The Fall of El Gordo

Colliding galaxy clusters

Original Post July 12, 2012 El Gordo is so called because it is the biggest, brightest, and hottest pair of colliding galaxy clusters known to astronomers. Astronomers “know” that El Gordo is over 7 billion light-years from Earth. This knowledge derives from the amount by which El Gordo’s light is shifted toward…

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Electric Helix

New infrared image of the Helix Nebula in Aquarius

Original Post July 5, 2012 A recent image of the Helix Nebula in the constellation Aquarius exposes more details of its electrical structure. The new infrared image shows radial Birkeland currents (called “strands” in the press release) crossing the concentric rings and converging on the central star. (Will “strands” now replace…

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Aristarchus

Aristarchus crater on the Moon

Original Post July 2, 2012 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is providing more evidence for the Electric Universe model. The Moon has intrigued humanity since the beginning. Where did it come from? What is it made of? Today, those questions remain unanswered, for the most part, although technological advancements have provided…

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Ganymede

Original Post June 29, 2012 The only moon in the Solar System with an all-encompassing magnetic field continues to be a source of speculation. Over the last three decades, beginning with Pioneer 10 in 1973 and including the most recent visit by New Horizons, seven different remote observation platforms have…

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It Has a Nice Ring To It

Galaxy AM 0644-741

Original Post June 28, 2012 Galactic haloes are best explained using the Electric Universe model. There are rings around planets, rings around stars, and there are rings around galactic nuclei, as demonstrated by the Hubble Space Telescope image of AM 0644-741. Although the conventional explanation for such structures is that…

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