July 3, 2020 Eta Carinae is a binary system with a mass about 150-times that of the Sun. However, in contrast, it is shining with four-million-times the Sun’s brilliance. What causes this disparity? The arc light from Eta Carinae is so bright that it generates X-rays powerful enough to be…
July 2, 2020 Over twenty years ago, astronomers discovered that they think the Universe is expanding. Observations of distant galaxies appear to indicate that the Universe is expanding faster today than it did in the past. Since that information does not fit into conventional Big Bang theories, the existence of…
July 1, 2020 According to a recent press release, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) cannot find “..an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy.” Several explanations are presented. Among them are, the star is now obscured by dust; or, it could have collapsed into a black hole without…
June 30, 2020 Many celestial bodies display multi-ringed formations. Mare Orientale can be found near the western rim of the Moon, making it difficult to see from Earth. It has a nearly complete concentric ring structure with a surrounding basin of mare material. The mare is bounded inwardly by steep…
June 29, 2020 If the star, Betelgeuse occupied the Sun’s position, its outer envelope would exceed Jupiter’s mean orbital diameter. Red giants are old, as astronomers measure age, since the so-called “main sequence” theory states that stars go through a well-established evolution. That evolution is said to follow a path…
June 27, 2020 Black holes continue to elude detection by the most powerful telescopes. It is assumed that matter falling into a black hole is accelerated and subsequently compressed until it is ultimately destroyed inside the so-called “event horizon”. It is that process that is said to create quasars: conventionally…
June 25, 2020 The Herschel space observatory operated between 2009 and 2013. The Herschel Space Observatory was launched on May 14, 2009 into an orbit around LaGrange point L2 (behind Earth in relation to the Sun). Herschel’s supercooled infrared detectors were built to last only three years, so its cooling system has long…
June 24, 2020 What keeps dusty clumps from bouncing off each other? In 1756, Immanuel Kant suggested that the Solar System was born from a cloud of dusty gas floating in space. Known as the “Nebular Hypothesis”, the theory states that the cloud contracted because gravitational attraction between particles caused…
June 23, 2020 Earth’s surface is not what it was a short time ago. That Earth and the Solar System experienced catastrophic events, perhaps as little as 5000 years ago, is one of the major presumptions of Electric Universe theory. Most adherents to the theory consider 10,000 years ago to…
June 22, 2020 Gamma-ray bursts are said to come from the edge of the Universe. Nobel laureate, Hannes Alfven, described a double layer as, “… a plasma formation by which a plasma—in the physical meaning of this word—protects itself from the environment. It is analogous to a cell wall by…
