A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Aug 10, 2015 New sights for old eyes We live in a constellation Of patches and of pitches…, Thinkers without final thoughts In an always incipient cosmos…. –Wallace Stevens, July Mountain The Big Bang appears to be the final thought of astronomical scientific endeavor. The verified theories of gravity,…
Aug 7, 2015 Sometimes, one theory depends on another one to survive. According to a recent press release, the largest observable structure in the Universe was identified by a team of astronomers from Hungary and the United States. The vast ring of galaxies, over five billion light years in…
Aug 6, 2015 What causes colorful streaks on Tethys? As reported in previous Pictures of the Day, maps of Mimas, Enceladus, Rhea, and Dione show that they are red to some degree. All the latest maps indicate that most of them are redder on their trailing hemispheres. No one…
Aug 5, 2015 Shockwave: a compressional wave of high amplitude caused by a shock (as from an earthquake or explosion) to the medium through which the wave travels. The plasmasphere of Saturn is highly energetic, enough so that, when the Cassini orbiter sent images to Earth, lightning up to a million times more…
Aug 4, 2015 M47 is an open cluster of fewer-than-usual stars. The contrasting colors of blue and red have an aesthetic appeal. One can even detect a few orange and yellow stars. A person may glimpse an occasional green one, especially if that person fiddles with the RGB settings in…
Aug 3, 2015 Galaxy clusters are thought to be pulled by a force emanating from “beyond the horizon” of the Universe. Astronomers believe that the Universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate. Contemporary theories suggest that galaxies are receding from us because they started out receding from us due…
Jul 31, 2015 Astronomical theories predict a white dwarf star that can not be found. In the nuclear view, a planetary nebula is the result of a dying star that has exhausted its hydrogen/helium fuel supply and collapsed under gravitational compression. The stellar implosion rebounds off the core, throwing massive…
Jul 30, 2015 Io’s caldera continue to puzzle scientists. Previous Pictures of the Day discuss several confirmed predictions about electrical activity on Io, notably, the intense electric arcing between the moon and its parent body, Jupiter. Images of Io verify that Io ought to be considered from an electric discharge…
Jul 29, 2015 Another epistemological tour de force. Probable, Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn’t lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she’s unable to postulate how. — The Space Child’s Mother Goose By Frederick Winsor People don’t pay much attention to “how”…
Jul 28, 2015 Electrically active objects dominate the Solar System Small planetoids, called Near Earth Objects (NEO), are a concern for space scientists because it is thought that large rocks might strike our planet with devastating force. It is a commonly held belief that such an object caused the…
