April 8, 2020 Another relativistic jet attributed to a black hole. “A professional tends to interpret the pictures by using the theory he was taught while the amateur tries to use the picture to arrive at a theory.”— Halton Arp According to a recent press release, collimated jets erupting from…
April 7, 2020 According to a recent press release, astronomers detected a warped dust ring around a presumed protoplanetary disk in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, located about 450 light years away. A previous Picture of the Day discussed the warped ring of material surrounding the nucleus of Galaxy Centaurus A….
April 6, 2020 Birkeland currents move along galactic pathways. The European Space Agency launched the Herschel Space Observatory on May 14, 2009. One of Herschels more unique observations was a putative cloud of water vapor around a star known as IRC+10216. They were puzzled by the discovery of water near other stars,…
April 3, 2020 Venus leaves astrophysicists with many unanswered questions. 1. What force drives the atmospheric movement?2. How does the atmosphere circulate?3. What are the clouds in the lower atmosphere made of?4. Was there ever any water in the atmosphere?5. Does internal radiation influence the planet?6. Is there volcanic or…
April 2, 2020 Stellar streams are known to plasma physicists as Birkeland currents. Birkeland current filaments at every scale thread through the Universe. There are loads in those circuits converting electrical energy into rotation: they are called, “galaxies”. Galactic evolution, contrary to the gravity-only theories from consensus astronomy, takes place because of…
April 1, 2020 Zeus forges his lightning bolts. Jupiter is the largest planet, clearly visible in the early April morning sky It is so large that all of the other planets could fit inside its 1.77 X 10^15 cubic kilometer volume. Jupiter rotates in about 10 hours, causing its diameter…
March 31, 2020 Do convection currents and vibrating magnetic field lines create the dynamic phenomena observed on the Sun? According to the thermonuclear fusion model of the Sun, hydrogen in its core is crushed with so much force that it is converting to helium, releasing tremendous amounts of energy. The…
March 30, 2020 In an Electric Universe, galaxies evolve because large-scale plasma discharges form Birkeland currents. To those familiar with ideas like electricity in space, the cosmos appears to be interlaced with electric circuits made up of energized filaments at every scale. At the largest scale, there are electromagnetic loads in…
March 27, 2020 Winston Bostick March 5, 1916 – January 19, 1991 Dr. Winston H. Bostick was born in Freeport, IL. He earned acclaim as a plasma pioneer, and is discussed in many Pictures of the Day. He attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D in physics,…
March 25, 2020 Supernova remnants are not governed by gravity. Many Pictures of the Day point-out that astronomers find connections between supernova remnants (SR) and the rest of the galaxy. Bipolar SRs, in particular, arrange themselves non-randomly. Most SRs are double-lobed, meaning that twin emissions erupt from each side of…
