Prehistoric Native Americans may have carved a record of a supernova explosion that appeared in the skies a millennium ago into a rock in Arizona, US.
John Barentine, an astronomer at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, came across the carving while hiking in the White Tank Mountain Regional Park in Arizona.
It depicts a scorpion and an eight-pointed star. "I had just been reading about the supernova of AD 1006 and I knew it appeared in the constellation Scorpius, so the connection flashed into my mind."
(Via PAG E-News.)
In my opinion, some of the configurations on Mars are consistent with megascale commemorations of celestial phenomena. The Tholus in Cydonia, for example, is accompanied by an unusual "satellite": a representation of a planet orbited by a moon?
The idea that beleaguered Martians -- native to Mars or from elsewhere -- would record their astronomical history in the form of geoglyphs discernible from orbit carries a certain Bradburian appeal. Could they have been trying to warn us of something, such as the doomsday comet featured in Graham Hancock's "The Mars Mystery"? If so, how did they know we might be coming?
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