May 13, 2016 Magnetic fields in stars are not rare, study finds. According to a recent press release, astronomers from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia “…discovered strong magnetic fields are common in stars, not rare as previously thought.” Pictures of the Day often note that astronomers…
May 11, 2016 What prevents stellar dissipation? Children are taught from an early age that stars are “burning” balls of hydrogen gas. According to standard theories, it is a star like the Sun’s gravitational attraction that keeps planets, along with all other material, in orbit. Fusion fire releases energetic particles…
May 10, 2016 Pulsars rotating faster than a dentist’s drill? Pulsars are described as “lighthouses” with rotating beams of energy concentrated at specific points. Plasma physicists Anthony Peratt and Kevin Healy noted that: “Because of the stability of the pulse period, Thomas Gold concluded that pulsars must be highly…
May 9, 2016 The Universe is filamentary. Conventional cosmological theories state that a black hole forms when a star with a mass about five times that of the Sun reaches the stage in its evolution where its thermonuclear fuel is used-up. Since stars are thought to be internally powered…
May 6, 2016 Pluto’s interaction with the solar wind confirms Electric Universe theory. NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft in January of 2006 on a mission to study the dwarf planet Pluto, as well as other Kuiper Belt Objects far from the Sun. The probe flew by Pluto in…
May 5, 2016 Are dunes on Titan like those on Earth? “To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” — William Blake The Cassini spacecraft created a gravity map…
May 4, 2016 Comets and asteroids. “A new comet model is presented that resolves the chief problem of abnormal cometary motions and accounts for a number of other cometary phenomena. The nucleus is visualized as a conglomerate of ices, such as H2O, NH3, CH4, CO2 or CO, (C2N2?), and…
May 3, 2016 Electricity manifests in many ways. Previous Pictures of the Day argue that stars do not age and die in the way that conventional understanding proposes. Stars are not globes of hot gas under pressure, they are composed of plasma. Plasma is ionized, meaning that one or more…
May 2, 2016 Why do craters exhibit polygonal features? A major tenet of Electric Universe theory is that the Solar System was chaotic a few thousand years ago. The features on all the moons and rocky planets are forensic evidence for that idea. How many thousands of years isn’t…
Apr 29, 2016 Plasma is the flame that lights the stars. If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright. ― Piet Hein Previous Pictures of the Day report that X-ray jets from…
