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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] BBC - Vatican Observatory Where Priests Are Also Astrophysicists

[12] HuffPost - Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare

[13] NASA (2016) - NSF's LIGO has Detected Gravitational Waves

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

Quantum Physics Perspective

[15] Washington Post - Quantum Entanglement - Science's 'spookiest' phenomenon achieved in space

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

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

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

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

[20] NBC News - Is the Universe Conscious?

[21] Wikipedia - Quantum Mind

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

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

Psychosocial Perspective

[24] 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Astrobiological Perspective

[30] NASA - Astrobiology - Are We Alone?

[31] NASA - Follow the Water

[32] NASA - Finding Life Beyond Earth is Within Reach

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

[34] New York Times - Yes There Have Been Aliens - Drake Equation - Updated with Kepler data - (Does not include moons)

[35] aeon.co - To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it

Ocean Worlds

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

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

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

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

[40] suspicious0bservers.org - Starwater Theory

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

Ceres

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[57] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater and carbonates

[58] NASA - Age of Occator Crater bright spots

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

[60] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Occator Crater

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

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

[63] Scientific American - Possible subsurface ocean

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

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

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

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

[68] EOS.org - Geologically active

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

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

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

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

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

[74] sciencemag.org - Cryovolcanism on Ceres

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

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

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

[78] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater

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

[80] JPL/NASA - Ceres color map

[81] JPL/NASA - Ceres in color

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

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

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

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

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

[87] JPL/NASA - High Resolution Ceres View

Jupiter

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

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

[90] NASA - Galileo - Jupiter timeline

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

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

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

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

[95] JPL/NASA - Jupiter Northen Lights Mystery

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

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

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

[99] JPL/NASA - Approaching Jupiter - Color

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

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

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

[103] JPL/NASA - Io - Closeup

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

[105] JPL/NASA - Io - Pele Plume

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

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

[108] JPL/NASA - Io - Southern Hemisphere

[109] JPL/NASA - Io - South Pole

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

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

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

[113] JPL/NASA - Europa - Clay Prints

[114] JPL/NASA - Europa Cracks and Ridges

[115] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Color Global

[116] NASA - APOD - Ganymede Mosaic

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

[118] JPL/NASA - Global Map of Ganymede

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

[120] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[121] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Varied Terrain

[122] JPL/NASA - Caldera on Ganymede

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

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

[125] JPL/NASA - Global Callisto in Color

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

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

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

[129] JPL/NASA - Callisto Basin

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

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

[132] JPL/NASA - Callisto Mosaic - Color

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

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

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

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

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

[138] JPL/NASA - Soaring Over Jupiter

Saturn

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

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

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

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

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

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

[145] JPL/NASA - Pan Revealed

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

[147] JPL/NASA - Pandora Up Close

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

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

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

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

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

[153] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[154] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color maps

[155] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color map

[156] JPL/NASA - Mimas' Mountain

[157] JPL/NASA - Enceladus global color maps

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

[159] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[160] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

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

[162] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[163] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[164] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[165] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

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

[167] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[168] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

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

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

[171] JPL/NASA - Atmosphere on Enceladus

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

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

[174] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[175] JPL/NASA - Tethys global color maps

[176] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[177] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[178] JPL/NASA - Dione global color maps

[179] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

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

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

[182] JPL/NASA - Chasms on Dione

[183] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[184] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

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

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

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

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

[189] ESA - Graphic of final trajectory past Titan

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

[191] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[192] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[193] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

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

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

[196] YouTube - Astrum - Titan

[197] NASA - Hyperion - Overview

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

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

[200] NASA - Hyperion's Kaleidescope of Colors

[201] NASA - Farewell to Hyperion

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

[203] NASA - Iapetus - Overview - Color

[204] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[205] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

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

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

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

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

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

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

[212] YouTube - Astrum - Saturn

[213] YouTube - NASA Goddard - Cassini infrared Saturn

[214] YouTube - ESA - Cassini Diving Into History

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

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

[217] New York Times - 100 images from Cassini

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

[219] JPL/NASA - Impact location - Infrared

Uranus

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

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

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

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

[224] JPL/NASA - Uranus' Atmosphere

[225] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

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

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

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

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

[230] JPL/NASA - Umbriel at Closest Approach

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

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

[233] YouTube - Astrum - Uranus

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

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

Neptune

[236] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

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

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

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

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

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

[242] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color

[243] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color map

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

[245] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Triton

[246] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[247] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

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

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

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

[251] JPL/NASA - 1989N1

[252] JPL/NASA - Nereid

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

[254] YouTube - Astrum - Neptune

Pluto

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

[256] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

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

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

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

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

[261] NASA - Pluto's size

[262] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[263] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[264] JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

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

[266] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[267] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[268] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

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

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

[271] Space.com - Pluto water

[272] NASA - Pluto haze layers

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

[274] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[275] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[276] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

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

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

[279] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

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

[281] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

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

[283] The Guardian - Possible ocean

[284] New York Times - Possible ocean

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

Panspermia Theory

[286] Panspermia Theory - Lithospheric/Ballistic and Directed

Asteroids & Comets / Meteors & Meteorites

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

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

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

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

[291] YouTube - Astrum - Asteroids

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

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

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

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

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

[297] 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

[298] NASA - Sundiving comet and CME - Video

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

[300] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Kreutz Comet and CME

[301] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

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

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

[304] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

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

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

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

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

[309] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

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

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

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

[313] NASA - ISON recap

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

[315] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

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

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

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

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

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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

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

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

[323] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[324] NASA - Atmosphere

[325] ESA - Philae close up

[326] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[327] LA Times - Oxygen found

[328] The Guardian - Oxygen found

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

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

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

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

[333] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[334] ESA - Inside Imhotep

[335] ESA - Bright region in Imhotep - Colour

[336] Flickr.com - Imhotep - Colour

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

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

[339] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

Sun

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

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

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

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

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

[345] NASA - Coronal Crown

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

[347] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

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

[349] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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

Electric Universe Theory

[351] Electric Universe Theory

[352] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[353] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

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

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

[356] astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[357] torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[358] HeartMath - The Heart's Electromagnetic Field

[359] YouTube - Thrive: The Movement

[360] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - The vacuum catastrophe

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

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

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

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

Inner Terrestrial Planets

[365] space.com - Terrestrial Planets

[366] psu.edu - The Inner Rocky Planets

Mercury

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

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

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

[370] NASA - What is planet Mercury?

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

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

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

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

[375] NASA - Mercury water ice

[376] NASA - Mercury's Southern Hemisphere

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

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

[379] YouTube - Astrum - Mercury

Venus

[380] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

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

[382] slate.com - Akatzuki images and data

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

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

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

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

Earth & Moon

[387] NASA - Epic Earth Image

[388] ISRO - MOM - Earth - Colour

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

[390] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

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

[392] NASA - Captured asteroid

[393] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[394] National Geographic - Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents

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

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

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

[398] BBC - Species May Thrive in Antarctica Lakes

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

[400] Wikipedia - Artemia - Brine shrimp

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

Mars

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

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

[404] smithsonianmag.com - 2011 - Mars Day

[405] UAHiRise - Catalogue of color images

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

[407] NASA - MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations

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

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

[410] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[411] ISRO - Mars - Atmosphere

[412] ISRO - Images from colour camera

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

[414] ESA - Phobos

[415] NASA - MRO - Phobos - Color

[416] wordpress.com - Phobos 2 Mystery

[417] NASA - Deimos - Color

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

[419] ESA - Past habitability

[420] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

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

[422] UAHiRise - Frosty Gullies on the Northern Plains

[423] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

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

[425] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[426] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[427] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

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

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

[430] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[431] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

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

[433] NASA - North polar layers of Mars

[434] UAHirise - North Polar Intracrater Dunes

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

[436] NASA - South polar cap

[437] NASA - South polar texture

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

[439] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[440] UAHirise - South Polar Cryptic Terrain

[441] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge - Color

[442] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge

[443] NASA - South polar ice deep and wide

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

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

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

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

[448] UAHirise - Polar Erg Margin - Color

[449] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

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

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

[452] UAHirise - Odd Distribution of Spiders

[453] UAHirise - Giant Spiders

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

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

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

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

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

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

[460] NASA - Subsurface water

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

[462] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[463] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

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

[465] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[466] UAHirise - Vastitas Borealis Periglacial Terrain - Color

[467] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[468] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[469] ESA - Gusev Crater - Colour

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

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

[472] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[473] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

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

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

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

[477] 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"

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

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

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

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

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

[483] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[484] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[485] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Meteorite

[486] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

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

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

[489] YouTube - Astrum - Mars

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

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

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

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

[493] NASA - Kuiper Belt - Overview

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

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

Extrasolar Systems

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

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

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

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

[500] NASA - Brown dwarf artist rendering - Animation

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

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

[503] JPL/NASA - WISE - Brown dwarfs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alpha Centauri / Proxima Centauri / Proxima b

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

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

[512] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contact & Cosmic Consciousness

Science References

[519] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[520] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

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

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

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

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

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

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

Popular References

[527] coasttocoast.com - Coast to Coast AM

[528] earthfiles.com - Linda Moulton Howe

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

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

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

[532] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication

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

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

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

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

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

Actualizing the Potential

[538] Institute for Noetic Sciences

[539] HuffPost - Noetic science defined

[540] rationalwiki.org - Noetic science

[541] ncbi.nlm.gov - Unified Consciousness

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

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

[544] YouTube - Metronomes synchronizing / entraining - Coherence

[545] quantumactivist.com - Amit Goswami

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

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

[548] experiencer.org - Close Encounters and Consciousness

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

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

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

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