Rosetta Update

Jul 18, 2014 Some surprises as the spacecraft closes in. The Rosetta Cometary Probe is rapidly approaching Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. To the research team’s surprise, it appears to be made of two distinct lobes. As the catalog of small objects in the Solar System increases, about 15% of the asteroids…

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An Ordinary Star

Jul 16, 2014 “The Sun is new each day”. — Heraclitus For a long time it was thought that the anomalous multimillion degree temperature in the solar corona resulted from “steady heating”, therefore, coronal loops at a certain temperature should possess a specific density. However, solar observatory satellites and balloons…

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Shaping What Is

  Jul 15, 2014 Galaxies are the luminous children of electrical parentage, not the darkling spawn of invisible forces. “Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.” — Lord Chesterfield “Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, but until recently astronomers have been…

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Pearly Blues

Jul 14, 2014 A helix of stars surrounds a pair of galaxies thought to be colliding. Galactic evolution occurs as large-scale plasma discharges form spinning wheels of coherent filaments that display electrodynamic behavior and not merely that which gravity alone can contribute. This concept differs from conventional thinking, since modern…

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Saturn Supernova

Jul 11, 2014 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…

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Flame On!

Space News -- X 1.7-class solar flare

  Jul 10, 2014 What causes some stars to rapidly fluctuate in brightness? The Electronic Sun theory postulates that sunspots, solar flares, anomalous coronal heating, and coronal mass ejections on the Sun are due to changes in the electrical supply that it receives from the galaxy. In other words, the Sun is…

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Titan Salsum Mare

Jul 9, 2014 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…

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Plateau du Vercors

  Jul 08, 2014 Aciculate peaks and curvilinear ridges outline giant circular depressions in the French Alps. As previously written, stone monoliths can be found all over the world. There are colossal formations that make up the French Alps, for instance. In particular, Mont Aiguille (Needle Mountain) is similar to the structures from the…

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