A team of scientists on Earth has made a surprising and perhaps very significant discovery on the Sun’s magnetic field. The scientists were utilizing a solar telescope to study the Sun’s corona, and through good fortune were able to observe and analyze an exceptionally powerful solar flare. The team focused…
Jul 2, 2019 Investigating the dwarf planet, Ceres. The Dawn spacecraft was launched on September 27, 2007. It began observing the asteroid Vesta on July 17, 2011 and then headed toward the dwarf planet, Ceres on September 5, 2012. Dawn entered orbit around Ceres at 7:39 AM EST on Friday, March 6,…
Jul 1, 2019 Titan is not wet. On October 15, 1997 NASA launched the six ton Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, the largest space mission ever deployed at the time. Its name was changed twice during the mission: the Cassini Equinox Mission was a two-year extension that began on July 1, 2008, following…
In this adaptation of the Mel Acheson TPOD “Gravity vs Plasma,” Mel explains why the essence of momentous paradigm shifts in science is simply a matter of different viewpoints. Just as the landscape looks different when viewed from different locations, the facts and theories of the sciences appear different when…
Jun 28, 2019 Are red giant stars old or young? “Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars…”—…
Jun 27, 2019 Regions inside this nebula are described as “cocoons” for new stars. The Tarantula Nebula’s designation is 30 Doradus. It is an “emission nebula” in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Readers may remember that a well-known supernova, 1987a, exploded near the nebula’s edge. The nebula’s average diameter exceeds 1000 light-years,…
Jun 26, 2019 Willard Harrison Bennett, a notable scientist and inventor and for whom the Bennett pinch, or “z-pinch,” is named was born June 13, 1903 and died on September 28, 1987. As a jet of water flows, the surface tension causes the stream to constrict, and the jet forms…
In the first three parts of this presentation, physicist Eugene Bagashov has presented the ongoing analysis he and several colleagues are conducting into the presence of Birkeland currents within the Milky Way galaxy, and close to our solar system. This includes evidence that the Local Interstellar Chimney, where our solar…
Jun 25, 2019 Is Pluto a cometary body? According to a recent press release, Pluto might be composed of a “billion comets”. As Dr. Christopher Glein of SwRI’s Space Science and Engineering Division wrote: “We’ve developed what we call ‘the giant comet’ cosmochemical model of Pluto formation. We found an…
Jun 24, 2019 What brought methane to the Red Planet? According to a recent press release, measurements taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover show a “higher than expected” amount of methane in the Martian regolith. Planetary scientists believe that methane is important, since one way it forms is through biological processes….
