August 5, 2020 Exoplanets are not well understood. The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.— Isaac Newton According to a recent press release, “…some of the weirdest planets…” yet discovered around other stars are the extremely hot “super-Earths”. These are rocky planets so close to their parent stars…
August 4, 2020 The Sun causes Earth’s magnetosphere to oscillate. Planetary scientists are slowly coming to realize that Earth’s ionosphere is connected to the Sun by “ropes” of electric charge.That idea is a basic tenet of Electric Universe theory. Earth has a plasmasphere, so it is electrically active, coupled to…
August 3, 2020 The prevailing opinions regarding planetary nebulae involve gases and dust “blowing” through them from “shock waves”. A nebula is often described as the remnant of a supernova explosion, because of intense X-ray radiation, or extreme ultraviolet light. In an Electric Universe, space is filled with plasma, not…
A new scientific paper describes an unprecedented and “mind boggling” event around a so-called black hole – an event so rapid, energetic and completely unexpected to astronomers, it challenges the very bedrock of black hole theory. A team of scientists studying an active galactic nucleus observed the brightness of a…
July 31, 2020 A helicopter on Mars. NASA launched the Perseverance rover on July 30, 2020. Its primary mission is to search for signs of microbial life on Mars—the goal of every lander sent to the Red Planet. This time, the lander will include a small helicopter. Perseverance will travel…
Jul 30, 2020 Are new moons hiding in Saturn’s rings? “We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.”—Cyrano…
Editor’s note: The Picture of the Day is off today. Please enjoy this article from the archives. July 29, 2020 The first pictures of Jupiter’s north pole show “…storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen.” After an August 5, 2011 launch, and a five-year flight, the Juno spacecraft…
July 28, 2020 The first detection of a ring around a moon. The Cassini space probe is no more; it was burned-up in Saturn’s atmosphere on September 17, 2017. Its data set continues to be analyzed, however, since its observations comprised thousands of terabytes. Planetary scientists announced that they discovered…
July 27, 2020 Electric Universe theory contradicts the theory of dark matter. Along with the general idea of invisible, undetectable materials in space that can release vast amounts of radiation, dark matter theory inserts unreasonable dilemmas into an already confused environment. Mainstream astrophysicists believe that dark matter is a necessary…
Today, in mainstream astronomical literature we hear more and more about the “Magnetic Universe.” Thanks to great technological leaps, scientists have learned that vast magnetic fields pervade the cosmos, and increasingly, cosmologists view magnetism as important in the formation and evolution of structures at all cosmic scales. However, gravity-centric cosmology…
