Jul 14, 2107 What causes waves in Io’s lava lakes? Jupiter’s electromagnetic field, recently measured by the Juno space probe, is twice as strong as consensus models predicted: 7.766 Gauss, compared to 0.66 Gauss at Earth’s South Pole. As previously written, Jupiter’s toroidal magnetosphere is approximately 650 million kilometers wide, extending even…
Jul 13, 2017 There is no emptiness in the plasma Universe. “Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in…
On October 15th, 1997, the NASA Space Agency Launched its Cassini spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A seven-year journey followed until Cassini finally arrived in the orbit of the gas giant Saturn. For over a decade, the mission has gathered unprecedented data on Saturn and its moons, and…
Jul 12, 2017 Jupiter’s moons exhibit electrical activity. On October 18, 1989 NASA launched the Galileo Jupiter orbiter (the pre-cursor to the current Juno mission) onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, as part of the STS-34 mission. After gravitational assistance from flybys of Venus and Earth, Galileo arrived at Jupiter on…
Jul 11, 2017 Pluto’s frigid companion exhibits electrical scarring. All information from New Horizons is now available, its onboard memory is completely downloaded. The spacecraft is currently on its way to the Kuiper Belt and a rendezvous with 2014 MU69, another small body more than a billion kilometers beyond Pluto….
Jul 10, 2017 Sunspot activity is unusually low. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Buddha The Sun fluctuates in output strength and visible sunspots across its surface in a cycle that lasts about 22 years. During the past 11 or 12 years,…
Today, physicist Wal Thornhill concludes his three-part presentation on the early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter. As previously noted, like countless other recent space discoveries, the mission findings are challenging not only long-held assumptions about Jupiter, but also consensus theories of planet and star…
Jul 7, 2017 Stars are electrodes. The red giant star, Betelgeuse is among the largest stars. As the image above illustrates, if it occupied the Sun’s position, it would exceed Jupiter’s mean orbital diameter. Although it is large, its substance is so diffuse that the orbits of the inner planets…
Jul 6, 2017 Electric stars produce electrical effects. According to a recent press release, the Hubble Space Telescope detected hot “blobs of gas” ejected from a dying star. The “plasma balls” erupt about once every 8.5 years and have been doing so for approximately 400 years. The star, V Hydrae,…
In Part 1 of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill began his analysis of the extraordinary revelations from NASA’s Juno Mission to the gas giant Jupiter. Like every other recent space mission, what scientists are finding is not what they expected. In the previous episode, Thornhill focused on Jupiter’s remarkable, electrified…
