March 12, 2020 The moons of Mars are scarred worlds. The two moons of Mars are called Phobos and Deimos, meaning “fear and “panic”. Phobos is extensively studied by Earth-based telescopes and by satellites in Mars orbit. Deimos, however, is so small that major observations are impossible from Earth. Stickney…
March 11, 2020 What causes gigantic blobs of hydrogen to glow? Over ten years ago, Chinese astronomers from Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, saw what was later called a “Lyman-alpha blob” (LAB). They recognized that there was something unusual about the observation, because of the gas cloud’s mass….
THE SAFIRE PROJECT has become a commercial venture. Based on the discoveries of the last six years, the SAFIRE team is currently developing a nuclear-plasma reactor which will have the capacity to both generate electrical power and to remediate radioactive waste. THE SAFIRE SUN is an 11-minute film designed to…
March 10, 2020 Most stars revolve in pairs. The stars in the Milky Way travel with one or more companions, so something influences the formation of multiple star systems. Stars are so remote from one another that it is unlikely that binary stars are due to gravitational attraction. On March…
In Part Two of our interview with Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor of The Thunderbolts Project, we explore a number of intriguing space science discoveries, including supernovae, “neutron stars,” “black holes” and “white dwarf” stars which appear to break the expected rules of standard cosmology. Are these “weird” objects really…
March 6, 2020 Astronomers think FRBs are created from dying stars. About eight years ago, astronomers discovered an energy signature they called a “Fast Radio Burst”, or FRB. The blast of radio waves lasted five milliseconds, releasing more energy than the Sun puts out in a month. Distance to the…
March 5, 2020 The Sun’s heliosheath is spherical. The Interstellar Medium (ISM), through which the Solar System and all other stars in the galaxy are moving, is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, with some dust particles that are less than one-tenth of a micron in size, making them smaller…
March 4, 2020 Galaxies obey the forces of electricity. According to a recent press release: “Astronomers have known since the late 1950s that the Milky Way’s disc – where most of its hundreds of billions of stars reside – is not flat but somewhat curved upwards on one side and…
March 3, 2020 Why don’t globular clusters fly apart? Globular clusters are an example of how plasma is organized and confined into formations that are difficult to explain. Astronomers believe that globular clusters begin as groups of stars from a single birthing event. According to standard theory, gas and dust…
March 2, 2020 Plasma is the foundation for all celestial phenomena. Electric Universe advocates argue that a flow of electric charge in plasma generates electromagnetic fields that constrict the plasma. As previous Pictures of the Day point out, that constricted channel is known as a Bennett pinch, or z-pinch. The…
