A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Aug 11, 2016 PART I “The usual fate of attempts to found a cosmo-physical theory upon experimental results is scarcely such as to encourage imitators.” —Eugen Goldstein (1881) ‘Electric sun’ is a vague term, as equivocal as it would be to speak of an ‘electric earth’ or a ‘gravitational sun’….
Aug 9, 2016 Different classes of celestial bodies orbit the Sun. In the deepest regions of the solar system, billions of kilometers from the Sun, are several asteroid-sized icy rocks that are difficult for astronomers to classify. In a previous Picture of the Day article about Kuiper Belt Objects,…
Aug 8, 2016 “Walk into splintered sunlight…” NASA launched the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) on June 28, 2013. Its primary mission includes a study of the solar corona: why is it far hotter than the Sun’s surface, or photosphere? Heliophysicists see formations that resemble “mini-tornadoes” in the Sun’s…
Aug 5, 2016 Mysterious Neptune. Sir,—The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of…
Aug 4, 2016 The definition of “life” can be ambiguous. Originally published November 16, 2014. The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 18, 1989 from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, and subsequently entered orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995. After eight years in orbit, Galileo was deliberately incinerated by…
Aug 3, 2016 So hot that the Devil took the day off! When gas and dust collapse the material naturally warms up, radiating thermal energy. Stellar and galactic evolution is commonly thought to proceed according to mechanical action. Galaxies, stars, planets, and stardust itself are said to be the…
Aug 2, 2016 Space and time are not a fabric. Originally published on February 12, 2016. According to a recent press release, “… scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves…” The observation is said to confirm the general theory of relativity (GR), since…
Aug 02, 2016 New images reveal a celestial body similar to the Solar System’s other rocky denizens. The Kuiper Belt theory was developed by Kenneth Edgeworth, an astronomer from Ireland, and also (separately) by American astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1951. The first Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) was discovered in…
Aug 1, 2016 Long time passing…. The Dawn mission was launched on September 27, 2007. It first entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta on July 17, 2011, departing on September 5, 2012 toward Ceres. Dawn arrived at Ceres on Friday, March 6, 2015. According to a recent press release,…
Jul 29, 2016 Mars stinks. “The devil, he’s about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow’s peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.” — Frank Zappa If it were possible to stand on Mars…
