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Good as Gold May 16, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs May 17, 2013 The proverbial ‘golden age’ is a classic case study in the difference between local and global themes in mythology. It was the German ethnologist Adolf Bastian (1826-1905) who first introduced a systematic distinction between universal ‘elementary … Continue reading |
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Explanations That Don’t Explain May 15, 2013 by Mel Acheson May 16, 2013 “Planetary nebulae are glowing shells of gas around white dwarfs,” according to the standard explanation. This is a better description of dogma than of the image. “Astronomers have long debated how these symmetric jets could be created,” … Continue reading |
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Bolts Out of Thin Air May 14, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs May 15, 2013 The discovery of ‘mega-lightning’, upper-atmospheric lightning or transient luminous events (TLEs) is relatively recent, due to the fleeting nature of these phenomena: most last no longer than a few milliseconds. A menagerie of types – such … Continue reading |
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Black Hunger May 13, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 14, 2013 Problematic black hole physics is in the news again. In a recent press release from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii, astronomers announced “direct evidence” for the existence of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) … Continue reading |
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Paramagnetic Planet May 12, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 13, 2013 A new mission designed to study the Sun’s electrical relationship with Mars will soon be launched. Sometime in the morning a few months from now, between November 18 and December 7, 2013, NASA will launch the … Continue reading |
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The Chocolate Hills May 9, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 10, 2013 What formed the hundreds of limestone knolls in this region? The Chocolate Hills are considered to be one of the seven natural wonders of Asia. They are composed of limestone that, according to geologists, has been … Continue reading |
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Radio Elliptical May 8, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 09, 2013 One of the largest “active galaxies” is thought to be powered by a supermassive black hole. Electrical energy is a more likely driving force. A recent press release from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announces that the elliptical … Continue reading |
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Mohenjo Daro May 7, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 08, 2013 Some have suggested ancient technology glassified these Indus Valley ruins but electricity is a more plausible explanation. Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent region are thought to be the “birthplace” of civilization and the central focus for … Continue reading |
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New Ideas for New Stars May 6, 2013 by Mel Acheson May 07, 2013 The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way, is called a nursery for new stars. The growing awareness of plasma should make it also a nursery for new ideas … Continue reading |
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Filamentary My Dear Watson May 5, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 06, 2013 Phenomena throughout the visible universe exhibit features that are twisted and “stringy”. From plume to prominence it is plasma interactions that we see. In previous Picture of the Day articles, there have been many discussions about … Continue reading |
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Tick Tock May 2, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 3, 2013 How old are the stars? Why are stars found where we find them? What causes them to form and how do they age? These questions are commonly asked by astronomers and philosophers alike. If the stars … Continue reading |
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Cluster Wires May 1, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 02, 2013 A galaxy-wide filament connects two galactic clusters. The Herschel Space Observatory possesses the largest mirror ever launched into space: 3.5 meters in diameter. Herschel entered orbit around LaGrange point L2 (behind Earth in relation to the Sun) in … Continue reading |
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Electric Devils April 30, 2013 by Stephen Smith May 1, 2013 Martian dust devils exhibit electrical characteristics. There are also electric whirlwinds on Earth. As long ago as March 2005, Electric Universe advocates wrote about the surprising discovery of dust devils spinning across the Martian deserts. Cameras … Continue reading |
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Troubles With Bubbles April 29, 2013 by Mel Acheson Apr 30, 2013 Both nuclear powered stars and electrically powered stars produce bubbles in the plasma surrounding them. From that common observational beginning, the theoretical explanations diverge. Nuclear generated bubbles come in two types: planetary nebulae (PNs) and supernova (SN) remnants. … Continue reading |
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Daughter of Uranus April 28, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 29, 2013 Craters cover the entire surface of this moon. Rhea is another of Saturn’s moons that bears examination in light of electrical theories. Rhea’s mean diameter is 1528 kilometers, so it is medium-sized in Saturn’s family of … Continue reading |
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Mired in Slush April 25, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 26, 2013 Do the centers of planets and moons contain rocky slush or molten magma? A gravity map of Titan, created by monitoring changes in the Cassini orbiter’s speed as it flew by the giant moon between February … Continue reading |
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Shell Game April 24, 2013 by Mel Acheson Apr 25, 2013 The geometry of gravity is spherical: a uniform attraction toward a center of mass that tends to produce ball-shaped objects. This “bias for balls” predisposes astronomers to interpret rings as spherical shells. The European Southern Observatory press … Continue reading |
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Anomalous Trajectories April 23, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 24, 2013 Scientists are puzzled by unexpected acceleration in several unmanned spacecraft as they flew toward the Sun. Editor’s note: This Picture of the Day was originally published in March of 2008. Since the recently announced “solution” to … Continue reading |
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Seeing Seagulls April 22, 2013 by Mel Acheson Apr 23, 2013 To talk about something, we have to conceive ideas and words with which to describe the thing. We can’t avoid these pre-conceptions. But will we try to compensate for this prejudice by conceiving more than one? The Seagull … Continue reading |
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Cradle Mountain, Tasmania April 21, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 22, 2013 Could the dolerite structures in Tasmania be electrical formations? The Island of Tasmania in the south of Australia is one of the most provocative spots on Earth. The remarkable diversity of plant life and the unique … Continue reading |
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Which Came First? April 18, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 19, 2013 Electric currents create magnetic fields in the Sun. “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Asking this question always gets a chuckle from a group of kids who haven’t been asked that before. For adults, … Continue reading |
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Red All Over April 17, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 18, 2013 Some of Saturn’s moons are slightly red in color, as are other bodies in the Solar System. “Mars the red planet” is a familiar phrase. The planet exhibits a faint yellowish-red color when seen with the … Continue reading |
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Dione’s Dance April 16, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 17, 2013 Dione exhibits some unusual features that may indicate electrical forces at work. Recently, the Cassini-Solstice spacecraft made a close flyby of the moon Enceladus. As the Picture of the Day from May 3, 2012 discussed, the … Continue reading |
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The Pioneer Anomaly April 15, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 16, 2013 Scientists have found a small but significant deceleration in the Pioneer spacecraft as it makes its way through interstellar space. For several years, NASA analysts have reported a slow but steady “tug” on the Pioneer 10 and 11 … Continue reading |
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Galactic Superwinds April 14, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 15, 2013 Radial filaments within galaxies identify them as plasma phenomena. “If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.” — Seneca The irregular galaxy M82—otherwise known as the Cigar … Continue reading |
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Titan’s Frozen Desert April 11, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 12, 2013 How can dunes form in an environment “wet with hydrocarbons”? Dune formations have been found in four locations in the Solar System: Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan. In one instance the average temperature ranges from between … Continue reading |
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Down the Hatch April 10, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 11, 2013 A cloud of interstellar gas and dust will soon be annihilated by a black hole in the center of our galaxy, astronomers say. According to a recent press release: “This is the first time ever that the … Continue reading |
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Island Universes April 9, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 10, 2013 Galactic magnetic fields were discovered more than 50 years ago. Astronomers continue to ask basic questions about galaxies: what generates their magnetic fields? What gives those fields their shape and their strength? Researchers using the latest … Continue reading |
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Pits and Chains April 8, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 09, 2013 Rather than volcanic vents, pits in craters could be a sign of electrical activity. On August 3, 2004, NASA launched the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) experiment from the Cape Canaveral facility on a 7-year … Continue reading |
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Let it Rain April 7, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 08, 2013 External electric flux influences Earth’s climate According to a recent press release, ten years of data analysis has revealed that cloud height changes over time in response to an electric field generated by “global thunderstorms”. Although Earth’s … Continue reading |
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The Garden Sprinkler Nebula April 4, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 05, 2013 Consensus opinions state that a star in the latter stages of its life will undergo violent upheavals as its supply of hydrogen fuel diminishes and the “ash” of heavier elements accumulates in its core. According to … Continue reading |
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Tiwanaku April 3, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 04, 2013 Did this ancient site experience a catastrophic end? Tiwanaku, or Tiahuanaco in Spanish, is a ruined citadel occupying almost 10 square kilometers in the Bolivian Andes at an altitude greater than 3800 meters. Carbon-14 dating methods … Continue reading |
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Colored Plasma April 2, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 03, 2013 The northern aurora is a highly energetic region. “It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of … Continue reading |
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Saturn’s Translucent Rings April 1, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 02, 2013 The Cassini-Solstice mission discovered that there might be more rings around Saturn than can be seen with telescopes. “It seems almost incredible that such a ring of cosmic dust should be able to exist for ever, … Continue reading |
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A New Comet April 1, 2013 by Stephen Smith Apr 01, 2013 Are comets “dirty snowballs”? Comet 2012 S1, an object approximately three kilometers in diameter, is presently inside the orbit of Jupiter. It is “remarkably bright” according to astronomers, although it is still millions of kilometers from … Continue reading |
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Redshifts and Microwaves March 28, 2013 by Stephen Smith March 29, 2013 Modern astronomy surely suffers from a kind of blindness. It is either a blindness of mind or one of practice. The continuing presence of Big Bang cosmology among those who are charged with increasing the store … Continue reading |
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Truth Is What You Make Of It March 27, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 28, 2013 Astronomical research in the virtual realm instigates foregone conclusions. “It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress.” — Friedrich Hayek The most important issue separating … Continue reading |
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Galactic Plasmoids March 26, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 27, 2013 So-called “dark matter” reactions are said to initiate gamma rays from the center of our galaxy. “We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. … Continue reading |
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Stars that Warp Space and Time March 25, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 26, 2013 Could there be “warped space-time” around so-called “neutron stars”? The smeared lines of an iron spectrum have given astronomers another mystery to solve when it comes to explaining the Universe. Using the XMM-Newton and the JAXA/NASA X-ray observatories, … Continue reading |
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Electric Sunbeams March 24, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 25, 2013 The Sun is not a fusion reactor. In a recent Picture of the Day, it was noted that sunspots are not well understood by astronomers. Furthermore, their bizarre electromagnetic displays are not readily explainable by models … Continue reading |
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Antarctica — Once a Tropical Paradise March 21, 2013 by Peter Mungo Jupp Mar 21, 2013 Antarctica is now the coldest place on Earth. The Katabatic winds howl around Antarctica’s gale thrashed coast. But once its green valley’s were filled with thriving Glossopteris Pine and Beach forests. How do we know this? … Continue reading |
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Hot Gas or Electric Currents March 20, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 21, 2013 Astronomers have detected a strand of galaxies and gas flowing into a remote cluster. The predominant cosmological hypotheses within which most astronomers conduct their research are based on a gravity-only paradigm. Moving masses and heat are … Continue reading |
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The Great Red Hot Spot March 19, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 20, 2013 Is the famous gyre on Jupiter the result of atmospheric convection? The red spot in Jupiter’s atmosphere has persisted for more than 300 years, at least as long as there have been telescopes on Earth able … Continue reading |
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Plasma Twisting and Rock Banging March 18, 2013 by Mel Acheson Mar 19, 2013 This recent image of the Pencil Nebula from La Silla Observatory showcases a cosmic counterpart to “hair” discharges from Tesla coils. Electric forces separate the plasma into parallel filaments. Magnetic forces further constrict them (the “z pinch”) and … Continue reading |
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Solar Bursts March 17, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 18, 2013 The intensity of the Sun’s magnetic field and solar wind periodically decline to low levels but explosive events are possible. On August 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite on a mission to … Continue reading |
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The Biographies of Cas A March 14, 2013 by Mel Acheson March 15, 2013 Is Cassiopeia A (Cas A) dying or just changing her fashion? Bio 1: In the beginning was an artist’s illustration of the consensus theory of stellar evolution. Thermonuclear fusion reactions at the center of the star … Continue reading |
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Dark Minds March 13, 2013 by Mel Acheson Mar 14, 2013 Astronomers have finally observed “dark galaxies,” proving again that if you look hard enough for what you believe, you’ll find it (or something that’s close enough). Dark galaxies, like the many other dark things in modern … Continue reading |
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The Dark of the Sun March 12, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 13, 2013 Dark mode plasma phenomena exist on the Sun. The image at the top of the page is the most detailed ever taken of the Sun’s chromosphere. The smallest features are 130 kilometers in size. Each spicule … Continue reading |
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Sub-Europa March 11, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 12, 2013 Could an ocean of liquid water exist on Europa? According to a recent press release, “Sending a submarine to the bottom of the ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is the most exciting potential mission in planetary … Continue reading |
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Black Winds March 10, 2013 by Stephen Smith March 11, 2013 Supermassive black holes are said to generate galactic winds. “Black holes are where God divided by zero.” — Stephen Wright In a previous Picture of the Day, It was suggested that X-ray jets from a galactic … Continue reading |
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Black Jets March 8, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 08, 2013 An electromagnetic phenomenon on the fringes of galaxy NGC 7793 is confounding astronomers because they insist on seeing it as a gravitational superforce. Explaining the jets of ionized particles often seen erupting from various objects in … Continue reading |
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Round Sun vs. Foursquare Theory March 7, 2013 by Mel Acheson Mar 07, 2013 Astronomers have recently taken more precise measurements of the Sun’s shape over several years. They found that it was rounder and less variable than they expected from theory. If gravity and centrifugal force from its rotation … Continue reading |
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Out in the Cold March 5, 2013 by Stephen Smith Mar 06, 2013 Cold dark matter theory might be in need of serious revision. Dark matter theory makes the news every once in awhile. Although cold dark matter (CDM) gets its name from the idea that it cannot be … Continue reading |
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Theories on the Rocks – In a Flash (Part Four) March 5, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Mar 05, 2012 Leaving no stone unturned, some thunderstones may have acquired their association with lightning in still other ways. As mentioned in part three of this article, a future realisation that the Australites may actually have precipitated within the past … Continue reading |
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Theories on the Rocks – In a Flash (Part Three) March 4, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Mar 04, 2013 ‘Thunderstones’ in the form of tektites – Did human beings watch them falling? As an additional possibility of no small importance, the concept of the thunderstone may have been sparked by a conflation of lightning with … Continue reading |
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Theories on the Rocks – In a Flash (Part Two) February 28, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs March 01, 2013 That many a thunderstone earned the sobriquet by virtue of its exposure during a thunderstorm strikes one as correct to a degree. Intellectual lassitude perfuses the attempts of those who blamed the conception of the thunderstone … Continue reading |
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Theories on the Rocks – In a Flash (Part One) February 28, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Feb 28, 2013 The thunderstone is familiar from the folklore of virtually every culture, but plays no ‘roll’ in the serious sciences. In the eyes of most, the proposition that thunderbolts deposit rocks is an asinine artefact of superstitious … Continue reading |
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Linked with a Star February 27, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 27, 2013 Our fortunes are inextricably connected to the Sun’s activity. Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the … Continue reading |
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Solar Electromagnetic Flux Dynamics February 26, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 26, 2013 Heliophysicists acknowledge the role of plasma in solar eruptions but miss important aspects of its behavior. In Bengal to move at all Is seldom, if ever, done, But mad dogs and Englishmen Go out in the … Continue reading |
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Blasts of the Past, Part Two February 25, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Feb 25, 2013 Other credible reports of electrophonic bolides introduce severe accompaniments not normally associated with meteors in current awareness. People at the headwaters of the Murray River, presumably of Wiradjuri stock again, remembered an occasion well before 1925 … Continue reading |
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Blasts of the Past, Part One February 21, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Shortly after dawn on 15 February 2013, a large meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk (Russia), generating a shockwave that injured some 1,200 people. According to the popular media, no other bolide on record is known to have caused so many … Continue reading |
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Jet Streams February 21, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 21, 2013 Astronomers continue to ignore electricity in space, opting for outdated ideas about gravity and heat. Recently, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that our own Milky Way galaxy is expelling enormous jets of gamma … Continue reading |
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Confronting the Dragon February 20, 2013 by Mel Acheson Feb 20, 2013 It has the body of a snake and the head of a lion. It has legs that end in clawed feet. It often has wings: it flies, or at least it comes from the sky. It … Continue reading |
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This is not a Birkeland Current February 18, 2013 by Mel Acheson Feb 19, 2013 It twists like a Birkeland Current; it’s stringy like a Birkeland Current; it’s dense like a Birkeland Current; but Everyone Knows (if they want to pursue a career in astronomy) that There is No Such Thing … Continue reading |
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Saying is Believing February 18, 2013 by Mel Acheson Feb 18, 2013 Is this an image of a supernova remnant around a black hole? An exploding double layer in a galactic circuit? A mythical creation event in another planetary system? An unnamed formation in an unimagined process? Theories … Continue reading |
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The Very Stones Cry Out February 15, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Feb 15, 2013 Even the lonely monuments left behind have a story to tell. Chavín de Huantar, in the Peruvian Andes, is one of many civilisations to have preceded the mighty Inca empire. The occupants of the ruins have … Continue reading |
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Slip and Slide February 14, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 14, 2012 Is it gravity and heat that cause landslides on Iapetus? Recently, the science journal Nature Geoscience described giant, icy landslides that are supposedly taking place on the Saturnian moon Iapetus. According to the report, it is frictional heating … Continue reading |
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Touching Ground February 13, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Feb 13, 2013 Most researchers address ‘known’ questions, such as ‘what causes ice ages?’, ‘how far is the moon?’ or ‘where did the ancestors of the human species live?’. Comparative mythologists face the double challenge of seeking answers to … Continue reading |
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My Friend Flicker February 12, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 12, 2013 What causes the rapid changes observed in Orion Nebula “protostars”? Using a combination of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the ESA Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers found that so-called “young stars” are changing in brightness much faster … Continue reading |
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Protostar Expostulation February 10, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 11, 2013 Astronomers continue to cling to outmoded theories of star formation The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Planck telescope platform on May 19, 2009 into an orbit around Lagrange point L2. Planck is designed to analyze the cosmic microwave … Continue reading |
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The Sun Man February 7, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs Feb 08, 2013 A common theme in creation myths is that the first human being appeared in the sky, often as a metamorphosis of a divine creator. On Tahiti, people remembered the time before creation when “an expanse of … Continue reading |
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Frozen in the Dark February 7, 2013 by B Talbott Feb 07, 2013 A new theory states that dark matter might prevent stars from aging normally and preserve them for billions of years. According to astronomers, the Universe is almost 14 billion years old. It started out with a … Continue reading |
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Earthquake Storms and the Electric Sun February 6, 2013 by Peter Mungo Jupp Feb 06, 2013 Some four thousand years ago, the civilizations of the world were obliterated by a catastrophic series of events. Earthquakes are natures deadliest killers! A storm of earthquakes totally buried and destroyed cities throughout the Middle East less … Continue reading |
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Kuiper Belt Objects February 5, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 05, 2013 According to astronomers and their theories about the Solar System, the space beyond Neptune is getting stranger all the time. Near the end of the eighteenth century the nebular hypothesis was born. It grew in popularity … Continue reading |
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Iapetus February 4, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 04, 2013 The Cassini space probe’s flyby of Iapetus confirms its electrical attributes. The closest images of Iapetus ever taken came from the Cassini spacecraft as it flew to within 5000 kilometers of its target, resolving features as … Continue reading |
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Comets and Galaxies January 31, 2013 by Stephen Smith Feb 01, 2013 Galactic tails, bright comas, and central nuclei are reminiscent of comets. What is a comet? Most astronomers think comets are small, fragile, irregularly shaped objects composed mostly of water ice and dust, along with carbon and silicon-based … Continue reading |
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The Filamentary Firmament January 31, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 31, 2013 Strands of magnetically confined plasma can be seen throughout the cosmos. A rotating vortex of solar plasma was the topic of a recent press release. Does that phenomenon relate to other energetic vortices? Previous Picture of the … Continue reading |
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Electrical Accumulators January 30, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 30, 2013 What takes place in thunderstorms on Earth is most likely a smaller version of large scale phenomena. “I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the … Continue reading |
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Titan’s Tales Continue to be Strange January 29, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 29, 2013 Images from Cassini seem to indicate deltas and river channels. Could electricity have formed these features on Titan? Recent data from the Cassini-Solstice mission is said to reveal oceans of liquid ethane, in one case occupying an … Continue reading |
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Mars in the Laboratory January 28, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 28, 2013 Plasma discharge experiments replicate Martian features. On Mars, craters, canyons, dunes and many other features do not readily correspond to contemporary theories about their evolution. Dunes that do not align with the direction of the prevailing … Continue reading |
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Mercury’s Electrical Scars January 25, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 25, 2013 The MESSENGER space probe continues to illustrate the Electric Universe theory. MESSENGER has been in orbit around Mercury since March 17, 2011. Since that time, it has sent hundreds of close-up images of the surface, revealing … Continue reading |
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Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness January 24, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 24, 2012 Dark matter is in the news. “Plasma phenomena are scalable. Their electrical and physical properties remain the same, independent of the size of the plasma.” — Donald Scott, author of The Electric Sky Plasma in space … Continue reading |
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On the Shoulders of Suppressed Giants Part Two January 23, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs From left to right: F. Gutekunst, Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (c. 1898). Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Anonymous, William Comyns Beaumont (date unknown). Bob Kobres, Immanuel Velikovsky (1978) Jan 23, 2012 In bestsellers published in 1882 and 1883, the American politician and amateur … Continue reading |
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On the Shoulders of Suppressed Giants Part One January 22, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs From left to right: Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Thomas Burnet (1675). Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, London. William Whiston (18th century), anonymous. Giovanni Rinaldo of Carli-Rubbi (date unknown). Jan 22, 2012 Ever since 1950, ‘Velikovsky’ has been a household name, associated … Continue reading |
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Phobos January 21, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 21, 2013 Did meteor bombardment scar Phobos? Phobos is the largest of the two moons of Mars. Deimos is so small that studying its surface has been problematic for astronomers because it cannot be readily observed from Earth. … Continue reading |
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Cluster Conundrum January 18, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 18, 2013 A distant galaxy cluster is said to exhibit evidence for an unknown force. Not a single reference is made to the most powerful known force in the Universe: electricity. The European Space Agency’s XMM Newton X-ray … Continue reading |
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Dusty Plasma January 17, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 17, 2013 Spiraling filaments suggest electric currents in space. Dust at a temperature near absolute zero shows up in the image above as a blue fog deep in the heart of the Eagle nebula. The Eagle nebula, located … Continue reading |
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Caught in the Crossfire January 16, 2013 by Rens van der Sluijs July 18, 2012 In June 2012, a team of 4 Japanese researchers revealed in Nature that “an extremely energetic event occurred around our space environment in AD 775.” An analysis of Japanese cedar trees showed a “rapid increase” in … Continue reading |
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Pulsar Wind Nebulae January 14, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 15, 2013 Some so-called “neutron star pulsars” are said to create nebulae as they spin. The standard model of stellar evolution proposes that pulsars are neutron stars rotating at incredible speed. For example, PSR J1748-2446ad, in the globular … Continue reading |
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Electromagnetic Monsters January 14, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 14, 2013 Extreme magnetic fields in space are said to be caused by the high-speed rotation of neutron stars. Several previous Picture of the Day articles discuss the problem of neutron stars and how they affect the progress … Continue reading |
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Electromagnetic Nebulae January 11, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 11, 2013 The Universe behaves according to the laws of plasma dynamics. In every science journal discussing the behavior of planetary nebulae, the prevailing opinion usually involves gases and dust “blowing” through them, as well as “winds” created by … Continue reading |
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The Fall of El Gordo January 10, 2013 by Mel Acheson Jan 10, 2012 El Gordo is so called because it is the biggest, brightest, and hottest pair of colliding galaxy clusters known to astronomers. Astronomers “know” that El Gordo is over 7 billion light-years from Earth. This knowledge derives from the … Continue reading |
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Plasma Storms January 9, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 09, 2013 Why do planets farthest from the Sun have the fastest winds? Earth’s average wind speed is approximately 56 kilometers per hour, with a maximum of 372 kilometer per hour gust recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire … Continue reading |
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Alpha and Omega January 7, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 09, 2013 How the Sun’s interior generates its magnetic field is a long-standing mystery for heliophysicists. It is commonly believed that there is an electromagnetic dynamo inside the Sun. That dynamo has long been thought to be powered … Continue reading |
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The Powers of Darkness January 6, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 07, 2013 Was the early Universe powered by “dark matter annihilation”? According to modern cosmologists, the Universe is composed primarily of dark matter. More than 95% of all that exists is unseen and undetectable by the most sensitive … Continue reading |
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Organic Molecules in Space January 4, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 04, 2013 What do a planet-sized, frigid moon and a small galaxy have in common? The Magellanic Clouds consist of two dwarf galaxies in proximity to the Milky Way. According to astronomers, they are orbiting our galaxy and … Continue reading |
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Seeking What is Hidden January 3, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 03, 2013 What happened to the ring of dust circling TYC 8241 2652 in the constellation Centaurus? A recent press release expresses surprise and confusion about the absence of a stellar dust ring that seems to have vanished without a … Continue reading |
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Electric Helix January 2, 2013 by Mel Acheson Jan 02, 2013 A recent image of the Helix Nebula in the constellation Aquarius exposes more details of its electrical structure. The new infrared image shows radial Birkeland currents (called “strands” in the press release) crossing the concentric rings and … Continue reading |
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Callisto January 1, 2013 by Stephen Smith Jan 01, 2013 The Galileo mission’s exploration of Jupiter and its environs provided substantial evidence for the Electric Universe hypothesis. The Galileo spacecraft was launched October 18, 1989, following a delay of several years while NASA recovered from the Challenger … Continue reading |
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