Oct 08, 2015 Undetectable, unseen, and unknown. In previous Picture of the Day articles about the existence of “dark matter,” it was noted that it is an add-on, or ad-hoc, theory because the lack of luminous matter in the Universe is a problem for “Big Bang cosmology.” The Big Bang…
Oct 7, 2015 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…
Oct 6 2015 Filaments in nebulae suggest charge separation in space. The Orion Nebula is visible to the naked eye in the constellation Orion; it is the second star in Orion’s sword. Astrophysicists believe several formations in the cloud are star-forming regions because high frequency light emanates from many active areas….
Oct 2, 2015 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…
Oct 1, 2015 After four years in orbit, MESSENGER is nearing the end of its life. On August 3, 2004, NASA launched the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) experiment from Cape Canaveral. After traveling nearly eight billion kilometers, the 485 kilogram spacecraft initiated orbital insertion around Mercury…
Sep 30, 2015 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…
Sep 29, 2015 “It really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong, I’m right…” The Max Planck Institute added more fuel to the black hole physics fire: the ejection of a “supermassive black hole” (SMBH) from its parent galaxy. Researchers in the department of Extraterrestrial Physics measured what appear to be gravity…
Sep 28, 2015 The Universe is governed by light and not dark. Modern astrophysical theories of stellar and galactic evolution depend on mechanical action. Space scientists ascribe structures in space to the gravitational collapse of cold gas. Conventional viewpoints attribute galaxies, stars, planets, comets and stardust itself to compression….
Sep 25, 2015 Dark matter theory is in the news again. “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 4 Consensus science states that the Big Bang created all matter and energy—including gravity. Every cosmological theory is…
Sep 24, 2015 A double-lobed nebula stirs the imagination. Inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, is a structure known to astrophysicists as a “supernova remnant”. Theories of stellar evolution state that extremely massive stars are short-lived, converting their mass into radiant energy at…
