April 23, 2020 A new mission to study the second planet. The European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission is now over. Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 9, 2005 the spacecraft entered orbit around Venus on April 11, 2006. Sometime in November 2021, NASA will launch the DAVINCI…
April 22, 2020 “So cold that if the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death.”— Samuel Clemens The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 18, 1989 from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, entering orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995. After eight years in orbit, Galileo…
April 21, 2020 The Sun is not a ball of (con)fusion. “In a low density plasma, localized space charge regions may build up large potential drops over distances of the order of some tens of the Debye lengths. Such regions have been called electric double layers. An electric double layer…
April 20, 2020 A visit to Saturn might require not only a spacesuit, but one that is armored against hard radiation. Not all light frequencies are harmless. Everyone knows that looking directly into an arc welder should be avoided, since the plasma is so hot that it emits extreme ultraviolet…
April 17, 2020 In an Electric Universe, the answer is not what is commonly presented in science journals. Astronomers are fitted with spectacles that can see distances only in terms of redshift when dealing with celestial bodies father away than a few light-years. Measurements become more and more unreliable as…
April 16, 2020 What are magnetars? As conventional understanding suggests, neutron stars are created when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycles. Gravity in those stars is said to be is so intense that they cannot resist the collapse, so electrons are squeezed into the nuclei that…
April 14, 2020 Gamma-rays from electric particle accelerators in space. Gamma-rays are the highest energy wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum, according to physicists. They are “electromagnetic particles” called photons. Since matter is thought to exist as both waves and particles, and photons are a class of particle called “bosons”, they…
April 13, 2020 More proof that the Sun is an electric star. One of the goals for the Picture of the Day is to demonstrate how Electric Universe theory about plasma discharge behavior is a better model for solar activity than conventional theories. Experiments with a positively charged sphere reveal that…
April 10, 2020 Most interplanetary dust is thought to be “recycled”. In other words, it is the material out of which the Solar System was made. According to astrophysicists, in earlier epochs, as well as today, the Solar System’s most common element was hydrogen, with magnesium, silicon, and iron composing…
April 9, 2020 Plasma is electrically ionized. In plasmas, thermal and other energy sources strip electrons from atomic nuclei. When excess charge develops in various regions, due to gravity or other influences, electric discharges can take place, forming electromagnetic sheaths along the discharge axes. If there is enough charge flow,…
