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Science & Spirituality merge to help answer the question: Are we alone?

Warning! - Key Terms

[1] Wikipedia - Confirmation Bias

[2] Wikipedia - Convergent Validity

[3] Wikipedia - Occam's Razor

[4] Wikipedia - Pseudoscience

[5] Wikipedia - Gaslighting

[6] Wikipedia - Illusion

[7] Wikipedia - Pareidolia

[8] Wikipedia - Predictive Coding

[9] Wikipedia - Paradigm Shift

Cosmic Perspective

[10] Hayden Planetarium (4/2/2007) Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Cosmic Perspective

Scientific & Spiritual Perspectives

[11] NASA (2003) - The Search for Life in the Universe - By Neil deGrasse Tyson

[12] mobile.nytimes.com (2008) - Vatican astronomer cites possibility of extraterrestrial 'brothers'

[13] BBC (2015) - Vatican Observatory Where Priests Are Also Astrophysicists

[14] YouTube - Catholic News Service (2012) - A Vatican scientist

[15] HuffPost (2014) - Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare

[16] Universe Today (2008) - The Human brain in space: euphoria and the "Overview Effect" experienced by astronauts

Quantum Physics Perspective

[17] Washington Post (2017) - Quantum Entanglement - Science's 'spookiest' phenomenon achieved in space

[18] noosphere.princeton.edu - The Global Consciousness Project

[19] princeton.edu - Princeton Experimental Anomalies Research - PEAR Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena

[20] The Atlantic - Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?

[21] BBC - The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics

[22] NBC News - Is the Universe Conscious?

[23] Wikipedia - Quantum Mind

[24] YouTube - Quantum Physics and Consciousness - Michio Kaku - "Cosmic Consciousness"

[25] nih.gov - Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century

Psychosocial Perspective

[26] smithsonianmag.com - Humans have searched for extraterrestrial life for more than a century. What will we do when we find it life out there in the universe?

[27] Newsweek (2015) - Most People Believe Intelligent Aliens Exist

[28] yougov.co.uk (2015) - Majorities across Britain, Germany and the USA believe that extra-terrestrial life exists

[29] sciencedirect.com - Consciousness and Cognition Volume 40 - Mindfulness meditation and consciousness: An integrative neuroscientific perspective

[30] harvard.edu - “Our brains need a coherence of firing to organize perception and analysis of data from the world around us"

[31] heartmath.org - Heart/Global Interconnectedness - Heart-brain coherence

Astrobiological Perspective

[32] New York Times (2016) - Yes There Have Been Aliens - Drake Equation - Updated with Kepler data

[33] NASA (2006) - Follow the Water

[34] NASA (2014) - Finding Life Beyond Earth is Within Reach

[35] LA Times (2015) - NASA announces we'll find extraterrestrial life in the next 10-20 years

[36] Google.com - aeon.co (2017) - To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it

Ocean Worlds

[37] NASA - The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water - April 7, 2015

[38] JPL/NASA - Infographic - Includes 10 bodies in our solar system that contain vast quantities of liquid water at or below the surface

[39] ScienceAlert - These Ocean Worlds Reveal Just How Little Water We Have Here on Earth

[40] NASA - Does the sun have any water? (Yes)

[41] suspicious0bservers.org - Starwater Theory

[42] NASA - Webb telescope will study our solar system's ocean worlds

Ceres

[43] JPL/NASA - Ceres by Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

[44] JPL/NASA - Water Ice Abundance - Vesta & Ceres

[45] JPL/NASA - Dawn - Infrared images - (brightest spots designated Area 5)

[46] JPL/NASA (4/13/2015) - Dawn's First Color Map of Ceres

[47] JPL/NASA (6/29/2015) - Occator Crater - Dark side (?)

[48] mysteriousuniverse.org - After Odd (6/30/2015) Dawn Shutdown, NASA Has New Take on Ceres Lights

[49] csmonitor.com - Ceres map reveals bizarre bright spots, huge pyramid

[50] JPL/NASA - 3D view - Occator Crater

[51] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater - Topographic map

[52] JPL/NASA - Ceres' Bright Spots Seen in Striking New Detail

[53] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots - Color

[54] JPL/NASA - New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins

[55] nbcnews.com - No Alien City Here: Ceres' Bright Spots Likely Made of Salt

[56] National Geographic - The Dwarf Planet Previosuly Known as an Ocean World

[57] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Ceres (color animation)

[58] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater and carbonates

[59] NASA - Age of Occator Crater bright spots

[60] JPL/NASA - Center of Occator Crater (enhanced color)

[61] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Occator Crater

[62] mps.mpg.de - Cryovolcanism on Dwarf Planet Ceres

[63] popularmechanics.com - The Ice Volcanoes of Ceres Were Highly Active a Few Million Years Ago

[64] Scientific American - Possible subsurface ocean

[65] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Enhanced color

[66] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Topographic map

[67] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Infrared - Full resolution

[68] Space.com - Ceres - Possible interior layers (rendering)

[69] EOS.org - Geologically active

[70] JPL/NASA - Ahuna Mons - Side view

[71] phys.org - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic animation

[72] Nature - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic images

[73] phys.org - Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice - Ahuna Mons - Scroll down for partial elevation terrain models - Color

[74] google.com - Google search shows the complete elevation terrain model for Ahuna Mons

[75] sciencemag.org - Cryovolcanism on Ceres

[76] space.com - Ceres' Ice Volcano Ahuna Mons

[77] businessinsider.com - There’s only one volcano on dwarf planet Ceres — and scientists think that’s because the rest have vanished

[78] JPL/NASA - Xevioso Crater (Near Ahuna Mons) on Ceres

[79] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater

[80] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater - Side view

[81] JPL/NASA - Ceres color map

[82] JPL/NASA - Ceres in color

[83] JPL/NASA - Ceres - Enhanced color view

[84] JPL/NASA - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[85] Space.com - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[86] JPL/NASA - Dawn Journal - Three-year retrospective

[87] JPL/NASA - Complex Relationships in the Occator-Kirnis Region

[88] JPL/NASA - High Resolution Ceres View

Jupiter

[89] Voyager/JPL/NASA - Images Voyager Took of Jupiter

[90] Voyager/JPL/NASA - Voyager 1 - Time-lapse footage (1979)

[91] NASA - Galileo - Jupiter timeline

[92] JPL/NASA (2014) - Looking Back at the Jupiter Crash 20 Years Later

[93] JPL/NASA - Cassini Jupiter Portrait (2003)

[94] NASA (2016) - Jupiter's North Pole unlike anything encountered in the solar system

[95] JPL/NASA - Juno - Closing in on Jupiter's North Pole

[96] JPL/NASA - Jupiter Northen Lights Mystery

[97] NASA - Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission

[98] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter South Pole

[99] JPL/NASA - Jovian Stormy Weather - Color

[100] JPL/NASA - Approaching Jupiter - Color

[101] JPL/NASA - Southern Storms - Color Composite

[102] JPL/NASA - Jupiter With Great Red Spot, Mid-Infrared, May 2017

[103] JPL/NASA - Map of Io's Volcanic Heat Flow

[104] JPL/NASA - Io - Closeup

[105] NASA - APOD - Galileo Views Io's Eruption - Color

[106] JPL/NASA - Io - Pele Plume

[107] JPL/NASA - Io - High Res Limb

[108] JPL/NASA - Io - Crescent with Plumes

[109] JPL/NASA - Io - Southern Hemisphere

[110] JPL/NASA - Io - South Pole

[111] JPL/NASA - Europa's Stunning Surface - Color

[112] JPL/NASA - Hubble Sees Recurring Plume Erupting From Europa

[113] JPL/NASA - Europa - Closeup - Color

[114] JPL/NASA - Europa - Clay Prints

[115] JPL/NASA - Europa Cracks and Ridges

[116] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Color Global

[117] NASA - APOD - Ganymede Mosaic

[118] NASA - APOD - Ganymede: The largest moon

[119] JPL/NASA - Global Map of Ganymede

[120] JPL/NASA - Rotating Globe of Ganymede Geology

[121] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[122] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Varied Terrain

[123] JPL/NASA - Caldera on Ganymede

[124] JPL/NASA - Ganymede - Visible and Infrared

[125] JPL/NASA - Ganymede - Artist's rendering - Possible subsurface ocean layers

[126] JPL/NASA - Global Callisto in Color

[127] JPL/NASA - Callisto Hemispherical Globes - Color

[128] JPL/NASA - The Valhalla Multi-ring Structure on Callisto

[129] JPL/NASA - Impact Craters on Icy Callisto

[130] JPL/NASA - Callisto Basin

[131] JPL/NASA - Callisto Asgard Region - Near-infrared

[132] JPL/NASA - Mass Wasting in Craters near the South Pole of Callisto

[133] JPL/NASA - Callisto Mosaic - Color

[134] Juno Mission - 63 Moons of Jupiter - Animation

[135] YouTube - Astrum - Highlights from the Juno Mission - Includes polar images and aurora

[136] space.com - Jupiter may have a huge, 'fuzzy' core

[137] NASA - missionjuno.swri.edu - Perijove 08 - Same as YouTube video

[138] YouTube - Sean Duran - Jupiter Juno Perijove 08

[139] JPL/NASA - Soaring Over Jupiter

[140] JPL/NASA - 95 Minutes Over Jupiter

Saturn

[141] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Last full disk images of Saturn from Cassini - Color

[142] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Saturn - Color - Earth and moon (lower right)

[143] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole - Animation

[144] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole

[145] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - North Pole - Color

[146] JPL/NASA - Rings - Mostly water ice - color

[147] JPL/NASA - Pan Revealed

[148] JPL/NASA - Saturn's F-ring - A bright disruption

[149] JPL/NASA - Pandora Up Close

[150] JPL/NASA - Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan

[151] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Atlas - Color

[152] Flickr.com - 2d7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Daphnis - Color

[153] JPL/NASA - Epimetheus - Hard Knock Life

[154] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Epimetheus closeup

[155] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[156] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color maps

[157] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color map

[158] JPL/NASA - Mimas' Mountain

[159] JPL/NASA - Enceladus global color maps

[160] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Color

[161] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[162] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

[163] JPL/NASA - Enceladus electrical connection with Saturn

[164] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[165] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[166] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[167] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

[168] JPL/NASA - Enceladus orbital squeeze (featuring Saturn)

[169] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[170] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

[171] JPL/NASA - Cassini's last Eneceledus plume observation (animation)

[172] EOS - Where are the electrical currents in the Enceladus plume?

[173] JPL/NASA - Atmosphere on Enceladus

[174] Scientific American - Excitement builds for the possibility of life on Enceladus

[175] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Phantom Limb - Color

[176] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[177] JPL/NASA - Tethys global color maps

[178] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[179] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[180] JPL/NASA - Dione global color maps

[181] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

[182] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Dione trailing Hemisphere - Color

[183] JPL/NASA - Dione - A Moon's Contrasts

[184] JPL/NASA - Chasms on Dione

[185] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[186] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

[187] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Global color maps

[188] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Icy Cratered Surface

[189] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Multiple Impact Craters

[190] BBC - Cassini's last Titan flyby - Color includes upper atmosphere

[191] ESA - Graphic of final trajectory past Titan

[192] JPL/NASA - Titan - near-infrared wavelengths

[193] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[194] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[195] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

[196] JPL/NASA - Titan's South Polar Vortex - Color

[197] NASA - Cassini completes final and fateful Titan flyby

[198] YouTube - Astrum - Titan

[199] NASA - Hyperion - Overview

[200] JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Color Variation on Hyperion

[201] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Color

[202] NASA - Hyperion's Kaleidescope of Colors

[203] NASA - Farewell to Hyperion

[204] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Pandora - Color

[205] NASA - Iapetus - Overview - Color

[206] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[207] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

[208] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Iapetus equatorial ridge closeup

[209] JPL/NASA - Farewell to Iapetus - Color

[210] JPL/NASA - Cassini: The Grand Finale - Moons - "Habitability Outside the Habitability Zone" - Color

[211] YouTube - Astrum - 10 Amazing Images from Cassini

[212] BBC (9/13/2017) - Cassini's epic journey to the ringed planet, told by the people who helped make it happen

[213] YouTube -TechInsider (2016) - NASA released a stunning time lapse of Saturn

[214] YouTube - Astrum - Saturn

[215] YouTube - NASA Goddard - Cassini infrared Saturn

[216] YouTube - ESA - Cassini Diving Into History

[217] YouTube - Astrum - Cassini retrospective and grand finale

[218] YouTube - NPR's Skunk Bear - Postcards from Saturn

[219] New York Times - 100 images from Cassini

[220] YouTube - Secureteam10 - Cassini time-lapse footage montage

[221] JPL/NASA - Impact location - Infrared

Uranus

[222] JPL/NASA - Photojournal - Uranus and All Available Satellites

[223] JPL/NASA - Keck Telescope views of Uranus

[224] JPL/NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Uranus

[225] JPL/NASA - Hubble Spots Northern Hemispheric Clouds

[226] JPL/NASA - Uranus' Atmosphere

[227] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

[228] JPL/NASA - Miranda's Icy Face

[229] JPL/NASA - Miranda Fractures, Grooves and Craters

[230] JPL/NASA - Miranda High Resolution of Large Fault

[231] JPL/NASA - Ariel's Densely Pitted Surface

[232] JPL/NASA - Umbriel at Closest Approach

[233] JPL/NASA - Titania - Highest Resolution Voyager Picture

[234] JPL/NASA - Oberon at Voyager Closest Approach - Color

[235] YouTube - Astrum - Uranus

[236] YouTube - CrashCourse - Uranus & Neptune: CrashCourse Astronomy #19

[237] medium.com -Mysterious Uranus and why we need to put an orbiter around it

Neptune

[238] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

[239] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune - True Color of Clouds

[240] JPL/NASA - Neptune Clouds Showing Vertical Relief

[241] JPL/NASA - Neptune False Color Image of Haze

[242] JPL/NASA - Neptune's "Hot" South Pole

[243] JPL/NASA - Photojournal - Neptune and All Available Satellites

[244] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color

[245] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color map

[246] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color- 25th anniversary Voyager flyby animation - Color

[247] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Triton

[248] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[249] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

[250] JPL/NASA - Triton's Dark Plumes

[251] JPL/NASA - Triton's Volcanic Plumes

[252] JPL/NASA - Color Sequence of Triton Approach Images

[253] JPL/NASA - 1989N1

[254] JPL/NASA - Nereid

[255] YouTube - NASA STI Program - Voyager 2: Neptune Encounter Highlights

[256] YouTube - Astrum - Neptune

Pluto

[257] NASA - New Horizons Update: Methane Detected; New Images of Pluto and Charon; Sunrise/Sunset Observations

[258] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

[259] NASA - Pluto's orientation with the equator

[260] JPL/NASA - Pluto and Charon enhanced color

[261] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Charon

[262] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

[263] NASA - Pluto's size

[264] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[265] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[266] JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

[267] gizmodo.com - Pluto/Charon binary system with four moons

[268] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[269] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[270] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

[271] JPL/NASA - Pluto cryovolcano (Wright Mons)

[272] NASA - APOD - 'snakeskin' terrain - color

[273] Space.com - Pluto water

[274] NASA - Pluto haze layers

[275] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA- Atmosphere - Color

[276] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[277] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[278] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

[279] flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA- Sputnik Planum - Color

[280] JPL/NASA - Pluto North Pole - Color

[281] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

[282] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI - Dark side and atmosphere closeup

[283] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

[284] Brown U. - Futurity.org - Possible ocean

[285] The Guardian - Possible ocean

[286] New York Times - Possible ocean

[287] space.com - Dwarf Planet Pluto: Facts About the Icy Former Planet

Panspermia Theory

[288] Panspermia Theory - Lithospheric/Ballistic and Directed

Asteroids & Comets / Meteors & Meteorites

[289] NASA - APOD - Comet Jacques in the Heart&Soul Nebula

[290] space.com - Comet Jacques swinging toward Venus - Video

[291] skyandtelescope.com - Comet Jacques' close brush with Venus

[292] JPL/NASA - WISE - A Discovering Machine

[293] YouTube - Astrum - Asteroids

[294] blogspot.com - Credit: Alex Parker - OSSOS team - Solar system diagram

[295] National Geographic - Stardust mission - comet tail dust may be extrasolar

[296] CBS News - Chelyabinsk meteor - 2/15/2013

[297] Time - (Chelyabinsk) Meteorite pulled from Russian lake is one of the world's biggest - October 2013

[298] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - Extraterrestrial Life Exists, Scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe Claims

[299] NASA - 3000 Comets for SOHO - Time-lapse animation - Kreutz Comets (in red) are the fastest objects in the solar system, traveling 0.2 light speed before they disappear into the sun

[300] NASA - Sundiving comet and CME - Video

[301] space.com (2011) - Did Comet Cause Solar Explosion? Hardly, Experts Say

[302] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Kreutz Comet and CME

[303] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

[304] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth

[305] JPL/NASA - Asteroid Ida and satellite Dactyl - Color

[306] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

[307] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid - different angles

[308] earthsky.org - Lovejoy C/2011 - Perihelion December 2011 - Video

[309] assa.org - Images of Lovejoy C/2011 from Australia

[310] YouTube - AlphaBetaTV - Comet ISON is Coming November 2013

[311] brucegary.net - Comet C/2012 S1 ISON - Bruce Gary (retired professional astronomer)

[312] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

[313] NBC News - Comet ISON - Pre-perihelion

[314] CNN - Comet ISON - Pre-perihelion videos

[315] earthsky.org - SDO coverage planned at perihelion

[316] NASA - ISON recap

[317] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - SDO signal loop prevented NASA scientists from seeing comet ISON at perihelion

[318] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

[319] pcmag.com - Comet ISON Wrap-up: It Fought the Sun and the Sun Won

[320] NASA (5/29/2016) - Anomalies around the stereo spacecraft

[321] YouTube - CrashCourse - Asteroids: Crash Course Astronomy #20

[322] Spacetelescope.org - Hubble ESA - Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the Solar System - Binary comets in the asteroid belt

[323] hubblesite.org - C/2017 K2 - NASA's Hubble Observes the Farthest Active Inbound Comet Yet Seen

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

[324] ESA (7/7/2015) - Rosetta - Navcam Image

[325] wordpress.com - JPL/NASA - Orbital diagram

[326] space.com - 'Sound' of comet 67P

[327] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[328] NASA - Atmosphere

[329] ESA - Philae close up

[330] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[331] LA Times - Oxygen found

[332] The Guardian - Oxygen found

[333] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) - Color

[334] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team - Same as APOD

[335] ESA/Rosetta - Comet 67P/C-G In Living Colour

[336] Google - Search for Comet 67P in Living Colour

[337] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[338] ESA - Inside Imhotep

[339] ESA - Bright region in Imhotep - Colour

[340] Flickr.com - Imhotep - Colour

[341] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - ESA/Rosetta/NavCam - Colour

[342] ESA - Comet's fireworks display before perihelion

[343] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

[344] ESA - Reconstructed last image from Rosetta

Sun

[345] sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov - Realtime Images

[346] stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa - Stereo Science Center

[347] Space Weather News - 24hr. video loops

[348] spaceweather.com - Space Weather - Space Photos

[349] NASA - APOD - Coronal Crown During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[350] NASA - Coronal Crown

[351] NASA - ISS During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[352] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

[353] NASA - SDO - The Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths

[354] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

[355] YouTube - Aryanatomy - Sounds of the solar system (starts with the Sun)

Electric Universe Theory

[356] Electric Universe Theory

[357] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[358] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

[359] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Magnetic Reconnection & Cosmic Plasma

[360] ESA - Hershel - Oort Cloud - Note toroidal shape

[361] astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[362] torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[363] HeartMath - The Heart's Electromagnetic Field

[364] YouTube - Thrive: The Movement

[365] wikipedia.org - Torsion field (pseudoscience)

[366] sacredgeometryinternational.com - Randall Carlson

[367] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - The vacuum catastrophe

[368] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Space weather and human health

[369] whatsupwiththat.com - How plasma connects the sun to the climate

[370] NASA - Hidden Portals in Earth's Electromagnetic Field

[371] rationalwiki.org - Electric Universe Theory as Pseudo-science

[372] physics.stackexchange.com - How to Debunk the Electric Universe

Inner Terrestrial Planets

[373] space.com - Terrestrial Planets

[374] psu.edu - The Inner Rocky Planets

Mercury

[375] NASA - APOD - MESSENGER's First Day

[376] nationalgeographic.com (2008) - Space photos: Mercury closeup

[377] NASA - Colors of the innermost planet, Mercury

[378] NASA - What is planet Mercury?

[379] NASA (January 22, 2008) MESSENGER - Mercury - Color

[380] seeker.com - Mercury's Water Ice Deposits Have a Mysterious Origin

[381] CBS News - NASA captures first images of frozen water on Mercury

[382] spaceref.com - NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Young Crater With Bright Rays - Color

[383] NASA - Mercury water ice

[384] NASA - Mercury's Southern Hemisphere

[385] NASA (September 26, 2016) - The incredible shrinking Mercury is active after all

[386] NASA (September 26, 2016) - Tectonically active planet Mercury

[387] YouTube - Astrum - Mercury

[388] igoogleportal.com - space.com - Scorching-Hot Mercury Has a Surprisingly Icy North Pole

Venus

[389] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

[390] space.com - Japan at Venus: Photos from the Akatsuki Spacecraft's Mission

[391] slate.com - Akatzuki images and data

[392] space.com - Giant Mystery Wave Spotted in Atmosphere of Venus

[393] sci-news.com - Russian Researcher Suggests Venera-13 Imaged Life on Venus

[394] historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com - (March 1, 2016) - Anniversaries: Venera 3 Landing on Venus

[395] YouTube - Astrum - Our Solar System's Planets: Venus

Earth & Moon

[396] NASA - Epic Earth Image

[397] ISRO - MOM - Earth - Colour

[398] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field - (repeat)

[399] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

[400] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - NASA/JPL - Apollo mission - Color

[401] NASA - Captured asteroid

[402] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[403] National Geographic - Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents

[404] Space.com - (8/20/2014) Sea plankton found on ISS, Russians claim

[405] livescience.com - Life in Antarctica Lake under Ice

[406] Washington Post - These animals can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists say

[407] BBC - Species May Thrive in Antarctica Lakes

[408] nih.gov - The brine shrimp artemia: adapted to critical life conditions

[409] Wikipedia - Artemia - Brine shrimp

[410] YouTube - Space Videos - Moon time lapse - SELENE images

Mars

[411] NASA (1999) - Mars Rotate (true color) - Animation

[412] NASA (2011) - Mars Roll - Includes South and North Poles - Animation

[413] smithsonianmag.com - 2011 - Mars Day

[414] UAHiRise - Catalogue of color images

[415] ESA - Blue sediments build up in craters over time - Colour

[416] NASA - MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations

[417] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - Mars by ESA Rosetta - OSIRIS NAC - February 2007

[418] ISRO - Mars Orbiter Mission - First closeup color image

[419] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[420] ISRO - Mars - Atmosphere

[421] ISRO - Images from colour camera

[422] spaceref.com - ISRO - Images of Phobos and Martian atmosphere

[423] ESA - Phobos

[424] NASA - MRO - Phobos - Color

[425] wordpress.com - Phobos 2 Mystery

[426] NASA - Deimos - Color

[427] JPL/NASA - Mount Sharp Comes in Sharply - note baby blue sky

[428] ESA - Past habitability

[429] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

[430] JPL/NASA - Morning Clouds Atop Martian Mountain

[431] UAHiRise - Frosty Gullies on the Northern Plains

[432] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

[433] JPL/NASA - Odyssey - Investigating Mars: Siton Undae

[434] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[435] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[436] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

[437] UAHirise - Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

[438] UAHirise - Cracks in a Crater's Ice

[439] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[440] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[441] JPL/NASA - North polar cap - Color

[442] NASA - North polar layers of Mars

[443] UAHirise - North Polar Intracrater Dunes

[444] researchgate.net - Crater near north polar cap with water ice

[445] NASA - South polar cap

[446] NASA - South polar texture

[447] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - South polar texture

[448] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[449] UAHirise - South Polar Cryptic Terrain

[450] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge - Color

[451] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge

[452] NASA - South polar ice deep and wide

[453] phys.org - South Polar cap - Color

[454] marsanomalyresearch.com - NASA/JPL/MSSS - South polar anomaly

[455] JPL/NASA - Rectangles with wiggly sides near south polar cap

[456] JPL/NASA - Patterns Unique, Yet Familiar - Near south polar cap

[457] UAHirise - Polar Erg Margin - Color

[458] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

[459] UAHirise - Dry Ice (Spiders) Gone Wild

[460] UAHirise - Interesting Cones inside Crater - Spiders on Shadowed Side

[461] UAHirise - Odd Distribution of Spiders

[462] UAHirise - Giant Spiders

[463] NASA - Citizen scientists seek South Pole spiders on Mars

[464] JPL/NASA - Pit or impact crater next to very dark textured area

[465] JPL/NASA - Possible Layers on Floor of Suzhi Crater

[466] JPL/NASA - Color strips near Mawrth Vallis - "a future interplanetary park"

[467] UAHirise - A View of the Painted Desert Near Mawrth Vallis

[468] UAHirise - Candidate ExoMars Landing Site in Mawrth Vallis

[469] NASA - Subsurface water

[470] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks - Curiosity rover sol 707

[471] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[472] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

[473] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Mud cracks

[474] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[475] UAHirise - Vastitas Borealis Periglacial Terrain - Color

[476] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[477] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[478] ESA - Gusev Crater - Colour

[479] JPL//NASA - Evidence of past water

[480] NASA - Curiosity rover - Mars covered with organic material

[481] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[482] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[483] JPL/NASA - UAP over Mt. Sharp

[484] NASA (3/4/2004) - Opportunity - "Bunny ears"

[485] JPL/NASA - Opportunity rover - Microscopic image anomaly

[486] techtimes.com - Opportunity rover - "Weird rock" - "relatively high concentration of silicon and aluminum. Its overall composition has neither been observed by either the Opportunity or Spirit before"

[487] NASA - Opportunity rover - Marathon Valley - Map

[488] NASA - Opportunity rover - Weird rock - panoramic

[489] JPL/NASA - "Jelly doughnut" anomaly

[490] National Geographic - "Doughnut Rock" Added to Mars's Mystery Object Hall of Fame

[491] JPL/NASA - Surface anomaly (upper left)

[492] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[493] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[494] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Meteorite

[495] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[496] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation - Context image

[497] NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Color

[498] YouTube - Astrum - Mars

[499] earthsky.org - More evidence for water on Mars

[500] space.com - There Is Boron on Mars — Another Sign the Red Planet Could Have Hosted Life

[501] JPL/NASA - Textures in Deuteronilus Mensae - Color

[502] JPL/NASA (9/28/2017) - A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise (i.e., water) Near the Martian Equator

[503] JPL/NASA - Solar Storm Triggers Whole-Planet Aurora at Mars (Video)

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

[504] NASA - Kuiper Belt - Overview

[505] NASA - Oort Cloud - Overview - Giant Space Bubble

[506] YouTube - CrashCourse - Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22

Extrasolar Systems

[507] NASA - Kepler survey catalogue with hundreds of new planet candidates

[508] Washington Post - Four Alien Planets Orbiting Nearby Star - (scroll down for gif)

[509] Universe Today - Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star (2011)

[510] UCSC.edu - Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf

[511] NASA - Brown dwarf artist rendering - Animation

[512] JPL/NASA - Brown Dwarf Star Found by Spitzer Space Telescope

[513] abc.net.au - Small alien world most Jupiter-like planet ever seen

[514] JPL/NASA - WISE - Brown dwarfs

[515] JPL/NASA - WISE and Spitzer - Coldest brown dwarfs

[516] astronomynow.com - Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood

[517] NASA - Astrobiology - The Ever More Puzzling and Intriguing “Tabby’s Star”

[518] nrao.org - VLA Begins Huge Project of Cosmic Discovery

[519] Chandra / Harvard.edu - Scroll down for video of implications for life

[520] techradar.com - Space telescopes will find earth 2.0, it's just a matter of time

Alpha Centauri / Proxima Centauri / Proxima b

[521] NASA - Hubble space telescope (HST) - Alpha Centauri A&B

[522] NASA - Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of nearest star system

[523] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

[524] New York Times - Planet orbiting our closest neighbor

[525] NPR - Why the discovery of an earth-like planet is such a big deal

Trappist-1 / b, c, d, e, f, g, h

[526] NASA - Press release - 2/22/2017

[527] New York Times - The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-size Worlds From Colliding

[528] NASA - Trappist-1 - Older than our solar system

[529] National Geographic - Hubble space telescope (HST) examines exoplanet atmospheres

Contact & Cosmic Consciousness

Science References

[530] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[531] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

[532] Universe Today - Either stars are strange or there are 234 aliens trying to contact us

[533] National Geographic - Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space

[534] CNET - Mysterious signal from deep space goes hyperactive - scroll down for gif of the signal graph

[535] Space.com - 'Alien megastructure' star is dimming again

[536] ligo.caltech.edu (2016) - Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction

[537] nsf.gov (2017) - LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision

[538] google.com - psys.org - Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves

Popular References

[539] coasttocoast.com - Coast to Coast AM

[540] earthfiles.com - Linda Moulton Howe

[541] kgraradio.com - Jimmy Church Radio - Fade to Black

[542] NPR - Why We Love Aliens - Includes habitable moons

[543] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos - BBC - Carl Sagan on Alien Civilizations

[544] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication

[545] Futurism - Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals When He Thinks We'll Find Aliens

[546] Business Insider - Edward Snowden Talks Alien Communication with Neil deGrasse Tyson

[547] dailygalaxy.com (2016) - NASA Confirms EM Drive - Mars in 70 Days

[548] Star Talk Radio - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Searching for Aliens

[549] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Seeking Intelligent Life

[550] YouTube - ADGUKNEWS - Aliens And The Vatican 2013

[551] YouTube - Comonagenet - Father Balducci

[552] YouTube - News - 2011 News10 ABC - 1/28/11 UAP, Charles Bolden, Edgar Mitchell

[553] foxnews.com (9/28/2017) - The Sun UK - Alien hunters discover 'UFO highway' across America - Video by Fox News

[554] YouTube - SpaceX (9/29/2017) - Elon Musk - Making Life Multiplanetary

[555] YouTube - CNET (9/29/2017) - Space X's Elon Musk's Update on Mars Plans

Actualizing the Potential

[556] Institute for Noetic Sciences

[557] HuffPost - Noetic science defined

[558] rationalwiki.org - Noetic science

[559] ncbi.nlm.gov - Unified Consciousness

[560] HuffPost - Be Supercoherent — Tune Into Your Consciousness!

[561] elephantjournal.com - The heart is the center of consciousness

[562] YouTube - Metronomes synchronizing / entraining - Coherence

[563] quantumactivist.com - Amit Goswami

[564] YouTube - Coast to Coast AM - Mel Schwartz - Consciousness and Psychotherapy - Interview starts @ 1:17:00

[565] HuffPost - The Case for Gnosticism, Part 6: A Gnostic Viewpoint on "Alien Abductions"

[566] experiencer.org - Close Encounters and Consciousness

[567] telegraph.co.uk - The science of Close Encounters: could we use music to talk to aliens? - Video from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[568] YouTube - Movieclips - ET: The Extraterrestrial (1982) - "I'll be right here."

[569] heartmeditators.com - Steven Greer Tutorial - How to make ET contact

[570] experiencer.org - Toward an integration of the contact modalities