A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Feb 03, 2015 Extensive deposits of various compounds are found on Mars. The idea that there might once have been liquid oceans on Mars has been bandied about for hundreds of years. The Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, was sent to Mars in order to look for signs of…
Feb 2, 2105 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…
Jan 30, 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…
Jan 29, 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…
Jan 28, 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…
Jan 27, 2015 A salty ocean beneath Titan’s ice? NASA launched the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft On October 15, 1997. The bus-sized, six ton payload was the largest deep space mission ever deployed, requiring a seven year journey to Saturn. Cassini-Huygens entered orbit around Saturn on June 30, 2004. Its name has…
Jan 26, 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…
Jan 23, 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…
Jan 22, 2014 So-called “lava coils” are present on Mars. “Ares…who whirl your fiery sphere among the planets in their sevenfold courses through the aether wherein your blazing steeds ever bear you above the third firmament of heaven…” — Homer, Hymn 8 to Ares (exert) A previous Picture of the…
Jan 21, 2015 “The Book of Nature” is a metaphor. In science, metaphors are usually passed over as mere embellishments of language. The metaphor is expanded into “the Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics,” and then scientists turn away from embellishments and get down to…
