From Around the Web

Canadian telescope hears mystery radio signal repeating every 16 days 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 12, 2020
Something — or someone — has its deep-space music on repeat.

By David Aragorn
Someone Turned 50,000 Hours of UFO Podcasts Into a Searchable Database 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 11, 2020
Over the last seven months, this ufologist set auto-transcription software to work on transcribing two million pages of UFO-related podcasts and videos.

By David Aragorn
Solar Orbiter: ESA, NASA Successfully Launch New Mission to Study Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 11, 2020
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study our Sun, launched at 05:03 CET on February 10, 2020 (11:03 p.m. EST on February 9) on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At 06:03 CET (12:24 a.m. EST), mission controllers at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal from the spacecraft indicating that its solar panels had successfully deployed. In the first two days after launch, Solar Orbiter will deploy its instrument boom and several antennas that will communicate with Earth and gather scientific data.

By David Aragorn
‘Flammable ice’ discovery offers up clue to life on other planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 11, 2020
Scientists studying so-called ‘flammable ice’ in the Sea of Japan have made a startling discovery—the existence of life within microscopic bubbles.

By David Aragorn
What if Earth were a super-Earth?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 11, 2020
What if Earth were more like its larger cousins?

By David Aragorn
THE CONTINUING MYSTERY OF BETELGEUSE 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 10, 2020
For months, astronomers have been keeping a wary eye on Betelgeuse, the bright red star in Orion’s shoulder.

By David Aragorn
Solar Orbiter spacecraft will capture the sun’s north and south poles 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2020
Scientists hope the telescope will capture the imagination like ‘science fiction’

By David Aragorn
This is the first fast radio burst known to have a steady beat 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2020
A blast of radio waves from deep space appears to be on a 16-day cycle

By David Aragorn
NASA Launches Plans to Build Spacecraft in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2020
NASA has contracted several companies to test a satellite-building robot in space.

By David Aragorn
Comet 67P Repeatedly Changed Colour During the Historic Rosetta Mission 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 8, 2020
A review of data taken over the course of the two-year Rosetta mission shows that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was sometimes reddish in appearance, while at other times it assumed a bluish hue. Sounds weird, but scientists have come up with a sensible explanation that doesn’t involve aliens with paint guns.

By David Aragorn