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Just as our Sun and the solar system are surrounded by a magnetic sheaf wrapped around it, orders of magnitude larger than the Earth's magnetosphere,

At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-limestone-iron-reveal-puzzling-extreme.html .... we are told karst formations cover one sixth of the Earth - but not necessarily at the surface. . Karst is a

William sent in the link to https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-earth-once-have-a-ring-like-saturn-geologists-find-evidence-for-a-halo-of-orbiting-space-rocks-466-million-years-ago-180985098/ .... and William adds, Donald Patten said something similar, dating a ring around the earth a few thousand

Robert sent in the following links - an update on the Thunderstorms post and gamma rays a few days ago. At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241002123025.htm ... most tropical

At https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-watches-ancient-supernova-replay-3-times-and-confirms-something-is-seriously-wrong-in-our-understanding-of-the-universe   ... the James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on a distant supernova. They spotted distinct points of light that come from a

At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-webb-telescope-unusual-gas-jets.html ... centaur objects orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has mapped gases spewing from Centaur 29P -

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/technology/five-mile-asteroid-impact-crater-below-atlantic-captured-in-exquisite-detail-by-seismc-data-AA1rEgaW ... researchers at the American Heriot-Watt University have taken new images of a five mile wide crater in the

At https://spaceweather.com ... October 3rd 2024 ... A CME is heading towards the Earth following the powerful X7.1 class solar flare of October 1st. .

COMETs. At https://spaceweather.com ... [September 0th 2024] ... astronomers are monitoring a new comet discovered just a few days ago by the ATLAS survey. It

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240930212840.htm ... it seems it may have been an explosion that set the Tonga submarine volcano in motion. It may not even have been

Zoroastrianism is another religion, or cultural memory, that had an emphasis on fire pits and ritual. Christians and Moslems have both rejected the idea of

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-unexpected-discovery-early-sweet-potato.html ... research in New Zealand, with a dollop of woke, has found evidence of taro, yam, and sweet potato cultivation that was going

At https://notrickszone.com/2024/09/28/climate-complexities-recent-solar-storms-may-have-promoted-cloud-formation/ ... an interesting paper but difficult to get your head around. It will therefore be ignored by the great and the good. The

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-moon-captured-space-collision-particles.html ... it seems the idea the moon was captured by Earth may be making a comeback. Various 'missions' to the Moon have come

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-tree-reveal-jet-stream-extreme.html ... here we have a post that claims tree ring data reveals the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries.

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-hubble-black-hole-stellar-eruptions.html ....Hubble discovers that a black hole beam prompts stellar eruptions as it streams through the galaxy. Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-quantized-redshift-big-hypothesis.html ... we learn the quantised red shift challenges the Big Bang hypothesis. A Dopler shift is defined as a change of frequency of

Also in Current World Archaeology 127, October 2024 - see https://www.world-archaeology.com ... we have an article on the archaeology of SE Arabia - primarily Bronze

In Current World Archaeology 127, October 2024 [see https://www.world-archaeology.com] we have an article on excavations around the ring sanctuary of Pommelte in Saxony-Anhalt. It is

Chris Gatling in Current World Archaeology 127, October 2024 [see also https://www.world-archaeology.com] starts off by saying when the Portuguese, in AD1418, arrived in Madiera and