andrew Joneswrote on Twitter. "But while small, the jade rabbit/玉兔 rock will also be a monumental disappointment to some."
Because of the lack of perspective in the original image, Jones wrote, many people were hoping for a large structure that looked more like the Arc de Triomphe or Beijing's towering CCTV headquarters building.
With the bunny rock cataloged, Yutu 2 will now continue its exploration of the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von Kármán crater. The rover has been exploring the region since the spacecraft Chang'e 4 delivered it to the lunar surface in the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon in January 2019. The rover is the longest-lasting to ever explore the moon's surface. It has explored the porous soil that makes up at least the top 130 feet (40 m) of the moon's surface and investigated a strange-colored gel-like substance found in a crater. It turned out to be melted-together rock caused by a long-ago meteorite impact, a 2020 study found.
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