Apr 4, 2019 What causes the cloud bands and high winds on Jupiter? NASA launched the Juno mission on August 5, 2011. Its primary science goals include analysis of Jupiter’s massive plasmasphere, along with electromagnetic influences throughout the Jovian system. Jupiter radiates more energy than it receives from the Sun,…
Apr 3, 2019 According to a recent press release, the electromagnetic field of the Sun is ten times stronger than previously reported. Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, using the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands, analyzed the magnetic field strength of a…
Apr 1, 2019 Are we trashing the Solar System? According to a recent announcement from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), there is growing concern among engineers and astrophysicists about the amount of junk that is cluttering-up the Solar System. “We’re all involved,” said senior researcher and lead author…
Mar 29, 2019 Supernovae illustrate the same old problems. Type 1A class supernovae are important to consensus astronomers for two reasons: their light-curves, or graphs of their intensity over time, are considered to be so predictable that they can be used as cosmic measuring rods. Since redshift equals distance in…
Mar 28, 2019 Does gravity bind the edges of galaxies into a disk? Galaxies should be denser in their nuclei and gradually fade into hazy boundaries, yet many of them exhibit rims of tightly knit stars. Some galaxies possess coherent structures like arms or bars that are almost solid-looking. How…
Mar 27, 2019 What ionizes the intergalactic medium? According to a recent press release, astrophysicists are puzzled by the extent of ionization in distant regions of the Universe. As the announcement states, after the newborn Universe cooled, hydrogen nuclei (protons) recombined with electrons into neutral atoms. Then, extreme ultraviolet light…
Mar 26, 2019 Comets are not made of ice and mud. Accepted astrophysical theories would never lead astronomers to consider X-rays from comets. Comets are supposed to be dirty snowballs, gradually melting away as they approach the Sun. However, as previously written, both the Giotto and Deep Impact missions revealed…
Mar 25, 2019 Remote globular clusters exhibit anomalous light frequencies. “I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and…
Mar 22, 2019 According to conventional thinking, gravity and acceleration cause stars and galaxies to produce radiation. Central black holes accelerate particles of dust, along with hydrogen gas, and are said to cause “jets” out of galactic nuclei. When a galactic jet encounters regions of increased density, collisions between particles…
Mar 21, 2019 The Milky Way is built from plasma. NASA launched the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope on June 11, 2008. Its primary mission is observing high frequency electromagnetic waves in space, including gamma-rays. Gamma-rays are the most energetic of the three types of radioactivity, with values 10^15 times greater…
