Donald E. Scott: Magnetic Reconnection = Reinventing the Wheel | Thunderbolts

Astrophysicists frequently use the phrase ‘magnetic reconnection’ to explain some phenomenon they see in space, but they’re unnecessarily reinventing the wheel. Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Flares occur when the Sun ejects large amounts of plasma. The experts hypothesized the existence of a previously unknown property of magnetic fields—they named…

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Stuart Talbott: The Shocking Electrical Discharge on Jupiter’s Moon Io | Thunderbolts

a Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have discovered a volcanic hot spot in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter’s moon Io…larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, it belches out eruptions six times the total energy of all the world’s power plants…the new hot spot’s radiance measured well above 80 trillion watts. —JPL/NASA…

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