Special events will include a Fractal Friday show at the science museum, food trucks for lunch, a play on Buckminster Fuller, demonstrations by Mr2Tuff2, and a private EU-Geology tour. Admission to the opening session on Thursday evening is FREE to the public. 6:00 Social Hour 7:00 Welcome by Dr. Bill…
Nov 22, 2013 Observations suggest that cosmic rays are not produced by supernova explosions. Cosmic rays are ionized particles, or fragmented atoms. Electrons are stripped from atoms, leaving them free to move, with positively charged nuclei remaining. The majority of cosmic rays are single protons (hydrogen ions), but uranium…
Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope are expressing their complete bafflement over a recently observed asteroid, P2013/P5, which has astonished scientists with its unprecedented display of six cometary-like tails. Adding further surprise, the astronomers watched as the object’s tail structures dramatically changed over just 13 days.
Nov 21, 2013 Structures on Mars that resemble Earth’s hydrothermal vents or eroded mounds have sparked renewed interest in water flowing over the Red Planet. Mounds on Mars are thought to be the remains of ancient hydrothermal vents because they have a similar appearance to fossilized “mound springs” in the Australian Outback, so…
Nov 20, 2013 If distance calculations based on redshift are inaccurate, what does that mean for the consensus opinion about the age or the size of the Universe? In the 1960s astronomers discovered quasi-stellar objects, better known as quasars. They have extremely large redshifts, implying that they are located…
Nov 19, 2013 How big is the Universe? How old is it? Today, cosmology is dominated by the Big Bang theory. The theory’s major premise is that there was once a void containing no matter, no space, and no time. For some reason not explained by the scientists who…
Nov 18, 2013 Elongated craters on the Moon are said to come from “grazing impactors.” In one of the earliest Pictures of the Day by the late Amy Acheson, the question was asked, how do you make a crater? When astronomers began to observe the Moon centuries ago, the…
Osnovni vodič kroz Električni Univerzum – predgovorO ovom vodiču Ovaj vodič je namijenjen svima koji se pitaju kako svemir zaista funkcionira, i koje bi moglo zainteresirati jedno intrigantno i donekle drukčije gledište. Da li svemir zaista ekspandira sve brže i brže kako nam znanstveni časopisi govore? Da li sama gravitacija,…
Nov 15, 2013 A Neptune Year has Passed. The planet Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun. Neptune’s mean diameter is approximately 49,250 kilometers, with a mean orbital radius of 4,503,443,661 kilometers, and a year of 164.79 Earth years. Neptune is a massive planet, with an…
Nov 14, 2013 A University of Michigan press release announces “warped space-time” around a so-called “neutron star”. Could electricity provide a better explanation? The smeared lines of an iron spectrum have given NASA and University of Michigan astronomers another mystery to solve when it comes to explaining the universe. Using the…
