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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03-03-2022
Space oddities: Curiousity finds a Mars flower, Yutu 2 locates glass balls on the Moon
Space oddities: Curiousity finds a Mars flower, Yutu 2 locates glass balls on the Moon
It’s amazing the sorts of things you can find on planetary surfaces humans haven’t spent very much time. Or have they? Nah, there’s no evidence of intelligent life on Mars and the Moon. Heck, there’s barely evidence of intelligent life on Earth. But, like our blue-and-green planet, there are a few strange things to be found. Thanks to space travel, the internet, and cameras, we even get to take a look at some of it.
NASA and China’s own CNSA have both located some oddities — Mars plays host to a flower (of sorts), while someone’s been dropping marbles on the Moon. More or less.
Space for a garden
NASA’s Curiosity rover came across something curious in its expeditions last month. That’d be, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs, a flower. Now, that’s not an actual flower, obviously. If there were photosynthesis taking place off-world, it would certainly be a more visible announcement. Besides the other events dominating the news, plant life on Mars would be world-changingly huge.
NASA’s discovery is, as with most planets where nothing’s going on, a geological one. The formation, captured last month by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera, only looks kinda flowery. Or, more accurately, a little sea-weedy. This is appropriate since this particular space oddity was formed by water. Specifically, it was “…formed when mineralizing fluids traveled through conduits in the rock”. It is valuable to NASA because it helps explain how water behaved in the Gale Crater that Curiosity is exploring. Back when there was water on the Martian surface, of course.
Space Balls 2: The Fall of Yogurt
The China National Space Administration (CNSA), not to be left out, has also located something strange out in space. Not too far away, mind you. Its Yutu 2 lunar rover has sent back images it snapped of the lunar surface. Normally there’s just dust and rocks, but now there’s also glass to look at. Yes, it’s naturally-occurring glass. Yes, that’s an actual thing. It’s made here on Earth by various warm things, like volcanos, lighting strikes, and asteroid or meteor strikes.
It’s this latter explanation that is most likely to blame for these two up-to-2.5cm glass spheres sighted by Yutu 2 in the Von Kármán crater. Dr. Zhiyong Xiao of Sun Yat-sen University said, “Such glass globules should be commonly produced by ancient impact basins on the Moon, so their compositions and isotopic ages will be highly valuable to understand the early impact history.”
There are likely to be loads of glass marbles littering the Moon, which is a bizarre thing to know. Meteor strikes from space are common on the lunar surface and these orbs are likely created by most of them. The Apollo astronauts even brought a few back from their mission to the lunar surface. But, Xiao says, the existence of these space marbles is good news for potential building material on the lunar surface.
“The first discovery of macro-sized translucent glass globules on the Moon confirms that lunar anorthosites are excellent raw materials to manufacture glasses with good light-admitting quality.” Translated: We have everything we need to make space-glass. After that, glasshouses. And then no stone-throwing, okay? We’ve heard that’s bad.
Special reports are: Wanaque Reservoir UFOs, Alien Civilization on Mars similar to Egypt, Russia attacks Ugraine.
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand Space, and England in the United Kingdom, and United Arab Republic.
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THE WANAQUE RESERVOIR 1966 UFOs
PHOTO BY (INSET): Claude Coutant
Photo Credit: COURTESY: Anthony Bragalia (UFOExplorations.com)
WANAQUE, N.J.– .“On the night of 11 January 1966, hundreds of residents of Wanaque, New Jersey reported observing a strange, large white light which maneuvered over the local Reservoir,” wrote The APRO Bulletin
A once-anonymous photographer who 65 years ago snapped a shot of what observers called a UFO over the Wanaque Reservoir has been identified.
“Claude Coutant was the name of the individual who took at least five photos of the Wanaque Reservoir craft in late December 1966, including the ‘beam’ shot.”January 12, 1966 ice covers Reservoir
UFOs ad been seen entering and leaving the Wanaque Reservoir for several months. The reservoir was created with the damming of the Wanaque River and its tributaries in 1928, by Raymond Dam creating 2,310 acres of water surface and capturing 29.6 billion gallons of water. Parts of the reservoir are 90 feet deep where UFOs seemed to hide. In January 1966, a cold snap froze the reservoir and apparently trapped UFOs under the ice.
Bragalia said he got unreleased images taken by Coutant, along with his identity, from a woman who once worked for the Star-Ledger – who said she got it from a woman who’d been engaged to the 46-year-old factory worker. Coutant, died in 1986,
Police Chief John Casazza was quoted as saying at the time. “It was a bright white light. It was funnel-shaped. It seemed to come out of some object, like a funnel,” Casazza reportedly said. “In other words, it spread out as if it were focused through a telescope. It was narrow at one end in the sky and spread out into a very wide beam at it approached our upper gate house at the Dam.”
Transcript of Police radio calls and beam stopping before hitting the water and a cube-like area beneath the surface.
Residents of the Passaic County borough about 6:30pm Tuesday night after sunset had darkened the Ramapo Mountain Range. Wanaque Patrolman Joseph Cisco was in his cruiser when a call from the Pompton Lakes dispatcher came over his police radio. It was a report of a “glowing light, possibly a fire.” Then as if right out of a sci-fi movie Cisco heard the words: “People in Oakland, Ringwood, Paterson, Totowa, and Butler claim there’s a flying saucer over the Wanaque.”
“I pulled into the sandpit, an undeveloped area to get my bearings,” Cisco recalls. “There was a light that looked bigger than any of the stars, about the size of a softball or volleyball. It was a pulsating, white, stationary light changing to red. It stayed in the air; there was no noise. I was trying to figure out what it was.”
Wanaque Mayor Harry T. Wolfe, Councilmen Warren Hagstrom and Arthur Barton, and the Mayor’s 14-year-old son Billy were on their way to oversee the burning of the borough’s Christmas trees, when they heard the reports that something “very white, very bright, and much bigger than a star” was hovering over the Wanaque Reservoir. They decided to pull into a sandpit near the Raymond Dam to meet Officer Cisco and get a better look at the ‘thing.’ The Mayor’s son Billy spotted the object at once, flying low and gliding “oddly” over the vast frozen lake “like a huge star.” “But it didn’t flicker,” Billy told reporters. “It was just a continuous light that changed from white to red to green and back to white.”
Mayor Wolfe stated “The phenomenon was terribly strange with the shape of the as oval.”
Officer Cisco is in his patrol ca with police calls from all over a 20-mile radius flooding in. Cisco radioed Officer George Dykman, who was on patrol nearby. Just as Dykman received Cisco’s message, two teenagers came running up to his patrol car frantically pointing at the sky and shouting “Look, look!”
Ice on Wanaque Reservoir
At that moment Wanaque Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer drove up with CD member Richard Vrooman. “The Police radios are all jammed up!” Spencer said excitedly. Dykman and Spencer gaped at the sky along with Michael Sloat, 16, and Peter Melegrae, 15. “What the heck is it?” Dykman wondered aloud. “Never seen anything like it in my life.”
Back at the sandpit Joseph Cisco’s radio crackled“Something’s burning a hole in the ice! Something with a bright light on it, going up and down!” Then another transmission fought its way through the din: “Oh boy! Something just landed in front of the dam!”
Spencer and reservoir employee Fred Steines raced to the top of the 1,500-foot-long Raymond Dam where they described seeing “a bolt of light shoot down, as if attracted to the water…like a beam emitted from a porthole.”
Patrolman Cisco, Mayor Wolfe, and Town Councilmen Hagstrom and Barton climbed to the top of the dam to get a better look.
“There was something up there that was awful bright.” Hagstrom recalls. “We don’t know what it was. We thought it was a helicopter, but we didn’t hear a motor. It looked like a helicopter with big landing lights on. We got goose bumps all over when we saw where the hole was.”
According to John Shuttle, another Councilman who witnessed the UFO, there was no doubt about it: He said. “I saw it, a brilliant white object, two to three feet across, and its color – no, not color, shade – it kept changing.”
Curious residents began to congregate around the entrance to the reservoir hoping to catch a glimpse of the mysterious flying object. Traffic slowed to a crawl and then stopped and watched.
Reservoir Police Lt. George Destito was forced to close the main gate of the reservoir to keep out swarms of onlookers.
Cisco recalls. He and the other town officials stood on top of the dam watching the strange light. Then, without warning, it sped off to the southeast toward Wayne.
Before the sun came up the next day Joseph Cisco would see the bright light once more. At about 4am on the morning of January 12, he saw the object moving south along the horizon over the town of Wyckoff.
He and Wanaque Police Sgt. David Sisco would take turns looking at it through a pair of binoculars.
Depiction of New Jersey Ice Hole
WANAQUE RESERVOIR — Nick Stefano wrote, I have been a fan of your Files for years and wanted to tell you about a January 1966, Wanaque sighting. I have a police officer friend who was called in as a back-up. He shared with me that he saw with his own eyes, a perfectly round hole in the foot thick ice that was 30 to 35 feet diameter. Now I have read other reports stating it was 30 to 50 feet ice hole. He was also threatened by the military if he took or had any photos of this.
He stated, The hole was like a cookie cutter without any trace of ice in the water and just perfectly round. Thanks to Nick Stefano,
Both the Chief of the reservoir police force (John Casazza) and newsman Howard L. Ball denied there was a hole in the ice. They may have been threatened, been in the wrong location or the hole had quickly frozen over. Often leaders fail to acknowledge what the workers see.
Policeman Charles Theodora 20-year-old first spotted an object from the Reservoir Station a few minutes after seven o´clock on January 11, 1966, “the size of a street light…it raced about six miles up and down the dam at supersonic speed. At one point, it flashed a ray or beam of light on the ice. When Patrolman Al Campana and I rushed to investigate, we found a hole in the ice about 40 to 50 feet in diameter.”
The beam image from the UFO had dark and bright patches and streaks are present all over. In spite of the fact that Bragalia repeatedly calls these pictures “originals,” these are not prints from an original negative but photographs from a photograph.
A most impressive-looking picture with thought to be taken over the Wanaque Reservoir on January 1966.
These beams of light have been photographed in other situations where abductees along with stones, cattle, grass, and anything not nailed down are vacuumed up into the craft. The beam may also be designed to cut or heat up the ice and eventually vacuum the ice up. No ice was seen outside the hole in the ice.
One abductee described leaving a ship in the beam was similar to parachuting that before hitting the ground the beam stopped the fall and provided a soft landing. He also felt the side of the beam that felt strong like metal. So the beam of light has many uses and could have made the hole. Fishermen claim they have seen fish and water being taken up. Hunters claim large animals such as elk, moose were taken on board and later found with their blood drained. It’s likely the beam was designed to free a UFO caught under the ice.
Coutant would not have faked the photographs, explains Bragalia, because, in the opinion of M.E his girlfriend., he was “not a very bright who displayed a lack of ‘intelligence. He was morally straight, and insisted on anonymity. “
Second Beam darkerphoto showing more of wrinkled ice
With regard to the quasi-horizontal lines crossing the lower part of the beam. The lines are wrinkles that are due to a glossy photograph having been folded. Segments of the lines continue as darker lines inside the beam.
This proves that the prints that Bragalia obtained are actually photos from other prints, not originals. One will also notice that in this print one of the wrinkles goes past the photographed frame but stops where the actual frame begins.
According to Mary E., Coutant’s girlfriend told her “He had shown people his photo right after he took it. He wanted people to know it was photographed, but he was a simple man and did not want to get too involved either. Therefore, he showed it to some folks in the County right after it was developed. Roberts made prints of the originals. “He used them for various publications, as we know. Roberts died April 1994. “Coutant did not want his name associated with the pictures as he was a very private man. Thanks V. Ballester Olmos. (UFOExplorations.com)
Alien Civilization on Mars similar to Egypt
Note similarity between Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses statue left and Mars statue right.
There is convincing evidence on Mars that any similar structures exist on Mars. Ramses the Great became Pharaoh Ramses II from (1304 B.C – 1214 B.C), in his twenties and ruled for 66 years being one of the most powerful Pharaohs. Later he proclaimed himself god and is the pharaoh that ruled during the time of the Biblical Exodus of the Israelites.
Rameses and Moses
The Israelites were slaves that are forced to work for the Pharaoh. The Hebrew God Yahweh helps them by imposing the Ten Plagues upon ancient Egypt, after which the Israelites manage to escape the Egyptian army by the Crossing of the Red Sea. Any object that flies in the sky is called a cloud, but the cloud at the Red Sea held an intelligent being.
Exodus 13-19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, 20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night[b] without one coming near the other all night.
Depiction of Red Sea parting by pillar or cylinder
It is thought the Exodus of the Israelites took place with the help of a cylinder or pillar shaped UFO when Ramses was Pharaoh. Known as the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, this event is considered to have happened under the reign of Ramses II.
Scientists found evidence for the existence of the notorious ten plagues of Egypt and chariots under the sea at that time. The Ramses like statue, pyramids, a sphinx, on Mars suggests travel occurred between the two planets.
King Solomon the greatest and wisest King of Israel had two columns erected to honor the UFO on both coasts 400 years after the miracle crossing from Egypt.
Two columns’ were built by King Solomon over 3,000 years ago that are still standing that resemble the UFO Cylinders we see today.
The King reigned from 970 BCE to 931 B
Mars statue was a relative of Ramses with the same head shape. There is also convincing evidence of time travel from the future or past, which allows an alien to travel from Mars in less than an hour.
Cydonia area of Mars with face and pyramids
A sufficiently advanced alien culture could live anywhere in our solar system with almost no restrictions from climate. Simply by parking a well-equipped ship with advanced life support systems, it would be possible to survive in almost any planet in space or under the sea. Evidence for alien life is bountiful in our space images of certain areas as I have demonstrated many times in recent years. I am absolutely sure that the powers that be are aware of a certain presence, but pretend to ignore it. So as to not reveal our inability to respond to what is likely to be vastly superior technology. Joe White 2020. ArtAlienTV
Sphinx like structure on Mars
Some of the structures on Mars, predominantly in the Cydonia region, such as the sphinx -like “face”, the octagonal, “pyramids”, oddly shaped craters and “obelisks” may indicate that Mars was once home to a thriving civilization/ There are sphinxes, pyramids and other structures on Mars that corroborate the idea of an ancient civilization that once called the home.
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Valerie Lesley PhD, writes, “Sobek was the name of the reptilian Egyptian crocodile god. Most often he is shown as a crocodile with a man’s body and the sun disc of Re.
Dr. David Hawkins writes, Of all the planets in our solar system, Mars has arguably had the biggest impact on, and most persistent hold over, the human imagination. Cairo means Mars.
No discussion regarding NASA attempt to blur images or space missions in general, would be complete without at least mentioning Richard Hoagland’s work exposing the occultic agenda behind the early US space program. Hoagland reminds us that one of the key rocket scientists of the time and the founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Caltech was Jack Parsons, a devout disciple of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema religion with an intense interest in the occult and black magic.
Parsons was also friends with L. Ron Hubbard. Allegedly, the two of them engaged in magical rituals aimed at conjuring spirits and other supernatural beings. Hubbard went on to found the Scientology cult, which, incidentally, at its upper levels, teaches about ancient space wars and malevolent extraterrestrials.
Jack Parsons is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of the US space program and was a big advocate of manned space flight and exploration. But his interests in the occult were intertwined with the work he did at JPL? Caltech itself has a fascinating and deeply occult history with one of its early scientists being the renowned astronomer, George Ellery Hale, who had a fascination with ancient Egypt, sun worship and the mysterious pharaoh, Akhenaten.
Sun-disk
Defying centuries of traditional worship of numerous Egyptian gods, Pharaoh Akhenaten decreed during his reign in the mid-14th century B.C.E. that his subjects were to worship only one god: the sun-disk .He also claimed to receive messages from interdimensional beings.
Hoagland’s book, Dark Mission, details many more occult connections surrounding the early space race and the eventual moon landing, including the astrological significance of the launch days and the odd rituals performed by astronaut and freemason, Buzz Aldrin. he brought a flag from the Supreme Council Scottish Rite to the moon, and there are rumors he brought several Masonic scarfs as well, which now sit in Masonic lodges
It’s also worth mentioning that Werner Von Braun, the rocket scientist authored a novel in 1953 about a young man who leads a manned mission to colonize Mars. The name of that young man was “Elon.” SpaceX founder, Elon Musk has asserted himself as the front man who will reach Mars by 2026). The name Elon means God loves the individual.
There are further curious connections that indicate there may be more than meets the eye behind the rise of Elon Musk and SpaceX.
.Let’s return to Mars, for there are other geological features on its surface, besides the face and seemingly man-made structures, that seem to defy any possibility of a natural formation. For example, there is the presence of rectangular craters, objects that look like monoliths, and the strangest of them all, the colossal canyon known as the “Valles Marineris”.
The Valles Marineris canyon on the surface of Mars. No attribution required.
In his illuminating book, The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Dr. Joseph Farrell describes the Valles Marineris as a “gashing wound that is over 3,000km long and 300km wide, with parts of it reaching 8km deep. Valles Merineris is a geological mystery, it’s the largest canyon in the entire solar system –Dr. Farrell claims it also constitutes evidence of a cosmic war in our ancient past, fought with weapons of mass destruction, a tale relayed to us in worldwide ancient texts.
Some of the structures on Mars, predominantly in the Cydonia region, such as the sphinxlike “face,” the octagonal “pyramids”, oddly shaped craters and “obelisks” indicate that Mars was once home to a thriving civilization. Furthermore, the presence on Mars’ surface of “war wounds” may indicate that this civilization wielded weapons of mass destruction, and, therefore, was incredibly technologically advanced and had the ability to reach Earth.
This, combined with the strangeness surrounding the early space race, the occult aspects of NASA, and the revelations of ancient texts and astrological lore, leads one to conclude that there is likely more to the Mars agenda than a billionaire who wants to save the world (you know, because “climate change” is going to kill us all).
Could the push to get to Mars show a desire to recover some remnants of this ancient civilization, conduct mining, and more importantly, the advanced technology that it wielded? Thanks to NewBraveWorld.org
Dr. David Hawkins
Putin Attacks Ukraine
Surprise and shock by Soviet tanks with maximum lethal force
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022 as predicted, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the world.
In unleashing Moscow’s most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Vladimir Putin deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions — and chillingly referred to his country’s nuclear arsenal. He threatened any foreign country attempting to interfere with “consequences you have never seen.”
Sirens wailed in Ukraine’s capital, large explosions were heard there and in other cities, and people massed in train stations and took to roads, as the government said the former Soviet republic was seeing a long-anticipated invasion from the east, north and south. Within hours of the first word of the attack, Ukraine said it was fighting Russian troops just miles from the capital for control of a strategic airport.
Satellite images taken on Monday March 1st, show a Russian military convoy north of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that stretches for about 40 miles (64 km), longer than the 17 miles (27 km).
A major attack is developing on Kyiv that will include shelling and bombing. Additional ground forces deployments and ground attack helicopter units were seen in northern Ukraine, less than 20 miles from Kyiv.
Michaels Cathedral Kyiv
The beautiful buildings in Kyiv are going to be destroyed with the Russian bombardment. Peter Rough writes, Russian President Vladimir Putin, believes that Russia should command a sphere of influence in which his European neighbors aren’t entirely sovereign. This sets up a clash in those front-line states bordering Russia, which are also partners, or even allies, of the United States. Regarding Ukraine, President Biden now faces a choice: Is he committed to the decades-long U S vision of a free Europe, or is he willing to accept a Russian sphere of influence?
Putin published a widely read essay, dubbed by some an invasion manifesto, which described the “harsh and artificial division of Russians and Ukrainians” as “the use of weapons of mass destruction against us (Russia).,”
Red areas controlled Russian Forces
Putin’s aggression is predicated on Biden’s weakness in Afghanistan and with Russia and China as Communist Chinese planes threaten Taiwan. Biden drastically cutting U.S. drilling in all government lands and oceans created a situation where we must import billions of barrels of oil and gas from Russia. Stopping the sale of gas to Europe would severely hurt Russians funds. The United States buys “206,000 barrels of oil a day” from Russia but “Biden shut down domestic oil production a year ago.” and many feel this essentially supports Russia’s invasion and started the 10% inflation spiral.
For all the wind farms and solar panels, we’ve built, the world – and especially the United States – still runs on oil and gas.
That is why the onset of a Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens not only a human rights catastrophe in Europe but economic turmoil for American consumers, as well as a giant headache for US president Joe Biden.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged as a hero to his nation’s citizens and far beyond as the former actor and comedian first elected in 2019 remains in his country at great personal risk during its bombardment by Russia.
Zelensky, who agreed on Sunday to talks at the Belarus border with Russia to end the military conflict, has been his country’s man in the capital city of Kyiv, where he has issued a series of videos urging Ukrainians to resist the invasion.
“I am here. We will not lay down any weapons. We will defend our state, because our weapons are our truth,” he said in one clip filmed outside his office in Kyiv.
Chechnya National Guard tanks destroyed by Ukrainians
Chechen hit regiment sent to murder Zelenskyy ‘eliminated according to , Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Oleksiy Danilov on TV. Putin’s move to send Chechen Commando fighters to join the invasion has backfired. Ukrainian military forces were successful in destroying a Chechen special forces column of 56 tanks near the capital of Kyiv on Saturday, Ukrainian news agency The Kyiv Independent reported.
According to the report, which the outlet said was confirmed by the Ukrainian President’s Office, the attack killed top Chechen general Magomed Tushayev, head of the 141 motorized regiment of the Chechnya National Guard.
The convoy of 56 tanks was targeted by Ukrainian missile fire near the town of Hostomel, just northeast of Kyiv, and obliterated killing hundreds.
“The special operation that was to be carried out directly to eliminate our president is fully known to us today, and I can say that we received information from representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, formerly (1994–95) Federal Counterintelligence Service, Russian internal security and counterintelligence service created in 1994 as one of the successor agencies of the Soviet-era KGB. who today have no desire to take part in this bloody war,” he said. Apparently some Russians are helping Ukraine.
Russia is one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers, yielding about 12 per cent of the global economy’s oil and 17 per cent of its natural gas. Much of the latter is carried to Europe via pipelines that run through Ukraine, potentially freezing the whole continent’s supply. Creating an embargo on Russian energy would severely hurt their economy.
Meanwhile, China is flying over some of the islands of Taiwan with military aircraft.
Upon taking office, Biden chilled relations with both Eastern Europe’s most important country, Poland, and its most obvious Russian target Ukraine. Instead, he embraced Germany and sought to repair ties with Berlin by waiving sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline (shown below), which snakes across the Baltic Sea directly from Russia to Germany, bypassing Ukraine’s’ pipeline in the process.
U.S. State Department Vows to disrupt the Nord pipeline
Biden is now doubling down on this posture His team is coordinating a response with our Western European allies, chief among them Germany, and issued economic sanctions.
Germany is now led by the Social Democratic Party, that surprisingly is sending a thousand Javelin missiles to Ukraine. They also cut the connection to the Nord pipeline. German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, called for “constructive dialogue” with Russia.
Biden has dismissed a military option, declaring that he will not deploy U S troops to Ukraine, and slow-rolled the provision of military equipment to Kyiv. Biden signed $300 million dollar aid to Ukraine on Saturday.
Putin views himself in an advanced stage of conflict with the West. He will not be deterred by the threat of economic sanctions, especially given Europe’s addiction to Russian natural gas. Once Ukraine is destabilized, the pipeline will lose its importance.
Putin
Putin has probed Biden’s commitment to Ukraine and discovered its hollow. For all of Biden’s emphasis on democracy, the world is awaking to the realization that his commitment to a Europe whole and free may end where Russia says its sphere of influence begins Far from deterring Putin, Biden has emboldening him. Thanks to The Hill in Hudson Institute
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and aviators who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Phoenix– on January 17, 2022, the witness sent the above video that shows a bright illuminated object that was significantly brightened. The video was taken at 10:22 PM
with a cheap $30 Wyse security camera. The camera was, set to auto night vision mode. Any brightness of photo would have been done by the camera.
Note: I believe that the object in the video could be a regular aircraft. I have four security cameras and aircraft can look much different on a video screen.. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
California Object
Pacific Ocean on February 14, 2022, I always take pictures on my flight and I was flying from LAX to EUG on Allegiant Airlines. I had noticed at take off what looked like a military container vessel and a white object under the water moving fast keeping the exact distance from the center glowing white boomerang? Caught object in one of three pictures.
Colorado Object
Colorado Springs on February 9, 2022, thought it might be a cloud but there was no other clouds in the sky at the time. Looking back a little bit later it was completely gone. I also saw an orb of light being followed by a helicopter coming from NORAD headed towards an Air Force Base.
Iowa Object
Ralston on February 9, 2022, the dark object was shaped like the end of a sharpened pencil, and distant, and remained in same position. I was driving west for 15 minutes and pulled over at sunset took 10 photos using a Canon 80 D with a 100-400mm lens at ISO 800, f/5.6, 1/90 sec. I watched until it was too dark to see.
Maine Light
Bridgton on February 22, 2022, I woke up abruptly and went outside to have a cigarette. Looked up and saw a bright light moving across the sky changing direction multiple times. Was not a satellite, sky was clear and stars were bright. It took a path from the west, headed east then turned north
Massachusetts Lights
Peabodyon February 23, 2022, while driving I saw two bright wobbling lights in the sky. We pulled into the driveway and the lights were still there, My girlfriend agreed that they were moving towards the other two. A couple started moving up and down a substantial amount as. one flew in from the horizon. As the fourth light showed up one of the original two flew away. Another flew in from the horizon and three formed a horizontal single file line.
My girlfriend and her parents came outside and a third one appeared in the same spot. There were again three lights in a single file line,
Michigan Lights
Adrianon December 31st 2020, my wife and I were put up our Christmas gift security cameras. Our motion activated were set off by a 3 foot bar of light hovering in our backyard.
Five minutes later we got r notified something with a animal face was on our back deck that didn’t approach and disappears. Later, I looked at where the shadow of the face was in the center of my deck. There’s no way it was some kind of animal standing on a railing. It had be hovering or standing directly in the middle of the deck. This means the being was around 5 feet tall or was hovering. The shadow proves the whole thing. There’s no animal that stands upright 5 feet tall and vanishes without moving.
Missouri Light
Lake St Louis – on December 3, 2021, I was sitting in my living room and looked out SW window at dark sky with one bright light. A bar shaped light extended from circular light. I took a picture.
New Jersey Lights
Springfield Township on August 10, 2021, blinking red and white lights movement was amazingly fast. No drone or anything that we’ve ever seen moved that fast and humming when it moved.
New Mexico Disc
Rio Rancho on February 17, 2022, I was driving on a desert road and saw this object. As I approached it. It rapidly shot to the west a short bit and stopped. I stopped the car and took a few pictures, and watched it for a few minutes. It made me a bit nervous since no one was around.
New York Lights
Albionon January 23, 2022, there were over 20 in total of these crafts. You can see if watched in slow motion at beginning, they are disk shaped and turn or tip. Once crafts reach a certain elevation they become a lit orb appearance , and follow the same path and move quickly without sound.
Texas Disc
Katy– on January 12, 2022, the witness sent several videos and still images of interesting objects. One of the most interesting images was the disk shaped object shown in the still image above. The Sun is reflecting off of a portion of the object. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Vermont Disk
St. Albans– on December 18, 2021, I was simply watching television with my wife when I walked out to the back porch to smoke. I instantly noticed some bright low flying green lights to my west over Lake Champlain. lights. It was silent and skirted the tops of the trees. Then the bight green lights were blinding a hundred feet away. It was a huge flying saucer type craft a third of the size of a football stadium. A glowing green ring underneath opened and turned a deep pink with two bars going across an open circle. Then it shot straight into space jumping in time.
Washington DC Lights
Washington D.C. on February 16, 2022, it’s a UFO sphere on live camera near to the White House. Aliens clearly were trying to observe and record the US presidents emotions and thought using telepathic abilities. President Biden is under a lot of stress right now from Russia going to war with Ukraine and China with Taiwan. Nuclear war is a possibility. And Aliens want keep their planet safe. Yes, this planet belonged to aliens long before humanity even existed. It’s like a kid saying the house belongs to him but it’s really his fathers. This video is 100% proof that aliens are watching Biden. Thanks to Scott C. Waring- Taiwan
Wisconsin Light
Stoughton – on November 9, 2021, I was running late for work and noticed big bright lights just above the tree line. As I got closer I realized, that it was a UAP/UFO. My fiancé and I saw them frequently, but never one so close. I noticed big an bright lights just above the tree line I was alone on the Highway. I came around the next bend and there it was it was sitting in a field! It was a disc shaped craft with lights bright I had a tough time seeing. I work for USPS and they don’t take kindly to tardiness. So while driving shot pictures with one hand while going 60 mph. At work a retired USAF guy told me he saw it also.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Lights
Saskatoonon February 22, 2022, I was driving to work just before 6am, west of Saskatoon, and notice a hovering bright light.. Watched for.5 minutes and took 30 second video and picture. I had to keep driving to get to work and when I looked back it was gone.
Mexico Moon shot
Chihuahuaon January 19, 2022, I was at my parents’ house shooting the moon with camera on a tripod and I understood something clearly at last that was on the dark surface of the moon (in an area where the sun does not hit.) In the video understand something clearly at last turn off at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjYOLVRd47E&t=7s
New Zealand Objects
Space Orbital on February 20, 2022, I noticed these odd lights in this space video orbiting earth. There appears to be several UAPs and glowing lights. One looks like a Tic Tac, several others appear circular in formation heading down towards Earth and start to become translucent or appear to cloak. There also seems to be two additional circular translucent objects in the lower right area around the middle of the video.
UK/England Light
Swanseaon February 26, 2022, took a photo at night, dark but street lights around. Viewing the photo I seen an unusual object and light. This could not be seen with the naked eye.
Bristolon January , 2022, my wife noticed plane then Tic Tac shape craft moving east to west in straight line no sound, bright clear day
Abu Dhabi on February 20, 2022, my friends was having a classic cars tour at the seaside road at afternoon time, when we stopped and I get out of my car immediately in front above me. I see this thing either reflecting the sun which was setting to my left or pulsating, it was moving very slow to be anything can fly and big to be a drone. I tried to zoom in try to find any details but nothing only this slow silver moving thing. And It was very low maybe about 1000 meters high.
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UFO Fleet At Space Station, Jan 3, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet At Space Station, Jan 3, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 3, 2022
Location of sighting: Over Italy, Near Space Station
Source:ISS Live Cam
These three UFOs near the space station were caught by Youtuber Marco Pedotti. On his channel he watches the space station, but he only posts videos of the view only...but this time he caught something fantastic...a fleet of UFOs. Now I went over this footage again and again, and I cannot see anything wrong with it. It is 100% authentic. When I took screenshots of some of the UFOs...I noticed they were all blurry and transparent. But one UFO was over land and it looked like a triangle, but when focused is actually a four sided pyramid. In the screenshot above, it actually looks like a doorway has opened on the right side of the UFO. It could reveal the cockpit of the craft. Perhaps the pilot wanted a better look with his own eyes, since it looks like the craft normally has no windows. How many? I lost count...close to 12...man that big one shot past a few times close up...but so fast I almost missed it.
This is crazy cool for sure. Each of the three UFOs throws a huge shadow onto the earth below them. Watch it, pause every once in a while...its mind blowing stuff. These are not satellites, they shoot off turning incredibly fast. I have seen satellites released before from the space station...this is not such a thing. These are 100% alien technology, piloted by living entities.
NASA is urgently investigating how to stop the ISS from crashing to Earth after Russia threatened to withdraw its propulsion experts who keep space station afloat, after Elon Musk offered SpaceX support
NASA is urgently investigating how to stop the ISS from crashing to Earth after Russia threatened to withdraw its propulsion experts who keep space station afloat, after Elon Musk offered SpaceX support
The International Space Station is a cooperation of multiple nations in orbit
The main partners are the US and Russia, with Russia responsible for propulsion
This ensures it remains in orbit, about 250 miles above the surface of the Earth
After invading Ukraine, the US and other nations sanctioned Russia including in space, which could lead to the end of cooperation over the orbital facility
If this were to happen, another agency would need to manage ISS propulsion
NASA says it doesn't expect this to happen, but is considering its options
NASA is exploring ways to keep the International Space Station operational in low Earth orbit without Russian help to maintain the spacecraft's propulsion.
It comes after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, prompting a spate of sanctions from the US, including restricting cooperation with its space industry.
Last week, the head of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, warned the US against introducing sanctions against its space program, threatening to stop maintenance that could see the 500 ton ISS fall out of orbit on to the US.
Russian cargo spaceships manage propulsion on the station, and keep it in orbit 253 miles above the Earth. Without their regular adjustments, it would fall back to Earth.
NASA says it is exploring ways to keep it in orbit without Russian help, including using commercial cargo vehicles from SpaceX and Northrup Grumman.
However, the US space agency says it doesn't see any immediate signs of Moscow withdrawing from the international orbital collaboration.
The International Space Station (ISS) is seen on a monitor after a Soyuz MS-20 space craft undocked from the ISS, starting the landing of the International space crew including Japanese space tourists
Kathy Lueders, who heads the agency's human spaceflight program, said operations on the research platform were proceeding 'nominally' and 'we're not getting any indications at a working level that our counterparts are not committed.'
'That said, we always look for how do we get more operational flexibility and our cargo providers are looking at how do we add different capabilities,' she continued.
While the US side of the ISS supplies power and life support, Russia is responsible for propulsion and keeping the station in its orbit, over 250 miles above the planet.
It does this by using docked Progress spacecraft to periodically give the station a boost to maintain its altitude, and stop it falling back to the Earth.
Rogozin raised the prospect of pulling out of the partnership in response to US sanctions, warning that without the Progress spacecraft, the 400 ton structure would fall back to Earth without any indication of where it might lands.
NASA is exploring ways to keep the International Space Station operational in low Earth orbit without Russian help to maintain propulsion
Russia is building its own space station
Russiaannounced in 2020 that it could withdraw from the International Space Station as early as 2025 and launch its own facility.
Dmitry Rogozin, chief of the Russian space agency said work has already begun on the first module of a new station, although that could be attached to the ISS if the international facility is still in operation when it is completed in 2025.
A top Kremlin official warned that 'disaster' was looming for the ISS, putting the lives of crew members at risk due to its age - by 2025 is will be 27 years old and was originally designed to last between 15 and 30 years, according to NASA.
Russia has shared images and video of the first module that will make up a core part of its new hi-tech orbital base, which is expected to include a tourist hotel.
NASA has since confirmed plans to de-orbit the ISS in 2031, switching to using commercial stations instead.
Russia hasn't revealed its future plans, which could change dramatically after it invaded Ukraine on Wednesday.
Lueders said: 'Northrop Grumman has been offering up a reboost capability, and you know, our SpaceX folks are looking at can we have additional capability.'
The last Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo vessel that arrived at the ISS on February 21 was the first to boast a capacity to 'reboost' the outpost without Russian help.
On Friday, SpaceX boss Elon Musk tweeted his company's logo in response to Rogozin's rhetorical question about who would save the ISS.
But Lueders stressed that such plans were a contingency measure only, adding 'It would be very difficult for us to be operating on our own -- ISS is an international partnership that was created...with joint dependencies,' she said.
'As a team, we are looking at where we may have operational flexibilities, but... it would be a sad day for international operations if we can't continue to peacefully operate in space,' she concluded.
A symbol of post Cold War detente, the ISS has been continuously habited for more than 21 years and has weathered past geopolitical storms, notably Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014, with space exploded from sanctions at the time.
But some observers believe the invasion of Ukraine could hasten the demise of US-Russian space cooperation.
Currently, seven astronauts – four from the US, two from Russia and one from Germany – are on the ISS.
Rogozin has said that US sanctions could 'destroy our cooperation' and said the research platform would plummet to the Earth without his nation's help.
'If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling on US or European territory?' said Rogozin – while noting that the station doesn't fly over much of Russia.
However, one space expert said this was unlikely, considering Roscosmos has Russian personnel on board.
'Nobody wants to put the lives of astronauts and cosmonauts in danger by political maneuvering,' John Logsdon, a professor and space analyst at George Washington University.
Last week, the head of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, warned the US against introducing sanctions against its space program, threatening to stop maintenance that could see the 500 ton ISS fall out of orbit on to the US
The ISS is a collaboration between the US and Russia, as founding partners, along with Canada, the European Space Agency and Japan.
It is split into two main sections, the Russian and US orbital segments, and they depend on each other for operational survival.
'The Russian segment can't function without the electricity on the American side, and the American side can't function without the propulsion systems that are on the Russian side,' former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman told CNN.
'So you can't do an amicable divorce. You can't do a conscious uncoupling.'
NASA said in a statement soon after the conflict started, that there were no changes planned to the cooperation between Russia and the US on the ISS, but appear to have begun looking at contingencies, in case the situation further escalates.
It isn't just the US looking at contingency operations when it comes to working with Russia in space. The European Space Agency has postponed its ExoMars rover launch, likely until at least 2024 as it was scheduled to go up on a Russian rocket.
In a statement posted to its website, ESA said it is 'assessing the consequences on each of our ongoing programmes' that are being conducted in cooperation with Roscosmos, while condemning Russia's actions.
'We deplore the human casualties and tragic consequences of the war in Ukraine,' ESA said.
'We are giving absolute priority to taking proper decisions, not only for the sake of our workforce involved in the programmes, but in full respect of our European values, which have always fundamentally shaped our approach to international cooperation.'
EXPLAINED: THE $100 BILLION INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SITS 250 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH
The International Space Station (ISS) is a $100 billion (£80 billion) science and engineering laboratory that orbits 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.
It has been permanently staffed by rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts since November 2000.
Crews have come mainly from the US and Russia, but the Japanese space agency JAXA and European space agency ESA have also sent astronauts.
The International Space Station has been continuously occupied for more than 20 years and has been expended with multiple new modules added and upgrades to systems
Research conducted aboard the ISS often requires one or more of the unusual conditions present in low Earth orbit, such as low-gravity or oxygen.
ISS studies have investigated human research, space medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, astronomy and meteorology.
The US space agency, NASA, spends about $3 billion (£2.4 billion) a year on the space station program, with the remaining funding coming from international partners, including Europe, Russia and Japan.
So far 244 individuals from 19 countries have visited the station, and among them eight private citizens who spent up to $50 million for their visit.
There is an ongoing debate about the future of the station beyond 2025, when it is thought some of the original structure will reach 'end of life'.
Russia, a major partner in the station, plans to launch its own orbital platform around then, with Axiom Space, a private firm, planning to send its own modules for purely commercial use to the station at the same time.
NASA, ESA, JAXA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) are working together to build a space station in orbit around the moon, and Russia and China are working on a similar project, that would also include a base on the surface.
NASA onderzoekt of ruimtestation ISS zonder Rusland kan
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bekijkt of het Internationaal Ruimtestation (ISS) ook zonder de hulp van Rusland kan functioneren. De samenwerking zou volgens Rusland in gevaar kunnen komen door het conflict in Oekraïne. Vorige week nog beweerde een Russische ruimtechef dat het ISS kan neerstorten op Europa of de VS, als de steun van zijn thuisland wegvalt.
De VS en Rusland werken nauw samen bij het ISS. De NASA is verantwoordelijk voor de elektriciteitsvoorziening en de levensondersteuning. Rusland voorziet dan weer de stuwkracht die het station in een baan rond de aarde houdt.
De sancties die de VS aan Rusland hebben opgelegd vanwege de inval in Oekraïne, zouden echter grote gevolgen kunnen hebben voor het ruimtestation. Dat werd vorige week pijnlijk duidelijk uit een online tirade van de Russische ruimtechef Dmitry Rogozin: “Wie zal ervoor zorgen dat het ISS niet neerstort in de VS of Europa als je de samenwerking met ons stopzet? Er is ook de mogelijkheid dat een constructie van 500 ton neerstort op China of India. Het ISS vliegt niet boven Rusland, dus jullie lopen al het risico”, schreef hij onder meer.
De NASA neemt daarom het zekere voor het onzekere, en zoekt naar oplossingen. Zo zou ruimtevaartbedrijf Northrop Grumman al hebben aangeboden om een alternatief stuwsysteem te leveren. Ook SpaceX zou al oplossingen hebben voorgesteld. Oprichter Elon Musk besloot bovendien om ruimtechef Rogozin nog wat meer ‘te pesten’ door het logo van Space X onder zijn tirade te plaatsen.
Voorlopig zijn er wel nog geen echte problemen bij het ISS. De Russische werknemers zouden volgens Kathy Lueders, het hoofd van NASA’s bemande ruimtevaartprogramma, nog steeds toegewijd aan het werk zijn: “Maar we kijken continu hoe we flexibeler kunnen werken. Het zou wel heel moeilijk zijn voor ons om alleen te werken. Het ISS is namelijk een internationaal project met wederzijdse afhankelijkheden.”
Marsrover
De situatie in Rusland zorgt wel voor problemen bij de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA. Die was van plan om komende zomer samen met Rusland een nieuwe Marsrover te lanceren. Dat project loopt nu vertraging op: “De sancties en algemene context zorgen ervoor dat een lancering in 2022 heel onwaarschijnlijk wordt”, klinkt het.
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Last-Minute Defense Against an Asteroid That Could Obliterate it Before Impact
Last-Minute Defense Against an Asteroid That Could Obliterate it Before Impact
Gazing at the night sky can evoke a sense of wonder regarding humanity’s place in the Universe. But that’s not all it can evoke. If you’re knowledgeable about asteroid strikes like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, then even a fleeting meteorite can nudge aside your enjoyable sense of wonder. What if?
Luckily, planetary defence is at the top of mind for some scientists and engineers. One of those scientists is Professor Philip Lubin from the University of California Santa Barbara. Lubin is developing his idea called PI-Terminal Defense for Humanity. The PI stands for Pulverize It, and Lubin thinks pulverizing an incoming impactor into tiny pieces is our best bet to protect ourselves from an asteroid on short notice.
Lubin presented his PI Planetary Defence idea at the 2021 Planetary Defence Conference. His idea is now a Phase One awardee in the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC aims to promote and support visionary ideas that can transform future NASA missions. NASA operates the Planetary Defence Coordination Office (PDCO), and Lubin’s PI Planetary Defense idea fits that office’s mandate.
The threat of an asteroid strike is genuine. A massive asteroid like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs would kill our civilization. We’ve faced more minor threats, like the Tunguska Event and the Chelyabinsk meteor, but can we count on luck to avoid devastating impacts? That wouldn’t be wise.
“So far, humanity has been spared large-scale catastrophe as was visited upon our previous tenants, but counting upon being “lucky” is a poor strategy in the longer term,” Philip Lubin said in 2021.
NASA is busy finding and cataloguing asteroids that pose a threat to Earth. But that’s only an initial step. We must develop ways to protect Earth from a catastrophic impact.
Much of the thinking around asteroid impact mitigation is focused on long lead times. If we know months or years ahead of time when an asteroid will impact Earth, we can send out a kinetic impactor to redirect the asteroid. With enough lead time, even a small kinetic impactor can redirect a large asteroid away from us.
But what if time is short? What if we find out too late? What if we’ve launched a kinetic impactor, but it missed or failed somehow? That’s where Lubin’s PI idea could come into play.
The main idea of PI is to pulverize an asteroid into smaller debris which would then burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. In an article for NIAC from February 18th, 2022, Lubin wrote, “In short intercept scenarios, the asteroid fragments of maximum ~10-meter diameter allow the Earth’s atmosphere to act as a “beam dump” where the fragments either burn up in the atmosphere or air burst, with the primary channel of energy going into spatially and temporally de-correlated shock waves.”
In the Pulverize It scenario, an asteroid heading for Earth would be struck with an impactor that had an array of rods, some with explosives. The asteroid, or comet, would be broken into smaller pieces that pose a minor threat. Image Credit: Lubin/Experimental Cosmology Group, UCSB.
PI’s idea is to design an impactor that’s not only kinetic but explosive. The impacting device would be fitted with penetrating rods to pierce the asteroid. Explosives would fill some rods, and the resulting explosion would pulverize the bolide into smaller chunks, hopefully 15 m or less in diameter. The pieces would form a cloud of debris. Depending on the size of the bolide, the size of the device, and the distance from Earth when detonated, some of the debris might strike Earth. But much of it would be destroyed through friction with the Earth’s atmosphere.
“The effectiveness of the approach depends on the time to intercept and size of the asteroid, but allows for effective defence against asteroids in the multi-hundred-meter diameter class and could virtually eliminate the threat of mass destruction caused by these threats,” Lubin explains.
This figure shows two fragment clouds resulting from successful interceptions. The top is a smaller asteroid, and the bottom is larger. Note how some of the fragments would miss Earth entirely with a larger asteroid. Image Credit: Lubin 2021.
ACCORDING TO LUBIN, the PI System could be in orbit around Earth or even housed on a lunar base. “Compared to other threat reduction scenarios, this approach represents an extremely cost-effective, testable, and deployable approach with a logical roadmap of development and testing. Pre-deployment of the system into orbit or a lunar base allows for rapid response on the order of less than a day if needed,” Lubin said.
“The great advantage of this approach is that it allows for terminal defence in the event of short warning times and target distance mitigation where orbital deflection is not feasible,” said Lubin. “Even intercepts as close as the Moon with intercept times of a few hours prior to impact are viable.”
The Moon has a couple of inherent advantages. For one thing, it has no atmosphere, so as a base for observing the asteroid environment near Earth, it would allow “long-range optical/NIR LIDAR detection” of incoming asteroids. The Moon also has a lower escape velocity than Earth, making launches easier and less expensive.
Launching a large explosive impactor from Earth is becoming more feasible over time, too. Heavy launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, NASA’s Space Launch System, and others are heralding a new age of powerful rocket technology.
Lubin says that the PI system only needs a five-hour prior to impact window to destroy an asteroid the size of the object in the Tunguska Event. That object was likely about 50 meters in diameter and exploded with a force of about 10 Megatons. It knocked over millions of trees in a remote part of Siberia. If an object that size were to explode over one of our cities, it would be devastating.
Fallen trees from the Tunguska Event in 1908.
The Chelyabinsk meteor blew the windows out of buildings and caused injuries, and it was only about 20 meters in diameter.
A meteorite flashes across the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in this image. This image is from a dashboard camera.
The system could also work when it comes to massive asteroids like Apophis. Apophis will pass near Earth in 2029, but it won’t impact Earth. However, if it passes through what’s called a “gravitational keyhole” during its 2029 flyby, it could be nudged enough that it could strike Earth on the subsequent flyby. Apophis is about 370 meters in diameter, and its yield is about four gigatons. Lubin said that his PI system could successfully destroy Apophis-sized asteroids with a 10-day prior to impact intercept.
An artist’s illustration of the asteroid 99942 Apophis. Image Credit: NASA/Caltech/JPL
It’ll be interesting to see how much further Lubin develops his Pulverize It asteroid defence idea. NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission in November 2021. DART is headed for the double asteroid system of Didymos and its smaller companion, Dimorphos, which orbits Didymos.
Dimorphos isn’t on a trajectory toward Earth. DART is purely a test mission, and impacting Dimorphos will lead to a slight change in the trajectory of the double asteroid system. NASA will monitor the system after the impact to see if the mission was successful.
But there’s no reason we can’t develop multiple asteroid mitigation systems in parallel. That might be the most prudent way forward. As we get better and better at finding all of the asteroids that threaten Earth, we’ll be more prepared for intercepting asteroids with advanced lead times. But no system is foolproof.
It’d be wise for humanity to develop another system that could launch rapidly and be employed on short notice. Then we can look up at the sky and relax.
A Mars Meteorite Shows Evidence of a Massive Impact Billions of Years ago
A Mars Meteorite Shows Evidence of a Massive Impact Billions of Years ago
Researchers at Australia’s Curtin University have discovered evidence of a massive impact on the Martian surface after 4.45 billion years ago. This may not seem like a surprising revelation – after all, we know that there were several large impacts on Mars, likeHellas and Argyre, and we know that large impacts happened frequently in the early solar system – so why is this a big deal?
The short version is that it challenges our understanding of when Mars could have sustained an environment capable of supporting life – that is, a habitable environment – effectively shortening the window for possible life on Mars. Let’s dig into the science here to see if we can’t uncover a bit more that’s interesting about this story.
First, let’s get a bit of context. The story focuses on the study of the mineral zircon, a zirconium silicate mineral (ZrSiO4). Zircons can form in most kinds of igneous rocks, and larger zircons typically form in metamorphic rocks. The mineral is chemically, physically, and thermally robust – meaning that once it’s formed it tends to stick around and there’s not a lot that changes it. To a geologist, this is exciting because it means that zircons tend to preserve records of the environments they formed in, even when they’re part of a rock that has been extensively altered. Particularly for the early records of planets, where rocks have generally been metamorphosed, melted, weathered, recycled, or otherwise destroyed by nature and the ravages of time, zircons can still preserve records of the environments they formed in.
Zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia are the oldest rock fragments ever found.
Image: Stuart Hay, ANU
On the Earth, the oldest materials from Earth are zircons that have been incorporated into a much younger sandstone. Specifically, I’m talking about zircons in the Jack Hills sedimentary rocks of Australia. The rocks that contain the zircons are only ~3.0 billion years old, but some of the zircons are as old as 4.4 billion years. We know that these zircons formed in a different rock that was weathered and recycled, and the zircons were incorporated into the younger sandstones and conglomerates, which were then buried and metamorphosed. By studying the chemistry of the ancient zircon grains geologists have been able to find clues about the earliest history of the Earth, including the presence of liquid water on the surface by the time that these zircons had formed. To date, this is the best evidence we have for the earliest stable, habitable surface on the Earth, and we only know about it from studying this incredible mineral.
Cut face of the Black Beauty meteorite.
Credit: NASA
Now, let’s talk about the zircon grain from the Curtin study. The grain in question was a single fragment included in a martian meteorite breccia. The meteorite, Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 which has been nicknamed “Black Beauty,” is the only sedimentary rock in our collection of meteorites from Mars. Black Beauty is classified as a martian basaltic breccia (polymict), which means that it is a rock made up of pieces of other rocks just like the formations in the Jack Hills on Earth. By studying the rock we can learn a lot about ancient environments on the surface of Mars. Many of the fragments are pieces of the ancient martian crust, the basaltic surface that the planet first formed. Zircon fragments like the one reported are a minor part of Black Beauty, and the one in question is one of the oldest so far identified, with a formation age of 4.45 billion years ago. It also happens to be twinned – a change in the mineral structure where the mineral framework is mirrored across a flat plane in the crystal. The specific kind of twinning in this mineral is known to be related to shock deformation – the kind of change that happens during a large impact event. We know that forming this kind of twinning in zircon requires pressures than 20 or 30 gigapascals (that is, more than 20-30 x 10,000 times the Earth’s atmospheric pressure); this kind of impact pressure is related to a very large meteorite impact.
A small impact crater on Mars that was created within the past 5 years, seen by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona.
Big deal, right? As we stated at the top, we know that there were numerous large impacts on Mars early in the planet’s history. Here’s the rub though – researchers studying the surface and atmosphere of Mars have argued for a habitable surface environment to have formed by 4.2 billion years ago. Critical to this interpretation is an assumption that large-scale meteorite impacts had ceased on Mars by 4.48 billion years ago – 30 million years before the zircon grain formed. Although the date of the impact that deformed the zircon grain is unknown, it had to be after the mineral’s formation. This directly contradicts the assumption of the early surface and atmosphere models, pushing the formation of a stable, habitable, surface environment later in the history of the Red Planet.
What does all of this mean? Well, the research is ongoing, so there is a lot that we don’t fully understand about Mars’ early climate and the origins of life. However, the researchers at Curtin argue that the evidence for when life could have originated on Mars is younger than when life could have originated on the Earth. Combined with the end of habitability on the surface of Mars when the planet dried out, this narrows the window for when life could have evolved on the Red Planet. So, did life evolve there? The jury is still out, so we don’t really know, but the evidence now suggests that if it did come about then life on Mars likely originated after life on the Earth, and probably didn’t stick around for very long.
Top image: An artist’s impression of what Mars might have looked like during its early, wet period circa 4 billion years ago. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Stunning Photos from Air, Space and Ground of the Atlas V GOES-T Launch
Stunning Photos from Air, Space and Ground of the Atlas V GOES-T Launch
NASA and NOAA now have a sophisticated new weather satellite in space. The GOES-T satellite launched on the powerful United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket on March 1, and it will provide forecasters with high resolution weather satellite imagery. It will also providing real-time monitoring of events on the ground like wildfires, floods and landslides, while monitoring atmospheric and climate dynamics over the Western US and Pacific Ocean.
The liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station of GOES-T (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T) provided stunning views, and incredibly, other satellites looked down and captured the launch of the new satellite from space, such as this shot from its older sibling, GOES-16:
More satellite views of the launch below, but first, photographer Mike Killian took part in a stunning photo shoot from the air, capturing a the launch in the background while a restored F-86 Sabre jet flew over the Space Coast:
A few more of the GOES satellites already in high geosynchronous orbits looked down on the launch:
And of course, there are always amazing views from the ground. Above, Manuel Mazzati focused his high-resolution camera on the flames from the rocket just after liftoff.
Alan Walters attended the launch on behalf of Universe Today and caught these gems:
An Atlas V rocket launches the GOES-T satellite on March 1, 2022 from Cape Canaveral.
Credit: Alan Walters.
An Atlas V rocket launches the GOES-T satellite on March 1, 2022 from Cape Canaveral.
Credit: Alan Walters.
And you can always count on Ben Cooper for a unique launch perspective:
For the full experience, here’s a video of the launch via NASA:
The launch placed GOES-T in a high perigee orbit of over 8,000 km (~ 5,000 miles). Its final orbital position in geosynchronous orbit will be just over 35,000 km (22,000 miles) above Earth’s equator.
“The Atlas V delivered GOES-T directly to a geosynchronous transfer orbit,” said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Commercial Programs, in a press release. “The orbital delivery accurately placed the spacecraft closer to its final destination which conserves the satellite’s fuel supply and enables a longer mission life.”
Once it reaches its final orbit, the satellite will undergo commissioning and checkouts over the next few months and be fully operational by early 2023. It joins four other GOES satellites currently in service, GOES-14, -15, -16 and -17. Once in service, the new satellite will be renamed GOES-18 and it will take over for GOES-17, which launched on another Atlas 5 exactly four years ago. GOES-17 has had problems with its main weather instrument, but it will remain in orbit as a backup in case any other of the GOES weather satellites encounters any problems in the future.
This was the 92nd launch of an Atlas V rocket, and ULA says they have launched 149 times with 100 percent mission success.
Lead image caption:A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NOAA’s GOES-T satellite, launching for NASA’s Launch Services Program, lifts off from from Space Launch Complex-41 at 4:38 p.m. EST on March 1, 2022. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance
Possible UFO Landing Site Found In Canada Forest, March 1, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Possible UFO Landing Site Found In Canada Forest, March 1, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: March 1, 2022
Location of discovery: Canada
A triangle formation was found in the snow in Canada this week. The formation was out in the woods and was found as the person was taking a walk in the snow. He found a perfect triangle, which could be the landing spot of an alien craft. From the size of the triangle, the craft would be big enough to hold two people. Aliens have been known to land their craft in forests. Take for instance, the "Fire In The Sky," case back in 1975, where Travis Walton was in the forest with friends and saw a light...he walked closer to the light coming from the UFO and suddenly the light threw Travis through the air...his friends fled. UFOs visit forests.
Glowing Orb Over Hamburg, Germany, March 2, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orb Over Hamburg, Germany, March 2, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2, 2022
Location of sighting:Hamburg, Germany
An eyewitness in Germany today recorded an bright orb over Hamburg this morning. The object is huge and looks similar in shape to the UFOs seen over Denver, USA and over Dome of Rock, Jerusalem. Although this UFO was not seen moving, often they shoot quickly into a location and sit there, knowing that most people who see it will assume it's just a star. Yeah, aliens know all the tricks. They have been hiding from us for thousands of years. Also is seems to flash, as if it were saying hello to the woman watching.
This orb is reminding me of the days of the foo fighter orbs that followed the planes in WWII. This UFO could be a sign that Germany is going to have a serious involvement in the war in Ukraine in the coming days. I just checked in the news...the German Chancellor expressed their support for Ukraine in a joint news conference on March 1. This makes me think that aliens are helping humanity exist.
NASA rover this week took a close up photo of a actual fossil on Mars. They didn't label it as such, however the similarities to sponge and coral fossils is undeniable. I really am confused at why NASA did not take about this discovery other than give us some details of the camera that took, the date, location on Mars. It really seems that something like this...that is 100% proof of ancient ocean life, is an important discovery to all of science. And yet, NASA says nothing about it. There is no doubt in my mind that had this been found on Earth, it would be labeled a sponge fossil. How could NASA not comment on such a huge discovery? Why oh why didn't NASA announce this to the public themselves? So many questions...but they are all about NASAs refusal to admit life on Mars once existed.
Europe’s ExoMars Rover Will Likely Miss This Year’s Launch Window Because of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Europe’s ExoMars Rover Will Likely Miss This Year’s Launch Window Because of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
As countries around the world respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sanctions aimed at crippling Moscow and Vladimir Putin, the global cooperation in space exploration that has been forged over the past 30-plus years will certainly be impacted.
One example: the European Space Agency said the launch of the ExoMars 2022 mission, scheduled for September of this year, is “very unlikely,” due to sanctions on Russia. ExoMars is supposed to launch on a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Russia is also supposed to supply the landing and science platform for the Rosalind Franklin rover, and if the conflict continues, the oft-delayed mission will likely have to wait for the next launch window to Mars in 2024.
In a statement issued by ESA, officials said, “We deplore the human casualties and tragic consequences of the war in Ukraine. We are giving absolute priority to taking proper decisions, not only for the sake of our workforce involved in the programmes, but in full respect of our European values, which have always fundamentally shaped our approach to international cooperation.”
“We are fully implementing sanctions imposed on Russia by our Member States,” the statement continued. “We are assessing the consequences on each of our ongoing programmes conducted in cooperation with the Russian state space agency Roscosmos and align our decisions to the decisions of our Member States in close coordination with industrial and international partners (in particular with NASA on the International Space Station).”
Meanwhile, the head of the Russian agency appears to be burning every bridge that’s been built with various space entities around the world. In a series of bizarre rants on Twitter over the past several days, Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, suggested future Atlas 5 launched by ULA (United Launch Alliance) will fail because they won’t have technical support for the Russian components on the rockets. Rogozin even said that the sanctions could result in the International Space Station crashing into the U.S., Europe, India, or China. He erroneously said the ISS doesn’t fly over Russia, “so all the risks are yours.”
First Soyuz lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 October 2011. Credits:Thilo Kranz/DLR
Officially, Roscosmos announced it was suspending cooperation with Europe on Soyuz launches from the European spaceport in French Guiana (CSG), and they have removed Russian personnel from the site. That will likely delay several upcoming launches scheduled to launch on a Soyuz rocket from CSG, including two pairs of Galileo navigational satellites, Euclid, a visible to near-infrared space telescope scheduled to launch in early 2023, the EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) satellite, a cooperative effort between ESA and Japan’s space agency JAXA to improve understanding of the cloud and aerosol processes that affect the Earth’s climate. Other governmental satellites are in the queue as well.
The indication of threats to the ISS are most concerning since humans are on board. During a press briefing on February 28, Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for space operations, said ISS operations have not been affected by the sanctions so far.
The International Space Station stretches out in an image captured by astronauts aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly-around in November 2021. Credit: NASA/SpaceX
“We are not getting any indications, at a working level, that our counterparts are not committed to ongoing operation of the International Space Station,” she said. “We’re operating just like we were operating three weeks ago. Our teams are still talking together, we’re still doing training together, we’re still working together.”
Lueders added that, “It would be a sad day for international operations that we can’t continue to peacefully operate in space,” and that it would be very difficult to operate the ISS without the international cooperation that the project was founded on.
“I actually feel like this is a good message for us – that we are operating peacefully in space now and moving forward,” she said, but added, “That said, we always look for how do we get more operational flexibility.”
In an signal of that, NASA said they are discussing cargo and crew transportation options with Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, and in an announcement late yesterday, NASA announced they have awarded SpaceX additional crew flights to the space station.
Lead image caption: Artist’s impression of ESA’s ExoMars rover (foreground) and Russia’s science platform (background) on Mars.
UFO Spotted While At Work In Calhoun, Georgia Feb 24, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Spotted While At Work In Calhoun, Georgia Feb 24, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb24, 2022
Location of sighting: Calhoun, Georgia, USA
Wow! Check out this fantastic raw footage of some guys who were at work and noticed a black triangle craft moving slowly over the area. A friend calls out to them to come outside and check out the UFO in the sky. When they get outside...they can't believe their own eyes. This black triangle object is moving in the sky, slowly, silently. This one is very far up and is twice the size of the average car. This looks really similar to the UFO video recorded by the US Navy plane and released to the public in 2020. This is only 180 miles away from US President Jimmy Carters UFO sighting at Leary, Georgia when he saw a UFO when he was governor of Georgia back in 1969. That UFO was time traveling...visiting a US president before he was president. So...I wonder...what if this is the same exact UFO...and its there to visit someone important, but at an easier point in their life? Maybe a future president in this video.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
UfO spotted at work by my friend Nate, I started filming using a iPhone.The city is Calhoun, the state is Georgia. I’m just trying to find someone to analyze this video. The original is on my phone and it’s ever more bizarre when you zoom in on it.
Mummified 'Mermaid' to be analyzed by Japanese Scientists
Mummified 'Mermaid' to be analyzed by Japanese Scientists
A“mermaid mummy” kept at a temple has been an object of worship.Now, for the first time, a project has started to scientifically analyze the mummified creature, which has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish.
On Feb. 2, 2022 Kozen Kuida, 60, chief priest at Enjuin temple in Asakuchi in the prefecture, removed the 30-centimeter-long treasured specimen from a paulownia box in the CT scanning room of the university’s veterinary hospital.
Laying face up on an examination table, the mummy appeared to be locked in a scream while holding its hands to its mouth. In addition to nails and teeth, the mummy has hair on its head and scales on the lower body.
According to asahi.com, a note contained in the same box of the “dried mermaid,” the creature was caught in a fishing net on the coast of Tosa Province (present-day Kochi Prefecture) between 1736 and 1741.
Enhanced Memo Reveals US Government LIED About Roswell
Enhanced Memo Reveals US Government LIED About Roswell
An enhancement of a Roswell press photo reveals that the US government knew it was lying about the weather balloon and how they showed off this fact in plain sight.
It’s dangerous to say in a headline that an asteroid is heading towards Earth because asteroid trackers define ‘potentially hazardous objects’ (PHO) as an asteroid or a comet large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact – but 99% of them won’t get close for at least 100 years and ‘close’ can be 0.05 astronomical units or 19.5 lunar distances away. That wasn’t the case in January 2022.
“In January this year, we became aware of an asteroid with the highest ranking on the Palermo scale that we’ve seen in more than a decade, reaching -1.5.”
Don’t warn them — did they warn us?
The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale referred to in a recent press release by Marco Micheli, an astronomer at ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), assigns ratings to NEOs. Asteroid 2022 AE1 was above -2 which made it an object that merited serious monitoring. (Photo here.) Discovered on January 6, 2022, the first calculations showed it was 0.09 AU (13 million km or 8 million miles) from Earth, large enough to do damage, and having a serious possibility of making a potential Earth impact on July 4, 2023 – that’s next year!
Asteroid 2022 AE1 observed with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope in Spain on the evening of 19 January 2022. The image is a composite of 124 frames, each one minute long, combined on the motion of the asteroid, and processed in order to remove the background stars. The asteroid is visible as the dot at the center of the image, inside the red box. Stack produced using Tycho.
Credit: ESA/NEOCC
The Torino Scale used to quantify the impact hazard of a certain NEO. Credit: European Space Agency
“In my almost ten years at ESA I’ve never seen such a risky object.”
Micheli sounded the alarm and all NEO-watching eyes focused on 2022 AE1 for the next seven days as it was flagged by the Asteroid Orbit Determination (AstOD) automated system flagged it for a potential future impact. Astronomers watched as the risk potential increased daily until the seventh day when 2022 AE1 … disappeared. Wait … what?
“We just had to wait.”
The Moon entered a waxing gibbous phase – growing to full moon status while just 3 degrees from the asteroid – and basically blinded those trying to observe 2022 AE1. Finally, the moon moved out of the way … and the astronomers experienced a shock.
“The data was clear, confirmed the next morning by our counterparts at NASA—asteroid 2022 AE1 poses no impact risk.”
That’s right — 2022 AE1 went from full “Don’t Look Up” to “move along, nothing to see here” in seven short days. Recalibrating the numbers, the forecast is for 2022 AE1 to fly by Earth in July 2023 at a distance of about ten million km (6.2 million miles) or over 20 times the distance of the moon. What happened?
“As is often the case, the overlap with Earth remains even while the risk corridor gets smaller due to further observations and so the risk appears to increase. More often than not, as the hazard zone narrows, the small potential corridor moves off Earth and the risk suddenly drops.”
The “risk corridor” is the moving spotlight on Earth where the asteroid is most likely to hit. That spotlight is recalculated each time a new reading is taken on the asteroid — the spotlight gets smaller as it hones in on the target area. However, it can also move … and that’s what happened to 2022AE1 while the lights were out. Luca Conversi, Manager of the NEOCC, says this actually happens all the time.
“Yet, I wasn’t too concerned as we get notifications like this – though at a lower level – a few times per year.”
Well, that’s reassuring … NOT!
Initial uncertainties in asteroid 2022 AE1’s orbit meant its ‘risk corridor’ extended across Earth. When the 70-metre asteroid seemed most likely to impact (a scenario now ruled out entirely), its possible path saw a potential strike over many inhabited regions on Earth. The red region forms the core of the more probable impact points, the orange surrounding bands show areas that were less likely but could not be excluded.
Cosmic shock! Astronomers create detailed images of the largest shockwave in the universe, finding it is 6.5 MILLION light years across - about 60 times larger than the Milky Way
Cosmic shock! Astronomers create detailed images of the largest shockwave in the universe, finding it is 6.5 MILLION light years across - about 60 times larger than the Milky Way
Astronomers made use of the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa
They were able to capture images of the massive cosmic shockwave Abell 3667
These shockwaves are produced from the collision of two large galaxy clusters
These clusters can hold up to thousands of galaxies, each with billions of stars
When they collide it produces the largest events since the start of the universe
A massive cosmic shockwave, stretching 6.5 million light years across, has been studied by a team of astronomers, explaining it is the largest visible from Earth.
These gigantic shock waves are larger than our entire galaxy, and form when clusters of galaxies collide, according to the researchers led by the University of Hamburg.
Our universe is populated by galaxies that are not uniformly spread but concentrated in vast structures, with the largest containing thousands of galaxies.
Sometimes, two galaxy clusters start attracting each other via the force of gravity, leading to an inevitable collision - generating spectacular 'fireworks' that can be observed using modern radio telescopes, such as MeerKAT in South Africa.
A pair of combined galaxy clusters produce cosmic shockwaves that travel through the newly formed cluster, and astronomers, led by the University of Hamburg in Germany, have produced images of the largest ever observed.
It originated from galaxy cluster Abell 3667, and can provide insights into the structure of shock waves and galactic clusters, according to the astronomers.
A zoom-in on the largest of the two shock waves, where the complex filamentary structure is evident. Most of the visible galaxies are not part of the cluster, being either in the background or in front of it
These gigantic shock waves are larger than our entire galaxy, and form when clusters of galaxies collide, according to the researchers led by the University of Hamburg
The two galaxy clusters that produced the gigantic shockwave came together about a billion years ago, producing one of the most energetic events since the Big Bang.
Modern radio telescopes can witness the propagation of a pair of gigantic shock waves, produced by the two galactic clusters, as they pass through the newly formed cluster, similar to the sonic booms from supersonic aircraft.
'These structures are full of surprises and much more complex than what we initially thought', said Professor Francesco de Gasperin, lead author of the study.
The shock waves act as giant particle accelerators, similar to the Large Hadron Collider, where electrons are sped up close to the speed of light.
Our universe is populated by galaxies that are not uniformly spread but concentrated in vast structures, with the largest containing thousands of galaxies
Sometimes, two galaxy clusters start attracting each other via the force of gravity, leading to an inevitable collision - generating spectacular 'fireworks' that can be observed using modern radio telescopes, such as MeerKAT in South Africa
When these fast electrons cross a magnetic field they emit the radio waves that we see from the Earth using telescopes like MeerKAT.
The shocks are threaded by an intricate pattern of bright filaments that trace the location of both giant magnetic field lines, and the regions where the electrons are accelerated within the wave.
These shock waves are still propagating through the galaxy cluster that formed from the collision at an incredible 932 miles per second, or 3.3 million miles per hour.
This means that the shock front would cross the entire Earth in the time needed to read this sentence, Prof de Gasperin explained.
The size of the main shock wave is impressive, spanning the entire width of the galaxy cluster for a total size of 6.5 million light years. For comparison, the Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, is more than 60 times smaller than this shock wave.
'The presence of the shocks in Abell 3667 is detected using sharp changes in the properties of the hot gas, traced by its X-ray emission,' added Professor Alexis Finoguenov at the University of Helsinki, who assisted the research by analysing the X-ray data, collected by the XMM-Newton observatory.
WHAT IS THE COSMIC WEB OF FILAMENTS THAT THE UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF?
'Ordinary' matter, which makes up everything we can see, corresponds to only five per cent of the known universe. The rest is made up of so-called 'dark matter.'
For decades, at least half of this regular matter had eluded detection, but scientists have in recent years made the first direct observations of a 'cosmic web' of filaments spanning between galaxies.
These filaments are made up of gas at temperatures between 100,000°C (180,032 °F) and 10 million°C (50 million°F) and the experts believe these structures may account for the 'missing' ordinary matter.
Studies have estimated that around 95 per cent of the universe is made of a mixture of 'dark matter' and 'dark energy', which only makes its presence felt by its gravitational pull, but has never been seen directly.
What is less widely known, however, is that around half of the regular matter is also missing.
In 2015, a team led by University of Geneva scientist Dominique Eckert claimed that these 'missing baryons' - subatomic particles made up of three quarks - were detected because of their X-ray signature in a massive cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2744.
Using the XMM-Newton space telescope, the researchers found matter concentrated into a network of knots and links connected through vast filaments, known as the 'cosmic web'.
Large-scale galaxy surveys have shown that the distribution of ordinary matter in the universe is not homogeneous.
Instead, under the action of gravity, matter is concentrated into so-called filamentary structures, forming a network of knots and links called the 'cosmic web'.
The regions experiencing the highest gravitational force collapse and form the knots of the network, such as Abell 2744.
Researchers focused on Abell 2744 - a massive cluster of galaxies with a complex distribution of dark and luminous matter at its centre - to make their finding.
Comparable to neural networks, these knots then connect to one another through filaments, where the researchers identified the presence of gas, and consequently, the missing ordinary matter thought to make up the universe.
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