The Universe Is COLLAPSING, Not Expanding!

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The Universe as we know it now began as a tremendously hot, tiny, and dense singularity that expanded some 13.8 billion years ago. Since then, it hasn't stopped expanding, but what if it did? We previously believed the Universe to be unchanging before Edwin Hubble's observation of the expansion of the universe in the 1920s. Hubble Space Telescope data from several years later confirmed that the expansion of the Universe was accelerating.

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PART 1

Welcome to the largest collection of UFO and ET art in the world by one artist.

Christine Kesara Dennett has been illustrating for investigators, witnesses, and documentaries since 1986. Like a police sketch artist Kesara creates illustrations from actual events and descriptions from eye witnesses.

All the art in this website is from actual events! To this day new reports are shared around the world.

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PART 2

TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

Cosmic Rays as Triggers for Solar Flashes, Earth Core Eruptions and Pole Shifts

On January 11, one of the world’s top science journals, Nature, reported an unexpected acceleration in the movement of the Earth’s magnetic poles that has required an immediate update of the World Magnetic Model used for global navigation by ships at sea, Google Maps and smartphones. Scientists have speculated that the unexpected acceleration is due to “liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core”, and that in the case of the north magnetic pole, the likely culprit was a “high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada moving the pole towards Siberia”.

Importantly, scientists widely agree that the acceleration in the movement of the magnetic poles points to something very unusual happening in the Earth’s outer core which is filled with a nickel-iron alloy surrounding a solid inner core of iron. In part 2 of this series of articles investigating issues raised by Ben Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle video series, I discussed a CIA document authored by a geologist, Chan Thomas, that was only declassified in 2013. Thomas hypothesized that the inner core of the Earth, behaves just like a star in terms of emitting plasma or “neutral matter” in periodic bursts every few thousand years into the outer core, thereby triggering both magnetic and geophysical pole shifts.

In part 1, I examined evidence of solar flash (aka micronova) events in history, and the prospects for one recurring in the near future. This raises the possibility of the connection of some kind between solar flash events and “neutral matter” eruptions that occur deep inside the Earth’s core. In this article, I examine whether high energy cosmic rays from outside our solar system are the trigger mechanism for both solar flashes and neutral matter eruptions that lead to pole shifts.

It’s important to first point out that the accelerated movement of the magnetic poles is happening at a time when the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and the Solar Minimum (low sunspot activity) have both made the planet more susceptible than ever to cosmic rays.

Cosmic rays are the atomic nuclei of hydrogen, helium and larger molecules that have been stripped of their electrons. They have been generated from galactic events such as supernova and quasars, and travel throughout the universe at almost the speed of light.

While our sun also generates cosmic rays, it is the cosmic rays from the galactic core that carry the most energy as they penetrate deep into our solar system, into our sun, and finally into the Earth’s interior.

Cosmic rays are impacting both the Earth and the sun with increasing impact because the energy shield created by the solar wind is at its weakest level as a result of the current solar minimum. Some scientific models predict the solar minimum will continue until October 2020, and may even stretch out into a grand solar minimum lasting until 2070, during which time humanity witnesses a mini-ice age similar to the Maunder Minimum that occurred from 1645 to 1715.

Scientists have for decades tracked solar and cosmic ray activity and confirmed that cosmic rays peak during solar minima as shown in the following diagram.



Top graph shows solar cycles and bottom shows cosmic ray activity during the same period

The intensity of cosmic rays impacting our solar system and the Earth depends largely on the strength of the solar wind generated by our sun which acts as a shield as explained by NASA:

Our first line of defense is the sun: The sun’s magnetic field and solar wind combine to create a porous ‘shield’ that fends off cosmic rays attempting to enter the solar system. The shielding action of the sun is strongest during Solar Maximum and weakest during Solar Minimum.

NASA studies have confirmed that cosmic rays, during a solar minimum increase the radiation exposure of astronauts thereby shortening the time they can spend in Earth orbit.

It is worth emphasizing that cosmic rays typically are either deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field (magnetic field) or attracted by the field towards the polar regions where most of the world’s cosmic ray detectors have been assembed.

Studies have shown the Earth’s magnetic field, which acts as the second line of defense against cosmic rays, as well as being a shield against the solar wind, has been steadily weakening throughout the 20th century. Since the year 2000, however, the weakening has dramatically increased as illustrated in the following image provided by Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle series.


Source: Ben Davidson. Video: “Energy from Space | The Shift Has Begun”

The weakening of the magnetic field has led to some scientists concluding that this is a prelude to a magnetic pole flip.

In 2014 Rune Florberghagen, the mission manager of the European Space Agency’s Swarm project, confirmed that the Earth’s magnetic field was weakening 10 times faster than normal, and that this was a sign of a future magnetic pole flip. Florberghagen said that this “would take many hundred if not a few thousand years…. They have happened many times in the past.”

However, other scientists studying paleomagnetic data cut the time dramatically in Florberghagen’s estimate. A Berkeley University study said that the pole flip could happen in less than a century, anytime during our life-time.

The dramatic weakening of the magnetic field means that fewer cosmic rays are being deflected, and more of these have been absorbed into the Earth, especially at the polar regions where the magnetic field lines attract cosmic rays into the North and South magnetic poles.

This raises important questions about what scientists have recently discovered about the unexpected acceleration in the movement of the magnetic poles, and what we know about the increasing influence of cosmic rays during a solar minimum that may extend well beyond the projected 2020 start of solar cycle 25.

First, are cosmic rays entering the Earth’s magnetic field at the polar regions penetrating deep into the Earth’s interior, thereby impacting the molten outer core in some way? Second, were cosmic rays recently detected coming out of Antarctica, in any way related to the “neutral matter” eruptions described by Chad Thomas? Finally, were the mysterious seismic global waves detected on November 11, 2018, in any way related to neutral matter eruptions from the core, and/or cosmic rays?

Are Cosmic Rays Affecting the Earth’s Interior?

The widespread assumption about cosmic rays is that these are absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere as they impact air molecules, which in turn are rapidly accelerated and impact other molecules in cascade effect as the following diagram illustrates.


Credit: NASA

Several studies have shown, for example, that cosmic rays impact cloud formation leading to greater cloud covers during solar minima.

While the energy of cosmic rays is absorbed by other particles when they collide in the Earth’s atmosphere, these “cascade particles” take on the momentum and energy of the cosmic rays and reach the Earth’s surface, and along with surviving cosmic rays, penetrate into the Earth’s crust extending the cascade effect deep into the earth’s mantle and eventually reaching the core.

Sub-atomic particles which are created as a byproduct of the collision of cosmic rays and air molecules, such as muons and neutrinos, more easily penetrate into the Earth’s mantle and core due to their smaller cross section.

The impact of cosmic rays through their cascading effect can be visualized as a shotgun blast that carries the energy of the primary cosmic rays deep into the Earth’s interior through “cascade particles” and their sub-atomic byproducts.

The penetration of cosmic rays into the Earth’s surface has had the effect of triggering seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, as confirmed by a team of four Japanese scientists. In a June 2011 study of 11 volcanic eruptions titled “Explosive volcanic eruptions triggered by cosmic rays”, the scientists found that cosmic rays were a factor in triggering nine of the eruptions:

It is well known that the cosmic-ray flux is negatively correlated with solar magnetic activity, as the strong magnetic field in the solar wind repels charged particles such as galactic cosmic rays that originate from outside of the solar system. The strong negative correlation observed between the timing of silica-rich eruptions and solar activity can be explained by variations in cosmic-ray flux arising from solar modulation.

The Japanese study confirms that cosmic rays, through their cascade effect, do have an influence inside the Earth’s interior. The critical question is: “how deep into the Earth’s interior do cosmic rays penetrate?”

Studies show that the energy transmitted by cosmic rays can be carried deep into the Earth’s interior:

During solar minimum high energy cosmic radiation can penetrate to a very deep distance below the Earth’s surface, in some case a few hundred kilometers. This is the reason why most if not all earthquakes during solar minimum are deep earthquakes.

This takes me back to Chan Thomas and his claim that the Earth’s core periodically releases “neutral matter” every few thousand years, and that the sun experiences a solar flash in a similar millennia long cycle. Cosmic rays have the capacity to not only interact with the sun in a way that ultimately triggers a micronova, but they also interact with the Earth’s core in a way that triggers the emission of “neutral matter” as Thomas’ book claims.

If the Earth’s core is being stimulated by cosmic rays into emitting neutral matter in analogous manner to a Coronal Mass Ejection by the sun, is there any evidence of this occurring? The most compelling sign would be if the Earth’s core, like the sun, was observed to be emitting cosmic rays. Indeed, this has occurred with cosmic ray detectors discovering cosmic rays coming out of the Earth, rather than penetrating into it.

Cosmic rays observed to be coming out of Antarctica were first detected in January 2007 when the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) balloon experiment began, as explained by the science writer, Emma Fiala:

Using sensors, ANITA began detecting high energy neutrinos interacting with the ice sheet below….During ANITA’s time in the Antarctic, it detected never before seen “upward-pointing cosmic-ray-like events.” The rays detected had horizontal planes of polarization, which may suggest they didn’t originate in space.

Cosmic rays coming out of the Antarctic ice sheets were observed again by ANITA in December 2016 and sparked intense scientific speculation over whether a new type of particle had been discovered. This led to a team of scientists at Penn State University studying the ANITA data, and on September 25, 2018, releasing released their report about the anomalous 2007 and 2016 events which was published on the scholarly archive, arxiv.org:

The ANITA collaboration have reported observation of two anomalous events that appear to be εcr≈0.6 EeV cosmic ray showers emerging from the Earth with exit angles of 27∘ and 35∘, respectively…. We explore here whether “beyond the Standard Model” (BSM) particles are required to explain the ANITA events, if correctly interpreted, and conclude that they are. Seeking confirmation or refutation of the physical phenomenon of sub-EeV Earth-emergent cosmic rays in data from other facilities, we find support for the reality of the ANITA events, and three candidate analog events, among the Extremely High Energy Northern Track neutrinos of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

It should be noted that on both January 2007 and December 2016, the sunspot numbers were respectively at or near the solar minimum for sunspot activity. Consequently, it should be noted that at the same time as cosmic rays were peaking as they were coming into our solar system due to minimal solar activity, that Cosmic-like rays were observed to be coming out of the Earth.



This is consistent with the earlier observation that cosmic rays were penetrating deep into the Earth and triggering the neutral matter ejections into the outer core, which in turn stimulated what might be described as “Earth cosmic rays” that were detected by ANITA.

This takes me to the mysterious seismic global wave detected on November 11, 2018, 15 miles off the coast of Mayotte, a French island between Madagascar and Africa. On that day, a seismic wave was detected that travelled around the world for about 20 minutes. While seismic waves routinely follow earthquakes, there was no earthquake detected by seismographs as explained in an article published by National Geographic.

Based on the earlier cited 2011 study by Japanese scientists one explanation that arises is that the global seismic wave was caused by cosmic waves penetrating into the Earth’s interior. Another, more disturbing explanation is that the mysterious global seismic waves were a result of unique “Earth cosmic rays” emanating from a neutral matter ejection analogous to a coronal mass ejection first described by Thomas.

Conclusion

The accelerated movement of the magnetic poles is a sign that something significant is currently happening deep inside the Earth’s interior, at its molten outer core. The conventional explanation that this pole shift is merely a result of magma moving in the outer core portion under North America does not factor in the important role played by cosmic waves in penetrating deep into the Earth and influencing the core’s activity.

The fact that cosmic rays are pouring into the Earth due to a weakened magnetic field and solar minimum, and this may be triggering an ejection of neutral matter from the Earth’s core into the mantle and surface, needs be seriously considered. Furthermore, the fact that the CIA classified Thomas’ book some time after its 1963 publication and only declassified it in 2013, suggests that his concepts and theory of the dynamics of the inner Earth and associated pole shifts needed to be suppressed since they contained important truths that could destabilize society.

At this time in our collective history, as cosmic rays are impacting our planet at increasing levels, we need to better understand how cosmic rays influence both our planet and the sun during its period of minimal solar activity. We need to pay particular attention to evidence that our solar system has entered a region of the galaxy with increased levels of cosmic ray energy, and how this might trigger the solar flashes (micronovas) and geophysical pole shifts that occurred in our distant past.

To be continued.

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Written by Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. on January 16, 2019.

Further Reading

The Coming Solar Flash & the Galactic Federation – Q&A with Corey Goode

More Scientists Confirm Volcanoes Rapidly Melting Antarctica’s Ice Sheets

Global Elite Prepare for Massive Solar Eruptions claims Secret Space Program Whistleblower

UFO discovered collecting energy of sun on NASA live feed

Launch of To The Stars Academy Promises Transport Revolution with Space-Time Technology

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Rockstar Tom DeLonge today Live Streamed the launch of his latest venture, To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science. During this Live Streaming he introduced a number of former aerospace scientists and defense department personnel knowledgeable in applying exotic information gained from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP – aka UFO) for the development of advanced transportation technologies.

Each of the presenters at the Live Stream explained some of their expertise acquired during their careers and how it could help in the development of a transportation revolution. This is exemplified in the effort to develop a space-time device that could make transportation around the globe possible in a matter of minutes.

A graphic of the planned device was shown in the Live Streaming.

This is what former Lockheed engineer, now head of the Science Division at To The Stars Academy, Stephen Justice, had to say about the device:

This is a concept for an international point-to-point transportation craft that will erase the current travel limits of distance and time. It mimics the capabilities observed in unidentified aerial phenomenon by employing a drive system that alters space-time metric. We have glimpses of how the physics of this works, but we need to harvest technologies from the Science Division to “realize” the capability.

Elon Musk recently discussed his newest initiative involving the “Big F*ucking Rocket” (BFR) which is based on reusable rocket technology to cut travel between major cities to under an hour in his address to the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. DeLonge’s team is laying a more futuristic vision using more advanced space-time technology.

DeLonge emphasized how groundbreaking it was that individuals with former deep access to the classified aerospace industry were willing to go on the public record in being an integral part of the To The Stars Academy.

What was unsaid is that such individuals have worked in classified aerospace projects where these very space-time technologies have been successfully developed, and are operational in secret space programs, as insiders including former aerospace engineer, William Tompkins, have been revealing.

Last year, DeLonge met with Tompkins, who recently passed away on August 21, 2017. After hearing some of Tompkins’ testimony about an alleged US Navy Secret Space Program, DeLonge got up and left the meeting which was also attended by former McDonnel Douglas scientist, Dr. Robert Wood, who has played an important role in verifying Tompkins’ information.

Thus it appears that DeLonge couldn’t believe that his team of government and military insiders would have been denied knowledge of such a Navy run space program if it was genuine. Nevertheless, evidence continues to grow that both the Navy and US Air Force have their own separate aerospace programs using space-time technologies.

DeLonge’s co-authored book, Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows (2016) described such a classified Air Force program, and suggested that non-fiction books would appear with more information about it gained from his team, at the time, of 10 advisors. DeLonge’s 2017 book, Sekret Machines: Gods: Volume 1 of Gods, Man & War, was a big disappointment in that regard. His promised disclosure of a USAF secret space program appears to have stalled.

The new acronym for sightings of craft belonging to secret space programs is UAP, which appears to be an attempt at distancing the study of such craft from the long standing UFO field of investigation and its extraterrestrial connotation.

DeLonge’s initiative has parallels to Dr. Steven Greer’s earlier Sirius Project, which tried to revolutionize the transportation industry by having inventors and whistleblowers collaborate in releasing new energy technologies.

Ultimately, Dr. Greer failed to break through the restrictions imposed by the national security system set up to prevent the public release of such technologies.

Back in the late 1960’s, Dr. Robert Wood ran a study of UFO sightings in order to determine the commercial viability of antigravity performing technologies for the McDonnell Douglas aerospace company. Ultimately, limited funding led to the end of Dr. Wood’s study.

It appears that DeLonge may have better luck in achieving this breakthrough given the support he is receiving through the military community and elements of the aerospace industry. He hopes to crowdfund his To The Stars Academy. A promotional video was shown at the livestream providing information on how the public can support DeLonge’s initiative.

Many will be disappointed in DeLonge’s failure to get insiders to reveal their knowledge of classified aerospace projects that use space-time technologies. Nevertheless, his To The Stars Academy deserves support, as much as Musk’s BFR initiative, since both will help open public imagination to the possibility of a profound transportation revolution.

When it comes to developing space-time transportation technologies, the prospect of reinventing the wheel will be time consuming and duplicates what has occurred in the classified world. Yet this seems necessary while efforts continue to push for the disclosure of black project technologies to the public,

Former Lockheed Skunkworks director Ben Rich famously summarized the problem when he said:

We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.

DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, doesn’t qualify as such an act of God, but it is a small step forward in facilitating such a breakthrough.

Written by Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. on 11 October 2017.

Further Reading

Elon Musk just made Secret Space Program Disclosure Inevitable

SpaceX Rocket Explosion Linked to Secret Space War

Tom DeLonge & UFO Disclosure: Rocking the Secret Space Programs Boat

Rock Star Receives Official Support for UFO Full Disclosure

Secret NRO Space Stations to be Revealed in Limited Disclosure Plan

More Triangle UFO Sightings as MacDill AFB is Evacuated due to Hurricane Irma

Stephen Hawking: Black Holes are a Portal to Another Universe

June 10, 2016

In a newly published paper, the eminent physicist has theorised that black holes, which scientists still know little about, could be a portal to another universe.

It had been thought that black holes have such a strong gravitational pull that even light cannot escape from them and that they are all consuming of everything within their reach.

However, the 74-year old has now said that they might not be as dangerous as previously thought and may just be a door to another universe.

Writing in a paper, alongside Andrew Strominger from Harvard and Malcolm Perry from Cambridge University, Hawking addressed the belief that black holes have “no hair”…

What goes into a black hole might come back out

The study, Physical Review Letters, said that anything that went into a black hole was lost forever.

However, the basic laws of the universe state that anything that has ever been in the universe is preserved via its “information”.

This led to a paradox as it was assumed that anything that fell into a black hole was gone.

But since last year, Hawking has been stating that all is not lost inside a black hole.

He said last year: “Black holes are not the eternal prisons they were once thought.

“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.

“The existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might be possible.

“The hole would need to be large and if it was rotating it might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn’t come back to our universe.”

His latest paper states that black holes do indeed have “hair” which either stores the information on the boundary or the event horizon.

This would mean, according to the paper, that if you were looking at a black hole in the right way – in the distant future for example – you would be able to see the hairs of a black hole which store the information.

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There is A Powerful And Mysterious Signal Coming From The Center Of The Milky Way

It turns out that the center of our Galaxy –the milky way—is oddly bright, and researchers have found a powerful and mysterious signal originating in the center of our galaxy.

Nailing down the gamma-ray signal, it appears to be coming from the galactic center in an area not known for the presence of pulsars. Daylan et al./Physics of the Dark Universe (Source)

While researchers still have found direct indications that it exists, dark matter is one of the greatest revelations in modern science according to many researchers. Scientists believe that dark matters makes up approximately fixe-sixths of the total matter in the observable universe and binds much of it together. Simply put, dark matter is the ‘thing’ in the universe which prevents galaxies from being ripped apart as they spin: its a galactic glue.

Now, according to a new study published in the journal Physics of the Dark Universe, it turns out that this ‘cosmic glue’ can also be destroyed.

According to the new study, finding a signature of the destruction of dark matter could even possibly reveal what dark matter is made of in the first place and a group of scientists from Harvard University believes they have found indications of it located at the center of our galaxy.

Despite numerous studies, researchers are still unable to conclude on what dar matter may actually be composed of, and according to one recent theory, particle could be so dense that they are on the verge of becoming miniature black holes, this however is still unconfirmed.

While the truth behind dark matter remains n enigma for scientists, astrophysicists believe that these particles are in fact eerily similar to ordinary matter, and are composed of matter and antimatter. They explain that when ‘matter’ encounters ‘antimatter’ both are annihilated in a powerful blast which then emits high-energy radiation.

According to iflscience.com, researchers have been looking for a source of matter-antimatter annihilation, but with dark matter, not ordinary matter. Peering into the galactic center, where the density of matter – and presumably dark matter – is incredibly high, previous studies have spotted powerful emissions of gamma-rays. One possibility is that this energetic signal originated from a particle of dark matter colliding with its antimatter equivalent, destroying each other in the process.

But, researchers speculate that there are quite a few different celestial events that could be the culprit, producing similar outbursts. According to a high-resolution map of every single bright object in deep space, it turns out that the known universe is in fact fiery and energetic, meaning that neutron stars, merging, black holes, supernovae and their subsequent glowing, nuclear ashes can all emit gamma-rays.

Searching for the mystery signal

So what caused the mystery signal from our galaxy? Well, scientists argue its likely to have come from a Pulsar. Pulsars are considered by researchers as ‘lighthouses of the vast ‘ocean’ called universe’. Pulsars have been found to rotate at unimaginable speeds emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation in the process. If researchers came across these beams, they would resemble high-energy pulses.

Based upon mainstream theoretical models of ‘dark matter’, scientists believed that the mysterious signals coming from the galactic center could have been caused by a pulsar or dark matter annihilation.

However, if the signals were produced by Pulsars, researchers would need to locate the pulsar in the galaxy. Usually, Pulsars are located in the vicinity of star clusters, but after careful studies, scientists concluded that the region of the galactic center where the signals originated from, were unlikely to contain any pulsars. This is why researchers believe the bursts must have come from the destruction of dark matter, a theory that again needs to be verified.

In the study, researchers state: “The signal described in this study can be explained by a very simple dark matter candidate, without any baroque or otherwise unexpected features. If confirmed, this discovery has “profound implications for cosmology and particle physics.”

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Scientists Find Evidence for Ninth Planet in Solar System

Discovering the enigmatic ninth planet is to say at least, a HUGE discovery, one that would change everything we know about our solar system. Not to mention the fact that it’s 5,000 times the mass of Pluto.



Astronomers at the California Institute of technology have announced new evidence directly supporting the existence of a giant planet lurking the edge of our solar system, far beyond of the Pluto.

They have called it “Planet Nine.” The enigmatic Planet (X) orbits our sun at such a distance that it needs between 10,000 – 20,000 years to complete a single orbit around it.

While the quest for planet X has started decades ago, no one has been able to confirm the existence of the alleged planet hiding in the outer sections of the solar system.

According to a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, researchers describe the mysterious planet as five to ten times as massive as the Earth. However, the authors of the study mention they have NOT observed the planet directly, instead, the two astronomers are sure that it exists due to the motion of recently discovered dwarf planets and other +miniature’ objects in the outer regions of our Solar System.

Killing Pluto was fun, but this is head and shoulders above everything else. 

— Mike Brown, Caltech

The authors, of the study Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin, suggest that the smaller bodies located in the edges of the solar system appear to be influenced by the gravity of a hidden planet – a “massive perturber.”

As we are writing this article, telescopes around the world are searching for the enigmatic planet which on average is located 20 times farther away than the eight planets of our solar system, Neptune.

“This thing is on an exceptionally frigid, long-period orbit, and probably takes on the order of 20,000 years to make one full revolution around the sun,” says Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin.

“Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to investigate its orbit and what it would mean for the outer solar system, we become increasingly convinced that it is out there,” Konstantin Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, said in a statement.

Researchers say that id this planet does in fact exist, it’s humongous. It estimated mass would make it up to four times the diameter of our planet, becoming the fifth-largest planet after Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. However, since it is located at such an extreme distance from the sun, it would reflect so little sunlight that even the most powerful telescopes would have a hard time finding it.

“For the first time in over 150 years, there is solid evidence that the Solar System’s planetary census is incomplete,” said Batygin in a statement.

Confirming the existence of the ninth planet would literally reconfigure earlier models of our solar system.

While astronomers are extremely excited by the study, NASA’s director of planetary science, Jim Green, cautioned that it is possible that there could be several other explanations for the observed motion of the smaller bodies in the outer perimeter of the solar system, making reference to the famous dictum from Carl Sagan: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

“The Sagan Rule applies. If it’s there, find it. I challenge you. Somebody out there oughta find it,” Green said.

“What an era we’re in, where we’re discovering new things about our solar system that we never thought possible even a handful of years ago,” he added.

Brown and Batgyin mention in their paper that there is only a 0.007 percent probability that the observed clustering of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) is “due to chance,” suggesting another origin.

“We find that the observed orbital alignment can be maintained by a distant eccentric planet with mass [greater than 10 Earths],” they wrote.

If planet X (Planet 9) exists, it could help explain the elliptical orbits of dwarf planets like Sedna.

Astronomers suggest that if this planet does in fact exist, it’s very likely that it was ejected from the solar system when our planetary neighborhood was extremely young.



Finding the elusive Planet X

But this isn’t the first time scientist have suggested Planet X exists. Similar predictions stretch back more than a century while no one has ever presented irrefutable evidence.

According to the Washington Post: “A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite… ‘All I can tell you is that we don’t know what it is,’ said Gerry Neugebauer, chief IRAS scientist.”

But the Washington Post wasn’t the only news agencies to write about the enigmatic celestial body.

According to the US News World Report, Planet X or Nibiru exists, the article; “Shrouded from the sun’s light, mysteriously tugging at the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, is an unseen force that astronomers suspect may be Planet X – a 10th resident of the Earth’s celestial neighborhood. Last year, the infrared astronomical satellite (IRAS), circling in a polar orbit 560 miles from the Earth, detected heat from an object about 50 billion miles away that is now the subject of intense speculation.”

Also, an article published in Newsweek on July 13, 1987, NASA disclosed that there may be a 10th planet orbiting our Sun. According to NASA research scientist John Anderson, Planet X might actually be out there, but nowhere near our planets. The article from Newsweek states: “if he is right, two of the most intriguing puzzles of space science might be solved: what caused mysterious irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune during the 19th Century? And what killed off the dinosaurs 26 million years ago.”

“I consider that the Batygin and Brown paper is the first to convincingly show the existence of this planet and constrain fairly well its orbit,” says Alessandro Morbidelli of the Observatoire de la Cote d’ Azur. “It’s a very solid argument.”

The best known ‘case’ of Planet X in the past is sure that of Percival Lowell, who insisted that a world he called Planet X was waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune. His suggestions triggered the search for a ninth planet which resulted in the discovery of Pluto in 1930. However, Pluto is far too small to explain the anomalous trajectories of bodies in the outer solar system.


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The Ninth Planet, is it Nibiru?

In 1976, the late Zecharia Sitchin raised a controversy with the publication of his book “The Twelfth Planet”. In this and subsequent books, Sitchin presented his translations of ancient Sumerian texts which tell an incredible story regarding the origins of mankind on Earth, stories that are completely different to those that most of us learned in school.

According to the ancient cuneiform texts, which are believed to be some of the oldest writings known to date, go back at least 6,000 years. These writings explain the history of a race of beings called the Anunnaki.

The Anunnaki came to Earth from a planet in our solar system which is called Nibiru. Sadly, many people have never heard of it, because according to mainstream science the planet called Nibiru does not exist.

However, according to Sitchin, the presence of Nibiru is very important for the past and future of humanity. 

Nibiru Facts or Myth?

1). Nibiru is believed to have 4 times the diameter of Earth and is 23 times more massive, a truly gigantic planet.

2). According to ancient texts, Nibiru Is wrapped in a cloud of dust iron oxide red, making the rivers and lakes acquire a reddish color.

3). Nibiru is also associated with great dangers. Some researchers believe if a planet like Nibiru would come close to Earth, it would cause large earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions creating an entirely new geography and climate.

4).The name “Nibiru” originated from the ancient Sumerians, who once inhabited ancient Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is the twelfth planet describe by Zecharia Sitchin.

5). Nibiru is also called Marduk, and it arrives to our solars system with a extreme clockwise elliptical course.

6). According to several ancient texts from Mesopotamia, there is strong evidence that supports theories that Nibiru, has an orbital period of 3600 years. The number 3,600 was represented by the Sumerians as a large circle.

7). The expression for the planet, the “shar” also means a perfect circle or full circle and also represents the number.

8). Ancient Astronaut theorists believe that the convergence of the three concepts – planet / orbit / and number 3,600 – could not be a coincidence.

Reference

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http://www.ancient-code.com

An unknown force is pulling the Milky Way and other Galaxies towards IT at 12 MILLION mph

Panoramic view of the entire near-infrared sky. The location of the Great Attractor is shown following the long blue arrow at bottom-right.
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Researchers are struggling to understand WHAT is ‘pulling’ our galaxy, the Milky Way, and other galaxies towards IT at an incredible speed of 22 million kilometers per hour.

Just as the movement of tectonic plates shows the properties of the interior of the Earth, the motions of galaxies provides information about the main constituents of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Dark matter is an invisible material whose presence can be demonstrated only by its action on the movements of galaxies and stars, not emitting or reflecting light. Dark energy is THE mysterious force behind the universe and its acceleration.

Interestingly, there are many researchers that theorize about ‘Multiverses’, other universe located extremely close to our own, perhaps even only a millimeter away. The extreme proximity and the existence of other universes have several consequences to our universe, like gravity that is ‘leaking through’ into our universe, which, according to numerous scientists, could be responsible for the production of dark energy and dark matter which make up around 96% of the ‘known’ universe.

This unknown force which has been dubbed as “The Great Attractor” is pulling our galaxy and everything around it towards a specific point in space, located approximately 250 million light-years away. Basically, the Great Attractor is considered by researchers as a ‘gravitational anomaly’ located within the vicinity of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster at the center of the Laniakea Supercluster. Adding to the mystery is the fact that the ‘Great Attractor’ happens to lie in a direction in the sky referred to as the ‘Zone of Avoidance’. Towards that direction, there is so much dust and gas that our satellites and telescopes can’t see very far in the visible spectrum.

The Great Attractor is certainly there (because we see its gravitational influence), but the major portion of the mass that must be there cannot be seen in our telescopes. (source)


Map of galaxies within the nearby universe. Laniakea is the part circled. The arrowed point marked by the Russian “Вы здесь” (“you are here”) is the Milky Way.

Researchers discovered indications of the mysterious force back in the 70’s. As time passed by and our telescopes got bigger and better we were able to learn more about that specific region in space. In time, astronomers discovered that there is a giant supercluster of galaxies known as the Norma Cluster, which has a mass of about 1,000 trillion suns or thousands of galaxies. The exact position of the mysterious force was pinpointed in 1986.

We can only observe that the Milky Way and everything around is being pulled by that ‘something’ and that mysterious force must be something massive, strange and fascinating, something that is both extraordinary and scary.


Hubble Telescope image of the region of the sky where the Great Attractor is located.

A gigantic concentration behind the Great Attractor: An ‘even’ Greater Attractor?

As we mentioned above, efforts to study the Great Attractor in the past were hampered by its location in the ‘Zone of Avoidance,’ but, a study called CIZA was the first to search and investigate the nature of the Great Attractor a couple of years ago.

The mass of the Great Attractor isnt strong enough to pull everything towards it, this is why, when we look at an even bigger picture we find that numerous galaxies including the Great Attractor are in fact moving towards something that is even larger than the Great Attractor.

“X-rays can penetrate even regions that are extremely obscured by gas and dust, and galaxy clusters are sources of X-rays. This is what prompted us to attempt to map the distribution of galaxy clusters behind the plane of the Milky Way using X-ray observations,” explains Ebeling, who initiated the survey in 1998.

The CIZA project managed to find a significant concentration of galaxies which are located behind the great Attractor, finding an even GREATER Attractor behind the original one, near the Shapley Supercluster located approximately 500 million light-years away or four times the distance to the Great Attractor region.



“One of our goals was to uncover the true mass of the Great Attractor. What we found is that it is not that great after all,” says Kocevski.

The study confirmed for the first time that the presence of structures more distant than the Great Attractor directly influence the Milky Way and are pulling our galaxy and many others towards it.

While researchers such as Kocevski believe that mass concentrations such as the Great Attractor were fairly common in the Universe, implying that the early Universe contained much more mass that previous estimates, other researchers remain skeptical about the CIZA study and the mysterious force that continues to pull every one of us towards it, near the Zone of Avoidance at the center of the Laniakea Supercluster.

X-ray observations with the ROSAT satellite then revealed that Abell 3627 is at the center of the Great Attractor.

Preprints of papers submitted to The Astrophysical Journal on the Milky Way’s motion and the CIZA survey can be found at:

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510106
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512321

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Our Milky Way Galaxy has a Mysterious 'Great Dark Lane'

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this striking image of the galaxy NGC 7049, with its dust lanes backlit by the stars in its central halo. Credit: NASA/ESA/W. Harris

A previously unidentified highway of dust extends across the Milky Way, between the sun and the central bulge of the galaxy, scientists have found.

Called the "Great Dark Lane" by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the bulge of the galaxy.

"For the first time, we could map this dust lane at large scales, because our new infrared maps cover the whole central region of the Milky Way," Dante Minniti, a researcher at Universidad Andres Bello in Chile and lead author of a study describing the findings, told Space.com by email.

Mapping the Milky Way

The center of a spiral galaxy contains a collection of stars that bulge above and below the flatter spirals, much like an egg yolk. The arms that give the galaxies their classification twist around the bulge, often in a beautiful spiral (although sometimes they are more elongated).

Lanes of dust often lie between these arms, which present a particular challenge to map out.

"It is very difficult to map the structure of our galaxy because we are inside, and it is very large and covered with dust clouds that are opaque in the optical," Minniti said.

Images like this one from the VVV survey helped lead author Dante Minniti identify the Milky Way's great dark lane. Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti, I. Toledo

Working with a team of astronomers, Dante Minniti used the European Space Observatory's Vista Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV), a project to scan the Milky Way using the VISTA telescope in Chile, to study the galaxy in the near-infrared.

At this wavelength, telescopes are able to peer through the clouds of dust to a group of objects known as red clump (RC) stars lying within the bulge.

Red clump stars have helium-burning cores that generate a similar brightness no matter what their age or composition is. This makes them reliable distance indicators for astronomers.

Based on the measurement of 157 million stars, Minniti and his team found that the RC stars of the Milky Way's bulge were split into two colors - a difference they determined was caused by dust between the stars and the observers.

The astronomers could see a sharp transition between the two distinct groups - the dusty Great Dark Lane dividing them.

The Great Dark Lane extends approximately 20 degrees across the sky, reaching both above and below the plane of the galaxy. It sits roughly 15,000 light-years from the solar system, although the team is still working to refine the distance. It lies outside of the bulge rather than being contained within it, they said.

If the dust passed through the bulge itself, the red clump stars of the center would have a patchier distribution, rather than a clean break, as some of the stars at a certain height above the plane would be in front of the dust and others would be behind it, the researchers said.

Instead, all of the red clump stars contained within the bulge lie behind the dust, according to the study.

"Detailed maps and modeling are needed in order to test this important galactic feature," the researchers wrote in their paper (Milky Way Demographics with the VVV Survey), which appeared in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics last year.

by Nola Taylor Redd

November 06, 2015

from Space Website