A team of astronomers led by Anthony Boccaletti has been searching the gas-and-dust disc of a young star AU Microscopii for any signs of clumpy or warped features, as such signs might give away the location of possible planets. AU Mic is located in the Microscope constellation, 32 light years away from Earth. It is a small dim star, classified as a red dwarf and a flaring temporary star.
Having analyzed the images, the scientists discovered five unknown wave-like formations, resembling ripples in water, within the planet-forming disc of the AU Mic. These structures present another astronomic mystery to be solved, because nothing similar was ever seen before. The scientists haven't yet determined the nature of these "waves".
"Everything about this find was pretty surprising!" said co-author Carol Grady of Eureka Scientific, USA. "And because nothing like this has been observed or predicted in theory we can only hypothesise when it comes to what we are seeing and how it came about."
Having studied older photographs made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 2010 and 2011, the researchers came to the conclusion that the unusual structures move with extreme speed โ up to 40,000 km per hour. The features further away from the star appear to be moving faster than those closer to it, and at least three of them are moving so fast that they could well be escaping from the gravitational attraction of the star.Mysterious ripples seen racing through disk surrounding young star may provide valuable clues: http://t.co/xOEfMHGaVk pic.twitter.com/KcPXzsth1v
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Currently the research team is looking into possible origins of this phenomenon. One of them suggests that the waves could result from a major flare that stripped large amounts of material from the closest planet.
The team will continue observing the AU Mic system with SPHERE and other facilities to try to understand what is happening.
I know it won't wake anyone up who defended NASA but this is a witness anyway. NASA busted itself nearly 50 years ago and didn't even realize it. NASA went down with Apollo 8's "Earth Rise" photo and subsequent film. The eclipse we saw proved a MUCH different animal than the earth we saw from NASA.
SO many people could not wait to tell me that the earth's shadow would be so much larger than the earth's arc angle shown because the earth, from the moon's perspective would be HUGE - it is 40% larger and MUCH closer than what determines the solar eclipse. Well, that is fine and dandy. But the eclipse we witnessed in September 2015 BUSTED NASA from 1968! Watch the video to see how. According to NASA's own footage - the arc angle should be the same as what we witnessed with the moon/sun. Their own footage proves it. Again, watch and see. Please, if you are going to defend NASA from now on, it is not welcome here - they have been "outed" many times. NASA LIES & Deceives. Whacth this you tube how I would explain this:
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PERSPECTIVE is NOT in question here - it is NOT a question of perspective. The whole point is to look at the steepness of the arc angle! No matter how big or small the earth really appears from the moon - the steepness of the arc angle will not change ! This is very important to grasp. The angle - no matter what the size of the earth, should match the angle we see on the lunar surface during the eclipse and this is NOT what we see from NASA's own images of the earth from the moon. They showed the earth ARC which was very steep - the eclipse angle was nearly FLAT.