Apr 17, 2017 Instead of tectonic activity, Venus shows signs of electric discharges. The planet Venus shows signs of a somewhat recent catastrophe: giant cracks extend for hundreds of kilometers; formations called “coronae” are accompanied by massive fracture zones, branching out like carved lightning bolts; and vast caldera with upraised…
Apr 14, 2017 Stars form at a faster rate in a starburst galaxy. Astronomers using the Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) recently announced that a distant galaxy is creating stars at an anomalous rate. So-called “starburst galaxies” contain regions where stars form at “a breakneck rate”, so fast that…
April 13, 2017 Long time passing…. The Dawn mission was launched on September 27, 2007. It first entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta on July 17, 2011, departing on September 5, 2012 toward Ceres. Dawn arrived at Ceres on Friday, March 6, 2015. According to a recent press release,…
Apr 12, 2017 Bright aurorae are found throughout the Solar System. Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in…
In Part One of this presentation, Dr. Michael Clarage began his analysis of a recent landmark discovery which shows a “surprising” relationship between sunspots and solar flares. As Dr. Clarage explained, the discovery that solar flares seem to have a powerful influence on sunspots is highly problematic for standard solar…
Apr 11, 2017 Mars stinks. “The devil, he’s about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow’s peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.” — Frank Zappa If it were possible to stand on Mars…
Apr 10, 2017 Enigmatic galactic structures. NGC 4258 is called “the weirdo galaxy” in a recent press release. Two arms of its spiral structure are not in the plane of rotation; instead, they rise from the galaxy’s core. The additional arms exist within the path of energetic particles ejected…
In Part One of this presentation, author Ted Holden explored the evidence for fundamental differences in our world’s environment since the time when dinosaurs walked the earth. In Holden’s analysis, the most obvious explanation for the enormous size of the largest dinosaurs is that the earth’s gravity was once considerably…
Apr 7, 2017 Did water inundate Mars? “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” —William Shakespeare Planetary scientists believe that deep canyons, ripples, and other structures…
April 6, 2017 The Milky Way’s central bulge reveals more detailed structures. Plasma can be defined as any substance containing charged particles: electrically charged dust, neon lights, lightning, planetary magnetospheres, the so-called “solar wind”, stars, and even galaxies are matter in the plasma state. It is important to realize…
