Jan 26, 2012 Water vapor in the gas giant’s clouds comes from a local source. According to a recent press release the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory has detected a torus of water vapor around Saturn. The newly discovered ring is extremely diffuse and invisible to optical telescopes, requiring…
Jan 23, 2012 Plasma instabilities are a better explanation for the Milky Way’s strangely distorted central ring. According to a recent press release, “…observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.” The ring observation is not…
Jan 19, 2012 Earth is said to emit heat energy because radioactive elements decay in its depths. Electrical activity might be a better explanation. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats A recent press release asks what…
Jan 18, 2012 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is providing more evidence for the Electric Universe theory. The Moon has intrigued humanity since the beginning. Where did it come from? What is it made of? Today, those questions remain unanswered, for the most part, although technological advancements have provided closer looks…
Jan 17, 2012 A distant system of planets in proximity to one another challenges current theories. A recent press release from the Kepler Space Telescope research team announced the discovery of an “alien solar system” with six planets. That they are so near to the newly named Kepler-11 star has…
Jan 12, 2012 Does the acceleration of gravity alone create high frequency radiation? “Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.” — Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister of the UK, 1908-1916 Black holes are theoretically required because velocity and gravity calculations of motions at the galactic center yield otherwise…
Jan 11, 2012 Galactic haloes are best explained using the Electric Universe theory. There are rings around planets, rings around stars, and there are rings around galactic nuclei, as demonstrated by the Hubble Space Telescope image of AM 0644-741. Although the conventional explanation for such structures is that they are…
Jan 10, 2012 Stellar explosions might not be what has commonly been assumed. On January 6, 2003 the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base onboard the Coriolis satellite. SMEI was designed to detect coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the…
Jan 09, 2012 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, in…
Jan 06, 2012 From galaxies to the laboratory, transverse electric currents accompany a main discharge channel. That “main discharge channel” experienced by most people comes in the form of a terrestrial lighting bolt. Slow-motion studies reveal that each flash is a complex episode. Multiple leader strokes descend from the clouds,…
