A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Sep 3, 2018 The next target for New Horizons. NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft on January 19, 2006. As Picture of the Day readers recall, New Horizons provided confirmation of Electric Universe principles when it flew-by the Pluto/Charon system on July 14, 2015. Its next objective is a Kuiper Belt Object…
Aug 31, 2018 Rocky bodies in the Solar System display plasma effects. “Because in the beginning was the plasma.” — From Hannes Alfvén’s 1970 Nobel Prize Lecture. Astrogeologists determine asteroid composition and formation estimates based on their anomalous cratering. As written in the past, asteroids 253 Mathilde, 243 Ida, and…
Aug 30, 2018 The MAVEN Mission continues in orbit around Mars. Mars is approximately 6793 kilometers in diameter, about half that of Earth, with a substantially lower average temperature at minus 63 Celsius, compared to Earth at plus 13 Celsius. Atmospheric density on Mars is equivalent to standing on…
Aug 29, 2018 What powers coronal mass ejections? According to a recent press release, solar flares are driven by magnetized loops of plasma. The magnetic fields in the “magnetic flux ropes” experience “reconnection events” in which the field lines break and then reconnect, causing explosions of “magnetic energy.” Some of that…
Aug 28, 2018 Cassini’s data will be analyzed for years to come. The Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday, September 16, 2017. Since its original orbital insertion in 2004, it found hurricanes surging through Saturn’s atmosphere, along with lightning storms lasting for years at a time….
Aug 27, 2018 The Kepler Space Telescope is defunct. The Kepler Space Telescope was launched March 7, 2009 on a planetary search mission. Before problems occurred, Kepler identified 989 “confirmed” planets around other stars. Kepler did not use Doppler shift as its means of detection. It used a photometer to…
Aug 24, 2018 Stars are not born out of frigid emptiness. Gravity is a weak force compared to electromagnetism. When objects fall in Earth’s gravitational field, they accelerate with a sluggish 9 meters-per-second, squared. However, when they encounter the electromagnetic fields of some substance, like a sidewalk, they decelerate instantly;…
Aug 23, 2018 Before the space age, astronomers looked up at the night sky and saw points and patches of light. With the aid of telescopes they could see more points and patches, and with the aid of spectroscopes they could discover what the points and patches were made…
Aug 22, 2018 Ice on the Moon? “The angel had told me in my dream that if I wanted to acquire the perfect knowledge I desired, I would have to go to the Moon. There I would find Adam’s paradise and the Tree of Knowledge. As soon as I had…
Aug 21, 2018 Electrical discharges in plasma are a better model for solar activity than the models derived from gravity and turbulence. About 100 years ago, Kristian Birkeland led the Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition to a mountain inside the arctic circle, where he and his colleagues discovered that Earth’s…
