Aug 25, 2017 Why are stars most often seen in pairs? More than half of all stars observed in the Milky Way have one or more companions, suggesting that something, at least in our galaxy, influences the formation of multiple star systems. Stars are so remote from each other that…
In our previous episode, we began a commemoration of the 5-year anniversary of Space News from the Electric Universe with a comprehensive summary of the most significant findings to date from comet missions. Today, we continue our commemoration with a review of the some of the most dramatic and “surprising”…
Aug 24, 2016 Galactic filaments are known to plasma physicists as Birkeland currents. A recent press release details the enigmatic structure of Galaxy NGC 4696. What makes this galaxy so unique is that multiple strands of material extend outward in light-years-long tendrils, enclosing it in a loose cocoon. According to…
Aug 23, 2017 Electromagnetism drives the cosmos. NASA launched the Herschel Space Observatory into orbit around LaGrange point L2 on May 14, 2009. Since Herschel used liquid helium-cooled infrared detectors built to last about three years, its mission came to an end on April 29, 2013. Herschel’s primary mission…
Aug 22, 2017 Currently accepted theories have evolved a long way toward catastrophics from their ancestry in uniformism. Assumptions of actualism and gradualism-that present-day processes acting over long times could explain the changing morphology of rocks and species-have been displaced. Impacts from space have broken the continuously gradual action…
Aug 21, 2017 Birkeland currents are a better model than gravity. Among astronomers, it is commonly thought that the vast majority of observable galaxies hide “supermassive black holes” (SMBH) within their cores. SMBHs contain up to a billion times more mass than putative stellar black holes, and it is that…
Aug 17, 2017 Did a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid strike Earth and excavate a crater? Off the coast of Mexico is what geologists believe to be an impact basin caused by the collision of an asteroid. It is a multi-ringed structure, similar to those mentioned in a previous Picture of the…
Aug 16, 2017 Cosmic rays are poorly understood. “…plasma is so silly that it does not understand the sophisticated mathematics, or it is that the plasma is so clever that it finds other ways of behaving, ways which the theoreticians were not clever enough to anticipate.” — Hannes Alfvén On…
August 26 2017, will mark the 5 year anniversary of the inaugural episode of the science video series, Space News from the Electric Universe. The Thunderbolts Project created this series as an opportunity for its chief principles and many contributors to offer analysis and explanation of space science discoveries in…
Aug 15, 2017 Matter in the plasma state exhibits extreme activity. According to a recent press release, galaxy NGC 1222 is a “peculiar example” of lenticular galaxy. It is peculiar because lenticular galaxies are supposed to have used up the material available for new stars to form. NGC 1222,…
