Feb 24, 2014 How do supernovae relate to the Sun? On June 7, 2011 the Sun erupted with the largest plasma event yet recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. SDO was launched on February 11, 2010 into a geosynchronous orbit, with plans for a five-year mission. It is capable…
Feb 21, 2014 This small moon is said to be covered with powdery snow. Enceladus was one of the Gigantes, or Titans, who were overthrown by Zeus and his minions. It is perhaps an ironic name, since it is a tiny world only 494 kilometers in diameter. Its gravitational…
Feb 20, 2014 The largest moon in the Solar System shows signs of what could be electric scarring. Jupiter and its moons have been the destination of several deep space missions over the last four decades. Beginning with Pioneer 10 in 1973, and including the most recent visit by New Horizons, seven different camera…
Feb 19, 2014 Modern astronomy surely suffers from a kind of blindness. It is either a blindness of mind or one of practice. The continuing presence of Big Bang cosmology among those who are charged with increasing the store of scientific knowledge proves that there certainly is blindness in…
Feb 12, 2014 Is the recently announced “cosmic web” based on erroneous conclusions? A press release from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), reports observations of the filamentary structure that comprises the Universe. A nebula exceeding 2 million light-years across, surrounding a quasi-stellar radio source (quasar) known as UM287,…
Feb 10, 2014 Not all features on Mars are electrical scars. It is often said that to the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Many times, Electric Universe advocates are accused of having too narrow an outlook, as if all that can be observed is the result…
Feb 07, 2014 Several previous Picture of the Day articles take issue with the idea that Mars once flowed with liquid water. Since Mars is now a freeze-dried, barren wasteland of rocks and dust, it is presumed that the supposed water features there evaporated over millions of years. When…
Feb 03, 2014 The Dawn spacecraft will arrive at Ceres in August of 2015 Ceres is the largest asteroid in the Solar System. The most recent measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope puts it at approximately 975 kilometers in mean diameter. It is so large that it is roughly…
Jan 31, 2014 Well-organized phenomena in space cannot be solely based on mechanical action. A recent press release from the Hubble Space Telescope science team announces a “cosmic caterpillar” in the constellation Cygnus. This knotted structure is said to be caused by “harsh winds from extremely bright stars…” The stellar winds are…
Jan 29, 2014 The intensity of the Sun’s magnetic field and solar wind periodically decline to low levels but explosive events are possible. On August 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite on a mission to monitor energetic ions coming from the Sun, as well…
