Feb 7, 2017 Does electricity energize the galaxies? In the cosmos there are regions where stars range in thousand light-year lines. Elsewhere, rings of stars can be found, along with galaxies stretching in filaments for enormous distances. The Milky Way contains over 200 billion stars in its spiral arms…
Feb 6, 2017 The Sun is a charged body seeking equilibrium with its surroundings. The electric charge flow into and out of the Sun can sometimes increase to the point where it releases plasma discharges called solar flares. Conventional scientists think that solar flares occur when magnetic loops “reconnect” with…
Feb 3, 2017 Mars glows in high frequencies. NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) on November 18, 2013. Maven is investigating the upper atmosphere of Mars, its ionosphere, and the dynamics of solar wind interactions. Several onboard instruments are monitoring various phenomena: * Solar Wind…
Feb 2, 2017 Supernova remnants align with the Milky Way. Recently, astronomers found a connection between what they refer to as supernova remnants (SR) and the rest of the galaxy. When data from several instruments was inserted into their computerized model-maker, it was found that bipolar SRs, in particular, are…
Feb 1, 2017 What science produces is neither universally true nor real, but is created by the observer and is relative to his predispositions and equipment. As a result, it is not complete but selected, not objective but subjective, and not unique but partial. This produces an observer-created reality, says physicist…
Jan 31, 2017 Are spiral galaxies really elliptical? Dr. Anthony L. Peratt, a plasma physicist and protégé of the Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén, studied plasma formations in the laboratory for many years, monitoring short-duration z-pinch effects, as well as creating particle-in-cell animations using the best supercomputers available. He concluded that galaxies, rather than…
Jan 30, 2017 Tethys is an electrically scarred moon. The plasmasphere of Saturn generates lightning a million times more powerful than anything on Earth. Saturn also emits twice the energy than it receives from the Sun, including 90 megawatts of X-rays. In part, Saturn’s energetic fields exist because Saturn is…
Jan 27, 2017 Plasma phenomena are similar no matter how big or how small. Almost ten years ago, astronomers discovered an energy signature they called a “Fast Radio Burst”, or FRB. The event lasted five milliseconds, reportedly releasing more energy than the Sun puts out in a month. Distance…
Jan 26, 2016 Does tectonic activity form the mountains on Io over eons of time? South Boösaule Montes is approximately 18 kilometers high and covers 17,900 square kilometers, making it one of the tallest mountains in the Solar System. It happens to be located on Jupiter’s moon, Io. How did the…
Jan 25, 2017 Black holes are said to collide. NASA launched the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) aboard a Pegasus rocket on June 13, 2012. A new X-ray image highlights a “monster of a galactic mashup”: two colliding galaxies, known as Arp 299, with “supermassive black holes” inside them. According…
