Jan 27, 2014 Black hole theory contradicts itself. Most astrophysicists try to explain narrow jets erupting from various sources by using words like “nozzle” or “high pressure,” contradicting the known behavior of gases in a vacuum. For example, according to a recent press release, “flares” have been discovered jetting from…
Jan 24, 2014 A collection of the largest moons in the Solar System will soon be observed by a new satellite in orbit around the largest planet. The Juno mission will be looking separately at Jupiter’s four largest moons. Since they vary in size, chemical composition, temperature, and appearance,…
Jan 22, 2013 Cosmologists still have no idea what dark energy is. In 1998, two astronomical research teams independently discovered what is now called “dark energy.” Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brian Schmidt from the Australian National University projects each led the two teams who…
Jan 20, 2014 Supernovae are what Hannes Alfvén called them: exploding double layers. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is relatively small, irregular galaxy approximately 168,000 light-years from Earth. The distance is approximate, because different parallax values are obtained when different measuring sticks are used. Within the LMC is an…
Jan 16, 2014 Astronomers have detected a strand of galaxies and gas flowing into a remote cluster. Today’s predominant cosmological hypothesis is based on a gravity-only paradigm. Moving masses and heat are the only factors allowed to operate in this Universe. Electric charge is sometimes considered, but it is…
Jan 15, 2014 What model best fits heliospheric behavior? “How now, wit! Whither wander you?” — William Shakespeare: As You Like it, Act 1, Scene 2 Space, it is said, is a vacuum. Since the best pumped vacuum on Earth reaches a 0.1 millimeter spacing between individual atoms, while,…
Jan 14, 2014 Galaxies are the luminous children of electrical parentage, not the darkling spawn of invisible forces. “Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.” — Lord Chesterfield “Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, but until recently astronomers have been…
Jan 10, 2014 Could there be Earth-like planets circling other stars in our galaxy? HD 189733b is not an Earth-like planet. It is larger than Jupiter and circles so close to its parent star that the atmosphere reaches more than 800 Celsius. HD 189733b represents the majority of worlds…
Jan 08, 2014 Could the widespread use of windmills be responsible for observations that the European continent is rapidly cooling? Editor’s note: Since recent news reports express problems with the global warming model, this Picture of the Day from 2009 seems appropriate. [Chairman] “This session of the Rotterdam Congress…
Jan 07, 2014 What causes some stars to rapidly fluctuate in brightness? The Electronic Sun theory postulates that sunspots, solar flares, anomalous coronal heating, and coronal mass ejections on the Sun are due to changes in the electrical supply that it receives from the galaxy. In other words, the Sun…
