Oct 23, 2012 Neptune is the Solar System’s most remote planet. What drives its extraordinary winds? The winds on Jupiter average about 400 kilometers per hour, with the fastest streaming around the Great Red Spot at 635 kilometers per hour. On Saturn, wind speeds up to 1800 kilometers per hour have…
Oct 19, 2012 The light from remote globular clusters should be blue according to theory because the further away one looks the further back in time one sees. It seems as if each new observation from the Hubble Space Telescope or the Chandra X-ray Observatory adds fuel to the…
Oct 18, 2012 Dione exhibits some unusual features that may indicate electrical forces at work. Recently, the Cassini-Solstice spacecraft made a close flyby of the moon Enceladus. As the Picture of the Day from May 3, 2012 discussed, the bright plumes emanating from the 500 kilometer moon are most likely…
Oct 17, 2012 Scientists have found a small but significant deceleration in the Pioneer spacecraft as it makes its way through interstellar space. For several years, NASA analysts have reported a slow but steady “tug” on the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft as they head outward in opposite directions…
Oct 16, 2012 Enceladus continues to provide evidence supporting Electric Universe theories. On March 2, 2012 the Cassini-Solstice spacecraft flew by Saturn’s moon Enceladus at a distance of 74 kilometers, the closest it will come for the next three years. Cassini again passed over the “superheated geysers” erupting from…
Oct 15, 2012 Fluvial effects and aeolian processes are said to have eroded the surface of Mars. Could it have been electric discharges? Mars represents a new frontier in the history of science. No celestial body, not even the Moon, has been so extensively studied in so many ways….
October 12, 2012 A cloud of interstellar gas and dust will soon be annihilated by a black hole in the center of our galaxy, astronomers say. According to a recent press release: “This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black…
Oct 11, 2012 Both Saturn’s body and its rings are so electrically active that they shine in X-ray light. “Saturn is more like the Sun than the Earth.” — Wal Thornhill Almost everyone knows that one should not look directly into the flame of an arc welder, since the…
Oct 10, 2012 Rather than volcanic vents, pits in craters could be a sign of electrical activity. On August 3, 2004, NASA launched the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) experiment from the Cape Canaveral facility on a 7-year mission to study the Solar System’s innermost planet. The…
Oct 9, 2012 The time has come to let the thermonuclear Sun theory go. Everything has a natural explanation. The Moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the Sun a hot rock. — Anaxagoras, Greek philosopher circa 550 BCE Hypothetically, how does the Sun produce heat and…
