Jun 24, 2019 What brought methane to the Red Planet? According to a recent press release, measurements taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover show a “higher than expected” amount of methane in the Martian regolith. Planetary scientists believe that methane is important, since one way it forms is through biological processes….
Jun 21, 2019 Uranus is an anomaly in the Solar System. The gas giant planet, Uranus is 50,724 kilometers in diameter at the equator, making it the third largest object in the Solar System. A unique aspect of Uranus is that its equator is tilted almost 90 degrees. Most of…
Jun 20, 2019 Gamma-ray Bursters (GRB), and Fast Radio Bursters (FRB) are thought by astronomers to be the most powerful energy sources in the Universe. The problems associated with GRB observations are partially addressed in previous Pictures of the Day. GRBs are characterized by intense electromagnetic emissions, particularly rapid gamma-ray…
Jun 18, 2019 Electric Universe theory illustrates what has been called the “incommensurability” of paradigms, a scholarly term for what is actually a rather mundane occurrence: the difficulties-and benefits-of communication when words have more than one meaning. The difficulties arise from the listener’s assumption that the speaker means what the…
Jun 17, 2019 New insights from four Cassini instruments reveal mysteries in Saturn’s rings. Saturn’s rings are approximately 416,000 kilometers wide, but are estimated to be a mere 50 meters thick, possibly as little as 10 meters. This means that Earth-based telescopes detect only a thin wire extending across the…
Jun 14, 2019 Previous Pictures of the Day discuss the possibility that there is frozen water on the Moon, although the idea was not given much credence. The Moon is thought to result from a collision between a planet the size of Mars and Earth. It was torn-out of Earth…
Jun 13, 2019 Objects spinning faster than a dentist’s drill? According to a recent press release, another “millisecond pulsar” was discovered by a team from NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center. Pulsars are often referred to as “lighthouses in space”, with beams of radiation focused at specific points. Since conventional astrophysicists are…
Jun 12, 2019 X-rays from cold nebulae? “Nothing burns like the cold.”― George R.R. Martin Conventional theories rely upon gravity and acceleration to create gamma rays, X-rays and extreme ultraviolet in space. Compressing gas and dust is supposed to make temperatures greater than the cores of some stars. As a…
Jun 11, 2019 The Sun supplies enormous quantities of electric charge to the Solar System. As written many times over the years, sunspots, flares, coronal heating, and coronal mass ejections are due to changes in the Sun’s galactic electrical supply. Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Donald Scott’s Electronic Sun…
Jun 10, 2019 Dark matter theory is problematic, yet astrophysicists continue using it to explain distance, age, and structure in the Universe. “Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.”— Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén Astronomers maintain their commonly held beliefs about the origin of the Universe, as well as…
