Visitors and Messages from the Stars

Published: Nov. 3, 2017, 11:30 p.m.

b'Phil and Stephen discuss remarkable recent discoveries related to space.\\n\\nCitizen scientist spots comet tails streaking past distant star\\n\\nCitizen scientist Thomas Jacobs was the first to spot tell-tale signs that a comet was orbiting a distant star monitored by the Kepler Space Observatory. Professor Saul Rappaport (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT) and his team then collaborated with Jacobs to report the discovery in new research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.\\n\\nMysterious object from deep space has entered the solar system\\n\\nMost objects orbiting our Sun do so along a common plane: the planets, dwarf planets and asteroids mostly swing around in roughly the same way.\\n\\nThis one appears to have come down on the plane from 122 degrees, from the direction of the star Vega, in the constellation Lyra. And its path did not indicate the curved ellipse typical of clockwork-like returning comets.\\n\\nReports of spectacular UFO - a giant glowing ball lighting the sky - in Siberia\\n\\nStrange messages coming from the stars are \\u2018probably\\u2019 from aliens, scientists say\\n\\nWhat Lies Beyond The Edge Of The Observable Universe?\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nGEEKOUT\\n\\nStranger Things (seasons 1&2)\\n\\nWT 365-675'