Jan 30, 2018 Stars form at a faster rate in a starburst galaxy. Astronomers using the Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) recently announced that a distant galaxy is creating stars at an anomalous rate. So-called “starburst galaxies” contain regions where stars form at “a breakneck rate”, so fast that…
Jan 26, 2018 Planetary nebulae sometimes reveal bifurcated jets emanating from their interior stars. More often than not, those jets reveal an indication of helical shapes. Common astronomical theories propose that red giant stars expand because they “burn” most of their primordial hydrogen, and begin consuming the helium that…
Jan 25, 2018 Bright aurorae are found throughout the Solar System. Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in…
Jan 23, 2018 Enigmatic galactic structures. NGC 4258 is called “the weirdo galaxy” in a recent press release. Two arms of its spiral structure are not in the plane of rotation; instead, they rise from the galaxy’s core. The additional arms exist within the path of energetic particles ejected…
Jan 22, 2018 What forms galactic disks? Observations by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) indicate that a torus of stars surrounds the Milky Way at a distance of 120,000 light-years. The Milky Way’s stellar population was previously estimated to be about 200 billion stars contained in the spiral arms…
Jan 19, 2018 Recent data calls black holes into question. Astronomers “know” that black holes exist because they see energetic radiation and collimated jets erupting from small regions of space. Collimated jets are said to result from matter falling into a black hole’s gravity field. As material orbits closer, it…
Jan 18, 2018 Did water inundate Mars? “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” —William Shakespeare Planetary scientists believe that deep canyons, ripples, and other structures…
Jan 17, 2018 Can strong gravity bend space? Einstein’s theory of General Relativity states that, when light passes close to a massive celestial object it bends in the same way that light is refracted by a glass lens. In consensus circles, that phenomenon is labeled “gravitational lensing”. As the theory…
Jan 16, 2018 A new mission to study the Sun from close up. As Electronic Sun theory reveals, the Sun is powered externally by Birkeland current filaments that supply it with variable electric charge. Sunspots, flares, coronal heating, and coronal mass ejections are due to changes in the Sun’s galactic electrical supply….
Jan 15, 2018 Does water ice exist on Mars? “He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Mars is mysterious. Although it is the most extensively studied celestial body—from the days of Giovanni Schiaparelli to the Curiosity rover…
