A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Aug 25, 2015 Stellar flares are seen in unexpected places. In a September 30, 2014 press release, NASA officials from the Goddard Space Flight Center announced that their SWIFT satellite detected a stellar flare with X-ray emissions larger than anything they expected to witness from DG Canum Venaticorum, a…
Aug 24, 2015 “Really and Truly” Thinking is done with nerves and words. Nerves don’t transmit information: the discharge of one nerve stimulates another to discharge, discharges of many nerves are linked and sorted into patterns of activation, and the patterns are rendered into words and arranged into narratives,…
Aug 21, 2015 Hot polar regions are common among planets and moons. Scientists using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) discovered a ten degree Celsius temperature difference above the polar region of Neptune. Another consideration that has not been published regarding Neptune’s polar thermocline, is that the “hot spots” can…
Aug 20, 2015 The “dusty snowball” theory of comets needs attention, since there are crystals that need high temperatures to form in the matrix of at least two. Recently, the composition of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) was discussed in the scientific press. It is only in the last few months that…
Aug 19, 2015 The Great Red Spot could be something different than what is expected. As mentioned in a recent Picture of the Day, the Juno mission is slated to enter orbit around Jupiter in July of 2016. One of the mission’s primary targets is the Great Red Spot…
Aug 18, 2015 An apparently empty patchwork of darkness strung across this field of stars is actually full—of dust and gas and Other Things. The dust and gas doesn’t show up because there’s not sufficient light that we can see for it to reflect, and it isn’t hot enough to…
Aug 17, 2015 Plasma: The New Kid on the Block Institutional astronomy’s blind spot in intellectual vision is in the beginning. Although astronomers acknowledge that everything they see is plasma, they fail (or refuse) to see the empirically discovered electromagnetic properties of plasma. Habits of thought brand plasma as…
Aug 14, 2015 One more year to go. The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. — Sophocles NASA launched the Juno Mission to Jupiter on August 5, 2011. After traveling out past the orbit of Mars, the spacecraft returned for a gravity assist from Earth on October 9, 2013,…
Aug 13, 2015 Rather than clouds of frigid dust and gas, twisted filaments suggest electric currents in space. The Eagle nebula is an active “star nursery” located in the constellation Serpens, approximately 7000 light-years away. It is a multi-spectral cloud of gas mixed with microscopic particles of dust. The infrared image…
Aug 12, 2015 These two galaxies appear to be elbowing each other with their spiral arms. The consensus interpretation is that they’re colliding and generating shock waves that initiate gravitational collapse of gas clouds. The collapsing clouds become stars, many of which are extremely massive. These quickly run through their…
