Nov 5, 2018 Mars is devoid of any detectable life. Martian areography bears witness to violent events at some time in the past. Images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) reveal scenes of devastation: the North polar terrain, for instance, is six kilometers below the planet’s mean elevation. Burned craters…
Nov 2, 2018 A scientific achievement comes to an end. NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft on September 27, 2007. After orbiting the asteroid, Vesta until September 5, 2012 Dawn headed toward Ceres, the largest known asteroid in the Solar System, entering a high orbit on March 6, 2015. The mission officially ended…
Nov 1, 2018 Electrical perspectives. Astronomers recently discovered a galactic filament extending outward from galaxy CGCG254-021 on a scale never before observed: “This ribbon, or X-ray tail, is likely due to gas stripped from the galaxy as it moves through a vast cloud of hot intergalactic gas.” It might…
Oct 31, 2018 Most astrophysical models about stars rely on mechanical action. The collapse of cold gas under gravitational influence is thought to be the force that shapes stars. Common viewpoints see stars as collapsed whirlpools of gas and dust heated to fusion temperatures by pressure, alone. Gravity, it is…
Nov 13, 2017 Solar filaments appear dark because they are seen against glowing backdrops. These articles are intended to show that Electric Universe theory about plasma discharge behavior is a better model for solar activity than consensus ideas. Experiments with a positively charged sphere reveal that a torus forms above…
Oct 29, 2018 Astronomers see magnetism but not electricity. Scientists working with dynamos (an abbreviation of the nineteenth century term, electric-dynamo) think they found clues to how stars and galaxies acquire their magnetism. Turbulence in plasmas forms small magnetic fields, but scientists struggle to understand how those small fields coalesce…
Oct 26, 2018 Images of Saturn’s moon, Dione reveal trenches and cliffs. The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral on October 15, 1997. Few now remember the public outcry against the mission. There were several attempts by citizens groups and the ACLU to stop the launch, because 33 kilograms…
Oct 25, 2018 Stars are electrical entities. The explosion of a star, otherwise known as a supernova, is a terminal event in stellar evolution—the star used up its fuel, collapsed under its own gravity, and then ejected most of its gaseous envelope because of “core rebound”. At least, that…
Oct 24, 2018 Nebulae display their true natures, but convention is unable to see them. “Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.” — Timothy Spall NGC 6334, the Cat’s Paw nebula, is also known as the Bear Claw nebula. It is 50 light-years across and…
Oct 23, 2018 The Sun is not a ball of hot gas. The conventional model of how the Sun works relies on thermonuclear processes. Although no direct measurement is possible, temperatures in its core are thought to be more than 15 million Celsius, with compressive strain greater than 340…
