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Kepler Mission discoveries

26 previously unknown planets orbiting their suns in 11 new planetary systems... more

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Giant Super-Earths Made of Diamond Are Possible, Study Suggests

A planet made of diamonds may sound lovely, but you wouldn't want to live there.A... more

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Earth-like planet found in 'habitable' zone

Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar... more

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Planet Hunters unite

NASA's Kepler spacecraft is one of the most powerful tools in the hunt for... more

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Science lesson for Republicans in Congress

From the best teachers.

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NASA's Messenger probe beams back amazing images of Mercury

NASA's Messenger probe has already sent back 20,000 high resolution images,... more

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‪Death of a Comet into the Sun 1st time ever caught on video (Live Video) July 6th 2011‬‏ - YouTube

The death of a comet that plunged into the sun was captured on camera this month for... more

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It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind + new Supernova Discovered to be the 'Creation-Machines' of the Cosmos

The Intelligent Universe proposes a possibility: that the universe might end in... more

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Amazing! NASA Spacecraft Offers Detailed View of Saturn's Great White Spot

Los Angeles Times... NASA spacecraft offers detailed views of Saturn's Great... more

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Project Icarus: Gas Mining on Uranus

Project Icarus is a 21st century theoretical study of a mission to another star.... more

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The Pale Purple Dot --Alien Plant Life as Sign of Habitable Planets

With the discovery of more and more planets outside the solar system by the Kepler... more

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Free-Floating Planets no longer sci-fi

Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of... more

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Voyager Enters Solar System's Final Frontier

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier, a... more

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Dances of the Planets

The planets in the heavens move in exquisite orbital patterns, dancing to the Music of... more

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Saturn's Mysterious Rings at Their Brightest Today

Today, April 3rd, Saturn will be "at opposition"--opposite the sun in the... more

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NASA spots 54 potentially life-friendly planets

An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search... more

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There are a multitude of celestial bodies, and all of them spin.

Any substance that contains charged particles is a form of plasma: electrons, positive ions, electrically charged dust particles, neon lights, lightning, Earth’s magnetosphere, the solar wind, stars, and even galaxies are plasma.

In energetic regions of plasma, filaments of electric current flow in closed circuits, otherwise the charged particles would accumulate and the flow would stop. The existence of electric circuits in space is what distinguishes Electric Universe theory from most, if not all, conventional viewpoints. As Electric Universe advocates insist, it is the behavior of electricity that explains phenomena that appear "mysterious" to space scientists.

X-ray emissions from planets, braided plasma filaments, hourglass-shaped nebulae, and jets of charged particles erupting out from galactic axes provide observational evidence for the existence of plasma circuits. Celestial bodies are not isolated from one another, but are connected across vast distances.

Electromagnetic forces squeeze those conductive channels into filaments that tend to attract each other in pairs. Electric fields that form along the long strands generate an attractive force that can be 39 orders of magnitude greater than gravity. However, when they get close to each other, instead of merging, the plasma "cables" twist into a helix that rotates faster as it compresses tighter. It is those "cosmic transmission lines" that make up galactic circuits.

Astronomers maintain that galaxies are condensed clouds of hydrogen and dust that have been compressed by gravity until they ignite with multiple thermonuclear fireballs. Since there is not enough luminous mass to account for their large angular momentum estimates, theories that involve "haloes of dark matter" around galaxies, or "supermassive black holes" in their centers have been proposed for why galaxies spin.

The cosmos appears to be interlaced with untold numbers of interacting circuits that occur in nested hierarchies. Each of those circuits appears to be composed of untold numbers of twisting filaments of plasma called Birkeland currents. At the largest observable scale there are power-consuming objects, or loads in the various circuits, that appear to be converting electrical energy into rotational energy.

Consensus opinions suggest that galaxies, stars, and planets spin because of how they formed. A comparatively large cloud of gas and dust is said to contract, causing its spin rate to increase. Although, why a randomly moving cloud of particles should have a net spin rate is both illogical and unexplained. In the case of a galaxy, spiral arms form, a disk of material surrounds the central nucleus, and eddy-currents inside the disk condense into stars. The spinning cloud is supposed to overcome its internal gravitational attraction with centrifugal force, flinging out material like drops of paint.

In the same way, stellar systems develop within eddies that form in discrete bands around fusion-hot gravity wells that, in turn, become planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. Since they are all supposed to share a similar genesis, they are all believed to spin for the same reason.

Hannes Alfvén's "electric galaxy" hypothesis, on the other hand, states that galaxies (and by extension, stars and other objects) are more like a device invented by Michael Faraday, the homopolar motor. A homopolar motor is driven by magnetic fields induced in a circular, conductive metal plate. The plate rotates between the poles of an electromagnet, causing it to spin at a rate proportional to the input current.

Since galaxies exist within a filamentary circuit of electricity that flows through the cosmos, they and their attendant stellar and planetary offspring most likely spin because of electricity flowing through them like it does through Faraday's motor.

Stephen SmithThere are a multitude of celestial bodies, and all of them spin. Any substance that... more

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Triple Play In The Morning Sky

Three planets visible in sky shortly before dawn in early January.

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Man uses computers to discover four planets

Well, should sporting prowess have passed you by, or should you have suffered an... more

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NY Times Sunday Book Review: Forbidden Planet HOW I KILLED PLUTO And Why It Had It Coming By Mike Brown

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/books/review/Lord-t.html

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