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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2023
I’ve often said that the way we will use lightspeed will be when we learn to ride light itself like a tunel, and when we look at it as sort of a fiberoptic made of light where using the energy from the vacuum of space itself, and light being your source to move you forward we could use it along with Element 115 to travel the stars. Now it looks like science is catching up to one of my theories as they have used LED lights in a Vacuum chamber, and managed to do just that! But with small plastic so calm down this is still in it’s infant stages here but researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have managed to get two small plastic plates to hover using nothing but light, Wired reports.
Scientists have previously used the same physical phenomenon to float invisible aerosols in microfluidic devices, an object big enough to grasp was never moved before, making the study, published in Science Advances, a breakthrough. The researchers were able to have the Mylar plates, each as wide as a pencil’s diameter, hovering by using nothing but the energy from the light below. The hovering happens thanks to the energy from the LEDs heating up the Mylar’s specially coated underbelly. This energizes the air particles under the plastic and thrusts the plates away with a slight wind.
I think Magnets will also eventually come into play here, and that will help in making new tech from this discovery. Such things as possible as “Hoverboards” which we’ve wanted since the days of Back to the Future 2 are now an inch closer to becoming reality. Also this technology could actually be utilized to learn more about the mesosphere. Lying between 50 and 85 kilometers (31 and 53 miles) above our heads, this high-up region of the atmosphere is pretty difficult to study since we don’t have access to it. This is a bit of a nuisance since the pressure in Mars’ atmosphere is similar to Earth’s mesosphere, implying that studying our mesosphere could help us develop technologies for Mars and others like it for future space travel, and colonization. Remember folks this sort of tech is happening for reasons not just for fun gadgets.
With the first instance of stable photophoretic flight achieved, the researchers are also armed with an accompanying theoretical model that can simulate how different flying plates would behave in the atmosphere. Utilizing these technologies, the researchers now considering developing a flight system that can take small sensors into the mesosphere by using this light-powered hovering technology.
The current model indicates that a hovering plate could carry 80 kilometers (50 miles) overhead while equipped with a sensor-sized load; however, the idea is rather in its infant stages, and like I said researchers state that there are many meteorological challenges that need to be overcome before such technologies could be deployed. But think of the possibilities once again friends.
Well lets hope the Sith don’t know where here… lol TXS 0128+554, outlined in red on the pic below, is an elliptical galaxy located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.
The active galaxy far, far away looks eerily reminiscent of a TIE fighter from “Star Wars.” Which is how it got it’s name “The Star Wars Galaxy” I hope Disney doesn’t sue NASA of naming rights. But in reality the galaxy, known as TXS 0128+554, is 500 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. TXS 0128+554 is considered an active galaxy, as it emits more light than all of its stars together. In 2015, researchers found TXS 0128+554 was a “faint source of gamma rays,” but it wasn’t until recently that they went in for a closer look.
“After the Fermi announcement, we zoomed in a million times closer on the galaxy using the [Very Long Baseline Array’s] radio antennas and charted its shape over time,” said Purdue University professor and study lead author Matthew Lister in a statement. “The first time I saw the results, I immediately thought it looked like Darth Vader’s TIE fighter spacecraft from ‘Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.’ That was a fun surprise, but its appearance at different radio frequencies also helped us learn more about how active galaxies can change dramatically on decade time scales.”
TXS 0128+554 has a “supermassive black hole” that is believed to be 1 billion times the sun’s mass, which may provide a reason for the gamma-ray emissions.
The galaxy is also producing two jets, “beams of high-energy particles traveling at nearly the speed of light in opposite directions,” that give it the TIE fighter-like appearance. It’s believed these jets may be producing some of the gamma-ray emissions.
The researchers used NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to look at the galaxy to get a better idea of what it looks like.
“The real-world universe is three-dimensional, but when we look out into space, we usually only see two dimensions,” study co-author Daniel Homan added. “In this case, we’re lucky because the galaxy is angled in such a way, from our perspective, that the light from the farther lobe travels dozens more light-years to reach us than the light from the nearer one. This means we’re seeing the farther lobe at an earlier point in its evolution.”
The research has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.
TXS 0128+554 is not the only “Star Wars”-linked discovery in space in recent memory.
In June 2016, exoplanet Kepler-1647 b was discovered 3,700 light-years from Earth. It is part of a double-star system, similar to Luke Skywalker’s planet, Tatooine. Three years later, exoplanet LTT 1445 A b and its three stars were discovered. Also remember Researchers discovered what they described as “the first volcanically active exomoon” in August 2019, a celestial body eerily reminiscent of the tiny, fiery “Star Wars” planet, Mustafar, where Anakin Skywalker turned into Darth Vader. Seems like “The Force” is real, and we’re on the cusp of disclosure. Or to quote Yoda. “ Luminous beings are we…not this crude matter.” The Empire Strikes Back.
May the force be with you….. Always.
This is cool, and none political for once! Heh not that I’m tired of politics but I love science, and space, and well scientists have captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own. The new image is a family portrait of sorts, showing two giant exoplanets orbiting a young, sun-like star, roughly 300 light years away. The picture was taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. According to a new study in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the system will help astronomers better understand how our solar system formed and evolved. The star, known as TYC 8998-760-1 and located in the Southern constellation of Musca, is only 17 million years old, which researchers called a “very young version of our own sun.” Comparatively, the sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old. Both planets orbiting the star, dubbed TYC 8998-760-1b and TYC 8998-760-1c, are suspected to be gas giants, meaning they are composed primarily of gases like helium and hydrogen. However, they are much further away from their host star than our gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, at distances of 160 and about 320 times the Earth-sun distance. They are also much heavier than the gas giants in our solar system.
The image shows the two planets, which appear as two bright points of light, distantly orbiting their parent star, located in the upper left corner. Because they formed so recently, they still glow brightly enough to be seen from Earth. It marks the first time astronomers have observed more than a single planet orbiting a star similar to the sun. Only two similar systems have ever been previously observed both with stars uniquely different to ours.
“This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution,” lead researcher Alexander Bohn, a PhD student at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said in a press release. Co-author Matthew Kenworthy, an associate professor at Leiden University, said that these kinds of direct observations are crucial in the hunt for planets that can support life. “Even though astronomers have indirectly detected thousands of planets in our galaxy, only a tiny fraction of these exoplanets have been directly imaged,” he said. Only a few dozen of the exoplanets so-far discovered have been directly imaged, according to NASA. Scientists hope that further research will reveal if the young planets formed at their current location or migrated from somewhere else and how they might interact with each other. With us close to destroying this planet is good to know we’re activily looking for another world to destroy next! YAY SCIENCE! LMAO!
An orbiting spacecraft has detected a strange green glow on planet Mars that had never been seen before, and only previously seen on our very own planet Earth. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spotted glowing green oxygen in Mars’s atmosphere similar to the northern lights seen on Earth.
It’s something that for decades scientists had looking in the night skies for, and not until the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite spotted it, according to a study published in Nature Astronomy. had it only been theorized as being something we would see one day.
On Earth, glowing oxygen is produced during polar auroras when energetic electrons from interplanetary space hit the upper atmosphere, creating a distinctive green glow, and while the atmospheres of Earth and Mars also glow constantly during both day and night as sunlight it’s because it interacts with atoms and molecules within the atmosphere.
On Earth, green night glow is quite faint, and can be visible in some of the spectacular images taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Now this green glow has now been detected for the first time on Mars by the ExoMars TGO, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2016. This is very exciting because this means there could be a form of “oxygen” on the red planet, and this means perhaps vegetation? I do remember videos back in the day talking about Mars which showed what looked like trees, and forests on the red planet so who knows! Maybe just maybe there is the possibility of seeding life on the planet just by going there, and planting enough seeds, and helping to expand the possible forests, and vegetation on the planet, and the rest could play itself out naturally as nature does.
Or maybe it’s best we just leave it alone, and let nature do whatever it needs to do to that world? WHO knows… I do think we’re not being told everything that’s happening on MARS, and wouldn’t put it past our government for keeping from us the entire story of what they know about Mars. Also it wouldn’t be to hard to believe that there could be ancient beings still living on the planet. Maybe that’s where we came from? Maybe some not all? I’ve theorized for a long time that we’re all here because we got here during different periods in our solar systems history in need of a new home, and we got here, and took over parts of the planet which didn’t have intelligent life already living in. Giving us the diverse looking world we have.
But I don’t think that’s something I want to write about here so just listen to my show as I usually get into these subjects. Either way cool finding on Mars, and can’t wait to hear more findings from the RED PLANET.
A few years ago this was also spoken about, and don’t know why more people were not talking about it then. But they are now. Check out these videos below.
So as I reported earlier about the ISIS footage now I found out that also Astronomers Discovered what they claim is a ‘Mini-Moon’ Orbiting Earth. Could this be the same object that we saw in the ISIS footage? Well you decide… Funny how mainstream news is pushing this as a natural object the size of a car? Well the ISIS footage was said to be about the size of a bus. SO I think we might have some sort of link here?
You decide folks…
BIG NEWS (thread 1/3). Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3. On the night of Feb. 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I found a 20th magnitude object. Here are the discovery images. pic.twitter.com/zLkXyGAkZl
— Kacper Wierzchos (@WierzchosKacper) February 26, 2020
Reminds me of this classic scene…
Astronomers say Earth has a new, temporary companion in addition to the moon. A tiny asteroid, known as 2020 CD3, was captured by Earth’s gravity well, bringing the object into its orbit about three years ago. It was detected by Kacper Wierzchos, a researcher with the Catalina Sky Survey at University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Lab..
“BIG NEWS,” Wierzchos tweeted on Tuesday adding a gif of the images that helped him detect Earth’s new little buddy. “Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3. On the night of Feb. 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I found a 20th magnitude object.”
The object isn’t large by any means – about the size of a large SUV – as it measures approximately 6 feet to 11 feet across. The discovery is a big deal for astronomers because it’s only the second asteroid known to orbit Earth out of roughly 1 million known space rocks.
The object’s official designation in The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center lists 2020 CD3 as being “temporarily bound to the Earth,” and that no “evidence of perturbations due to solar radiation pressure is seen, and no link to a known artificial object has been found.”
The center added that further observations of the object are “strongly encouraged.” The Catalina Sky Survey is a NASA-funded project that aims to scan the night sky and track near-Earth objects, especially any that might pose a threat to Earth.
Because the object is bound by gravity to the Earth, it’s unlike to pose any threat. The last asteroid to get captured in Earth’s orbit was 2006 RH120, which was captured by Earth in June 2006. It hung around until September 2007 before swinging back out into the solar system.
Sen. John Glenn, the iconic astronaut lauded as the last American hero, has died. He was 95. Ohio State University officials announced Glenn’s death on December 8. He was being treated for a variety of ailments at James Cancer Hospital, where he was hospitalized since last week.
We are saddened by the loss of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. A true American hero. Godspeed, John Glenn. Ad astra. pic.twitter.com/89idi9r1NB
— NASA (@NASA) December 8, 2016
When he entered the hospital, officials did not reveal his exact illness, but they said people shouldn’t assume he had cancer because of the hospital’s name. Glenn died with his two children, John and Carolyn, and wife of 73 years at his side, said BBC.
He suffered a stroke two years ago and had heart valve replacement surgery. The Columbus Dispatch said Glenn’s health started to go downhill in 2013 when he had a pacemaker installed and experienced episodes of vertigo. He also had knee replacement surgery, the newspaper said. The Associated Press said Glenn’s eyesight was also failing this year, something he apologized for at a ceremony where an airport was renamed for him.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced Glenn’s death on Twitter.
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) December 8, 2016
According to the Columbus Dispatch, “Glenn’s body will lie in state at the Ohio Statehouse for a day, and a public memorial service will be held at Ohio State University’s Mershon Auditorium. He will be buried near Washington, D.C., at Arlington National Cemetery in a private service.”
Glenn was the first man to orbit the earth and later a U.S senator. According to NPR, Glenn was “the last surviving member of the original Mercury astronauts.” Glenn was also a World War II combat veteran, and the U.S. Marines posted a tweet mourning his loss.
The Corps lost a legend today.
Col. John Glenn— an astronaut, a senator, a Marine— died at the age of 95.
Semper Fi, Sir. pic.twitter.com/xUShqC9JaZ
— U.S. Marines (@USMC) December 8, 2016
Annie Glenn his wife, and now widow is still alive and is 96-years-old. Theirs was considered a great love story. Rest in Peace.
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