Oct 21, 2015 Ionized particles from the Sun constitute the solar wind. In an electric Universe, plasma discharges are a better model for solar activity than the consensus community likes to accept. Experiments using a positively charged sphere show that a plasma torus forms above the sphere’s circumference. Charged…
Oct 20, 2015 Astronomical bodies such as the earth, the moon, the sun or any other moons, planets and stars are too large or too distant for direct experimentation with their global properties, even in the Space Age. A terrella (Latin for ‘earthlet’, ‘earthkin’ or ‘little earth’) is an artificial…
Today, we begin a series of reports that will discuss the latest scientific papers on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P. In addition to countless unresolved puzzles facing comet scientists, we have discussed in previous episodes the problem of comet’s double-lobed shape. Indeed, that particular form of…
Oct 19, 2015 Pluto’s potato-shaped moon. The New Horizons space probe flew by the dwarf planet Pluto on July 14, 2015. Its images of Pluto and Charon, along with infrared and spectral analyses, will provide planetary scientists with enough data to keep them occupied for years to come. More…
Oct 16, 2015 A new scientific analysis ignores electrical activity. NASA officials recently announced that there is water on Mars. Again. The news builds upon ideas that are embedded in the foundation of Martian exploration, the search for life on other planets. As most theories state, for life to…
Stephen Smith is the managing editor and principal writer for the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day (TPOD) feature. His archive contains over 1000 articles about nearly every topic addressed by the Electric Universe movement. Based on a 40-year interest in the electrical nature of the cosmos, his work reflects the…
Oct 15, 2015 The astronomical subdiscipline of comparative planetology is an offspring of the wealth of in situ measurements obtained by space probes. An improved understanding of the physical and chemical conditions prevailing on other planets and moons in the solar system not only helps to place terrestrial systems in…
Oct 13, 2015 Hot gas or streams of charged particles? Complex rings, knots, and twisted streamers are often ejected from stars (and other celestial objects). The overall shape of so-called “planetary nebulae” sometimes reveal gigantic, bifurcated jets emerging from their central stars, indicating the beginnings of helical shapes. According to…
Oct 12, 2015 Stars are not constant. Attempts to locate planetary bodies in orbit around distant stars suffer from the “glare problem”: starlight tends to obscure direct observation of dim companions. A little over 18 years ago, astronomer Geoff Marcy and his team, using the 120-inch telescope at the…
Oct 9, 2015 Electric stars in an electric Universe. The Nebular Hypothesis is considered the sine qua non of consensus star-forming theory. When a star condenses out of primordial material, it is thought that the remaining clumps of dust and gas that are not absorbed swirl around, attracting more…
