Mar 5, 2018 A new mission to Mars. Sometime in the morning between May 5 and June 8, 2018 NASA will launch the Mars InSight lander. Unlike the upcoming Mars 2020 rover, this new mission will be sessile, studying Mars only from its landing site. A key component of the…
Mar 2, 2018 The Rosette Nebula reveals its plasma structure. “I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel…
March 1, 2018 What gives a globular cluster its structure? The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) began operations a day after its December 11, 2009 dedication ceremony. One of its major contributions is the ability to “see through” dust clouds that obscure background objects. In the…
Today, scientific research into arguably the most perplexing meteorite ever found on Earth is “rattling the solar system status quo,” challenging astronomers’ fundamental ideas about our solar system’s formation and history. Since 2013, scientists on Earth have been studying the Hypatia stone, a rock fragment found in a Libyan Desert…
Feb 27, 2018 Rapid fluctuations in nebular “protostars”. Young stars in the Orion Nebula are changing in brightness faster than previously thought possible. Instead of it requiring years for gaseous envelopes surrounding so-called “proto-planetary disks” to heat up and cool down, it is happening in weeks. The information was…
Here we follow the evidential trail back into prehistoric times to consider the most ancient roots of the mother goddess image. Of particular interest to this investigation is the cross-cultural evidence of an emerging toroidal form, originally inseparable from the goddess herself, appearing as the opening and closing “womb of…
Feb 26, 2018 Liquid water on Europa? The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft on October 18, 1989. After a six year flight, Galileo entered orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995. After eight years in orbit, Galileo was burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere, in order to prevent…
Feb 23, 2018 In 1997, two teams of astronomers studying Type 1a supernovae found there was “something wrong” with their observations. Type 1a supernovae are a sub-class of stellar explosions involving binary stars, but they are thought to occur through a different process. Their particular way of exploding is…
In our previous episode, we introduced a potential scientific breakthrough that could have profound implications for all of cosmology, eliminating the perceived need for dark matter. In a new scientific paper entitled Birkeland Currents and Dark Matter, scheduled for publication in April of this year, Dr. Donald E. Scott proposes…
Feb 22, 2018 A new Mars rover. Sometime in late July or early August 2020 NASA will launch the next Mars lander, based on the design of the Mars Science Laboratory, otherwise known as Curiosity. The Mars 2020 rover includes a new drill design that can collect, sort, and…
