{"id":20278,"date":"2016-09-30T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20278"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:25:54","slug":"spooky-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20278","title":{"rendered":"Spooky or What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just regarding that last post about Rosetta, and one of the images I have shown again here:<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ESA - 67P from 16km\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/524;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ESA - 67P from 16km\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/67p_16km-1.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"524\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>If you get the <a title=\"ESA - Comet from 16 km\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2016\/09\/Comet_from_16_km\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full sized image here<\/a>, in the black sky to the middle left there is a small white dot that might be a star, a data glitch, or just an aberration on the optics. But look what happens when you blow it up:<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The anomaly - expanded\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/502;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The anomaly - expanded\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/67P_anomaly.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"502\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a disk shape with several lobes around it. Here\u2019s what happens when you adjust the contrast:<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The anomaly - processed\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/502;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The anomaly - processed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/67P_anomaly_processed.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"502\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>Is that strange or what? I\u2019d have never spotted it if I hadn\u2019t seen the comments under that photo.<\/p>\n<p>No one else seems to have picked up on a possible UFO in this latest Rosetta image. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There\u2019s bound to be a logical explanation. On the list of possible logical explanations, it being a real out-of-this-world UFO comes in somewhere at around the gazillionth position.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, it doesn\u2019t half look like that photo in Independence Day when they first detect the aliens approaching. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> Actually, it is definitely some sort of exposure artefact. Every time a star appears in any Rosetta image you see some sort of streaking and those lobe-like structures. In <a title=\"ESA - Comet from 15.5 km &ndash; wide-angle camera\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2016\/09\/Comet_from_15.5_km_wide-angle_camera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another image from the final descent you can see multiple stars<\/a> and they all show the same features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just regarding that last post about Rosetta, and one of the images I have shown again here: If you get the full sized image here, in the black sky to the middle left there is a small white dot that might be a star, a data glitch, or just an aberration on the optics. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-computer-tech-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}