Since the early days of human space exploration, the endeavor has been haunted by a very good question: why spend so much on space when there are so many urgent problems here on Earth?
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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is a material created by stacking two sheets of graphene onto each other, with a small twist angle of about 1.1°. At this “magic angle,” electrons move very slowly, which can lead to the emergence of highly correlated electron states.
Within our Milky Way galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Vulpecula, a cosmic “lighthouse” named PSR B1937+21 spins at an astonishing rate of 642 revolutions per second. It emits electromagnetic pulses that rival the precision of atomic clocks.
Radio astronomy took another step forward recently, with the completion of Phase III of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. We’ve reported before on how the MWA has investigated everything from SETI signals to the light from the earliest stars. With this upgrade, the MWA will continue to operate with much needed improvements while radio astronomy awaits the completion of the successor it helped enable—the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with active satellites and spacecraft, according to Kazunori Takahashi, associate professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Tohoku University in Japan. Takahashi may have a solution, though.
Using ESA’s INTEGRAL spacecraft, astronomers have detected exceptionally bright X-ray flares from the Cygnus X-1 X-ray binary system. This is the first time that such strong flaring activity has been observed in this system although it has been monitored for decades. The new findings were detailed in a paper published August 28 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Temperatures of more than 10,000°C and a hail of charged particles from the fusion fuel (plasma): These are extreme conditions that the exhaust wall (divertor) of future fusion power plants will need to withstand. It makes handling the exhaust stream one of the main challenges to realizing clean, safe and affordable commercial fusion power plants.
The injured officer was able to fend off the attacker; other cops pursued the man, firing shots after he lunged at another officer with the knife
“The smiles on the kids’ faces are really what make you realize that this is a great community outreach service,” said Lt. Kyle Besse of the Norwich PD
University of Bristol astrophysicists are helping shed new light on an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away where liquid water in the form of a global ocean or icy expanse might exist on its surface. That would only be possible if an atmosphere is present—a big mystery that the scientists are attempting to unravel and now even closer to solving using the largest telescope in space.
Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren’t registered internationally?
Dating back at least 10,000 years, the intricate cave paintings found in a cave in India depict humans, animals, and everyday life in 8,000 BCE, but also kangaroos and giraffes not native to India. However, the most stunning parts of the cave paintings are the mysterious Alien Creatures and UFO’s which according to many, are evidence of Ancient Alien contact. Several rock paintings found in the Chhattisgarh cave in India have given rise to countless conspiracy theories related to Aliens. While many remain unconvinced that these ancient paintings are evidence of alien contact, locals people, and even researchers say it’s very possible. The paintings show scenes that are believed to have been painted more than 10,000 years ago, in which several strange beings—and UFO like objects—appear to come down from the sky. The cave paintings feature several „spheres“ which scientists have not been able to identify.  The cave paintings are out of this world. The archeology department in the area is believed to have asked the ISRO space agency for help in determining the strange nature of the paintings. Could this be the ultimate evidence that supports the Ancient Astronaut theory that presupposes intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times? According to comments made by JR Bhagat, there is no question that these paintings depict anything other than extraterrestrials. Archaeologists believe its evidence of a forbidden history that has survived only because it was written in stone. In addition to the award creatures and disc-shaped objects, many of the paintings are the usual drawings of humans, animals and everyday life in 8,000 BCE. But it also stunned many because some depict kangaroos and giraffes (not native to India at all) and fish-like-creatures.  “The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers. Extensive research is needed for further findings. Chhattisgarh presently doesn’t have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject. The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. The nose and mouth are missing, and in a few pictures, they are even shown wearing spacesuits. We can’t refuse the possibility of imagination by prehistoric men, but humans usually fancy such things,” said archeologists JR Bhagat. The Times of India doesn’t seem to give in to the conspiracy theory and is convinced—as many other readers—that we have actual, conclusive evidence of alien contact in ancient times.
An article posted online indicates how “There are several beliefs among locals in these villages. While few worship the paintings, others narrate stories they have heard from ancestors about “rohela people” -the small sized ones -who used to land from the sky in a round shaped flying object and take away one or two persons in the village who never returned.”
But what makes this story even more fascinating perhaps, is the fact that similar ancient cave paintings have been found all over the globe. It’s as if ancient cultures around the world saw on a global scale something in the sky, and possibly even among them, that they had to write down in stone, hoping that their story would be deciphered one day. 
 Kakadu National Park, NT, Australia. Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex computational problems, with applications in everything from supply chain management to medicine and beyond.
Stargazers enjoyed a “Blood Moon” Sunday night during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia and swaths of Europe and Africa.
The most famous symbols on the Inga Stone are those representing the constellation of Orion, and the Milky Way Galaxy. Experts refer to the Inga Stone as “an exceptional archeoastronomy monument, like no other in the world.” The Inga stone also referred to as the “Pedra Do Inga” is currently one of the most significant archaeological monuments in the world. It is located in the municipality of Ingá, in the interior of the Brazilian state of Paraíba. The Inga Stone features hundreds of strange symbols and “Stars” that stretch over a rock measuring 245 meters in length, 3 meters in height. Several figures are carved in low relief in this set and there are entries whose meanings are unknown. The age of the inscriptions is unknown, but geologists estimate that the rock formation dates back at least 6,000 years. According to experts, the Inga Stone features more than 400 engravings, some zoomorphic, others representing abstract signs and others representing stars. One of the most notable experts that have studied the Pedra do Ingá was a Brazilian of Italian origin called Gabriele D’Annunzio Baraldi. In his opinion, the rock represents the story of the universal flood written in a language very similar to the Hittite, spoken in the second millennium BC in present-day Turkey. According to researcher Yuri Leveratto, Baraldi’s hypothesis could be considered real, and the message written in the Pedra do Ingá could be written in Nostratic—a large-scale language family, which includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, although its exact composition and structure vary among proponents Some authors have ventured out of “ordinary theories” proposing that due to a close relationship with Celtic symbols, it is possible that the ancient Carthaginians and their Celtic allies fled to the region where the stone was located after the defeat by the ancient Romans. But there are countless theories and mysteries surrounding this incredible ancient monument. There is a hypothesis that suggests the petroglyphs of Ingá are of exceptional importance from an archaeoastronomical point of view. In 1976 the Spanish engineer Francisco Pavia Alemany began a mathematical study on this archaeological monument, whose first results were published in 1986 by the Instituto de Arqueología Brasileira (Pavia Alemany F. 1986). The author identified on the surface of the Ingá stone what he described as the most extraordinary known archaeological record of the variation of the solar orthography throughout the year. The symbols are materialized by a series of bowls or “capsular” and other petroglyphs engraved on the vertical surface, which by way of a graduated limb form a “Solar calendar”, on which a gnomon would project the shadow of the first solar rays of each day. The Safor Astronomical Association published in 2005 a synthesis of this work in its official bulletin Huygens Nº 53 (Pavia Alemany F. 2005).
Later, F. Pavia continued the study of Ingá rock, focusing this time on the recording of a series of signs inscribed on the rocky surface of the channel itself, where a great number of “stars” can be observed that can be grouped into “constellations.” Both the “capsular” and the “constellation” records, in themselves, give Ingá great value, but the coexistence of both in the same reservoir gives Ingá an exceptional archaeoastronomical importance, which is why many authors refer to the Inga Stone as one of the most underappreciated monuments on the surface of Earth. In 2006, the Egyptologist and archaeoastronomer Jose Lull organized called Trabajos de Arqueoastronomía. Ejemplos de Africa, America, Europe y Oceania, which is a compendium of thirteen articles written by archaeoastronomers. Among these items are “The archaeoastronomical ensemble of Inga” where authors expose the study of both the bowls and constellations mentioned before and the reasons that justify Inga as an exceptional archaeoastronomical monument, like no other in the world. Here are some images of the incredible monument.
Images remain the property of their respective owners. Source: J.A. Fonseca—Pedra do Inga http://cronicasubterranea.blogspot.com/2009/09/atlantes-en-brasil-gabriele-dannunzio.html |
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