On the Sun, conventional science says that magnetic field lines move or merge, and frequently break and reconnect. This is called magnetic reconnection, a mechanism that many solar physicists claim to be responsible for enormous, energetic solar outbursts. Recently, scientists using data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft have published a…
May 7, 2016 Was Mars once warm and lush? NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) on November 18, 2014 on a year-long investigation of Mars’ upper atmosphere, its ionosphere, and how it interacts with the solar wind. The spacecraft is fitted with instruments that are…
Jun 6, 2016 Are spiral galaxies really elliptical? Dr. Anthony L. Peratt, a plasma physicist and protégé of the Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén, studied plasma formations in the laboratory for many years, monitoring short-duration z-pinch effects, as well as creating particle-in-cell animations using the best supercomputers available. He concluded that galaxies, rather…
A recent NASA press release describes the so-called direct observation of a process called “magnetic reconnection.” A total of four spacecraft, which NASA’s calls the Magnetospheric Multiscale, have made several thousand trips through Earth’s magnetic field. In a new scientific paper, mission scientists report the first observation inside a so-called…
Recent episodes of Space News from the Electric Universe have provided a groundbreaking foundation for a new beginning in Earth geology. Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall has introduced his hypothesis for the formation of familiar geological features, not from incremental processes over eons of time, but rather, due to high-energy electrical…
Jun 3, 2016 Does tectonic activity form the mountains on Io over eons of time? South Boösaule Montes is approximately 18 kilometers high and covers 17,900 square kilometers, making it one of the tallest mountains in the Solar System. It happens to be located on Jupiter’s moon, Io. How did…
Jun 2, 2016 A star with a spot out of proportion to its size. According to a recent publication, “starspots” are seen on the surface of XX Trianguli, otherwise known as HD 12545. The puzzling aspect is that there is only one spot visible and it covers almost one-third…
Jun 1, 2016 Electricity is the active agent on Enceladus. A previous Picture of the Day announced that the Cassini space probe, currently orbiting Saturn, was about to fly through one of the plumes of vapor that erupt from the southern plains of its moon, Enceladus. Enceladus is a…
May 31, 2016 Galaxies are threaded through with filaments. The Herschel Space Observatory was launched with the largest spaceborne mirror ever constructed: 3.5 meters in diameter. Herschel was set to orbit around LaGrange point L2 in July 2009, to protect its liquid helium-cooled infrared detectors. However, Herschel’s helium coolant…
May 30, 2016 Astronomical research tends to instigate foregone conclusions. The Picture of the Day never considers questions that requires a search for subjective meaning in the Universe. Analyzing the observations from NASA and others is enough, in most instances, to draw correspondence between theories in peer-reviewed journals and…
