If you could stand on Mars — what might you see?
You might look out over a
vast orange landscape covered with rocks under a dusty orange sky,
with a blue-tinted
Sun setting over the horizon,
and odd-shaped water clouds hovering high overhead
How different are these two streaks?
The streak on the upper right is
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas showing an
impressive dust tail
Braided and serpentine filaments of glowing gas
suggest this nebula’s popular name,
The Medusa Nebula
The opportunity to encounter exotic phenomena makes life thrilling. In contrast, the boring routine is to meet the mundane. We crave for the exotic over the mundane. Because of this tendency, Richard Feynman warned: “We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself.” This pearl of wisdom cautions not to get carried away with the interpretation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Yesterday, a reporter from the New York Post sent me a video taken by a television news crew from a…
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In a world increasingly divided by politics, culture, and ideology, the idea that “all is one” feels like a radical assertion. This concept lies at the heart of The Law of One, a philosophy that claims all beings are interconnected as manifestations of the Infinite Creator. Although rooted in metaphysical teachings, the principles of The Law of One are gaining renewed attention, not only among spiritual seekers but also within branches of science exploring consciousness and the universe’s interconnected nature. What Is The Law of One? The Law of One originates from a series of channeled communications, collectively called The…
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How was the Crescent Nebula created?
Looking like an emerging space
cocoon, the Crescent Nebula,
visible in the center of the
featured image, was created by the brightest star in its center
Over the past few months, I was asked multiple times by Staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability whether I am available to testify before the U.S. Congress on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs). As a result, I cleared my calendar for November 13, 2024 and prepared the following written statement. At the end, I was not called to testify before Congress and so I am posting below my intended statement. The Galileo Project under my leadership is about to release this week unprecedented results from commissioning data of its unique Observatory at Harvard University. Half a million objects…
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The Great Nebula in Orion,
an immense, nearby
starbirth region,
is probably the most famous of all
astronomical nebulas
Phobos is the innermost, larger moon of the two satellites of Mars. Phobos orbits Mars every 7 hours, 39 minutes and 12 seconds. With a mass of ten trillion tons and a mean diameter of 22 kilometers — the length of Manhattan Island, the escape speed from Phobos is only 11.4 meters per second. This is equivalent to 41 kilometers per hour, a fifth of the speed achievable by the Tesla Cybertruck. In other words, a fast car could lift off from a runway on the surface of Phobos. This makes Phobos an excellent port for shipping cargos between Earth…
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What created this huge space bubble?
Blown by the wind from a star, this
tantalizing, head-like
apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply
as the Bubble Nebula
The sincerest expression of love is the desire to know everything about the subject of that love. I love nature. This is why, as a scientist, I wish to obtain as much experimental data as possible about nature. There are an infinite number of virtual realities, some of which are flattering to our ego. But merely expressing them without knowing whether they apply to reality, is like imagining a possible love story with an idealized fictional character, akin to “Prince Charming” or “Princess Charming.” This was my message to an audience of fifty spiritual leaders who were hosted by the…
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At the end of the fifteenth century, simplified versions of medical charts featuring an image of the “Zodiac Man” began to appear in Books of Hours. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division contains many examples of these printed editions, one of which uses a skeleton in place of the Zodiac Man.
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In a new Joe Rogan podcast, the British physicist Brian Cox argued that we hold a great responsibility for prolonging our civilization because it might be the only source of meaning in the cosmos. However, in the big scheme of the cosmos, the future existence of humans might not matter, for the same reason that the extinction of dinosaurs did not attract cosmic attention. Humans arrived at the cosmic scene only over the last percent of a percent of cosmic history and nobody at cosmological distances might care about it. Other cosmic players may have no interest in making their…
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Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern constellation Pavo,
the globular star cluster NGC 6752 roams the halo of our Milky Way
galaxy
A mere seven hundred light years from Earth toward the constellation
Aquarius,
a star is dying
These six panels follow daily apparitions of comet
C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
as it moved away from our
fair planet during the past week
In 1971, Stephen Hawking suggested that a mini black hole from the early universe could be lurking at the center of the sun. His proposal was extended in 1975 by Don Clayton and collaborators who suggested that the power generated by the infall of matter onto such a black hole could explain the observed deficit in neutrinos of the electron flavor from the Sun. This deficit was known at that time as the solar neutrino problem, formulated by calculations of my early mentor, John Bahcall. Having a second power source in addition to nuclear fusion would have naturally reduced the…
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How bright and strange will the tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS become?
The comet has brightened dramatically
over the few weeks as it passed its closest to
the Sun and,
just three days ago, passed its closest to the Earth
Did you see last night’s aurora
This question was relevant around much of the world a few days ago because a powerful auroral storm became
visible unusually far from the Earth’s poles
Five bright comets are compared in these panels, recorded by
a coronograph on board the long-lived, sun-staring
SOHO spacecraft
Can you find the Sun?
OK, but can you explain why there’s a big dark spot in the center?
The spot is
the Moon,
and the impressive alignment shown, where the
Moon lines up inside the Sun, is called an
annular solar eclipse
A recent study by NASA and the University of Arizona has revealed a surprising discovery about the Moon’s interior. Researchers found a layer of low-viscosity “goo” between the Moon’s rocky mantle and its metal core. This goo moves up and down beneath the surface, similar to ocean tides on Earth. They believe this movement is driven by the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun, reports futurism.com. “Just like the Moon raises tides on the Earth, the Earth (and Sun) raise tides on the Moon,” the study explains. Published in AGU Advances, the research provides the “first measurement of…
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While hunting for comets in the skies above 18th century France,
astronomer Charles Messier
diligently kept a list of the things
encountered during his telescopic expeditions
that were definitely not comets
Most High, all-powerful, all-good Lord,
All praise is Yours, all glory, all honour and all blessings.
To you alone, Most High, do they belong,
and no mortal lips are worthy to pronounce Your Name.
Praised be You my Lord with all Your creatures,
especially Sir Brother Sun,
Who is the day through whom You give us light.
And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour,
Of You Most High, he bears the likeness.
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars, …
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A massive solar flare is set to impact Earth later this week following a powerful eruption on the Sun on Tuesday evening, October 3rd. This isn’t the first time in 2024 we’ve faced solar flare activity. Back in May, a solar storm hit after a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) resulted from two large sunspots merging. That event lit up the skies with the Northern Lights. Now, we’re preparing for the impact of another solar storm. NASA reports that Sunspot AR3842, a rapidly growing region with intense magnetic fields, has unleashed the second-strongest flare we’ve seen in the last…
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Researchers believe that there are oceans of liquid water beneath the surface of some of the moons of Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, and that extraterrestrial life forms may exist in them. For the past two years, scientists have been urging NASA and other space agencies to send a research mission to the moons of Uranus. It is already known that some moons of Jupiter and Saturn contain oceans of liquid water where extraterrestrial life could exist. The authors of a new article published in the journal Astrobiology argue that some of Uranus’s moons may also harbor oceans…
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Shockwaves ripple across the glare as a launch eclipses the
setting Sun in this
exciting close-up
NewsNation and the New York Post reported that Lue Elizondo, a former intelligence officer for the Department of Defense, alleges that “The United States has been involved in the recovery of objects, vehicles of unknown origin that are neither from our country or any other foreign country that we’re aware of.” He claims that one of the two spacecraft in possession of the Department of Defense is from the crash site of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. In his interview with NewsNation, Elizondo stated: “We as a nation have been interested in not only the vehicles themselves but the occupants…
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In 1716,
English astronomer
Edmond Halley
noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the
naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent
The defining astronomical moment
of this September’s equinox is at 12:44 UTC on September 22,
when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving south in its
yearly journey through planet Earth’s sky
Ringed ice giant Neptune
lies near the center of this sharp
near-infrared image from the
James Webb Space Telescope
Why does Saturn appear so big?
It doesn’t — what is pictured are foreground clouds on
Earth
crossing in front of the
Moon
This post describes a manuscript globe of Mars that was created during the early 20th century by the self-taught Danish astronomer Emmy Ingeborg Brun.
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