Prehistoric Cave Contains ... FIRST REAL telescope headlines in decades

[LastProphet]

Prehistoric Cave Contains ... FIRST REAL telescope and discovery headlines in decades

Telescopes in Day 1 and at the End of the Age: Dark side of the moon "by far" not the only "coincidence"
Last Prophet is AGAIN revealing the TRUE STORY about the DARK SIDE OF THE MOON where two of the keywords are "Day 1" and PARADOXICALLY "TELESCOPE".
This was triggered by Last Prophet's worldwide only disciple starting a thread posing that question on Jun 22, 2016.
""Coincidentally" ten days later: illuminati media has the first headlines in decades about a REAL telescope.
And that is literally "by far" not the only coincidence.

Prehistoric Cave Contains a Hidden, 6,000-Year-Old Telescope
Transcript:
"Much of our culture has been shaped by what ancient humans thought about while looking at the night sky. Myths and legends, gods and demons, all are influenced by our ancestors' observations of the movements of the planets and stars. And now, researchers have uncovered one of the earliest tools that they used to make those observations: a telescope from six thousand years ago.

While a modern telescope works by magnifying images with mirrors or lenses, this ancient structure is a long, narrow corridor designed to filter out unwanted light. The corridor helps when viewing stars during the hours of dawn and twilight, when the light from the sun makes it hard to view stars near the horizon.

The structure is part of a what's called a "passage grave," a prehistoric tomb with a long entrance corridor. Passage graves are found throughout Europe, and scientists are just starting to examine the astronomical uses of their entrances. The researchers are focusing on a particular passage grave, the Seven-Stone Antas in central Portugal, which is about 6,000 years old.

The researchers believe that the Seven-Stone Antas corridor was used to view the star Aldebaran, the red giant in the constellation Taurus. Aldebaran first becomes visible in the Northern Hemisphere in the early morning of late April, just before sunrise, and viewing it through the passage could make it visible days earlier. Aldebaran likely was a seasonal marker, and its appearance would signal migration patterns or weather changes.

The researchers are now studying other passage graves, in the hope of learning more about prehistoric people."

Notes
Prehistoric Cave Contains a Hidden, 6,000-Year-Old Telescope

BASICS
ASTRONOMY FOR DUMMIES - The ONE BASIC FACT - read and weep about yourself
Any celestial body that can not be observed with a telescope located ON Earth, is fake.
This one basic fact implies that for instance Pluto (the first example among millions) is an invention created by the illuminati.
Decades later the illuminati used NASA and the soviet space agency to serially produce Pluto type of hoaxes.
Sun, Moon and Planets as God showed us ever since Day 1: ASTRONOMY FOR DUMMIES - The ONE BASIC FACT - read and weep about yourself

Reveale by Last Prophet first a decade ago and censored shprtly after, it's being revealed agaain.
End Times Prophet, what's the *** TRUE STORY *** about the DARK SIDE OF THE MOON?
First reply by Last Prophet in page 2:
End Times Prophet, what's the *** TRUE STORY *** about the DARK SIDE OF THE MOON?

Talk of Caves and what illuminati serve as "first humans": Anthropology's CAVEMEN hoax becomes reality in Syria: End Times Paradoxes
End Times Paradoxes: Anthropology CAVEMEN hoax becomes reality in Syria: with ww3 air bombings

Talk of caves at the end of the show: the same actor plays POTUS Obama and Tora Bora caveman Osama ressurrecting in Jerusalem crucified to a missing flying machine.
The Web of Disinformation set up by the Illuminati: Flying Machine Disappear Afghan Cave joke

All in Blog
Sun, Moon and Planets as God showed us ever since Day 1: Prehistoric Cave Contains ... FIRST REAL telescope and discovery headlines in decades

 

[ScienceRocks]

Humanity been doing science and looking upwards for tens of thousands of years! It is the life blood of civilization.

 

[waltky]

Odd goin'-ons in outer space...

Astronomers Spy Giant Planet, Three Stars in Odd Celestial Ballet
July 07, 2016 — Astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other ever found, one that loops widely around one star that is locked in a gravitational embrace with two others in a triple-star system, creating a curious celestial ballet. The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, challenge current notions about what makes a planetary system viable.

With three stars in the system, the massive planet would experience triple sunrises and triple sunsets during one season and all daylight in another. Since the planet's orbit is very long, each season lasts for hundreds of years. "Depending on which season you were born in, you may never know what nighttime is like," lead researcher Kevin Wagner of the University of Arizona said. The planet, called HD 131399Ab, is about four times bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and is orbiting in a three-star system located about 340 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. Scientists are not sure how HD 131399Ab came to exist. It orbits its parent star about twice as far as Pluto circles the sun, needing 550 years to complete a single orbit.

This artist's impression shows a view of the triple star system HD 131399 from close to the giant planet orbiting in the system. The planet is known as HD 131399Ab and appears at the lower-left of the picture.​

Astronomers have previously discovered planets in multi-star systems, but never one that circles a parent star with such a wide berth. It also is one of the few extrasolar planets — those outside our solar system — to be directly imaged by telescope. The planet's orbit is akin to the distance more typically seen when a star orbits another star, not a planet orbiting a star. "This is the first planet that we've found with an orbit that is comparable to that of the stars," Wagner said. If HD 131399Ab's orbit was just a bit wider, computer simulations show it could be gravitationally elbowed out of the system by the pair of smaller stars that orbit each other and the main star, which is about 80 percent bigger than the sun.

Though the planet is relatively young, around 16 million years old compared to the 4.5-billion-year-old Earth, it likely has had an eventful life. Scientists suspect it may have started off in a much closer orbit around two parent stars before it was gravitationally bounced to its extreme distance. Scientists plan additional observations to determine if the planet's orbit is actually stable. "It is not clear how this planet ended up on its wide orbit in this extreme system ... but it shows there is more variety out there than many would have deemed possible," Wagner said. The planet was detected using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

Astronomers Spy Giant Planet, Three Stars in Odd Celestial Ballet

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Water Clouds May Float in Dwarf Star’s Atmosphere
July 07, 2016 - Astronomers say they’ve collected evidence that points to the existence of the first water, or water ice, clouds detected outside the solar system.

Writing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of California Santa Cruz say the brown dwarf called WISE 0855, which is a mere 7.2 light-years from Earth, likely has the clouds in its atmosphere. Using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, researchers scanned WISE 0855, the coldest known object outside the solar system, in the infrared spectrum, which yielded “the first details of the object's composition and chemistry.” "We would expect an object that cold to have water clouds, and this is the best evidence that it does," said Andrew Skemer, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz and first author of the study.

Brown dwarfs are often referred to as failed stars, because they never gained quite enough mass to cause the nuclear fusion reactions that make them shine. WISE 0855 is about five times the mass of the gas giant Jupiter. "WISE 0855 is our first opportunity to study an extrasolar planetary-mass object that is nearly as cold as our own gas giants," Skemer said.

Artist's rendering of WISE 0855 as it might appear if viewed up close in infrared light.​

Because WISE 0855 is so faint, researchers had to look at “thermal emission from the deep atmosphere at wavelengths in a narrow window” to gain insight into the composition of its atmosphere. "It's five times fainter than any other object detected with ground-based spectroscopy at this wavelength," Skemer said. "Now that we have a spectrum, we can really start thinking about what's going on in this object. Our spectrum shows that WISE 0855 is dominated by water vapor and clouds, with an overall appearance that is strikingly similar to Jupiter."

The two bodies, researchers say, have “strikingly similar” spectra “with respect to water absorption” but that WISE 0855 likely has a less turbulent atmosphere than Jupiter.

Water Clouds May Float in Dwarf Star’s Atmosphere

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Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Could Support Life
July 06, 2016 - Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, could support a very different kind life, according to a new study.

Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Cornell University say that despite the moon’s harsh environment, a “prebiotic chemical key” likely exists in the form of hydrogen cyanide. The compound is produced when sunlight interacts with the moon’s “toxic” atmosphere made up of nitrogen and methane. The conclusion was reached based on data from NASA’s Cassini and Huygen’s missions.

Titan is seen from the Huygens probe as it descended to the surface​

Hydrogen cyanide is an organic chemical capable of reacting with other molecules, “forming long chains, or polymers, one of which is called polyimine. Polyimine is flexible, which helps mobility under very cold conditions, and it can absorb the sun’s energy and become a possible catalyst for life,” researchers said. “Polyimine can exist as different structures, and they may be able to accomplish remarkable things at low temperatures, especially under Titan’s conditions,” said Martin Rahm, postdoctoral researcher in chemistry and lead author of the new study. This paper is a starting point, as we are looking for prebiotic chemistry in conditions other than Earth’s. “We are used to our own conditions here on Earth. Our scientific experience is at room temperature and ambient conditions. Titan is a completely different beast.”

Other moons in the solar system have also been identified as having conditions that could support life, including Saturn’s Enceladus and Jupiter’s Europa. While both Earth and Titan have flowing liquids in the form of lakes, rivers and oceans, on Titan they are filled with liquid methane and ethane, not water. Also, the moon is too cold to have liquid water. “We need to continue to examine this, to understand how the chemistry evolves over time. We see this as a preparation for further exploration,” said Rahm. “If future observations could show there is prebiotic chemistry in a place like Titan, it would be a major breakthrough. This paper is indicating that prerequisites for processes leading to a different kind of life could exist on Titan, but this only the first step,” he added.

Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Could Support Life

 

[konradv]

Hate the term "Dark Side of the Moon". There's no such thing. Great album though.

 

[waltky]

5000 year old stone circles to track the stars...

People Were Tracking Celestial Events 5,000 Years Ago, Stone Circles Reveal
August 18, 2016 - Ancient "stone circles" in Scotland were constructed in line with the sun's and moon's movements some 5,000 years ago, new research reveals.

Researchers used 2D and 3D technology to test the alignment patterns in the circles of Callanish (on the Isle of Lewis) and Stenness (in Orkney). These stones date back to about 3000 B.C., about 500 years before Stonehenge's famous stone monument was constructed in England. The team also looked at much simpler monuments in Scotland dating to about 1000 B.C. "Nobody before this has ever statistically determined that a single stone circle was constructed with astronomical phenomena in mind; it was all supposition," Gail Higginbottom, project leader and a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide and Australian National University, said in a statement. "This research is finally proof that the ancient Britons connected the Earth to the sky with their earliest standing stones, and that this practice continued in the same way for 2,000 years," she added.

The great stone circle Stenness, in Orkney, Scotland. Scientists say the stones were arranged to track astronomical events by the sun and moon 5,000 years ago.​

Researchers found that, for about half the sites, the northern horizon was higher and closer than the southern horizon. This would have made the summer solstice sun, marking the longest day of the year, appear to rise out of the highest peak in the North.

The other half of the sites had a southern horizon that was higher and closer than the northern horizon. In this case, the winter solstice sun (marking the year's shortest day) would have appeared at the highest point to the south, the researchers explained. "These chosen surroundings would have influenced the way the sun and moon were seen, particularly in the timing of their rising and setting at special times, like when the moon appears at its most northerly position on the horizon, which only happens every 18.6 years," Higginbottom said. The research was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

People Were Tracking Celestial Events 5,000 Years Ago, Stone Circles Reveal

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5 Strange Theories About Stonehenge
March 12, 2013 - Thousands of years ago, an ancient civilization raised a circle of huge, roughly rectangular stones in a field in what is now Wiltshire, England. Stonehenge, as it would come to be called, has been a mystery ever since.

Building began on the site around 3100 B.C. and continued in phases up until about 1600 B.C. The people who constructed the site left no written records and few clues as to why they bothered to schlep the stones to this spot. Wild theories about Stonehenge have persisted since the Middle Ages, with 12th-century myths crediting the wizard Merlin with constructing the site. More recently, UFO believers have spun theories about ancient aliens and spacecraft landing pads. But Stonehenge has inspired a fair number of scientifically reasonable theories as well. Here are five major (and not necessarily mutually exclusive) reasons Stonehenge might exist. [Gallery: Stunning Photos of Stonehenge]

1. A place for burial

Stonehenge may have originally been a cemetery for the elite, according to a new study. Bone fragments were first exhumed from the Stonehenge site more than a century ago, but archaeologists at the time thought the remains were unimportant and reburied them. Now, British researchers have re-exhumed more than 50,000 cremated bone fragments from where they were discarded, representing 63 separate individuals, from Stonehenge. Their analysis, presented on a BBC 4 documentary on March 10, reveals that the people buried at the site were men and women in equal proportions, with some children as well.

Sunset over Stonehenge​

The burials occurred in about 3000 B.C., according to study researcher Mike Parker Pearson of the University College London Institute of Archaeology, and the very first stones were brought from Wales at that time to mark the graves. The archaeologists also found a mace head and a bowl possibly used to burn incense, suggesting the people buried in the graves may have been religious or political elite, according to The Guardian newspaper.

2. A place for healing

Another theory suggests that Stone Age people saw Stonehenge as a place with healing properties. In 2008, archaeologists Geoggrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill reported that a large number of skeletons recovered from around Stonehenge showed signs of illness or injury. The archaeologists also reported discovering fragments of the Stonehenge bluestones — the first stones erected at the site — that had been chipped away by ancient people, perhaps to use as talismans for protective or healing purposes.

3. A soundscape

 

[waltky]

Space telescope plots the most precise map ever made of the night sky...

Gaia space telescope plots a billion stars
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 - Europe's Gaia space telescope releases its first batch of data as it builds the most precise map ever made of the night sky.

The most precise map of the night sky ever assembled is taking shape. Astronomers working on the Gaia space telescope are releasing a first tranche of data recording the position and brightness of over a billion stars. And for some two million of these objects, their distance and sideways motion across the heavens has also been accurately plotted. Gaia's mapping effort is already unprecedented in scale, but it still has several years to run.

Remarkably, scientists say the store of information even now is too big for them to sift, and they are appealing for the public's help in making discoveries. A web portal has been opened where anyone can play with Gaia data and look for novel phenomena. When a group of schoolchildren showed the BBC how to do it last week, they stumbled across a supernova - an exploded star. The European Space Agency (Esa) launched its Gaia mission in 2013.

Its goal was to update and extend the work of a previous satellite from the 1980s/90s called Hipparcos. This observatory made the go-to Milky Way catalogue for its time - an astonishing chart of our cosmic neighbourhood. It mapped the precise position, brightness, distance and proper motion (that sideways movement on the sky) of 100,000 stars. Gaia, with its first release of data, has just increased that haul 20-fold.

Gaia's imperative - To work out how far it is to the nearest stars

 

[waltky]

Mebbe dey's signalin' to us...

Mystery cosmic radio bursts pinpointed
Wed, 04 Jan 2017 - Astronomers have pinpointed the source of mysterious radio bursts from space.

They're one of the most persistent puzzles in modern astronomy. As the name suggests, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-lived - but powerful - pulses of radio waves from the cosmos. Their brevity, combined with the fact that it's difficult to pinpoint their location, have ensured their origins remain enigmatic. Outlining their work at a major conference, astronomers say they have now traced the source of one of these bursts to a different galaxy. It's an important step to finally solving the mystery, which has spawned a variety of different possible explanations, from black holes to extra-terrestrial intelligence.

The first FRB was discovered in 2007, in archived data from the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia. Astronomers were searching for new examples of magnetised neutron stars called pulsars, but found a new phenomenon - a radio burst from 2001. Since then, 18 FRBs have been found in total. "I don't exaggerate when I say there are more theories for what these could be than there are observed bursts," first author of the new study, Shami Chatterjee, told the BBC's Science in Action programme.

All FRBs were found using single-dish radio telescopes that are unable to narrow down the sources' locations with enough precision to further characterise the flashes. But Dr Chatterjee, from Cornell University, New York, and colleagues used a multi-antenna radio telescope called the Very Large Array (VLA), which had sufficient resolution to precisely determine the location of a flash known as FRB 121102. Unlike all the others, this FRB - discovered in 2012 - has recurred several times. "When we reported last year that one of these objects was repeating, that - in one go - knocked out about half of those models, because for this one source, at least, we knew it couldn't be explosive. It had to be something where the engine that produced this survived for the next flash."

In 83 hours of observing time over six months in 2016, the VLA detected nine bursts from FRB 121102. "We now know that this particular burst comes from a dwarf galaxy more than three billion light-years from Earth," said Dr Chatterjee. "That simple fact is a huge advance in our understanding of these events." In addition to detecting the bright bursts from FRB 121102, the team's observations also revealed an ongoing, persistent source of weaker radio emission in the same region. The flashes and the persistent source must be within 100 light-years of each other, and scientists think they are likely to be either the same object or physically associated with one another.

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[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - Bible says it gonna be daylight at night in Zech. 14...

Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky
January 09, 2017 - There could be some dramatic changes to the night sky if astronomers are correct in their observations.

They say it may be possible to see a binary star in the Cygnus constellation merge and explode in 2022, creating a red nova. The binary star is about 1,800 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation, so what astronomers are observing now happened about 1,800 years ago. They are making a present day prediction about what may be seen in 2022 based on those observations.

The announcement was made Friday by Lawrence Molnar, professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his students, and fellow astronomers from Apache Point Observatory (APO), New Mexico, and the University of Wyoming at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas. “It is a one-in-a-million chance that you can predict an explosion. It has never been done before,” Molnar said. The binary system, called KIC 9832227, has long been studied, but in 2013, astronomers noticed a change in its brightness. Upon closer inspection, Molnar and his team discovered the stars were getting closer to one another.

The Northern Cross of the Cygnus constellation is seen in this stellar map. Astronomers believe two stars in this system are going to collide in five years.​

The astronomers then compared that data to an observed creation of a red nova from the binary V1309 Scorpii, which led them to conclude a red nova might be about to form at KIC 9832227. “Bottom line is we really think our merging star hypothesis should be taken seriously right now, and we should be using the next few years to study this intensely so that if it does blow up we will know what led to that explosion,” Molnar said.

If the new red nova does materialize, it will be visible in Cygnus in the prominent formation called the Northern Cross. “The project is significant not only because of the scientific results, but also because it is likely to capture the imagination of people on the street. If the prediction is correct, then for the first time in history, parents will be able to point to a dark spot in the sky and say, ‘Watch, kids, there’s a star hiding in there, but soon it’s going to light up," Matt Walhout, dean for research and scholarship at Calvin College, said.

Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky