Sep 10, 2018 Black holes do not power this ring of stars. Astronomers recently discovered what they believe to be a “ring of black holes or neutron stars” in galaxy AM 0644-741, located 300 million light years away. Observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are said to reveal stellar-mass black…
Sep 6, 2018 Intense electric fields most likely create comets out of asteroids. Just before asteroid 300163 (2006 VW139) came closest to the Sun in September 2016, an image from the Hubble Space Telescope displayed a peculiar detail: it is a pair of objects 60 miles apart that are…
Sep 5, 2018 The new solar cycle is off to a slow start. Sunspots are not well understood by the mainstream (nor by Electric Universe advocates). However, it is known that magnetism is involved with sunspot activity, because gigantic loops and whorls of plasma can often be seen connecting two…
Sep 4, 2018 The MAVEN Mission continues in orbit around Mars. When the gradual processes of evolution are the only ideas considered, the history of the planets is impossible to determine. In the Electric Universe view, each planet took part in several catastrophic events. The most recent of those…
Sep 3, 2018 The next target for New Horizons. NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft on January 19, 2006. As Picture of the Day readers recall, New Horizons provided confirmation of Electric Universe principles when it flew-by the Pluto/Charon system on July 14, 2015. Its next objective is a Kuiper Belt Object…
Aug 31, 2018 Rocky bodies in the Solar System display plasma effects. “Because in the beginning was the plasma.” — From Hannes Alfvén’s 1970 Nobel Prize Lecture. Astrogeologists determine asteroid composition and formation estimates based on their anomalous cratering. As written in the past, asteroids 253 Mathilde, 243 Ida, and…
Aug 30, 2018 The MAVEN Mission continues in orbit around Mars. Mars is approximately 6793 kilometers in diameter, about half that of Earth, with a substantially lower average temperature at minus 63 Celsius, compared to Earth at plus 13 Celsius. Atmospheric density on Mars is equivalent to standing on…
Aug 29, 2018 What powers coronal mass ejections? According to a recent press release, solar flares are driven by magnetized loops of plasma. The magnetic fields in the “magnetic flux ropes” experience “reconnection events” in which the field lines break and then reconnect, causing explosions of “magnetic energy.” Some of that…
Aug 28, 2018 Cassini’s data will be analyzed for years to come. The Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday, September 16, 2017. Since its original orbital insertion in 2004, it found hurricanes surging through Saturn’s atmosphere, along with lightning storms lasting for years at a time….
Aug 27, 2018 The Kepler Space Telescope is defunct. The Kepler Space Telescope was launched March 7, 2009 on a planetary search mission. Before problems occurred, Kepler identified 989 “confirmed” planets around other stars. Kepler did not use Doppler shift as its means of detection. It used a photometer to…
