Jul 11, 2018 Another comet exhibits outbursts far from the Sun. Astronomers recently announced the brightening of a small comet as it passed into the inner Solar System. Called PANNSTARRS (C/2017 S3), the comet began a significant energetic outburst on July 4, 2018 that, according to observers, began “for no…
Jul 10, 2018 Astronomical theories would benefit from an understanding of plasma-state matter. Winston Bostick is a pioneer of Electric Universe theories, although he did not identify with those ideas by name. He is particularly noted for plasmoid experiments that led to the construction of a dense-plasma focus device….
Jul 9, 2018 Organic molecules can be created with electricity. According to a recent press release, “… heavy organic compounds containing hundreds of atoms…” were detected at Saturn’s moon Enceladus by the Cassini Saturn orbiter during several of its flybys through the moon’s south polar geysers. A recent Picture of the…
Jul 6, 2018 What energizes this nebula to such extremes? Picture of the Day articles note that many structures in the galaxy are active energy sources, ejecting charged matter from their poles, leaving long braided tails, or revealing formations of tightly bunched filaments. A detailed image of Eta Carinae reveals a…
Jul 4, 2018 Most asteroids are presumed to be loosely compacted “rubble piles”. On December 3, 2014 the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched Hyabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan, on a sample return mission to the near Earth asteroid (NEA), Ryugu. Hyabusa 2 follows on the…
Jul 2, 2018 How does the Sun produce heat and light enough to sustain life on Earth? Spectrograms of the Sun reveal that it is made-up almost entirely of hydrogen (71%), helium (27%) and some minute percentages of oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, carbon, and six other elements. Every element is present…
Jun 28, 2018 Is the Universe expanding? “As a general scientific principle, it is undesirable to depend crucially on what is unobservable to explain what is observable, as happens frequently in Big Bang cosmology.” — Halton Arp Electric Universe theory states that stars are born where regions of space…
Jun 27, 2018 Why are stars so unalike? “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” — George S. Patton It is a mystery to astronomers why stars exhibit such distinctive characteristics, because the stars, including the Sun, are thought to form from the same mix of elements in…
Jun 26, 2018 Lightning-like electric discharges occur above the clouds. Capacitors accumulate and store electric charge in two conductive plates separated by a dielectric insulator. Charge on one plate attracts opposite charge to the other, creating an electric field that forms an electrical energy reserve. The electric field between…
Jun 25, 2018 Dust storms occasionally engulf Mars. On Mars, dust storms are not diffuse and separated like those on Earth, they are caused by tornado-like whirlwinds whose tops reach higher than Mt. Everest. They appear to draw surface dust up through thousands of sky-high funnels and carry it for…
