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UFOs in Manitoba skies last weekend?

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According to the manager of the planetarium at the Manitoba Museum, don’t worry — they weren’t UFOs, but new satellites sent into space by American aerospace company SpaceX. “One of the benefits of the social isolation going on right now is that I’ve been spending more time out under the stars by myself,” Scott Young told 680 CJOB. “Both nights, I saw these things come out of the west and move overhead. Sometimes you could only see one, and sometimes you could see two or three or four of them. Publisher: CJOB Twitter: @680cjob Reference: (Read more) Visit Source And here's another article: UFO Sightings. Storming Area 51. Is it Time to Believe? | WDET Earlier this week, the U.S Navy confirmed a series of videos of UFOs, or unidentified flying objects,  are indeed the real deal . More than a million people this week signed up for the tongue-in-cheek Facebook call to “St...

How to See a UFO with David J. Halperin - INDY Week

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In 2018, Halperin fictionalized his personal story of family trauma and cosmic awe in Journal of a UFO Investigator . Set in 1966, the novel tells the story of teenager Danny Shapiro, a brainy kid caring for his terminally ill mother while exploring the nascent world of ufology. Now, he's back on the bookshelves with Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Stanford University Press). A nonfiction exploration of UFO sightings as mythical and psychological phenomena, it's a mid-air collision of rigorous academic writing, vivid storytelling, historical detail, and some delightfully strange conjecture. Publisher: INDY Week Date: 2020-03-31T15:38:39.047408 Author: Glenn McDonald Twitter: @indyweek Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Check out this next: Navy Officers Say 'Unknown Individuals' Made Them Erase Evidence of 2004 UFO Encounter | Space Several Navy officers who witnessed the now-famous Nimitz UF...

Other View: 50 years on, space travel still captivates | Editorials | effinghamdailynews.com

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Advancements in computers, medicine, physics, and the understanding of how space travel affects humans all have come in the years since the end of the Apollo program and our last moon landing. Much of the research continuing today takes place aboard the International Space Station or with data recorded and transmitted back to earth by unmanned satellites. Although Elon Musk and others are pursuing the goal of human space travel run by private companies, NASA has been pumping billions into development of a skyscraper-sized Space Launch System that it hopes could take Americans back to the moon as early as 2024. Publisher: Effingham Daily News Twitter: @EDNSports Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Not to change the topic here: Coronavirus crisis slows space exploration | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera It is also causing astronomical headaches for space travel, halting work, for example, on the US's next manned mission to the Moon...

NASA's Mars Helicopter makes last spin on Earth before before July launch | Space

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NASA's next mission to Mars will carry what is meant to become the first aircraft to fly on another planet, and that experimental helicopter just spun its blades on Earth for the last time. All the components of the Mars 2020 mission are currently undergoing their final prelaunch tests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Among those components are the cruise stage vehicle, which recently finished a test to confirm its mass properties, NASA said in a statement , and the helicopter. Publisher: Space.com Date: 2020-03-30T16:27:26 00:00 Author: https www facebook com spacecom Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source This may worth something: Watch Saturn, Mars, And Jupiter All Meet In March 31, 2020's Pre-Sunrise Skies On August 27/28, 2014, Mars and Saturn had a close conjunction in the night sky, visible at the ... [+] lower right. The March 31, 2020 conjunction will be the closest thes...

Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image’s Rings - The New York Times

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A year ago a team of radio astronomers startled the world with the first photograph of a black hole , lurking like the eye of Sauron in the heart of a distant galaxy. Now it appears there was more hiding in that image than we had imagined. When you point a telescope at a black hole, it turns out you don't just see the swirling sizzling doughnut of doom formed by matter falling in. You can also see the whole universe. Light from an infinite array of distant stars and galaxies can wrap around the black hole like ribbons around a maypole, again and again before coming back to your eye, or your telescope. Date: 2020-03-28T09:00:29.000Z Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Check out this next: Last year, we finally photographed a black hole. Now what? | Popular Science Publisher: Popular Science Twitter: @popsci Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Astronomers Observe Blasting Supermassive Black Hole Jets From The Ear...

Astronauts could use their own urine to build moon bases one day | Space

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In a new study, researchers have found that urea, the major organic compound found in human urine, could be useful for making concrete for lunar structures . Obviously, many people might immediately think: Why!? We seem to have no issue making concrete without urine in it here on Earth, why would urea be important in making concrete on the moon? Video: Astronauts drink recycled urine and celebrate More: Skywatcher spots astronaut pee in space Publisher: Space.com Date: 2020-03-30T20:15:05 00:00 Author: https www facebook com spacecom Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Were you following this: Are China's moon missions a threat to the US? Space experts don't think so | Space U.S. fears that China could set up a moon base for spying do not line up with the country's statements about its space program , according to security experts. China's work in space h...

This Epic Ion Engine Will Power NASA's Test Mission to Redirect an Asteroid

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Despite humanity's current struggle against the novel coronavirus, and despite it taking up most of our attention, other threats still exist. The very real threat of a possible asteroid strike on Earth in the future is taking a backseat for now, but it's still there. Though an asteroid strike seems kind of ephemeral right now, it's a real threat, and one that has the potential to end humanity. Agencies like NASA and the ESA are still working on their plans to protect us from that threat. Publisher: ScienceAlert Author: Evan Gough Universe Today Twitter: @ScienceAlert Reference: (Read more) Visit Source In case you are keeping track: Japan's Experiment to Calculate an Asteroid's Age Was a Smashing Success | Smart Last April, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft created an artificial crater on the asteroid, Ryugu, by hurling a four-pound copper ball, called SCI, toward the asteroid's surface at about 4,500 miles per hour...