Apr 4, 2019 What causes the cloud bands and high winds on Jupiter? NASA launched the Juno mission on August 5, 2011. Its primary science goals include analysis of Jupiter’s massive plasmasphere, along with electromagnetic influences throughout the Jovian system. Jupiter radiates more energy than it receives from the Sun,…
Apr 3, 2019 According to a recent press release, the electromagnetic field of the Sun is ten times stronger than previously reported. Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, using the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands, analyzed the magnetic field strength of a…
Apr 1, 2019 Are we trashing the Solar System? According to a recent announcement from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), there is growing concern among engineers and astrophysicists about the amount of junk that is cluttering-up the Solar System. “We’re all involved,” said senior researcher and lead author…
Today, two spacecraft exploring two separate asteroids may provide critical data that could change scientists’ thoughts about these mysterious, rocky worlds. Since June of 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has surveyed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, and recently Japan’s space agency performed a touchdown on the object to collect…
The Eye of the Storm, Part 1By Andrew Hall Earth’s geology and weather is a result of capacitance in Earth’s electric circuit. Forget anything you’ve been taught about geology. It’s wrong — provably wrong — from evidence you will soon see. We are taught to associate geology with billions of…
Mar 29, 2019 Supernovae illustrate the same old problems. Type 1A class supernovae are important to consensus astronomers for two reasons: their light-curves, or graphs of their intensity over time, are considered to be so predictable that they can be used as cosmic measuring rods. Since redshift equals distance in…
Mar 28, 2019 Does gravity bind the edges of galaxies into a disk? Galaxies should be denser in their nuclei and gradually fade into hazy boundaries, yet many of them exhibit rims of tightly knit stars. Some galaxies possess coherent structures like arms or bars that are almost solid-looking. How…
Mar 27, 2019 What ionizes the intergalactic medium? According to a recent press release, astrophysicists are puzzled by the extent of ionization in distant regions of the Universe. As the announcement states, after the newborn Universe cooled, hydrogen nuclei (protons) recombined with electrons into neutral atoms. Then, extreme ultraviolet light…
In part one of this presentation, physicist Eugene Bagashov began his examination of some of the enduring geological mysteries on Mars. Of course, geologists examining the surface of Mars project familiar earthly processes onto the Red Planet — they imagine volcanic eruptions, flowing water and impacts from space as dominant…
Mar 26, 2019 Comets are not made of ice and mud. Accepted astrophysical theories would never lead astronomers to consider X-rays from comets. Comets are supposed to be dirty snowballs, gradually melting away as they approach the Sun. However, as previously written, both the Giotto and Deep Impact missions revealed…
