A frightening mystery from space is dominating headlines this week …
“I won’t believe it until the Simpson episode comes out about it,” joked one commenter.
“The Sun has been slowly dying since around or just before the last Ice Age. More of these spots will show up and send a blast of intense energy towards what ever direction it`s pointed to go! If earth is in its path it won`t end well,” added another.
An unexplained black dot has appeared on the surface of the sun …
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We’ve all heard stories about the mysteries of space …
The thought that aliens could crash land on Earth certainly seems like something straight out of science fiction.
But, according to some scientists, it’s entirely possible.
And they have claimed it could happen soon!
According to the University of St Andrews in Scotland, aliens could come to Earth.
And we should have a plan for dealing with it!
“Science fiction is awash with explorations of the impact on human society following discovery of, and even encounters with, life or intelligence elsewhere,” said Dr. John Elliott, a computer scientist, and coordinator of the SETI Post-Detection Hub.
“But we need to go beyond thinking about the impact on humanity.”
He has been setting up a new research hub at the university, dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
The hub will analyze evidence of alien encounters.
Plus putting together protocols for any alien invasion in the future!
Dr. Elliott added: “We need to coordinate our expert knowledge, not only for assessing the evidence, but also for considering the human social response as our understanding progresses and what we know and what we don’t know is communicated.”
“And the time to do this is now.
“Scanning signals of assumed extra-terrestrial origin for structures of language and attaching meaning is an elaborate and time-consuming process during which our knowledge will be advanced in many steps as we learn Extra-Terrestrial,” he said.
This is the first research group of its kind!
Although there are some similar research initiatives…
The UN reportedly has protocols in place for an asteroid impact, but none for extraterrestrial contact.
While NASA has done some limited research into the phenomenon known as UFOs.
SETI’s researchers wrote: “Social interest has risen considerably recently, due to the detection of thousands of planets around distant stars in our own galaxy and, closer to home, through the exploration of nearby worlds such as Mars and Venus, looking for signs of life, present or past.
“The potential discovery of microbial life will likely raise different types of concern that would follow the discovery of intelligent life – we are as yet entirely unprepared as a species for the latter.”
Dr. Elliott said: “Will we ever get a message from E.T.?
“We don’t know. We also don’t know when this is going to happen.”
But he also believes we are better safe than sorry…
“We do know that we cannot afford to be ill-prepared – scientifically, socially, and politically rudderless – for an event that could turn into reality as early as tomorrow and which we cannot afford to mismanage,” Dr. Elliot concluded.
We can’t wait to see what SETI discovers!
But this week, it’s another space story that has gained the internet’s attention …
As a black dot four times the size of earth has appeared on the sun’s surface!
It’s believed to be a sun spot, which is an area on the sun’s surface that is much cooler than the rest.
But this sun spot is so big it can (apparently) be seen with the naked eye!
Sun spots are also linked to large solar flares, in which a huge amount of photos are quickly released from the sun’s surface.
This is a sign that the surface of the sun is feeling particularly volatile.
“The biggest X-class flares are by far the largest explosions in the solar system and are awesome to watch,” NASA has said.
“Loops tens of times the size of Earth leap up off the sun’s surface when the sun’s magnetic fields cross over each other and reconnect. In the biggest events, this reconnection process can produce as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.”
This sun spot is currently visible above the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
Will you be taking a peek?