A mournful French horn blows. An angsty Luke Skywalker stomps out of his aunt and uncle’s sand hut and peers up at Tatooine’s double sunset, his hair blowing in the breeze. It’s a memorable scene from Star Wars—but now, a precedent for such a sky with two suns has been found in our universe. Using […]
French observer Stéphane Lamotte Bailey created this animation of the Whirlpool galaxy’s new supernova using images he took with his 8-inch telescope on May 30 and June 2, 2011. / Stéphane Lamotte Bailey For the second time in six years, a star has exploded in the iconic Whirlpool Galaxy (Messier 51), and — good news! […]
An American ‘armchair astronaut’ claims to have discovered a mysterious structure on the surface of the red planet – by looking on Google earth. David Martines, whose YouTube video of the ‘station’ has racked up over 200,000 hits so far, claims to have randomly uncovered the picture while scanning the surface of the planet one […]
By Hal McKenzie As readers of this column know, I was delighted that exopolitics finally got its due in the X-Conference [2003]. It was disheartening, however, to hear from so many speakers how a secretive elite has led America to discard its founding principles by hogging extraterrestrial technology in a quest for national power at […]
By Hal McKenzie Imagine: A former member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, say Colin Powell, publicly pressures the government to come clean about UFOs. Imagine further that the U.S. Defense Department releases hundreds of pages of documents revealing the truth about the legendary Roswell saucer crash in 1947. A UFOlogist’s pipe dream? In […]
By Hal McKenzie “Hollywood changed things quite a bit” from the true story of his 1975 abduction, said Travis Walton Saturday. As keynote speaker at the Alternate Realities Conference June 27-29 in Roan Mountain State Park, TN, he gave the facts as he remembered them of being taken into a shiny craft and his […]
By Hal McKenzie March 18, 2003 With war in Iraq looming, the news networks have been full of stories about the high-tech weapons the United States will use against the forces of Saddam Hussein, from “smart” bombs to pilotless aircraft to electromagnetic pulse weapons. If persistent rumors are true, much of the technology behind this […]
By Hal McKenzie March 4, 2003 A recent study by a Harvard psychologist provided new fuel for the debate over alien abductions. Harvard psychology professor Richard McNally released a study indicating that people who claim they were abducted by aliens show physiological reactions to their traumatic memories as intense of those of Vietnam War veterans […]
A tiny world of molten rock, orbiting scorchingly close to its host star, is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system, NASA announced today. And it’s likely only the first in a parade of planet discoveries to be announced this spring by the Kepler Space Telescope team. Kepler-10b, as the new world is […]
Rings produced by a computer model of a stellar merger (left) mimic those of supernova 1987A (right) / Illustration: T Morris/P Podsiadlowski; Image: C Burrows/ESA/STScI/NASA A merger of two stars and the deadly dance that preceded it produced the distinctive triple ring system of supernova 1987A, a new study says. SN 1987A exploded in the […]
