Dark Designs

March 20, 2020 Galaxies are electrical entities. A recent press release reiterates the current maxim among astronomers and astrophysicists: “About eighty-five percent of the matter in the universe is in the form of dark matter…” Dark matter is the topic of several Pictures of the Day. It is undetectable by…

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Eye of the Storm, Part 5

Large Scale Wind Structuresby Andrew Hall In previous articles, we established a link between the winds of Jupiter and landforms on Earth. In primordial times, Earth’s weather was like Jupiter’s, with raging plasma whirlwinds and segregated electric jet streams that attained supersonic speeds. Close examination of mountains and other landforms…

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Cold Fire Makes Hot Ice

March 18, 2020 Frozen water on Mercury? NASA launched the BepiColombo mission on October 20, 2018. The mission consists of two satellites: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). MPO is designed to study Mercury’s composition, while MMO will study Mercury’s magnetosphere. One of BepiColumbo’s tasks…

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X-Ray Milky Way

March 17, 2020 X-rays from galactic cores are accelerated by electric fields. Rather than accepting electric fields as a source, astronomers prefer to think of “strong winds blowing” out of the galaxy’s core. Often called “Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources” (ULX), they are points across the sky more powerful than a million…

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Ordered Chaos

March 16, 2020 The Sun’s activity is almost impossible to model, because of its variability. A recently published animation illustrates the Sun’s electromagnetic field as it twists and folds through its ionized plasma. The “Sun in a bottle” was created in order to understand how an apparently chaotic solar environment…

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Ray Gallucci: The Plausibility of Quantized Redshift | Space News

This is the second interview of a two-part presentation with Dr. Raymond Gallucci describing his independent analysis of alternatives to standard interpretations of cosmic redshift. For many decades, astronomers have believed that cosmological redshift indicates the “stretching” of light in an expanding Universe. The higher an object’s redshift, the farther…

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Pint-Sized Planets

March 13, 2020 Dwarf planets are a puzzle. In 1997, astronomers Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter studied Type 1a supernovae, because their variable rise in luminosity and subsequent decline are considered predictable. That measurement is a way for consensus researchers to determine a supernova’s true brightness or “absolute magnitude“. Calculating…

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