NASA's Deep Space Camera Locates Host of 'Earths'

Published July 25, 2010

 | NewsCore

Scientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets -- including up to 140 similar in size to Earth -- in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.

Early results from NASA’s Kepler Mission, a small satellite observing deep space, suggested planets like Earth were far more common than previously thought.

Past discoveries suggested most planets outside our solar system were gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn -- but the new evidence tipped the balance in favor of solid worlds.

Astronomers said the discovery meant the chances of eventually finding truly Earth-like planets capable of sustaining life rose sharply.

NASA so far formally announced only five new exoplanets -- those outside our solar system -- from the mission because its scientists were still analyzing Kepler’s finds to confirm they are actually planets.

“The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way [which has more than 100 billion stars] will contain 100 million habitable planets, and soon we will be identifying the first of them,” said Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a scientist on the Kepler Mission. "There is a lot more work we need to do with this, but the statistical result is loud and clear, and it is that planets like our own Earth are out there."

 


Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury

Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury?

That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged material shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury.

Theorists have seized on the images captured from the "coronal mass ejection" (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our own cosmic backyard. Specifically, the solar flare washing over Mercury appears to hit another object of comparable size. "It's cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it's cloaked," YouTube-user siniXster said in his video commentary on the footage, which has generated hundreds of thousands of views this week. Now, how this user was able to determine that the object was "obviously" a cloaked spaceship with no other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object itself.

Of course, there's another scientifically sanctioned explanation for the curious images, though we're not certain that skeptics and UFO enthusiasts such as SiniXster will endorse it. Natalie Wolchover of Life's Little Mysteries put the question to scientists in the solar physics branch at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). They're the people who analyze data from the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1)--better known in this context as the camera that shot the footage in question.

Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And what we're seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury's wake, "where the planet was on the previous day," as it travels through the solar system on its natural gravitational path:

To make the relatively faint glow of a coronal mass ejection stand out against the bright glare of space—caused by interplanetary dust and the stellar/galactic background—the NRL scientists must remove as much background light as possible. They explained that they determine what light is background light, and thus can be subtracted out, by calculating the average amount of light that entered each camera pixel on the day of the CME event and on the previous day. Light appearing in the pixels on both days is considered to be background light and is removed from the footage of the CME. The remaining light is then enhanced.

The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off objects such as stars, which don't move much relative to the sun. But for moving objects, especially planets, the process is a little more complicated. And making matters even trickier is Mercury's staus as the closest planet to the sun.

"When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark (negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image," Rich explained in an email.

 

HARMONIC CONVERGENCE 

"Earth's movement, through a denser area of the Photon Band directly aligned with Galactic Center began around the time of the so-called Harmonic Convergence in 1987, will enter into a historical astronomical alignment around 2012, and will be complete (from our present linear perspective) by about 2016. Over the course of the past two decades, as scientists Wilcock and the Weinholds point out, major Earth, planetary and solar changes–from unprecedented alterations in planetary atmospheres to drastic surges in volcanic and earthquake activity–have been observed. Of greatest significance is that the sun is now moving into alignment with Galactic Center. During this transit the sun's magnetic field has increased over 230% and there have been wildly elevated levels of sunspot activity (as reported by NASA and other space agencies) that have transmitted record-breaking waves of electromagnetic (not to mention torsion) energy to Earth, and thus, to us."

 

 

 


 

There are those who will read this scenario for the very first time, and for them I will include duplication of previous post url information.

 

The decision is to consolidate the complete theory, at this one archive location. For those of you truly interested in this topic, then this should point your efforts in the proper direction of research. Personal research has led to several conclusions for public debate:

 

1. This presentation shall most likely become purely academic by the time any  official studies are made public.

 

2.  Our solar system is now being affected by external flows of cosmic radiation, streaming from the galactic core in small ripple-wave bursts. These are expected to intensify through 2016.

 

3. Preparations for a worst-case-scenario have been underway for a long time, through the expansion of the International Space Station, Underground Seed-Vault, Moon/Mars Mission Planning.  There are other contingency plans that I am not aware of, and most are in regard to planetary escape procedures.

 

4. Evidence has been brought to world government attention, in regard to our solar system (Earth) passing through the galactic alignment era: 1980-2016; however, more specifically on high-alert from 2012-2016.

 

5. Galactic core ripple-waves can shimmer the Oort Cloud: http://www.solstation.com/solsys/oort.jpg  ,which is made up of millions of cometary bodies. Possibly dislocating thousands of them, sending each hurling randomly toward our inner solar system. Solar gravity would then take over and accelerate their trajectories. Earth would then be entering a real shooting gallery!

 

6. These same ripple-waves are affecting the Earth's core, causing thermal core heat-up expansion. Volcanoes and Earthquakes becoming far worse in scope, than anything we observe currently!

*Note: Is it possible, that the Earth's 'Ring of Fire' is the main ejection port billions of years ago, from a planetary Earth-collision, and that this ejected material then became coalesced into our now lunar partner; the Moon? Could this then make the 'Ring Of Fire' the worlds' ultimate supervolcano caldera? Will the NASA ripple-wave effect trigger these weaknesses within the Earth's crust, igniting a cascading dominoe effect?

 

7. Sun/Earth's magnetic polar-reversal (pole shift) is directly connected to the galactic gravitational ripple-waves, during these cyclic 26,000 year alignment periods. Ice Ages can be caused to initiate or end from these disturbing effects.

 

8. This obviously leads to global warming, and continues through volcanic phases, then into an immediate Ice Age from atmospheric ash-cloud shielding (Nuclear Winter). *This is contingent upon the amount of volcanic activity exacerbated by these interconnecting events.

 

9. Galactic/Universal cosmic ray and cometary bombardment converge inside this doomsday scenario. During this same time-period, 'all' DNA lifeforms are receiving alteration dosages of this gravitational radiation.

 

10. Sunspot activity increases (Solar Cycle #24: Peak 2012), leading to solar magnetic reversal, with probable Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), that we have never witnessed within 'our' recorded Earth history! 

 

*Note: Time has already been accelerating relativistically (worldwide) for the past 2-3 years, and this is a prime indicator on the list of expected pre-effect warnings.  

 

 

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