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The Navy Just Released UFO Videos That Demand Another Look

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Fighter plane fleet following an ufo . Secret file researches. Dogfight simulation of an ufo and ... [+] fighter planes. The clips were recorded in 2004 and 2015 by infrared cameras on US Navy aircraft and show what the Pentagon calls "unidentified aerial phenomena" - oblong objects appears to move through the sky in unusual ways. Pilots can be heard on the videos marveling at their speed, sudden movements, how they seem to rotate in mid-air and fly into a substantial headwind with ease. Publisher: Forbes Date: 2020-04-29 Author: Eric Mack Twitter: @forbes Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Quite a lot has been going on: Trump calls military UFO footage 'a hell of a video' Publisher: New York Post Date: 2020-04-30T17:24:13 00:00 Twitter: @nypost Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Happening on Twitter The Pentagon released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots of ...

Space Travel Could Happen This Year, Despite Coronavirus – BRINK – News and Insights on Global

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A view of Earth and a satellite, taken by NASA. The notion of space tourism might seem "frivolous" at a time when humanity is battling a global pandemic, but the days of suborbital travel are edging closer. Commercial space flights could happen as soon as late this year, despite the global recession fueled by the novel coronavirus. That's the prediction of Jeffrey Manber, CEO of Nanoracks , a private space company working on the commercial utilization of space. Publisher: BRINK – News and Insights on Global Risk Twitter: @BrinkNewsNow Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Quite a lot has been going on: Video: Astronaut teaches Dundee kids about space travel with virtual visits - Evening Telegraph Jim Reilly is a geoscientist and explorer who has completed three space shuttle missions and five spacewalks during his 13-year career, logging almost 900 hours in space. He has sent a video from his home in Virginia to...

NASA budget cuts at Mars threaten 'crisis' for Curiosity rover and prolific orbiters | Space

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Budget cuts may force NASA's Curiosity rover to slam on the brakes just as it's reaching its highly anticipated home stretch. The $2.5 billion mission also seeks to shed light on Mars' long-ago shift from a relatively warm and wet world to the cold and dry planet we know today. Gale is well suited for such inquiry; it harbors a 3.4-mile-high (5.5 km) massif called Mount Sharp , whose many rock layers preserve a long history of Martian environmental conditions. Publisher: Space.com Date: 2020-04-30T11:47:17 00:00 Author: https www facebook com spacecom Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Quite a lot has been going on: The UAE wants to send people to Mars. But first, a practice round on Earth. | Space The United Arab Emirates sent its first astronaut to space for a week last fall; the country's next astronaut mission will last longer but remain much closer to home. "This is...

This star survived a close call with a black hole. Eventually, it will become a planet - CNN

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(CNN) A red giant star strayed too close to a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 250 million light-years away. Instead of being gobbled up, the star survived -- but it's not in an ideal situation, either. In a drawn-out process of destruction that leads to a kind of renewal, the star will transform into a planet. Publisher: CNN Date: 2020-04-28T13:04:16Z Author: Ashley Strickland CNN Reference: (Read more) Visit Source In case you are keeping track: Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter After an international coalition of scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole last year, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing a brilliant jet of particles. * * * The video, part of a new research paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics this week, actually comes from the same observation of the black hole image conducted by the Event Ho...

First-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moon | Space | EarthSky

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For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute. * * * The animation above shows a rotating globe of the new Unified Geologic Map of the Moon with shaded topography from NASA’s LOLA mission to the moon (LOLA stands for Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter). The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) announced the new Unified Geologic Map of the Moon on April 20, 2020. They said it shows the moon’s surface geology, with rock layers and craters charted “in great detail.” The map is a synthesis of six Apollo-era regional geologic maps, updated with data from more recent moon missions. Publisher: EarthSky Date: 2020-04-29T06:11:37-05:00 Author: Eleanor Imster Reference: (Read more) Visit Source And here's another article: NASA to announce which compani...

An asteroid more than a mile wide makes a close — but safe — approach to Earth

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The rocky object, called the 1998 OR2, passed by no closer than about 4 million miles, according to NASA . While many astronomers consider 1998 OR2 to be making a close approach to the planet, it is still very far away. So far, in fact, that it cannot be seen with the naked eye or a small telescope, the European Space Agency tweeted . The asteroid is "just at the limit of what is visible with medium-sized telescopes," the agency wrote. Publisher: NBC News Twitter: @NBCNews Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Other things to check out: A 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Visits, Venus Shines At Its Brightest: The Night Sky This Week Each Monday I pick out the northern hemisphere's celestial highlights for the week ahead, but be sure to check my main feed for more in-depth articles on stargazing, eclipses and astronomy.  Venus will be just 27% illuminated this week, but despite that its brightness wi...

A Nest of Alien Asteroids Orbits Our Sun - The New York Times

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A pair of astronomers announced last week that they had identified 19 alien asteroids circling our sun. The rocks were probably stolen from other nearby stars 4.5 billion years ago, during the birth throes of the sun. Today they mingle in the sky with a class of asteroids called Centaurs that inhabit outer realms of the solar system between Jupiter and Neptune. But unlike the rest of the Centaurs, the aliens' orbits take them far out of the plane in which the planets go around the sun, suggesting that they were once circling other stars. Date: 2020-04-28T16:26:57.630Z Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Were you following this: A Star is Orbiting the Milky Way's Black Hole and Moving Exactly How Einstein Predicted it At the center of our galaxy, roughly 26,000 light-years from Earth, is the Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* . The powerful gravity of this object and the dense cluster of stars around it pr...