A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
November 4, 2020 Transient optical phenomena dominate Jupiter’s environment. The Juno spacecraft was launched on August 5, 2011. After a five-year flight, it entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. As most readers know, Jupiter is the largest planet, with an equatorial diameter of 142,984 kilometers. it is so…
November 3, 2020 Conventional redshift observations seems to indicate that the Universe is expanding faster today than it did in the past. As written in a previous Picture of the Day, “dark energy” is a force that is thought to drive the expansion of the Universe. However, like “dark matter”…
November 2, 2020 In other Pictures of the Day articles, it was noted that dark energy is primarily an ad-hoc theory, so that the current gravitational model of the Universe can be preserved. The lack of matter that can be observed in the Universe presents problems for the underlying concept…
October 30, 2020 Dusty space. According to astronomers, stars condense out of protoplanetary nebulae. X-ray emissions from such clouds are thought to indicate new fusion reactions are beginning. As previously written, supernovae send shockwaves into regions of greater density, compressing the wispy dust and gas. That process is what is…
October 29, 2020 Continental flood basalts. A wide region of central India is dominated by what geologists call “flood basalts”, because they represent what are thought to be the largest eruptions of magmas ever to occur on Earth. The Deccan Plateau consists of basalt lava more than 2000 meters thick,…
October 28, 2020 The Universe behaves according to the laws of electrodynamics. The prevailing opinion about “planetary” nebulae usually involves gases and dust “blowing” through them, created by “shock waves” from exploding stars. In many cases, a nebula is described as a “star factory,” because X-ray radiation, or extreme ultraviolet,…
October 27, 2020 Stars are conventionally thought to form in regions of high density. According to a recent press release from the Nobeyama Radio Observatory, astronomers detected “1000 times” fewer instances of “star birth” than their astrophysical models predict. Since common ideas about stars require them to form in regions…
October 26, 2020 Electricity powers galactic disks. In an Electric Universe, galaxies act like a homopolar motor, a device invented by Michael Faraday more than a hundred years ago. A homopolar motor works by inducing magnetic fields in a conductive metal plate. The metal plate is placed between the poles…
October 23, 2020 Bad theories mean bad designs. When the Osiris-Rex mission was planned and organized, there was not much known about Bennu, journey’s end for the spacecraft. Osiris-Rex was designed to collect dust and sandy soil from the surface of an asteroid and then return it safely to Earth….
October 22, 2020 Theories provide context for observations. Recent data from the twin Voyager spacecraft reveals that the Interstellar Medium surrounding the Solar System is a diffuse region of charged particles, primarily ionized hydrogen, with a density of about one atom per cubic centimeter. However, between galaxies, astrophysicists estimate that…
