Oct 20, 2017 Plasma phenomena are similar no matter how big or how small. Editor’s Note: Due to Northern California wildfires, the Picture of the Day will be on a temporary leave of absence. In the interim, please enjoy these articles from the archives. Almost ten years ago, astronomers…
Oct 19, 2017 Black holes are said to collide. NASA launched the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) aboard a Pegasus rocket on June 13, 2012. A new X-ray image highlights a “monster of a galactic mashup”: two colliding galaxies, known as Arp 299, with “supermassive black holes” inside them….
Consider this Discourse a strategic pause for both newcomers and longtime enthusiasts of this series. Here we present a compendium of interconnected themes in ancient times—for newcomers, perhaps enough mystery and detail to stimulate intellectual curiosity, and for those who’ve followed previous presentations, a concrete sense as to where the…
Oct 18. 2017 Electricity plays a role in Solar System dynamics. Editor’s Note: Due to Northern California wildfires, the Picture of the Day will be on a temporary leave of absence. In the interim, please enjoy these articles from the archives. Mimas is a small moon, only 397 kilometers…
Oct 17, 2017 Two types of pulsars. The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus. — Werner Heisenberg: Letter to Niels Bohr, June 20, 1932. Quoted in Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (1992) by…
Oct 16, 2017 Mercury reveals an unusual blend of minerals, along with a thin atmosphere. Editor’s Note: Due to Northern California wildfires, the Picture of the Day will be on a temporary leave of absence. In the interim, please enjoy these articles from the archives. Of all the rocky…
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their contributions to the so-called observation of gravitational waves. In February of last year, a team working with the LIGO gravitational wave detector announced their discovery. We are told that the instruments detected “ripples in space-time,” which…
Today, we continue our discussion of recent devastating discoveries for the standard dirty snowball hypothesis of comets, including the recently released amazing images of stratified rock on Comet 67P. And we delve much deeper into the electric universe predictions and explanations of comet origins and comet activity. EU2017: Future Science…
Oct 13, 2017 Many phenomena could be due to something astronomers do not expect. Editor’s Note: Due to Northern California wildfires, the Picture of the Day will be on a temporary leave of absence. In the interim, please enjoy these articles from the archives. Some things are familiar, even though…
Oct 12, 2017 Electric charge flow in space defines many phenomena. Plasma is not a substance, it is a condition. Matter is categorized by four states: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, therefore, those conditions cannot be analyzed in simple terms. Solids exhibit multiple aspects, including dimension, temperature, composition, etc….
