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The Palomar Lights: Did ET Watch Our Nuclear Tests?
Silent Observers
Beatriz Villarroel leads the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project. She claims to have found UFOs on digitized versions of old photos of the night sky taken by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at California’s Palomar Observatory in the 1950s. The appearances of these unknown objects correspond with early nuclear tests.
Inside the Daily Life of a Doomsday Asteroid Hunter
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Skywatchmen
As the Senior Operations Specialist at the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded planetary defense program that utilizes the telescopes atop the Santa Catalina Mountains, David Rankin spends hours looking for dangerous rocks that could cause catastrophic damage upon impacting Earth.
New SETI Protocols: How Will Scientists Announce the Discovery of Alien Life?
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On X?
You’ve discovered an alien signal, but before you get to the point that you’re appearing on talk shows and advising Steven Spielberg (or should it be Robert Zemeckis?) on the film adaptation, what are you supposed to do? Who do you tell that you’ve found ET? And what then? If only there was some document, some advice, to guide you through the next vital steps...
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The Palomar Lights: Did ET Watch Our Nuclear Tests?
Beatriz Villarroel leads the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project. She claims to have found UFOs on digitized versions of old photos of the night sky taken by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at California’s Palomar Observatory in the 1950s. The appearances of these unknown objects correspond with early nuclear tests.
December 16, 2025
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Inside the Daily Life of a Doomsday Asteroid Hunter
As the Senior Operations Specialist at the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded planetary defense program that utilizes the telescopes atop the Santa Catalina Mountains, David Rankin spends hours looking for dangerous rocks that could cause catastrophic damage upon impacting Earth.
December 9, 2025
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New SETI Protocols: How Will Scientists Announce the Discovery of Alien Life?
You’ve discovered an alien signal, but before you get to the point that you’re appearing on talk shows and advising Steven Spielberg (or should it be Robert Zemeckis?) on the film adaptation, what are you supposed to do? Who do you tell that you’ve found ET? And what then? If only there was some document, some advice, to guide you through the next vital steps...
December 2, 2025
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We Captured New Glenn's Historic Launch and Recovery, Bezos for Scale
Blue Origin's heavy-lift New Glenn achieved an interplanetary launch for NASA and and then came home to fly another day. A surprising and necessary jolt to a commercial space industry thirsty for real advancement and aggressive competition. Will Blue Origin catch up with SpaceX on the reusable rocket factory line?
November 25, 2025
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Artemis Astronauts Find Lunar Analog in Meteorite Impact Crater
Artemis 2 astronauts Jeremy Hansen (of the Canadian Space Agency, or CSA) and Christina Koch (with NASA) were among the group that climbed into Zodiac boats to do geological research in area surrounding the Mistastin Crater, a meteorite impact zone in Canada. What they found was a meaningful analog to their upcoming missions to explore and live on the lunar surface,
November 18, 2025
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Satellite Monitoring Project Reveals Scope of Gaza Destruction
After Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza in October 2023 and bombs began to rain on the strip’s impoverished towns, Van Den Hoek quickly realized the world was not seeing the entire story. “I was shocked to see how quickly the damage accumulated across Gaza and how steady the new damage was appearing,” he told Supercluster. “With each new satellite image, we consistently saw new damage every single time, spreading into new corners of Gaza.”