Dec 6, 2018 How long it takes things to form in space is a complete mystery. Black holes continue to elude detection by the most powerful telescopes and radiation sensors, but the consensus community insists that they exist, because they say that they can be inferred by their effect…
Dec 5, 2018 The moons of Mars are scarred worlds. The two moons of Mars are called Phobos and Deimos, meaning “fear and “panic”. Phobos is extensively studied by Earth-based telescopes and by satellites in Mars orbit. Deimos, however, is so small that major observations are impossible from Earth. Stickney…
Dec 4, 2018 Do stars follow the laws of gravity? Stars do not follow the course that conventional understanding demands. They are not born in clouds of gas far less dense than a puff of smoke. They are not balls of hot gas, they are composed of various elements…
Dec 3, 2018 Most stars revolve in pairs. The stars in the Milky Way travel with one or more companions, so something influences the formation of multiple star systems. Stars are so remote from one another that it is unlikely that binary stars are due to gravitational attraction. On March…
Nov 30, 2018 Why don’t globular clusters fly apart? Globular clusters are an example of how plasma is organized and confined into formations that are difficult to explain. Astronomers believe that globular clusters begin as groups of stars from a single birthing event. According to standard theory, gas and dust…
Nov 29, 2018 Stardust factories. “Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.” — Benjamin Franklin Clouds of dust in space are said to form because stars condense out of dusty protoplanetary nebulae. Nebulae are said to be “star forming” when points of X-ray radiation are observed by…
Nov 28, 2018 Most celestial objects exhibit some kind of filamentation. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt Every science journal describes the formation of nebulae in terms of “blowing winds” created by shock waves from exploding stars. Nebulae are thought to…
Nov 27, 2018 Lightning phenomena are scaleable. Transverse electric currents accompany a main discharge channel. That channel is often seen by most people as a terrestrial lightning bolt. Slow-motion videos show that multiple leader strokes descend from the clouds, while less visible potential contacts rise from the ground. Once…
Nov 26, 2018 A new Mercury mission. The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the BepiColombo satellites to Mercury from French Guyana on October 20, 2018. The mission is named for Giuseppe Colombo (1920-1984), an astronomer who was the first to realize that Mercury rotates three times for every two orbits…
Nov 23, 2018 Energetic tails are common features in the Universe. Celestial objects such as Centaurus A; hot-bright stars, planets, and comets, exhibit collimated jets or trailing emissions that are difficult to explain. Every new observation requires a new theoretical revision, or an admission of complete bafflement. A group of…
