Heads up! Here's the weekend roundup of all of the great articles released by the Asgardia Space News team! Mars Express Captures Phobos During a Unique Flyby https://asgardia.space/en/news/Mars-Express-Captures-Phobos-During-a-Unique-Flyby Detailed pictures of the irregularly shaped bulky Mars moon Boeing Gets Green Light for Starliner’s ISS Flight https://asgardia.space/en/news/Boeing-Gets-Green-Light-for-Starliners-ISS-Flight Starliner will launch on top of the Atlas 5 rocket on December 20. China Gets Serious About Searching For Habitable Planets in 2030s https://asgardia.space/en/news/China-Gets-Serious-About-Searching-For-Habitable-Planets-in-2030s What sort of planet would it be? Juno Spacecraft Escapes Death And Makes a Unique Discovery https://asgardia.space/en/news/Juno-Spacecraft-Escapes-Death-And-Makes-a-Unique-Discovery The serendipitous discovery of the 7th cyclone joining the party of massive storms in Jupiter’s South Pole. ESA to Peer into Deep Space with New Antenna https://asgardia.space/en/news/ESA-to-Peer-into-Deep-Space-with-New-Antenna A new cool instrument in ESA's arsenal Don’t forget to follow these two blogs to stay updated on all things Asgardia and Asgardia Space News! Parliamentary Blog https://bit.ly/2Yzrij4 Asgardia Team Blog https://bit.ly/2YH8Fhq What are your thoughts about the articles? Comment below!

We bring you a round-up of all of the news stories released in the last twenty-four hours by the Asgardia Space News team! What’s ESA’s Follow-Up Exoplanet Mission Launching Tomorrow Up to? https://asgardia.space/en/news/Whats-ESAs-Follow-Up-Exoplanet-Mission-Launching Learn about the new amazing mission US and Dutch Scientists in for Surprise Looking at Pulsar Hotspots https://asgardia.space/en/news/US-and-Dutch-Scientists-in-for-Surprise-Looking-at-Pulsar-Hotspots Recent measurements are far from any textbook predictions More Questions Than Answers: Mysteries of the Red Planet Picked Up by InSight Lander https://asgardia.space/en/news/More-Questions-Than-Answers-Mysteries-of-the-Red-Planet-Picked-Up-by-InSight-Lander For instance, Lander’s data revealed the continuous magnetic pulsations occurring every night at around midnight. What is that? Orion Ready to Undergo Extreme Heat and Cold Testing https://asgardia.space/en/news/Orion-Ready-to-Undergo-Extreme-Heat-and-Cold-Testing Orion Spacecraft’s Fever: 63 days of heating and cooling How to Fool Facial Recognition Technology with a Photo https://asgardia.space/en/news/How-to-Fool-Facial-Recognition-Technology-with-a-Photo Cutting edge technology still can’t beat a good old balaclava you put on before a robbery Did a Giant Volcano Eruption Kill the Dinosaurs? https://asgardia.space/en/news/Did-a-Giant-Volcano-Eruption-Kill-the-Dinosaurs Asteroid impact? Well, dead mollusks tell a different story In the Name of Science: The Longest Experiments in the World https://asgardia.space/en/news/In-the-Name-of-Science-The-Longest-Experiments-in-the-World Would you like to be a part of generations-long experiments? Don’t forget to follow these two blogs to stay updated on all things Asgardia and Asgardia Space News! Parliamentary Blog https://bit.ly/2Yzrij4 Asgardia Team Blog https://bit.ly/2YH8Fhq What are your thoughts about the articles? Comment below!

At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, speaks with TED's Chris Anderson about the iconic, first-ever image of a black hole -- and the epic, worldwide effort involved in capturing it. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more.

This show was converted to 4K/UHD using an AI program. What do you think? For the best collection of 4k Space-Science content, go to... This SpaceRip classic explores one of the greatest mysteries in modern science: a series of brief but extremely bright flashes of ultra-high energy light coming from somewhere out in space. These gamma ray bursts were first spotted by spy satellites in the 1960s. It took three decades and a revolution in high-energy astronomy for scientists to figure out what they were: black holes at the moment of their birth. Far out in space, in the center of a seething cosmic maelstrom. Extreme heat. High velocities. Atoms tear, and space literally buckles. Photons fly out across the universe, energized to the limits found in nature. Billions of years later, they enter the detectors of spacecraft stationed above our atmosphere. Our ability to record them is part of a new age of high-energy astronomy, and a new age of insights into nature at its most extreme. What can we learn by witnessing the violent birth of a black hole? The outer limits of a black hole, call the event horizon, is subject to what Albert Einstein called frame dragging, in which space and time are pulled along on a path that leads into the black hole. As gas, dust, stars or planets fall into the hole, they form into a disk that spirals in with the flow of space time, reaching the speed of light just as it hits the event horizon. The spinning motion of this so-called "accretion disk" can channel some of the inflowing matter out into a pair of high-energy beams, or jets. How a jet can form was shown in a supercomputer simulation of a short gamma ray burst. It was based on a 40-millisecond long burst recorded by Swift on May 9, 2005. It took five minutes for the afterglow to fade, but that was enough for astronomers to capture crucial details. It had come from a giant galaxy 2.6 billion light years away, filled with old stars. Scientists suspected that this was a case of two dead stars falling into a catastrophic embrace. Orbiting each other, they moved ever closer, gradually gaining speed. At the end of the line, they began tearing each other apart, until they finally merged. NASA scientists simulated the final 35 thousandths of a second, when a black hole forms. Chaos reigns. But the new structure becomes steadily more organized, and a magnetic field takes on the character of a jet. Within less than a second after the black hole is born, it launches a jet of particles to a speed approaching light. A similar chain of events, in the death of a large star, is responsible for longer gamma ray bursts. Stars resist gravity by generating photons that push outward on their enormous mass. But the weight of a large star's core increases from the accumulation of heavy elements produced in nuclear fusion. In time, its outer layers cannot resist the inward pull... and the star collapses. The crash produces a shock wave that races through the star and obliterates it. In the largest of these dying stars, known as collapsars or hypernovae, a black hole forms in the collapse. Matter flowing in forms a disk. Charged particles create magnetic fields that twist off this disk, sending a portion out in high-speed jets. Simulations show that the jet is powerful enough to plow its way through the star. In so doing, it may help trigger the explosion. The birth of a black hole does not simply light up the universe. It is a crucial event in the spread of heavy elements that seed the birth of new solar systems and planets. But the black hole birth cries that we can now register with a fleet of high-energy telescopes are part of wider response to gravity's convulsive power.

Here's the Asgardia Space News daily digest for you to enjoy! Head of Nation Issues a Decree on Creation of the Judicial System of Asgardia https://asgardia.space/en/news/The-Head-of-Nation-Issued-a-Decree-on-Creation-of-the-Judicial-System Dr Igor Ashurbeyli signed Decree No. 39 and a draft law on the judicial system will be submitted for the first reading at the Parliament Sitting in February 2020 Updated Asgardian Calendar In Force https://asgardia.space/en/news/Updated-Asgardian-Calendar-in-Force Millisecond timing accuracy and user-friendly layout of the updated calendar New Location To Practice Aquanaut’s Skills https://asgardia.space/en/news/New-Location-to-Practice-Aquanaut-Skills Cheating on underwater laboratory Aquarius Did the Universe Have Environmental Pollution Before Humans? https://asgardia.space/en/news/Did-the-Universe-Have-Environmental-Pollution-Before-Humans We bet Greta Thunberg didn’t know this Our Galaxy is Host to Two, Not One, Black Holes https://asgardia.space/en/news/Our-Galaxy-is-Host-to-Two-Not-One-Black-Holes Pretty exciting news: Sagittarius A* has a companion Earth Magnetic North Shifts Drastically: Here’s What to Expect https://asgardia.space/en/news/Earth-Magnetic-North-Shifts-Drastically-Here%E2%80%99s-What-to-Expect Magnetic North is shifting by 55 km per year! Don’t forget to follow these two blogs to stay updated on all things Asgardia and Asgardia Space News! Parliamentary Blog https://bit.ly/2Yzrij4 Asgardia Team Blog https://bit.ly/2YH8Fhq What are your thoughts about the articles? Comment below!

The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it says the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today. Because current instruments don't allow astronomers to peer back at the universe's birth, much of what we understand about the Big Bang Theory comes from mathematical formulas and models. Astronomers can, however, see the "echo" of the expansion through a phenomenon known as the cosmic microwave background. While the majority of the astronomical community accepts the theory, there are some theorists who have alternative explanations besides the Big Bang — such as eternal inflation or an oscillating universe. The phrase "Big Bang Theory" has been popular among astrophysicists for decades, but it hit the mainstream in 2007 when a comedy show with the same name premiered on CBS. The show follows the home and academic life of several researchers (including an astrophysicist). The first second, and the birth of light In the first second after the universe began, the surrounding temperature was about 10 billion degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 billion Celsius), according to NASA. The cosmos contained a vast array of fundamental particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. These decayed or combined as the universe got cooler. This early soup would have been impossible to look at, because light could not carry inside of it. "The free electrons would have caused light (photons) to scatter the way sunlight scatters from the water droplets in clouds," NASA stated. Over time, however, the free electrons met up with nuclei and created neutral atoms. This allowed light to shine through about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. This early light — sometimes called the "afterglow" of the Big Bang — is more properly known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It was first predicted by Ralph Alpher and other scientists in 1948, but was found only by accident almost 20 years later. [Images: Peering Back to the Big Bang & Early Universe] Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, both of Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, were building a radio receiver in 1965 and picking up higher-than-expected temperatures, according to NASA. At first, they thought the anomaly was due to pigeons and their dung, but even after cleaning up the mess and killing pigeons that tried to roost inside the antenna, the anomaly persisted. Simultaneously, a Princeton University team (led by Robert Dicke) was trying to find evidence of the CMB, and realized that Penzias and Wilson had stumbled upon it. The teams each published papers in the Astrophysical Journal in 1965. Determining the age of the universe The cosmic microwave background has been observed on many missions. One of the most famous space-faring missions was NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which mapped the sky in the 1990s. Several other missions have followed in COBE's footsteps, such as the BOOMERanG experiment (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics), NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite. Planck's observations, first released in 2013, mapped the background in unprecedented detail and revealed that the universe was older than previously thought: 13.82 billion years old, rather than 13.7 billion years old. [Related: How Old is the Universe?] (The research observatory's mission is ongoing and new maps of the CMB are released periodically.) The maps give rise to new mysteries, however, such as why the Southern Hemisphere appears slightly redder (warmer) than the Northern Hemisphere. The Big Bang Theory says that the CMB would be mostly the same, no matter where you look. Examining the CMB also gives astronomers clues as to the composition of the universe. Researchers think most of the cosmos is made up of matter and energy that cannot be "sensed" with conventional instruments, leading to the names dark matter and dark energy. Only 5 percent of the universe is made up of matter such as planets, stars and galaxies. Gravitational waves controversy While astronomers could see the universe's beginnings, they've also been seeking out proof of its rapid inflation. Theory says that in the first second after the universe was born, our cosmos ballooned faster than the speed of light. That, by the way, does not violate Albert Einstein's speed limit since he said that light is the maximum anything can travel within the universe. That did not apply to the inflation of the universe itself. In 2014, astronomers said they had found evidence in the CMB concerning "B-modes," a sort of polarization generated as the universe got bigger and created gravitational waves. The team spotted evidence of this using an Antarctic telescope called "Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization", or BICEP2. "We're very confident that the signal that we're seeing is real, and it's on the sky," lead researcher John Kovac, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Space.com in March 2014. But by June, the same team said that their findings could have been altered by galactic dust getting in the way of their field of view. "The basic takeaway has not changed; we have high confidence in our results," Kovac said in a press conference reported by the New York Times. "New information from Planck makes it look like pre-Planckian predictions of dust were too low," he added. The results from Planck were put online in pre-published form in September. By January 2015, researchers from both teams working together "confirmed that the Bicep signal was mostly, if not all, stardust," the New York Times said in another article. Separately, gravitational waves have been confirmed when talking about the movements and collisions of black holes that are a few tens of masses larger than our sun. These waves have been detected multiple times by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) since 2016. As LIGO becomes more sensitive, it is anticipated that discovering black hole-related gravitational waves will be a fairly frequent event. Faster inflation, multiverses and charting the start The universe is not only expanding, but getting faster as it inflates. This means that with time, nobody will be able to spot other galaxies from Earth, or any other vantage point within our galaxy. "We will see distant galaxies moving away from us, but their speed is increasing with time," Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb said in a March 2014 Space.com article. "So, if you wait long enough, eventually, a distant galaxy will reach the speed of light. What that means is that even light won't be able to bridge the gap that's being opened between that galaxy and us. There's no way for extraterrestrials on that galaxy to communicate with us, to send any signals that will reach us, once their galaxy is moving faster than light relative to us." Some physicists also suggest that the universe we experience is just one of many. In the "multiverse" model, different universes would coexist with each other like bubbles lying side by side. The theory suggests that in that first big push of inflation, different parts of space-time grew at different rates. This could have carved off different sections — different universes — with potentially different laws of physics. "It's not impossible, so I think there's still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously." While we can understand how the universe we see came to be, it's possible that the Big Bang was not the first inflationary period the universe experienced. Some scientists believe we live in a cosmos that goes through regular cycles of inflation and deflation, and that we just happen to be living in one of these phases.

Планетата Земја, видена од вселената - Macedonian Երկիր մոլորակը տիեզերքից - Armenian Planeta Terra visto do espaço - Português (Brasil) Ο Πλανήτης ΓΗ από το Διάστημα - Ελληνικά (Hellenic Language) Il Pianeta Terra visto dallo spazio - Italian Pamântul văzut din spațiu - Romanian / Moldavian language Космостан қарағандағы Жер ғаламшары - kazakh Yerin kosmosdan görünüşü - Azerbaijani Yerin uzaydan görünüşü - Azerbaijani Ang Daigdig mula sa kalawakan - Filipino/Tagalog Jorden fra rommet - Norwegian Jorden set fra rummet - Danish პლანეტა დედამიწის შეხედვა კოსმოსიდან - Georgian Planeta terra visto do espaço - Português Planeta Terra visto do Espaço - Brazilian portuguese ji ezman dîmen ê Erd ê (Kurdish) Planet Erde vom Weltraum aus betrachtet - (German) maa avaruudesta nähtynä - (Finnish) uzaydan dünyanın görünümü (Turkish) Planeti Toke pare nga hapesira - Shqip (Albanian) මිහිතලය අභ්‍යවකාශයේ සිට පෙනෙන ආකාරය. - (Sinhalese, Sri Lanka) эх дэлхий сансараас - (Mongolian) Planeti Toke pare nga hapesira - Shqip (Albanian) ดาวเคราะห์โลกเมื่อมองจากอวกาศ (Thai) 우주에서 본 지구 - (Korean) "Земля з космосу" - (Ukrainian) Planeta Pamant vazuta din spatiu - (Romanian) A Föld az Űrből - (Hungarian) "Ziemia widziana z kosmosu" - (Polish) Земята от космоса - (Bulgarian) "Планета Земля из космоса" - (Russian) "Zeme ir redzama no kosmosa" - (Latvian) meeraha dhulka hawada laga arko - (Somali) An Domhain ó spás - (Irish) "de Aarde gezien vanuit de ruimte" - Dutch رؤية كوكب الأرض من الفضاء. - Arabic "Terra vista do espaço" Terra vista des de l'espai "Earth seen from space" "la terre vue de l'espace" "la tierra desde el espacio" "El planeta Tierra visto desde el espacio" (spanish) "terra vista dallo spazio" โลกดาวเคราะห์เห็นได้จากพื้นที่ يبلغ حجم القمر ربع حجم الأرض ولا يوجد فيه لا هواء ولا ماء ولا حياة. 從太空中看到地球 从太空中看到地球 宇宙から見た地球 Zemlje vidi iz svemira Zemlja iz svemira Země z vesmíru Earth séð frá geimnum પૃથ્વી જગ્યા માંથી જોઇ Jorden set fra rummet Maa kosmosest vaadatuna Maan avaruudesta nähtynä Γη από το διάστημα ഭൂമി ബഹിരാകാശത്തില്‍ നിന്നും כדור הארץ כפי שנראה מהחלל ಭೂಮಿಯ ಜಾಗವನ್ನು ಕಂಡಂತೆ पृथ्वी अंतरिक्ष से देखा Aarde gezien vanuit de ruimte Bumi dilihat dari angkasa Jörð séð frá geimnum Uzaydan Dünyaya Bakış 지구는 우주에서 본 Žemės vaizdas iš kosmoso Zemes redzams no kosmosu Jorden sett fra verdensrommet Pământ văzut din spaţiu Zemlji videl iz vesolja Jorden sedd från rymden Dünya, uzayın görülen Yer kosmik göründüyü Trái đất nhìn từ không gian Terra vista dallo spazio كوكب الارض كما يظهر من الفضاء " زمین از فضا دیده می شود زمین کی خلا سے دیکھا منظر الأرض من الفضاء (Arabic) Gweld Ddaear o'r gofod பூமியை விண்வெளியில் இருந்து பார்க்கும் โลกเห็นได้จากพื้นที่ Kuonekana duniani kutoka nafasi Земље види из свемира Երկրի երեւում է տիեզերքից Dinja tidher mill-ispazju Latè te wè li nan lespas Земјата се гледа од вселената "blue marble"