Oct 31, 2016 Picture of the Day articles argue for electrical interpretations. Every science journal describes the formation of nebulae like NGC 6960, the Veil Nebula, as due to “blowing winds” created by shock waves from exploding stars. Nebulae are often described as “star factories”, because consensus astronomers think…
Oct 28, 2016 Impact features are probably something else. Mare Orientale is located on the Moon’s rim, as seen from Earth, making it difficult to see with Earth-based telescopes. The Mare is almost a complete concentric ring structure with a surrounding basin of regolith. It is bounded inwardly by…
Oct 24, 2016 There is no emptiness in the plasma Universe. “Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in…
Oct 21, 2016 Pluto’s frigid companion exhibits electrical scarring. All information from New Horizons is now available, its onboard memory is completely downloaded. The spacecraft is currently on its way to the Kuiper Belt and a rendezvous with 2014 MU69, another small body more than a billion kilometers beyond…
Oct 20, 2016 Is the Moon habitable? Lunar colonization is a dream long held by humanity. Cyrano de Bergerac, in his book The Other World wrote: “The angel had told me in my dream that if I wanted to acquire the perfect knowledge I desired, I would have to go…
Oct 19, 2016 Electric stars produce electrical effects. According to a recent press release, the Hubble Space Telescope detected hot “blobs of gas” ejected from a dying star. The “plasma balls” erupt about once every 8.5 years and have been doing so for approximately 400 years. The star, V…
Oct 18, 2016 Higher resolution images of the Milky Way reveal more complex nebular structures. A recent press release announces the first results obtained from a survey of the Southern sky in sub-millimeter wavelengths. Long wavelength radiation is also known as infrared. Most astronomical investigations focus on the infrared…
Oct 17, 2016 Mars is a frozen graveyard. There are geographic regions on Earth that are difficult to explain with conventional theories. Norway and Greenland exhibit deep, brachiated channels that penetrate inland for hundreds of kilometers. The fjords have steep-walled side branch canyons whose outlets are far above the water…
Oct 14, 2016 Another of Saturn’s moons appears to be all wet. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. —Aristophanes According to a recent press release, Saturn’s moon Dione shares a “decoupled” crust “floating” on a subsurface ocean…
Oct 13, 2016 Saturn exhibits a circuit between Enceladus and its electrical environment. The Galileo space probe’s mission to Jupiter identified electrical activity between several moons and Jupiter’s vast magnetosphere. What were called “volcanic” plumes erupt from Io, injecting considerable volumes of ionized material into the gas giant’s plasma environment….
