X-ray Lightning

Nov 19, 2019 Galaxies are alive with lightning flashes. “Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”— Charles Dickens On Earth, a primary electric discharge channel is called a lighting bolt. In slow-motion, it is easy to see that each flash is a complex series of events….

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Plasma Sun

Nov 18, 2019 According to consensus theories, there is an electric dynamo inside the Sun. “Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)”— They Might Be Giants Modern theories see two forces driving the solar engine, each of which involves the Sun’s electromagnetic field….

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Dark Dwarves

Nov 15, 2019 Solving a puzzle can be clouded by a layer of presumptions. Scientists from the Dark Energy Survey at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory think that galaxies should have “lots” of smaller galaxies in orbit around them. In fact, they are building predictive models…

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Nuclear Fantasies

Nov 14, 2019 Neutron stars cannot exist. “The sky was clear—remarkably clear—and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”—Thomas Hardy On June 13, 2012 NASA launched the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) on a mission to study X-rays…

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