A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Jun 29, 2015 Hidden water on Mars? Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. — Mark Twain A recent press release reiterates the hope that water was once abundant on Mars and may yet be, locked in frozen vaults beneath several meters of planetary regolith. The percentages of deuterium…
Jun 26, 2015 New Horizons is days away from Pluto. At 7:49:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time on July 14, 2015 the New Horizons space probe will fly by the dwarf planet Pluto at a distance of 9656 kilometers. It is expected that RALPH (named after Alice’s husband in the…
Jun 24, 2015 Galactic magnetic fields continue to be a mystery. Recently, astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), and the MPIfR’s 100 meter Effelsberg radio telescope in Germany observed galaxy IC 342. Both of the radio telescopes’ capabilities were merged in order…
Jun 23, 2016 A ring of gas is said to be orbiting the center of our galaxy. Previous Pictures of the Day discuss the active nucleus in galaxy Centaurus A. The conclusion was that active galaxies display characteristic axial jets and transverse, donut-shaped plasma discharges. According to information from the…
Jun 22, 2015 Gamma ray bursts might not be so far away. Astrophysicists describe gamma-ray bursts (GRB) as due to the “merging of neutron stars” or gamma-ray light radiating from supernova explosions. Recently, the SWIFT satellite’s Burst Alert Telescope detected a beam of gamma radiation so intense that it…
Jun 19, 2015 “Plasma phenomena are complicated and can be understood only with the help of a very sophisticated diagnostics.” — Hannes Alfvén According to consensus opinions, the Sun accelerates charged particles into space in the same way that sound waves are amplified. The interior solar energy travels outward…
Jun 18, 2015 Callisto resembles other electrically shocked bodies in the Solar System. The Galileo spacecraft was launched October 18, 1989 after a delay lasting several years, while NASA underwent a management and procedures overhaul following the Challenger space shuttle explosion. On September 21, 2003 Galileo’s mission ended when it…
Jun 17, 2015 “I’ll believe it when I see it” could be the motto of the empiricist. His not unreasonable belief is that reasonable belief in an idea should be governed by tests that give results which can be sensed. His concern is that beliefs not anchored to what…
Jun 15, 2015 Dwarf galaxies do not appear to follow conventional models of galaxy development. The Milky Way galaxy is not a solitary wanderer; it is accompanied by dozens of smaller galaxies with a more diffuse and irregular structure. As conventional models suggest, there are too few dwarf companions…
Jun 11, 2015 The Wishing Well Cluster in the southern sky is twice the size of the full Moon. The conjectures about how it works are as varied as the colors of its stars. The consensus conjecture of stellar evolution has been developed in detail over several generations. A cloud…
