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

Warning! - Key Terms

[1] Wikipedia - Consciousness

[2] Wikipedia - Confirmation Bias

[3] Wikipedia - Convergent Validity

[4] Wikipedia - Occam's Razor

[5] Wikipedia - Pseudoscience

[6] Wikipedia - Limited Hangout

[7] Wikipedia - Gaslighting

[8] Wikipedia - Illusion

[9] Wikipedia - Pareidolia

[10] Wikipedia - Predictive Coding

[11] Wikipedia - Paradigm Shift

Cosmic Perspective

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

Scientific & Spiritual Perspectives

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

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

[15] YouTube - Armor of Light (2010) - NASA and the Vatican's Infrared Telescope Called LUCIFER (part 1)

[16] YouTube - Armor of Light (2010) - NASA and the Vatican's Infrared Telescope Called LUCIFER (part 2)

[17] YouTube - Armor of Light (2010) - NASA and the Vatican's Infrared Telescope Called LUCIFER (part 3)

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

[19] YouTube - Catholic News Service (2012) - A Vatican scientist (Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, S.J. - Head Vatican Astronomer)

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

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

Quantum Physics Perspective

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

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

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

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

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

[27] NBC News - Is the Universe Conscious?

[28] Wikipedia - Quantum Mind

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

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

Psychosocial Perspective

[31] 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Astrobiological Perspective

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

[38] NASA (2006) - Follow the Water

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

[40] YouTube - Science at NASA (2014) - ScienceCasts: A Sudden Multiplication of Planets

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

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

[43] YouTube - Discovery Magazine (2014) - Expoplanet Explosion - Google Hangout

[44] YouTube - Anthony Beckett (2013) - The Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life - Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe

Ocean Worlds

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

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

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

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

[49] suspicious0bservers.org - Starwater Theory

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

Ceres

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[66] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater and carbonates

[67] NASA - Age of Occator Crater bright spots

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

[69] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Occator Crater

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

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

[72] Scientific American - Possible subsurface ocean

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

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

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

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

[77] EOS.org - Geologically active

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

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

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

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

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

[83] sciencemag.org - Cryovolcanism on Ceres

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

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

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

[87] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater

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

[89] JPL/NASA - Ceres color map

[90] JPL/NASA - Ceres in color

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

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

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

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

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

[96] JPL/NASA - High Resolution Ceres View

Jupiter

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

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

[99] NASA - Galileo - Jupiter timeline

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

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

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

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

[104] JPL/NASA - Jupiter Northen Lights Mystery

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

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

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

[108] JPL/NASA - Approaching Jupiter - Color

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

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

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

[112] JPL/NASA - Io - Closeup

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

[114] JPL/NASA - Io - Pele Plume

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

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

[117] JPL/NASA - Io - Southern Hemisphere

[118] JPL/NASA - Io - South Pole

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

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

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

[122] JPL/NASA - Europa - Clay Prints

[123] JPL/NASA - Europa Cracks and Ridges

[124] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Color Global

[125] NASA - APOD - Ganymede Mosaic

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

[127] JPL/NASA - Global Map of Ganymede

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

[129] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[130] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Varied Terrain

[131] JPL/NASA - Caldera on Ganymede

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

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

[134] JPL/NASA - Global Callisto in Color

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

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

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

[138] JPL/NASA - Callisto Basin

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

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

[141] JPL/NASA - Callisto Mosaic - Color

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

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

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

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

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

[147] JPL/NASA - Soaring Over Jupiter

[148] JPL/NASA - 95 Minutes Over Jupiter

Saturn

[149] Flickr.com - Ian Regan - Cassini's 'Last Dance' — A Final Portrait of Saturn

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

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

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

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

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

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

[156] JPL/NASA - Pan Revealed

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

[158] JPL/NASA - Pandora Up Close

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

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

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

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

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

[164] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[165] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color maps

[166] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color map

[167] JPL/NASA - Mimas' Mountain

[168] JPL/NASA - Enceladus global color maps

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

[170] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[171] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

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

[173] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[174] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[175] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[176] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

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

[178] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[179] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

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

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

[182] JPL/NASA - Atmosphere on Enceladus

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

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

[185] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[186] JPL/NASA - Tethys global color maps

[187] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[188] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[189] JPL/NASA - Dione global color maps

[190] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

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

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

[193] JPL/NASA - Chasms on Dione

[194] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[195] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

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

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

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

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

[200] ESA - Graphic of final trajectory past Titan

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

[202] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[203] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[204] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

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

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

[207] YouTube - Astrum - Titan

[208] NASA - Hyperion - Overview

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

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

[211] NASA - Hyperion's Kaleidescope of Colors

[212] NASA - Farewell to Hyperion

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

[214] NASA - Iapetus - Overview - Color

[215] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[216] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

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

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

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

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

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

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

[223] YouTube - Astrum - Saturn

[224] YouTube - NASA Goddard - Cassini infrared Saturn

[225] YouTube - ESA - Cassini Diving Into History

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

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

[228] New York Times - 100 images from Cassini

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

[230] JPL/NASA - Impact location - Infrared

Uranus

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

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

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

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

[235] JPL/NASA - Uranus' Atmosphere

[236] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

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

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

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

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

[241] JPL/NASA - Umbriel at Closest Approach

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

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

[244] YouTube - Astrum - Uranus

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

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

Neptune

[247] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

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

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

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

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

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

[253] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color

[254] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color map

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

[256] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Triton

[257] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[258] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

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

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

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

[262] JPL/NASA - 1989N1

[263] JPL/NASA - Nereid

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

[265] YouTube - Astrum - Neptune

Pluto

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

[267] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

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

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

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

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

[272] NASA - Pluto's size

[273] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[274] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[275] JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

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

[277] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[278] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[279] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

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

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

[282] Space.com - Pluto water

[283] NASA - Pluto haze layers

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

[285] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[286] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[287] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

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

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

[290] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

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

[292] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

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

[294] The Guardian - Possible ocean

[295] New York Times - Possible ocean

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

Panspermia Theory

[297] Panspermia Theory - Lithospheric/Ballistic and Directed

Asteroids & Comets / Meteors & Meteorites

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

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

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

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

[302] YouTube - Astrum - Asteroids

[303] YouTube - djxatlanta (2010) - Rotation of Asteroid Itokawa

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

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

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

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

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

[309] 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

[310] NASA - Sundiving comet and CME - Video

[311] YouTube - Solar Ham (2011) - Comet Lovejoy (Perihelion) and CME Activity

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

[313] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Kreutz Comet and CME

[314] YouTube - NASA Goddard (2013) - What is a sungrazing comet?

[315] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

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

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

[318] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

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

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

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

[322] YouTube - Valarauko (2007) - Comets Colliding into the Sun

[323] YouTube - apvari - 2011 - Comet Collides into the Sun

[324] YouTube - NASA Goddard (2013) - ScienceCasts: Comet ISON to Flyby Mars

[325] YouTube - NASA Goddard (2013) - Comet ISON predicted orbital animation

[326] YouTube - AlphaBetaTV (2013) - Comet ISON is Coming November 2013

[327] YouTube - Envylife904 (2013) - Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON

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

[329] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

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

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

[332] YouTube - Solneman Namehe (2013) - Comet ISON full transit - SECCHI COR2-B

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

[334] NASA - ISON recap

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

[336] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

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

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

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

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

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

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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

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

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

[345] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[346] NASA - Atmosphere

[347] ESA - Philae close up

[348] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[349] LA Times - Oxygen found

[350] The Guardian - Oxygen found

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

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

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

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

[355] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[356] ESA - Inside Imhotep

[357] ESA - Bright region in Imhotep - Colour

[358] Flickr.com - Imhotep - Colour

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

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

[361] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

[362] ESA - Reconstructed last image from Rosetta

Sun

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

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

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

[366] YouTube - NASA Goddard (2013) - Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes

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

[368] YouTube - Red Ice TV (2014) - Red Ice Radio - Kungpop U-Yen - Space Weather Induced Natural Disasters

[369] YouTube - Red Ice TV (2014) - Red Ice Radio - Ben Davidson (Suspicious0bservers) - Space Weather and the Next Mini Ice Age

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

[371] NASA - Coronal Crown

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

[373] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

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

[375] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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

Electric Universe Theory

[377] Electric Universe Theory

[378] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[379] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

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

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

[382] astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[383] torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[384] HeartMath - The Heart's Electromagnetic Field

[385] YouTube - Thrive: The Movement

[386] YouTube - kevin chambers (2013) - from Thrive - The Double Torus - Nassim Haramein

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

[388] sacredgeometryinternational.com - Randall Carlson

[389] YouTube - Alternativ.TV (2012) - Geometry, Space-time, and Consciousness

[390] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - The vacuum catastrophe

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

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

[393] NASA (2012) - Hidden Portals in Earth's Electromagnetic Field - Science @ NASA Video

[394] Google.com - National Geographic (2016) - Team Claims ‘Impossible’ Space Engine Works—Get the Facts

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

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

Inner Terrestrial Planets

[397] space.com - Terrestrial Planets

[398] psu.edu - The Inner Rocky Planets

Mercury

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

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

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

[402] NASA - What is planet Mercury?

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

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

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

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

[407] NASA - Mercury water ice

[408] NASA - Mercury's Southern Hemisphere

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

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

[411] YouTube - Astrum - Mercury

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

Venus

[413] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

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

[415] slate.com - Akatzuki images and data

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

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

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

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

Earth & Moon

[420] NASA - Epic Earth Image

[421] ISRO - MOM - Earth - Colour

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

[423] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

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

[425] NASA - Captured asteroid

[426] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[427] National Geographic - Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents

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

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

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

[431] BBC - Species May Thrive in Antarctica Lakes

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

[433] Wikipedia - Artemia - Brine shrimp

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

Mars

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

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

[437] smithsonianmag.com - 2011 - Mars Day

[438] UAHiRise - Catalogue of color images

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

[440] NASA - MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations

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

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

[443] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[444] ISRO - Mars - Atmosphere

[445] ISRO - Images from colour camera

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

[447] ESA - Phobos

[448] NASA - MRO - Phobos - Color

[449] wordpress.com - Phobos 2 Mystery

[450] NASA - Deimos - Color

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

[452] ESA - Past habitability

[453] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

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

[455] UAHiRise - Frosty Gullies on the Northern Plains

[456] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

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

[458] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[459] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[460] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

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

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

[463] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[464] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

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

[466] NASA - North polar layers of Mars

[467] UAHirise - North Polar Intracrater Dunes

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

[469] NASA - South polar cap

[470] NASA - South polar texture

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

[472] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[473] UAHirise - South Polar Cryptic Terrain

[474] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge - Color

[475] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge

[476] NASA - South polar ice deep and wide

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

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

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

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

[481] UAHirise - Polar Erg Margin - Color

[482] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

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

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

[485] UAHirise - Odd Distribution of Spiders

[486] UAHirise - Giant Spiders

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

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

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

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

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

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

[493] NASA - Subsurface water

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

[495] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[496] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

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

[498] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[499] UAHirise - Vastitas Borealis Periglacial Terrain - Color

[500] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[501] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[502] ESA - Gusev Crater - Colour

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

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

[505] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[506] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

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

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

[509] JPL/NASA (2004) - Opportunity rover - Microscopic image anomaly

[510] YouTube - Open Minds Production (2014) - Former NASA scientist claims conspiracy about Mars photo (see above)

[511] 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"

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

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

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

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

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

[517] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[518] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[519] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Meteorite

[520] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

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

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

[523] YouTube - Astrum - Mars

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

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

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

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

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

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

[529] NASA - Kuiper Belt - Overview

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

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

Extrasolar Systems

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

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

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

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

[536] NASA - Brown dwarf artist rendering - Animation

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

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

[539] JPL/NASA - WISE - Brown dwarfs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alpha Centauri / Proxima Centauri / Proxima b

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

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

[548] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contact & Cosmic Consciousness

Science References

[555] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[556] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Popular References

[564] YouTube - Saturday Night Live (2015) - Close Encounter

[565] YouTube - Saturday Night Live (2017) - Another Close Encounter

[566] coasttocoast.com - Coast to Coast AM

[567] earthfiles.com - Linda Moulton Howe

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

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

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

[571] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication

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

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

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

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

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

[577] YouTube - ADGUK News (2013) - Walt Disney World Documentary (1995)

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

[579] YouTube - Comonagenet - Father Balducci

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

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

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

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

Actualizing the Potential

[584] YouTube - GeniMedia 2012 - I don't need to believe - Carl G. Jung

[585] YouTube - Associated Press (2010) - H.H. The Dalai Lama throws snow at the press

[586] YouTube - Google (2007) - Matthieu Ricard - Change your mind, change your brain

[587] YouTube - c23am (2013) - Rupert Sheldrake - Banned TedX Lecture on Consciousness

[588] YouTube - TED (2008) - Matthieu Ricard - The Habits of Happiness

[589] Institute for Noetic Sciences

[590] HuffPost - Noetic science defined

[591] rationalwiki.org - Noetic science

[592] ncbi.nlm.gov - Unified Consciousness

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

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

[595] YouTube - Metronomes synchronizing / entraining - Coherence

[596] quantumactivist.com - Amit Goswami

[597] YouTube - neuroscapelab (2014) - Glass Brain Flythrough

[598] YouTube - Richard Brown - John Searle (2012) - Consciousness and Causality

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

[600] YouTube - Peter Russell (2012) - Consciosiness is no-thing - Peter Russell and Eckhart Tolle

[601] YouTube - The Power of the Word (on water crystals) - Dr. Masaru Emoto

[602] YouTube - Schumann Resonance (7.83 Hz)

[603] YouTube - Om Chanting

[604] YouTube - 21 Ways to RaiseYour Vibration

[605] YouTube - TED - The Surprising Science of Happiness

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

[607] experiencer.org - Close Encounters and Consciousness

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

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

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

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