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Celestial Lights Down to Earth

Celestial Ligths Viewed From Earth

by Lady Michelle Jennifer Santos, Founder and Publisher  April 19, 2012 (TSR) – As our official adieu to winter and welcome of spring, we want to treat our subscribers with some amazing time-lapse photography of Aurora Borealis (a.k.a. Northern Lights) from Norway. We found some awe-inspiring images in vimeo.com, captured  by Norwegian amateur photographer Ole Christian [...]

Evidence for Antimatter Anomaly Mounts

Bad symmetry. If matter and antimatter aren't exact opposites, it may explain why the universe still exists. Credit: Fermi National Laboratory

March 2, 2012 (TSR) - The big bang created a lot of matter—along with the same amount of antimatter, which wiped out everything and brought the universe to an untimely end. That’s what accepted theoretical physics tell us—though things clearly didn’t work out that way. Now, results from a U.S. particle smasher are providing new evidence [...]

Former astronaut to lead starship effort

The foundation aims to foster the research necessary to build a starship

Jan. 11, 2012 (TSR) - The Pentagon’s premiere research agency has chosen a former astronaut to lead a foundation that is designed to take humanity to the stars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) and Nasa are sponsoring the project, known as the 100-Year Starship. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space, [...]

NASA’S KEPLER CONFIRMS ITS FIRST PLANET IN HABITABLE ZONE OF SUN-LIKE STAR

Where the Sun Sets Twice - NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is the most "Tatooine-like" planet yet found in our galaxy. Tatooine is the name of Luke Skywalker's home world in the science fiction movie Star Wars. In this case, the planet it not thought to be habitable. It is a cold world, with a gaseous surface, but like Tatooine, it circles two stars.  Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt

MOFFET FIELD, Calif. Dec 6, 2011 (NASA/TSR) — NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of [...]

‘Doomsday’ postponed: Comet Elenin to Pass by Earth Sunday as Debris

Artistic rendition of Comet Elenin

Oct 15, 2011 (Space/TSR) – The moment long feared by conspiracy theorists is nearly upon us: The “doomsday comet” Elenin will make its closest approach to Earth Sunday (Oct. 16). Or what’s left of it will, anyway. Comet Elenin started breaking up in August after being blasted by a huge solar storm, and a close pass by the sun on [...]

Swedish Underwater Anomaly: Crashed UFO or just UO?

August 6, 2011 (TSR)- Sweden’s Ocean Explorer, an ocean exploration team that hunts for sunken ships and cargo, made the discovery inadvertently while hunting for a century-old shipwreck that had several cases of rare champagne. The team, led by Peter Lindberg, was using sonar to survey the Gulf of Bothnia on June 19, in the [...]

Infinity Symbol Found In Milky Way Center

Infinity Symbol in Milky Way Center. The Santos Republic dubs it as THETA. Credit: Herschel Space Observatory

New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years, were known before. Herschel’s view reveals the entire ring for the first time, and a strange kink that has astronomers scratching [...]

10 real flying saucer designs that were made here on Earth

1)  Lenticular Reentry Vehicle U.S. government documents declassified in 2000 reveal that back in the '60s, the U.S. military was working on a way to deliver nuclear missiles from orbit with a manned flying saucer called the lenticular reentry vehicle, or LRV. Launched on top of a conventional rocket, the LRV could spend six weeks in orbit while supporting a crew of four, relying on its saucer shape to dissipate heat when returning to Earth and acting as a wing to glide to a landing.

Flying saucers are generally associated with UFOs, with that “U” in there standing for “unidentified.” But the saucer shape isn’t just limited to aliens from outer space: there are a fair number of entirely identified terrestrial aircraft that utilize a more or less circular and saucery design. We’ve got a list of ten flying saucers for [...]

Major Drop In Solar Activity Predicted

The Clash of Science is always always unsettled. Detailed images and captions are available here. Caption for this image. "Butterfly diagram" shows the position of sunspots over 12 solar cycles. Sunspots emerge over a range of latitudes centered on migratory jet streams that follow a clear pattern, trending from higher latitudes to lower latitudes on the Sun. The active latitudes are associated with mobile zonal flows or "jet streams" that vary through the cycle.

A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). As the current sunspot cycle, Cycle [...]

Century’s longest and darkest lunar eclipse turns moon blood red

  As the earth came in between the sun and the moon, its shadow first began sweeping across the moon, blocking out much of its bright light and as the shadow descended gently, the moon’s face turned red. This was the century’s longest and darkest total lunar eclipse as the moon immersed deeply inside the umbral [...]


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