Comet McNaught.

The Black Knight

The Black Knight is a mysterious artificial satellite that’s been orbiting our planet transmitting radio signals that we’ve been intercepting for quite some time now. Nikola Tesla was the first person to intercept these strange radio transmissions in 1899 while building a radio device in Colorado Springs. Since then, the radio signals from this object have been consistent.

In 1957 the Black Knight was seen “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 craft in orbit. At this time it was determined that the mysterious Black Knight was in polar orbit. Satellites in polar orbit are classified as observational satellites, they’re typically used for mapping and reconnaissance. Is it possible that this satellite is of extraterrestrial origin, and is sending radio signals back to its home with observations of our planet? It can’t be of human origin, humans didn’t have the capabilities of putting a satellite into polar orbit until 1960.

A Ham radio operator attempted to decode the radio transmissions in an attempt to understand its purpose. He interpreted the signals to be a star chart of the Epsilon Bootes star system. He continued to attempt to interpret it and concluded that the Black Knight originated from the Epsilon Bootes system 13,000 years ago. Does this prove that there is intelligent life in the Epsilon Bootes system? Have they been watching us for 13,000 years? Or was the radio signals misinterpreted or the meaning of them made up? The answer revolves around our planet, observing us from the stars.

Orion nebula & The running man nebula, by TimMorrill

Orion nebula & The running man nebula.

You can grab and fold this drone without hurting yourself

Getting ready for 8/21/17

I am making a journal as I get ready for the total eclipse of the sun on 8/21/17 and you can find it on http://www.astrotidbits.com.  Irregular posts as I do something new or learn new ways of doing things.

November 3 1957, The Soviet Union launches the first animal into space—a dog name Laika—aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Laika, lived as a stray on the Moscow streets before being enlisted into the Soviet space program. Laika survived for several days as a passenger in the USSR’s second artificial Earth satellite, kept alive by a sophisticated life-support system. Electrodes attached to her body provided scientists on the ground with important information about the biological effects of space travel. She died after the batteries of her life-support system ran down.

Comet PanSTARRS

Gorgeous picture of Comet PanSTARRS taken by Carl Gruber on March 2, 2013 at a mountain lookout in Melbourne.

This is what a comet looks like, up close and personal.

PHOTOS FROM AN ALIEN WORLD.

I am so excited I can’t even. Source: ESA’s Flickr feed.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is such a crazy, turbulent storm (the largest known storm in the universe) that it creates sound waves that travel hundreds of miles up and actually heat the planet’s upper atmosphere.

I repeat: sound waves are heating Jupiter’s atmosphere. The area above the Spot is a thousand degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the surrounding atmosphere.

Here’s the journal paper. Here’s our story.

Image credit: Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA