Awell preserved mummified creature has been discovered on Mars. The image was taken by the Mast camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3474 (2022-05-15T10:52:45.000Z). 

The creature lies against a ridge and it looks like it dragged itself there before it died. 

The hind legs are clearly visible as well as its head. It seems as the body is wrapped with some kind of fabric. 

Another evidence of past life on Mars? 

Links: 

• http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/229485 

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11-06-2022 om 18:15 geschreven door peter  

During a severe electrical thunderstorm on June 7, 2022 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, a photographer while filming the thunderstorm, noticed a huge saucer-shaped object in the center of the thunderstorm. 

The object appears to have a strange antenna on top of it that collects lightning, which is easily recognizable as lightning bolts are connected to the antenna. 

Since it seems that the vapor clouds are influenced by the shape of the object, I suppose that the object is not a natural cloud, but a solid craft created by intelligent design whether man-made or of alien origin. 

It is often said that UFOs use lightning to recharge their batteries. Could these images be proof of it? 

Footage of the thunderstorm with saucer shaped craft starts at about the 3.05 mark in the video.

  

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11-06-2022 om 18:08 geschreven door peter  

The Pascagoula Abduction was an alleged UFO sighting and alien abduction in 1973, in which Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed they were abducted by aliens while fishing near Pascagoula, Mississippi. 

On the evening of October 11, 1973, 42-year-old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker told the Jackson County, Mississippi Sheriff's office they were fishing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi when they heard a whirring/whizzing sound, saw two flashing blue lights, and observed an oval shaped object 30–40 feet across and 8–10 feet high. 

Parker and Hickson claimed they were "conscious but paralyzed" while three "creatures" with "robotic slit-mouths" and "crab-like pincers" took them aboard the object and subjected them to an examination. 

After so many years of keeping it a secret from his own family, Calvin Parker's declining health has given him a reason to write a book and leave his legacy. Calvin Parker is now ready to tell the story of the event that would change his life forever. 

In a recent interview with Fox10news, Parker said he’s glad the government is starting to talk about UFO’s, but he believes the government is still afraid to tell the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrials, it’s going to cause panic. But Parker thinks if they just tell the truth, people can handle it. Whether it’s good or bad, just tell it like it is. 

There’s even been some politicians who have contacted Parker about this. Parker can’t call them by name because I’ve been sworn to secrecy. But he knows that they exist. he knows that one day, sooner or later, it’s gonna come out.

  

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11-06-2022 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

Asolar flare is partially blocked for a while by an unknown elongated force in front of it. 

Normally a solar flare shoots into space in its entirety, but this flare is blocked by something in front of it, making it appear that only a part of the flare can move around an unknown elongated force before shooting into space. 

It appears that the elongated force is moving slowly through the solar flare, suggesting it could be a very large cigar-shaped spacecraft.

  

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11-06-2022 om 18:00 geschreven door peter  

This UFO was spotted during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee show on June 2nd, 2022 over Buckingham Palace with the Queen and Royal Family of Britain. 

We can see a fast moving sphere once the jets make their appearance.

The sphere certainly does not have the characteristics of a drone since it looks like the UFO is surrounded by an energy field.

  

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11-06-2022 om 17:57 geschreven door peter  

UFOs or UAPs deactivating nuclear missiles: According to Luis Elizondo “There does seem to be some sort of congruency or some sort of intersection between these UAP or UFO sightings and our nuclear technology, whether it’s nuclear propulsion, nuclear power and generation, or nuclear weapons systems. Furthermore, those same observations have been made overseas in other countries. They too have had the same incidents, so that tells us this a global issue. 

Now in the US, we’ve had incidents where these UFOs/UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline their nuclear capabilities. One of the most famous cover-up cases was the UFO that shutdown nuclear missiles at Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967. 

Former Air Force captain Robert Salas has claimed Pentagon officials lied about not having information about a mysterious UFO incident that deactivated US nuclear missiles in 1967. 

Intelligence officials Scott Bray and Ronald Moultrie were grilled by a House sub-committee in the first public UFO hearing in more than 50 years and asked about the incident, Bray said: 'That data is not within the holdings of the UAP task force… I have heard stories, I have not seen the official data on that'. 

But Salas told DailyMail that he reported the event at the time, has spoken about it repeatedly, and reported it to the government's UFO task force in 2021 and the response he got was: "We already know your story so unless you've got something new, we don't need to hear what you've got to say",' Robert Salas said . 

The former Air Force captain was on duty at Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base in March 1967 when a mysterious red orb flew over, the security guards witnessed a glowing red, saucer-shaped orb and seconds later, klaxons and warning lights went off warning that the nukes had become inactive." Within the next few seconds, we had lost six to eight missiles to a 'No-Go' (inoperable) condition," Salas said. 

An old footage shows that indeed a UFO deactivates a nuclear missile.

  

In the next two videos, Nick Pope investigates the story of nuclear missiles shutting down unexpectedly at the same time UFOs appear above an Air Force base as well as former AATIP director Luis Elizondo says that UFOs have taken U.S. nuclear capabilities ‘offline.'

 

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11-06-2022 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

Congress held its first public hearing on UFOs in over 50 years, signaling how lawmakers are pressuring military leaders to take the issue more seriously. 

Now one of these issues refers to a video from July of 2019 that captured through night vision goggles and a single lens reflex camera multiple objects, initially identified as UAPs, harassing Navy ships participating in Naval Exercises off Sothern California were according to a report drones and not otherworldly UFOs that swarmed Navy ships off California and it even happened again off another coast. 

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss not only about the open UFO hearing, but also about a Multiverse and Black Holes.

  

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11-06-2022 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

Public UFO hearings and the Wilson memo

On May 17, congressman Mike Gallagher inquired about the Wilson documents to Pentagon representatives. The Wilson memo (or documents) mention a top secret UFO back-engineering program discussed by Astrophysicist Dr Eric W. Davis, a Pentagon consultant who worked on many black projects.

This simple inquiry could force the hand of the DOD to reveal the presence of such a program.

Other people of note inside this video: Luis Elizondo from AATIP, investigative journalist Ross Coulthart and astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

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11-06-2022 om 16:03 geschreven door peter  

Man Claims He Was Hypnotised And Almost Adducted By Aliens!

John describes his encounter years back when he witnessed an alien ship! He then claims he was hypnotised and almost adducted! Anna also explains the time she experienced an alien sighting when she was young.

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11-06-2022 om 15:56 geschreven door peter  

Daytime UFO filmed over NSW, Australia – June 2022

This strange UFO sighting was filmed aver New South Wales in Australia on June 2, 2022. More info in the video…

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11-06-2022 om 15:50 geschreven door peter  

The military’s UFO database currently has information from over 400 documented events

A Navy intelligence official told senators at a congressional hearing that a database of UFO reports now includes nearly 400 encounters, up from 143 analyzed in a study issued about a year ago.

According to the military’s 2021 report, no proof of aliens was discovered. Even while there are events that cannot be explained, Scott W. Bray, the deputy director of Naval Intelligence, told legislators that they have not discovered anything “non-terrestrial in origin.”

He said that none of the reported objects attempted to speak with US aviators and that no attempt was made to connect with them since they all looked to be unmanned.

According to Bray, reports of unidentified flying objects, also known as unexplained aerial phenomena or UAPs by the military, have been growing. He attributed the increase to better sensors, an increase in drones and other non-military unmanned aerial systems, and “aerial clutter” such as Mylar balloons.

According to Bray, incidents in the 2021 report extend back to 2004 and were based on both sensor data and views by military aviators.

MAccording to Ray many of the more recent submissions lack sensor data because they were from people coming forward with older stories that they opted not to disclose at the time. He also added that that shows that the military’s efforts to de-stigmatize such reports are bearing fruit.

Bray also said that navy and air force crews now have step-by-step protocols on their kneeboard, in the cockpit, for reporting UAPs.

Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind. Said that the endeavor was vital, he observed that suspicion about UFOs certainly drove pilots to avoid reporting them or to be mocked if they did.

Transparency vs. confidentiality

The Pentagon’s senior intelligence official, Ronald S. Moultrie, testified at Tuesday’s session, which was the first public hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years. In the hearing, he underlined the opposing requirements for transparency and secrecy.

Moultrie mentioned that he enjoys science fiction and that they want to know what’s out there just like every other person wants to know what’s out there. However, he said that his main priority was to keep US military people and sites secure.

In his introductory notes, Moultrie commented that they are also cognizant of their commitment to preserving sensitive sources and procedures. Their objective is to achieve that delicate balance – one that allows them to keep the public’s trust while preserving those capabilities critical to the support of the military men.

They don’t want prospective enemies to know exactly what we see or comprehend, Moultrie added later in the interview, which was followed by a secret closed-door session.

Moultrie told legislators that as the initiative proceeds forward, a significant focus would be on strengthening coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration and other government agencies.

Bray agreed with Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, that streamlining the civilian reporting procedure would be beneficial. While some civilian reports have been included in the military’s database, the great majority have originated from within the military.

It was the first congressional hearing on the issue since then-Rep. Gerald Ford’s campaign resulted in an Air Force study and hearing in 1969.

Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

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11-06-2022 om 15:46 geschreven door peter  

F16 Pilot Analysis of APACHE UAP

This new Unidentified Aerial Phenomena video was released 27 May. It was recorded from an Apache helicopter training mission in southern Arizona in April 2019. In the video the student says, “is that 3 very fast moving jets?” and the instructor says “probably A-10s or F-16s.” I flew in this area during my own F16 training and give my initial analysis of the speeds of the objects if they are 1 or 2 miles away.

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11-06-2022 om 15:40 geschreven door peter  

The inside story on how 62 students witnessed the same UFO experience at school

The origins of 62 children’s claims of seeing a UFO landing outside their school remain unknown.

The children said they saw a disc-shaped aircraft drop from the sky and land in the fields outside their Zimbabwean school three decades ago.

The story has grabbed the curiosity of UFO enthusiasts because of the large number of people who claim to have seen the same thing.

The majority of UFO sightings happen in the West, and this one in Africa helped bring more attention to it when it occurred.

Even now, 28 years later, several of the children insist that they saw a UFO on September 16, 1994.

Ariel Phenomenon, a new documentary film, has given the witnesses the opportunity to share their version of events.

Many people, however, deny that the children saw an alien spacecraft and believe that the accusations are just an instance of mass paranoia unfolding.

In the documentary, the now-adult children testify about what they witnessed.

They also express their struggle to be heard and believed while being doubted along the road.

Randall Nickerson, the film’s director, told The Sun that the eyewitnesses must be given an opportunity to be heard and their experiences must not be ignored.

Nickerson has added that they have to be able to be honest about other people’s experiences because maybe they don’t understand what is going on.

It is vital at this moment, as we are witnessing more and more as our technology advances. It’s something we’ll have to communicate about and look into, and Ariel is a big part of it.

When the tragedy occurred, the students at the rural Ariel School were on their morning break.

At 10 a.m., faculty members were holding a meeting inside and were not present to witness the tragedy.

Former students said the landing lasted around 15 minutes and that they observed an object fall from the skies onto a field beyond the school’s playground.

Some of the children fled as soon as they saw the spacecraft land.

Others claimed to have seen alien humanoids leave the craft, which eyewitnesses reported as being shaped like a silver disc.

Following the purported sighting, reports of the incident spread, and BBC War Correspondent Tim Leach documented it.

When the youngsters offered their versions of what transpired that day, they were between the ages of six and twelve.

Dr. John Mack of Harvard University, a psychiatry expert, learned about the incident and wanted to examine the witnesses.

Dr. Mack concluded that the children’s accounts were credible after conversing with them.

The children claimed to have seen at least one UFO and alien figure, and they even drew what they witnessed.

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11-06-2022 om 15:35 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Aliens: Time-Traveling UFO Crashes in England

Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe a group of airmen encountered a UFO from the future, in this clip from 18, “The Time Benders.”

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11-06-2022 om 15:25 geschreven door peter  

UAP Encounters and Videos Revealed by Homeland Security Agent

Robert “Bob” Thompson, a former top CBP agent, describes in detail his attempts to construct a reporting system for contacts with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). This happened while he was serving as a federal agent with US Customs and Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector Special Operations Group in an exclusive article published on May 27th by the defense and technology news site.

The authors of The Debrief’s bombshell article, Tim McMillan, Christopher Plain, and Micah Hanks share Thompson’s story and reveal for the first time the video which was captured by a U.S. Army AH-64 “Apache” attack helicopter revealing 3 fast-moving objects execution maneuvers that seemingly defy all explanations.

The video (available to watch below!) is also reported as revealing “inexplicable movements by the objects, implying that the video likely constitutes the first publicly accessible footage obtained by advanced military sensor systems that show UAP plainly displaying very unorthodox flying characteristics.”

Thompson served in the Arizona Air Coordination Center, which functioned as the principal center of Air Operations within the Tucson Sector, from 2020 to 2021, according to an official news release from The Debrief. Along with his professional responsibilities, he spent time investigating UAP sightings he heard about within the agency, including gathering films and photographs acquired by sophisticated government systems. His boss requested him to write a report explaining why state security agencies wanted to take UAP seriously. After informing the DHS aviation community of his interest in UAP encounters, numerous DHS and National Guard pilots started sharing their UAP contacts, including incidences captured with advanced imaging systems on various aircraft.

One of these films, shot by an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in November 2018, contains 3 fast-moving objects flying in a loose triangle configuration that abruptly begin to spin into each other as if revolving around an unknown axis while maintaining a constant eastward track. The event and footage are being made public for the first time.

Chris Lehto, a former US Air Force F-16 pilot with a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Science, was also interviewed for the Debrief. He decided after reviewing the film that the things seen are definitely out of the ordinary. The objects complete a 360-degree turn in less than three seconds, exhibiting a turn rate that is an order of magnitude quicker than one of the world’s fastest turning airplanes.

Thompson sent the video, along with many others, to UFO researcher Andy Marcial, who maintains the NY UAP Discussions Instagram account. Marcial later revealed in The Debrief piece that he was amazed when Thompson contacted him with the clip. However, it was something that people needed to see.

On Saturday, May 28th, the footage will be studied and presented at the UFO Disclosure Symposium. The event will include a live internet and in-person media press conference with analysts, footage holders, and industry professionals discussing and answering questions about the findings. Paul Hynek, Dr. Travis Taylor (astrophysicist), and Dr. Avi Loeb (Harvard physicist and professor) will be among the analysts.

Members of the United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation convened legislative hearings with top military officials on May 17, 2022, to explore military reports of inexplicable aerial phenomena. Several movies were exhibited that were captured by US military cameras and monitored by very advanced sensors. This latest release by Thompson and Marcial demonstrates that the United States is ready to engage in serious debates about UAP and the potential concerns they may represent to national and homeland security. Perhaps in the near future, we will see these tapes and the people involved testifying in another senate session. As we proceed towards the uncertain yet fascinating future of the UAP enigma, only time will tell.

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11-06-2022 om 15:19 geschreven door peter  

Reflective UFOs appeared in a tight cluster over Lansing, Michigan 25-May-2022

Check out this UFO footage filmed over Lansing, Michigan on 25th May 2022.

Witness report: 

Reflective objects appeared in a tight cluster, roughly 1 – 2 miles north of my position on top of Granger Landfill. These objects quickly gained altitude, moving approximately 2 – 3 miles in 5 seconds. When I first witnessed the objects gaining altitude, I reach for my phone and accessed my camera, within the time frame, they had moved from the treeline to where the video begins. These were flying at various altitudes, hovering at times.

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11-06-2022 om 15:08 geschreven door peter  

Boomerang shaped UFO hovered and moved slowly – Montgomery, Indiana

This bright boomerang shaped object was filmed over Montgomery in Indiana. This happened back in 15th June 2018 but it was just recently published online.

Witness report: 

A boomerang shaped object that appeared to be dull silver / geay was moving slowly across the sky. It seemed to hover for a short period, then started moving again in the same direction that it came from. It was a very sunny afternoon with no cloud cover. We were in the middle of a soybean farm at a small racetrack. I have about 4 minutes of video that I took with my phone. The object was bery far away, but I was able to zoom in and capture it. I had to keep moving my phone to try to get it centered on the screen. It was hard to see it on the screen because the sun was high in the sky, and it was hard for me to see my phone screen.

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11-06-2022 om 14:04 geschreven door peter  

UFOs over Daytona Beach, Florida 28 May 2022

Here’s one interesting footage of a bright lights making maneuvers in the sky above Daytona Beach in Florida on 28th May 2022.

Witness report: 

My wife and I had just stepped out of our condo when we observed lights hovering in the sky, in a V shape formation. The lights were glowing and would turn off and on, reappearing elsewhere in the sky. I managed to obtain video and a still shot of the objects using my cell phone. Attached is a video of what we observed along with a still shot. According to social media, news outlets were reporting that these objects were being seen all over Florida for the past 1-2 hours, prior to my wife and I seeing them. I am a retired 30 year Police Officer and have served in 2 branches of the military. I know what I saw…..and have never seen anything like this before.

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11-06-2022 om 13:59 geschreven door peter  

UAP footage shot by a US Army helicopter has just been made public

During a training exercise in Arizona in 2018, UAP obtained a video from an Army Apache Attack Helicopter.

In the year 2018, on November 6th, the pilots of a US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter were participating in a military drill in Arizona when they saw three unidentified aircraft phenomena, or UAPs, doing abnormal maneuvers in the air not that far away and not very up in the sky.

At least, that’s the tale that accompanied the newest piece of what used to be known as a UFO video released to YouTube on Friday in the AMs by the science, defense, and technology website The Debrief, in conjunction with the commencement of a UFO Disclosure Symposium that weekend in Vernal, Utah.

The video was shot from an airfield on the desert floor, looking up, where 3 UFOs can be seen traveling throughout the sky at what appears to be a quick rate.

One of the pilots questioned if those were three incredibly fast jets up there, to which another pilot replied that they were most likely A-10s or F-16s.

The 3 beams of light appeared to dance around each other as they move, defying known physics for a mechanical aircraft.

Former US Air Force F-16 fighter pilot Chris Lehto told The DeBrief that the circle-dance maneuver is just not conceivable. They do a full 360-degree turn in under 3 seconds.

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11-06-2022 om 13:53 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers discover colossal wave-shaped gaseous structure that is 9,000 light years long and 400 light years wide - the largest ever seen in our Milky Way galaxy

• Giant wave changes our 150-long knowledge of interconnected stellar nurseries 

• Stellar nurseries are star-forming regions of contracting cloud and dust 

• The 'Radcliffe wave' reaches trillions of miles above and below our galactic disk 

• The US astronomers used data from European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft 

By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE 

Astronomers have discovered the largest gaseous structure ever observed in our galaxy, transforming human knowledge of the shape of matter in the Milky Way.

The wave-shaped structure is about 9,000 light years long and 400 light years wide, stretching 500 light years above and below the mid-plane of our galaxy's disc.

The long and relatively thin thread-like structure is undulating, like 'a ripple in the pond', and contains a huge network of stellar nurseries – star forming regions. 

The team from Harvard used new data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft to construct a 3D map of interstellar matter in the galaxy. 

This image, taken from the World Wide Telescope, represents the study data overlaid on an artist's illustration of the Milky Way and our sun.

'We don't know what causes this shape but it could be like a ripple in a pond, as if something extraordinarily massive landed in our galaxy,' said João Alves, professor of stellar astrophysics at the University of Vienna and co-author of the study.

'What we do know is that our sun interacts with this structure. 

WHAT IS A STELLAR NURSERY?

Stellar nurseries are an area of outer space with a dense nebula – an interstellar cloud – in which gas and dust are contracting.

Dense regions within these clouds eventually contract and collapse to form stars. 

They are called nurseries because they are star-forming regions filled with young stars. 

This new discovery is one giant undulating wave gaseous clouds and dust – the largest seen in our galaxy. 

'It passed by a festival of supernovae as it crossed Orion 13 million years ago, and in another 13 million years it will cross the structure again, sort of like we are "surfing the wave".' 

The structure is made up of interconnected stellar nurseries, areas of outer space with dense clouds of gas and dust.

It transforms a 150-year-old vision of the galaxy, which researchers previously believed was made up of nearby stellar nurseries that formed an expanding ring oriented around the sun, known as the Gould Belt.

The Gould's Belt was first described by Benjamin Gould in 1879 as a collection of bright and massive stars that formed a ring in a projection on the sky.  

Scientists have dubbed the new wave-like discovery the 'Radcliffe wave' – after the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where the discovery was made.

'No astronomer expected that we live next to a giant, wave-like collection of gas – or that it forms the Local Arm of the Milky Way,' said Professor Alyssa Goodman, co-director of the Science Program at the institute.

'The wave's very existence is forcing us to rethink our understanding of the Milky Way's 3D structure.'

Illustration of colourful filaments of dust that form part of the Gould Belt, a collection of bright and massive stars that formed a ring in a projection on the sky, first observed in 1879

The study was made possible by new data from Gaia – the European Space Agency's spacecraft, which was launched in 2013 with the mission of precisely measuring the position, distance and motion of the stars.

The new structure comprises the majority of nearby star-forming regions and contains about three million solar masses of gas – one solar mass is equal to the mass of our sun.

The wave includes many of the stellar nurseries that were previously thought to form part of Gould's Belt.

For a long time, astronomers have been trying to figure out if bright stars forming an arc in the sky actually form a ring in 3D.

'Instead, what we've observed is the largest coherent gas structure we know of in the galaxy, organised not in a ring but in a massive, undulating filament,' said professor Alves.

'The sun lies only 500 light years from the wave at its closest point. It's been right in front of our eyes all the time, but we couldn't see it until now.'

The new, 3D map shows our galactic neighbourhood in a new light, providing a revised view of the Milky Way and potentially opening the door to other major discoveries.  

The new discovery is detailed in Nature and viewable as a 3D map on the WorldWide Telescope tour website. 

It has been based on two research papers previously published by a team led by Harvard graduate student Catherine Zucker. 

These two papers detail distances among stellar nurseries using advanced statistical techniques that map the 3D distribution of dust, using vast surveys of the stars' colours.   

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has enabled measurements of the distances to one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. 

WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S GAIA PROBE AND WHAT IS DESIGNED TO DO?

Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and in the process reveal its composition, formation and evolution.

Gaia has been circling the sun nearly a million miles beyond Earth's orbit since its launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013. 

On its journey, the probe has been discreetly snapping pictures of the Milky Way, identifying stars from smaller galaxies long ago swallowed up by our own.

Tens of thousands of previously undetected objects are expected to be discovered by Gaia, including asteroids that may one day threaten Earth, planets circling nearby stars, and exploding supernovas. 

Artist's impression of Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way. Gaia maps the position of the Milky Way's stars in a couple of ways. It pinpoints the location of the stars but the probe can also plot their movement, by scanning each star about 70 times

Astrophysicists also hope to learn more about the distribution of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to hold the observable universe together.

They also plan to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity by watching how light is deflected by the sun and its planets.

The satellite's billion-pixel camera, the largest ever in space, is so powerful it would be able to gauge the diameter of a human hair at a distance of 621 miles (1,000 km).

This means nearby stars have been located with unprecedented accuracy.

Gaia maps the position of the Milky Way's stars in a couple of ways.

Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and colour of stars observed by the ESA satellite in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016. Brighter regions indicate denser concentrations of especially bright stars, while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer bright stars are observed. The colour representation is obtained by combining the total amount of light with the amount of blue and red light recorded by Gaia in each patch of the sky.

It pinpoints the location of the stars but the probe can also plot their movement, by scanning each star about 70 times.

This is what allows scientists to calculate the distance between Earth and each star, which is a crucial measure.

In September 2016, ESA released the first batch of data collected by Gaia, which included information on the brightness and position of over a billion stars.

In April 2018, this was expanded to high-precision measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars.

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30-05-2022 om 00:56 geschreven door peter