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The ALIEN Bathtub & Strange Ancient STATUES | MEGALITHIC SULAWESI Part 1
Welcome to Central Sulawesi. The Land of 1000 Megaliths! Giant STONE JARS & Humanoid STATUES from 3000 BC | Megalithic Sulawesi Part 2 Sulawesi is part of the Indonesian archipelago and it is the 11th largest island in the world, covering an area of approximately 180.000 square kilometres. The megaliths of Central Sulawesi are a fascinating and yet unstudied phenomenon. Hundreds of humanoid Statues and stone jars of unknown origin are scattered across the vast forests and valleys of this remote island province. There are three inhabited valleys in Central Sulawesi where the highest number of Megalithic statues and stone jars have been discovered: Napu Valley Behoa Valley And Bada Valley We set out on a 2 week expedition to Central Sulawesi to look for these mysterious remains of human history and we came back with many hours of incredible video footage. Most of the megalithic sites you’re about to see have not been documented yet and this will be the first full-length documentary series ever about the megalithic statues of Central Sulawesi. So Join us as we discover Central Sulawesi, The land of a thousand megaliths!
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Leonardo da Vinci's GENIUS invention - Miter Locks
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Ancient Catastrophes | Binary Star | Cycles | Lost Civilizations - Jesse Michels, Matthew LaCroix
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Several ancient civilizations from around the world have myths about Pleiades (seven stars). What "if" some of them were actually referring to a Septuple star system or seven-star system? Astronomers have found several Binary stars and Trinary stars, but they also have found Quadruple, Quintuple, Sextuple, Septuple, Octuple, Nonuple or 9 stars where stars and planets are orbiting around one another. Actually, Pleiades is not a seven-star system, it's a star cluster that contains over a thousand stars.
Ancient people didn't have powerful telescopes or satellites that could detect Multiple Stars Systems. Stargazers only had their eyes looking up at a clear night sky to observe thousands of stars. Our ancestors only saw single stars even though half of them today are actually Binary stars. in 1609, Galileo Galilei was the first person to observe the night sky with his telescope and in 1617 he discovered the first Double Star or Binary Star called Mizar.
There are other ancient cultures before and today that have records and oral traditions stating that Binary star system does exist.
Mizar may have been the first telescopic binary known to Europeans; Benedetto Castelli in 1617 asked Galileo Galilei to observe it. Galileo then produced a detailed record of the double star. Later, around 1650, Riccioli wrote of Mizar appearing as a double. The secondary star (Mizar B) comes within 380 AU of the primary (Mizar A) and the two take thousands of years to revolve around each other.
Alpha Centauri is a triple star composed of a main binary Yellow dwarf and a Orange dwarf pair (Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman), and an outlying red dwarf, Proxima Centauri. Together, Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman form a physical binary star, designated as Alpha Centauri AB, α Cen AB, or RHD 1 AB, where the AB denotes this is a binary system.[38] The moderately eccentric orbit of the binary can make the components be as close as 11 AU or as far away as 36 AU. Proxima Centauri, also (though less frequently) called Alpha Centauri C, is much farther away (between 4300 and 13,000 AU) from α Cen AB, and orbits the central pair with a period of 547,000 (+66,000/-40,000) years.[39]
Polaris or Alpha Ursae Minoris (α UMi), the north star, is a triple star system in which the closer companion star is extremely close to the main star—so close that it was only known from its gravitational tug on Polaris A (α UMi A) until it was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006.
Gliese 667 is a triple star system with two K-type main sequence stars and a red dwarf. The red dwarf, C, hosts between two and seven planets, of which one, Cc, alongside the unconfirmed Cf and Ce, are potentially habitable.
Fomalhaut (α PsA, α Piscis Austrini) is a triple star system in the constellationPiscis Austrinus. It was discovered to be a triple system in 2013, when the K type flare star TW Piscis Austrini and the red dwarf LP 876-10 were all confirmed to share proper motion through space. The primary has a massive dust disk similar to that of the early Solar System, but much more massive. It also contains a gas giant, Fomalhaut b. That same year, the tertiary star, LP 876-10 was also confirmed to house a dust disk.
HD 181068 is a unique triple system, consisting of a red giant and two main-sequence stars. The orbits of the stars are oriented in such a way that all three stars eclipse each other.
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HD 98800 is a quadruple star system located in the TW Hydrae association.
Capella, a pair of giant stars orbited by a pair of red dwarfs, around 42 light years away from the Solar System. It has an apparent magnitude of around 0.08, making Capella one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
The PH1 system has the planet PH1 b (discovered in 2012 by the Planet Hunters group, a part of the Zooniverse) orbiting two of the four stars, making it the first known planet to be in a quadruple star system.[45]
KOI-2626 is the first quadruple star system with an Earth-sized planet.[46]
Xi Tauri (ξ Tau, ξ Tauri), located about 222 light years away, is a spectroscopic and eclipsing quadruple star consisting of three blue-white B-typemain-sequence stars, along with an F-type star. Two of the stars are in a close orbit and revolve around each other once every 7.15 days. These in turn orbit the third star once every 145 days. The fourth star orbits the other three stars roughly every fifty years.[47]
Commonly called the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, M45 is known as an open star cluster. It contains over a thousand stars that are loosely bound by gravity, but it is visually dominated by a handful of its brightest members.
One of these stars, Merope, is located just outside the frame of this image to the upper right. The colorful rays of light at the upper right, emanating from the star, are an optical phenomenon produced within the telescope. The nearly straight, blue-white wisps pointing toward the upper right are streams of large dust particles. As the cloud moves toward Merope, its smaller dust particles are slowed down by the star’s radiation pressure more than the larger particles are. The large dust particles continue on toward the star while the smaller particles are left behind at the lower left of the picture.
The Pleiades cluster has been observed since ancient times, so it has no known discoverer. However, Galileo Galilei, the Italian scientist best known for discovering the largest moons of Jupiter and championing a heliocentric model of the solar system, was the first to observe the Pleiades through a telescope. M45 is located an estimated distance of 445 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, though this number is not universally agreed upon. It has an apparent magnitude of 1.6 and can be seen with the naked eye. The cluster is best observed during December.
This video begins with a ground-based image of the Pleiades. It zooms into Merope, eventually settling on Hubble’s image of the reflection nebula that is being destroyed by the star’s radiation. Anim.: STScI AVL; Images: Terence Dickinson (Pleiades w/ Jupiter, Saturn, Hyades); STScI Digitized Sky Survey; Chuck Vaughn (amateur astrophotographer, 85-min. exposure w/ 12.5" f/9 Ritchey-Chretien telescope); Hubble Heritage Team (NASA, STScI/AURA)
For more information about Hubble’s observations of M45, see:
