Vesta’s Big Sister

  Nov 20, 2015 The dwarf planet Ceres shares many characteristics with other rocky bodies. NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft on September 27, 2007. Its scientific observations of the asteroid Vesta began on July 17, 2011 and ended on September 5, 2012 when Dawn fired-up its ion thruster engine and headed toward…

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A Place in the Stars

  Nov 19, 2015 What takes place on Earth most likely reflects large-scale phenomena. In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the image at the top of the page. The star cluster known as Westerlund 2, along with the surrounding view of the…

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Distant Cousins

  Nov 18, 2015 How are stars and galaxies born? The Milky Way is thought to harbor nearly a trillion stars in orbit around its central gravity source. According to cosmologists, our galaxy condensed out of a cloud of hydrogen and dust thousands of light-years wide, with a more-or-less homogeneous…

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Dark Detection

  Nov 17, 2015 Electric Universe theory fits observations better than dark matter theory. In previous Picture of the Day articles about the existence of “dark matter”, it was noted that it is primarily an ad-hoc theory, created so that the current gravitational models of the Universe can be preserved. There…

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Bioelectric Exploration of Acupoints

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Bioelectric Exploration of Acupoints By Alexander Fournier In 1976, a research team funded by the National Institute of Health comprised of Robert Becker, Maria Reichmanis, Andrew Marino, and Joseph Spadaro published a groundbreaking series of bioelectrical experiments. Becker had been asked by an army colonel from the Surgeon General’s Office…

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Electric Lighthouses in Space

  Nov 13, 2105 Electrical effects drive pulsars. When any charged particle follows a curved trajectory, or is accelerated in a straight-line, it will emit electromagnetic radiation, otherwise known as synchrotron radiation. Synchrotron radiation creates X-rays and gamma-rays, a phenomenon demonstrated in laboratory experiments. Gamma-rays are a class of theoretical…

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