Sun Aug 14, 2016 11:10 am
Traveling to Mars with immortal plasma rockets
https://theconversation.com/traveling-t ... kets-58705
Kepler’s ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Just Got Weirder
http://www.seeker.com/alien-megastructu ... 06224.html
Mysterious Supernovas Explode Twice, Giving Birth to Powerful Magnets
http://www.space.com/33680-supernovas-e ... gnets.html
Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -explained
Curiosity has disproved ‘old idea of Mars as a simple basaltic planet’
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-curiosity- ... altic.html
Cassini finds hydrocarbon flooded canyons on Saturn’s moon Titan
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 150010.htm
Commercial Space to Smash the Astronomy ‘Funding Wall’?
http://www.seeker.com/could-commercial- ... 77465.html
How Humans Could Go Interstellar, Without Warp Drive
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/ ... ace-travel
Even a dwarf galaxy with very low mass is capable of accreting smaller nearby galaxies
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-galaxies-v ... -flea.html
How a star cluster ruled out MACHOs ([theory of] massive black holes hiding in the halos of galaxies ... ruled out by a star cluster)
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-star-cluster-machos.html
Astrophysicists discover [wrong as usual] mechanism for spiral-arm formation in disk galaxies
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-star-cluster-machos.html
About 20,000 kilometers beneath the sun’s surface, magnetic fields rise no faster than about 500 kilometers per hour ... implying that moving parcels of gas help steer magnetic fields toward the surface
http://www.sciencenews.org/article/magn ... our?tgt=nr
Humans may have taken different path into Americas than thought
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hum ... ght?tgt=nr
Sun Aug 21, 2016 6:29 am
Did Meteorite Impacts Sterilize Subsurface Mars Life?
http://www.seeker.com/did-meteorite-imp ... 43776.html
Earth-Like Planet Around Proxima Centauri Discovered
http://www.universetoday.com/130276/ear ... discovered
Have we detected an alien megastructure in space, at Tabby's Star?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -telescope
Message from Outer Space? The Mysterious Indecipherable Script of the Inga Stone (Brazil)
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... one-006442
Brown dwarfs reveal exoplanets' secrets
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-brown-dwar ... crets.html
Nine new open clusters found in the Sun's neighborhood
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-clusters-s ... rhood.html
Giant planet and brown dwarf discovered in a close binary system HD 87646
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-giant-plan ... inary.html
Supernova ejected from the pages of history
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-supernova- ... story.html
Classical nova observations before, during and after exploding
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-classical- ... tured.html
New Galaxy Pair Seen Getting Closer to Earth
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142637.htm
Asteroid Redirect Mission: Design Milestone
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 190643.htm
Comet That Disappeared: What Happened to Ison?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 162358.htm
Close Encounters between Centaurs and Gas Giants Form Our Solar System’s ‘Pinky Rings’
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/centa ... 04117.html
Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:49 pm
NASA Just Found a Lost Spacecraft
http://gizmodo.com/we-get-a-happy-endin ... 1785623536
Chinese scientists study viability of manned radar station on the moon
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies ... ar-station
Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... a-centauri
OSIRIS-Rex: Bringing Home Pieces of an Asteroid
http://www.space.com/33776-osiris-rex.html
Test for damp ground at Mars streaks finds none
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-damp-groun ... reaks.html
Fossilized rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-fossilized ... -mars.html
Astronomers discover a large cavity around the Tycho's supernova
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-astronomer ... rnova.html
Distant Galaxy Clusters
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-cosmic-nei ... ation.html
ALMA finds unexpected trove of gas around larger stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-alma-unexp ... arger.html
Rosetta captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-rosetta-ca ... burst.html
Scientists discover a Massive galaxy of [undetectable] dark matter
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-scientists ... alaxy.html
Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:00 pm
NASA: Earth is Vulnerable to Invisible, Microscopic Black Holes – “Universe is Filled with Primordial Black Holes Speeding Through Space Like Bullets” [a different kind of "catastrophism"]
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... es-fo.html
SETI has observed a “strong” ET signal that may originate from a Sun-like star
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/ ... -like-star
Another ‘Alien’ Signal Had Earthly Cause, Russian Scientists Say
http://www.space.com/33922-mysterious-s ... cause.html
Hunt for ninth planet reveals new extremely distant solar system objects
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 093242.htm
Weird Grooves On Mars’ Moon Phobos Traced to Asteroids
http://www.space.com/33895-phobos-groov ... olved.html
Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ceres-tiny ... erupt.html
See Charles Chandler's explanation at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=6199 especially the sections on Tidal Forces, Volcanoes and The Moho; eruptions are caused by tidal forces on internal electric double layers.
Images from Sun’s edge reveal origins of solar wind
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 090116.php
Charles Chandler noticed that a few years ago too
Doomsday Asteroid Goes Undetected, Narrowly Misses Earth one week ago
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/09/d ... sses-earth
The rise and fall of galaxy formation
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-fall-galaxy-formation.html
Galaxy cluster discovered at record-breaking distance [except their distance calculations are way flawed]
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-galaxy-clu ... tance.html
Two new fast X-ray transients discovered in the galactic plane
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-fast-x-ray ... plane.html
Rosetta collects and examines space dust samples from comet 67P
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-rosetta-sp ... t-67p.html
Sulfur, sulfur dioxide and graphitized carbon observed on asteroid for first time
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-sulfur-dio ... eroid.html
Ice not a major factor of dwarf planet Ceres' surface features
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ice-major- ... lanet.html
Jupiter's north pole images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything seen on any other gas giant
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-jupiter-no ... solar.html
Eta Carinae 1840s Great Eruption was only the latest in a series of massive outbursts of the star system since the 13th century
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-supernova- ... tions.html
Sun Sep 11, 2016 12:18 pm
Cracks are showing in the dominant explanation for dark matter. Is there anything more plausible to replace it? Duh, EM?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... f-darkness
Nasa’s Osiris-Rex probe set to grab a speeding asteroid
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... roid-bennu
‘Impossible engine’ set for space test: Controversial technology to be launched on shoebox-sized satellite
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... llite.html
“Giant Comets from the Kuiper Belt Pose a Real Threat to Earth” –NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft to Probe These
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... obe-1.html
Are We Living in a Simulation?
http://www.universetoday.com/130704/are ... simulation
NASA’s Other Asteroid Mission: Grab A Chunk And Put It In Orbit Around The Moon [just as I requested]
http://www.space.com/34016-why-osiris-r ... eroid.html
Dark matter clumps [or maybe something real] may have punched through star stream
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... tar-stream
Mini-lightning may flash in the coldest moon craters vapourising soil
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -thin-soil
Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-brown-dwar ... solar.html
Detailed age map shows how Milky Way came together [not likely]
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-age-milky.html
Remnant of the early Milky Way harbouring stars of hugely different ages revealed [using bad dating methods]
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hubble-rar ... early.html
Titan's dunes and other features emerge in new images
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-titan-dune ... mages.html
Young magnetar likely the slowest pulsar ever detected
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-young-magn ... ulsar.html
Mars rover Curiosity views spectacular layered rock formations
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-mars-rover ... cular.html
Sun Sep 18, 2016 12:54 pm
Small Universe: M33 Internal Motions
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/avm-bib.htm
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/m33rcm.htm
The author of these pages is of the opinion that van Maanen's internal motions in spiral nebulae were actually [wrongly?] rejected by mainstream cosmology (which is focused on the idea of the big bang with it's expanding universe, populated by other island universes, i.e., galaxies). If van Maanen's internal motions are real, their magnitudes would imply that the whole observable universe is compri[s]ed solely of the Milky Way and its very nearby environment. Spiral nebulae wouldn't be island universes, and they would be no further from us than the Milky Way's galactic halo. For more on this idea, see Cosmology's Missing Mass Problems - Part 3.
... Comments on Knut Lundmark's "Studies of Anagalactic Nebulae"
Lundmark(2) reported internal motions in M33. These were on the same order of magnitude that van Maanen found, but he concluded that the motions were of a random nature. See M33 Internal Motions According to Lundmark. See the blink comparator (its not aligned right yet) which shows van Maanen's internal motions compared to Lundmark's.
Small Universe: Cosmology's Missing Mass Problems - Part 4
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/missmas4.htm
A fresh look at discordant redshift galaxies in compact groups 03/1996
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996Ap%26 ... db_key=AST
We reexamine the statistics of discordant redshift galaxies in compact groups. We find that 43 out of 100 groups in the Hickson catalog contain at least one discordant redshift galaxy. We show that, despite the prevailing impression, all previous attempts have failed to explain this large number of discordant redshift galaxies. The order of magnitude excess survives all of our attempts to refine the sample.
The ‘impossibly bright’ monster pulsar: Researchers recreate mysterious mammoth galactic event in a supercomputer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... puter.html
Full and new moons linked to timing of largest, deadliest quakes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... est-quakes
Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-chemistry- ... cated.html
"In one model, a low-energy impact leaves the proto-Earth and Moon shrouded in a silicate atmosphere; in the other, a much more violent impact vaporizes the impactor and most of the proto-Earth, expanding to form an enormous superfluid disk out of which the Moon eventually crystallizes." The isotopic study used K239 and K241 and determined that the second theory was correct. "Supercritical fluids can flow through solids like a gas and dissolve materials like a liquid." "Wang ... predict[s] the Moon condensed in a pressure of more than 10 bar, or roughly 10 times the sea level atmospheric pressure on Earth."
Massive dunes on Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan, shown in detail
http://www.space.com/34026-saturn-moon- ... video.html
Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-discovery- ... verse.html
It’s official: You’re lost in a directionless universe [say directionless scientists]
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/ ... s-universe
Universe’s reionization is based on a galaxy’s dust content
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 173840.htm
ESO Mapping our galaxy: a three-dimensional map of a billion stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-galaxy-milky-revealed.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-billion-st ... -star.html
X-ray detection sheds new light on Pluto
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-x-ray-pluto.html
B-type main-sequence star designated HD 30963 has unusual overabundances of Hg, Mn, Pt, Y, Zr, He, Ni
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hd-chemica ... -star.html
Large reddish polar region Charon (from Pluto?)
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-pluto-larg ... n-red.html
Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-discovery- ... earth.html
Tantalising clue Mars may contain habitats which can support life
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hebridean- ... -mars.html
Blackholes [or something] cause some galaxies to change dramatically in only 10 years
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-starving-b ... alaxy.html
Thirty years ago something dramatically brightened, becoming a Type 1 quasar; it has now dimmed again
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-distant-quasar.html
Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:15 am
Echoes of black holes eating stars discovered
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142609.htm
A black hole destroying a star, [in] "stellar tidal disruption," releases an enormous amount of energy, brightening the surroundings in a flare. ... The WISE spacecraft, which maps the entire sky every six months, allowed the variation in infrared emission from the dust to be measured. ... [D]ust heated by a flare causes an infrared signal that can be detected for up to a year after the flare is at its most luminous. ... "The black hole has destroyed everything between itself and this dust shell," [leaving] a patchy, spherical web of dust located a few trillion miles (half a light-year) from the black hole itself.
Some ancient Mars lakes formed long after others [or maybe not long]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142043.htm
Interstellar Clouds [or something] Eroded Martian Atmosphere
http://www.seeker.com/interstellar-sour ... 15479.html
Scientists Baffled By Pluto’s Intense X-Ray Emissions
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... g-x-r.html
Saturn’s rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock [not from moon geysers?]
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... g-icy-rock
Uranus & Neptune May Keep Orthocarbonic acid Stable Under Massive Pressure
http://www.universetoday.com/130666/ura ... e-pressure
NASA’s Voyager I hit by third solar ‘tsunami’
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-voyager ... ar-tsunami
Does Our Galaxy Have a Habitable Zone?
http://www.universetoday.com/130914/gal ... table-zone
‘Mars-quakes’ might give off hydrogen for Mars colonists
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 103618.htm
Hubble Telescope Snaps Best-Ever Views of a Comet’s Disintegration
http://www.space.com/34092-comet-disint ... hotos.html
Senate panel authorizes money for Mars mission
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... t/90793160
ESA: Moon village the next step for space exploration
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... -thinks-so
Chemically peculiar star HR8844 could be a hybrid object
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-chemically ... ybrid.html
HR8844 [is a] superficially normal A0V star [but its] light elements are under-abundant [and] very heavy elements are overabundant [so] the star should be reclassified as a chemically peculiar star. ... Besides their chemical composition, [such stars] have magnetic fields and experience very slow rotation with an average velocity of 29 km/s, which leads to extremely sharp-lined spectra.
Sun Oct 02, 2016 9:41 am
Evidence Moon formed by object hitting young Earth: Layer of iron and other elements deep underground
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-moon-creat ... hesis.html
A stratified layer beneath the rocky mantle ... appears in seismic data.... [T]he stratified layer ... some 200 miles thick and ... 1,800 miles below the Earth's surface ... [is] believed to consist of a mix of iron and lighter elements, including oxygen, sulfur and silicon.
Shrinking Mercury is Tectonically Active After All
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-incred ... -after-all
Pluto’s Liquid Water Ocean Might Be Insanely Deep, over 100 km
http://gizmodo.com/plutos-liquid-water- ... 1787010446
Europa moon 'spewing water jets'
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37473617
"The (earlier work) used spectroscopy, so they really could discern evidence of dissociated water molecules". "The Sparks team discovered evidence of plume activity through imaging - visually." The suggestion is that the jets reach several hundred kilometres in height before then falling back on to Europa. The ... estimated a volume of water [is] equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool ... spewed into space about every eight minutes.
[I wonder how dissociated oxygen and hydrogen would fall back down. Or do they mean only some of the water dissociates? And when they say water, do they mean ice? I don't think it's very warm above Europa.]
First-Ever Binary Alien Giant Planets Possibly Found
http://www.space.com/34121-first-ever-b ... anets.html
They are similar to each other in size and age between the gas giant and brown dwarf stages.
Giant Green Space Blob Mystery Solved
http://www.space.com/34130-giant-green- ... olved.html
Two huge galaxies were observed in the blob’s core, and they’re surrounded by a swarm of smaller galaxies in what appears to be the birth of a massive cluster of galaxies.
Mystery radio bursts may be pulsars bumping into asteroids
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -asteroids
[Asteroids would quickly vaporize into ions near a pulsar, which is a huge natural tokamak, i.e. a torus of magnetically confined ions.]
X-rays that don't come from any known source
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 104700.htm
China Completes Largest Radio Telescope In The World
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... -the-world
Rosetta mission ends in comet collision
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37520420
Hubble views a colorful demise of a sun-like star [or it could be an exotic star, like a pulsar without a demise]
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hubble-vie ... -star.html
Astronomers image newly discovered comet C/2016 R3
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-astronomer ... comet.html
Pulsar discovered in an ultraluminous X-ray source
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-pulsar-ult ... ource.html
The ultraviolet diversity of supernovae
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ultraviole ... novae.html
Kepler watched a Cepheid star boil
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-kepler-cepheid-star.html
Rosetta measures production of water [or its components] at comet over two years
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-rosetta-pr ... years.html
Discovery of an extragalactic hot molecular core, a cocoon surrounding a newborn massive star
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-discovery- ... -core.html
Protoplanetary disk around a young star exhibits spiral structure
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-spiral-arm ... -star.html
Record-breaking gamma-ray binary in galaxy next door
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-fermi-reco ... -door.html
Evidence of Mars crust contributing to atmosphere
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-curiosity- ... uting.html
Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:52 pm
New analysis shows simple relationship between the way galaxies move and the distribution of ordinary matter regardless of how much dark matter they contain
https://www.theguardian.com/science/lif ... in-science
Superfast spinning stars cause strangest weather in the universe
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... e-universe
The universe is expanding uniformly
[No it's not. See cause of redshift at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9273 ]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 093823.htm
Saturn’s moon Dione may harbor a subsurface ocean
http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2016/09/2 ... face-ocean
A Million Humans Could Live on Mars By the 2060s
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016 ... ce-science
Erratic pattern of abrupt fading and re-brightening in KIC 8462852 unlike any other star
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-galaxy-mos ... omers.html
Tidal forces from Venus, the Earth and Jupiter can directly influence the Sun’s activity
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 100416.php
Charles Chandler explains tidal forces here: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9925
Planet-size plasma cannonballs whipping past dying star
http://www.space.com/34323-mysterious-b ... -star.html
Charles explains red giants are not dying stars:
http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=16754
Millisecond pulsars
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-millisecond-pulsars.html
I think Charles explains pulsars here: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9273
New magnetic cataclysmic variable star discovered
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-magnetic-c ... -star.html
The strong magnetic field and the white dwarf mean it's a ring star, or natural tokamak; the ring is ions flowing in a circle.
Potential new satellite of the Large Magellanic Cloud
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... lanic.html
Detonating white dwarfs as supernovae
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-detonating ... novae.html
White dwarfs are actually ring stars, or tokamaks; they don't explode; they only flare; when the circular flow of ions decreases sufficiently, they "evaporate".
X-ray telescopes find evidence for wandering black hole OR extremely luminous, variable X-ray source located outside the center of its parent galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-x-ray-tele ... -hole.html
Luminous is kind of the opposite of black. Charles explained that x-rays and gamma rays are not visible from regular stars with atmospheres that absorb the radiation, but from ring stars, or tokamaks, which are circular flows of ions without atmosphere.
Study predicts next global dust storm on Mars [i.e. within a few weeks or months after the end of October]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-global-storm-mars.html
New insights into early terrestrial planet formation
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-insights-e ... ation.html
"Relatively high levels of precious metals (gold, platinum, etc.) in the Earth's mantle likely originated from one large-scale planetary impact prior to the formation of the Earth's crust"
Using oxygen as a tracer of galactic evolution [?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-oxygen-tra ... ution.html
Charles explains galactic evolution here: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5941
Sun Oct 16, 2016 6:26 am
Lab Experiment Tests What Triggers Massive Solar Eruptions
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/lab ... -eruptions
(Here's a full EM explanation of CME's: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=8292 )
Team simulates a magnetar to seek dark matter particle
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-team-simul ... ticle.html
(Here's an EM explanation of magnetar-like stars: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5738 )
Auroras are directly linked to disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field
http://www.space.com/34330-aurora-myste ... lites.html
Proxima b ‘likely’ to support life
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 50231.html
Ancient stars may explain Milky Way’s bulge
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/ ... ay-s-bulge
(This EM context helps explain galaxy features: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5941 )
More than one thousand asteroids perilously close to Earth
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/7 ... ERED-space
These ocean worlds reveal just how little water we have on Earth
http://www.sciencealert.com/these-ocean ... e-on-earth
Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-proxima-ce ... ought.html
Effect of rare solar wind on Earth’s radiation belts
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-effect-rar ... belts.html
New Dwarf Planet Found in the Kuiper Belt
http://www.universetoday.com/131378/new ... tem-family
Buried glaciers on Mars [or Great Flood]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-glaciers-mars.html
Colonizing the moon? Frequent meteor impacts may get in the way
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1 ... in-the-way
A Super-Saturn Ringed Exoplanet 200 times bigger
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/scien ... 1407b.html
Earth’s Largest Field of Extraterrestrial Objects in Remote Autonomous Region
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... us-re.html
Uranus might have two dark moons we’ve never seen
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... een-before
Remarkable size of the largest known depleted galaxy core
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... leted.html
New infrared source detected in supernova remnant RCW 103
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-infrared-s ... t-rcw.html
Chaos in cosmos: Stars with three planet-forming discs of gas [not really]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-chaos-cosm ... discs.html
VISTA finds remains of archaic globular star cluster in Milky Way center
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-milky-anci ... chaic.html
NGC 6624 cluster's advanced age in razor-sharp focus [but misread]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ngc-cluste ... sharp.html
Cosmological mystery solved by largest ever map of voids and superclusters
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-cosmologic ... sters.html
How Martian moon Phobos became the 'Death Star'
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-martian-mo ... -star.html
The Sun's coronal tail wags its photospheric dog [clueless]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-sun-corona ... heric.html
Lunar surface features younger than assumed [way younger]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-reveals-lu ... unger.html
Astronomers observe a supergiant fast X-ray transient prototype [or VR?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... sient.html
Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:22 am
Surface waves of shock waves in space are potential sites of plasma heating and Cosmic Ray particle acceleration
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ripples-sp ... -rays.html
Dark Side of the Mystery of Sun’s Bursts of Radiation
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... ation.html
Charles explains better: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/2ndParty/Pages/6031.html
Patent For “Impossible” EM Spacecraft Drive Made Public
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/10/p ... ade-public
Antimatter sail propulsion spacecraft could reach ‘Earth’s twin’ in 84 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... paign=1490
Comet 67P cracking under pressure
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/com ... r-pressure
Dusty Avalanches Probably Cause Comet Outbursts [if gravity is all there is]
http://www.space.com/34425-dust-avalanc ... setta.html
Clouds on Pluto? Dwarf Planet’s Weather Gets Weirder
http://www.space.com/34430-clouds-on-pl ... ather.html
Volcanoes on Venus Erupted Recently
http://www.space.com/34420-venus-volcan ... gests.html
Did LIGO detect black holes or gravastars? [No, probably ring stars]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ligo-black ... stars.html
X-ray point source discovered at the center of a distant dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 [another ring star]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-x-ray-sour ... dwarf.html
We are seeing strange X-ray flares [made by electric discharges and ring stars]
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/ ... xplanation
More evidence for ninth planet roaming solar system’s outer fringes
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-evidence-n ... solar.html
Ninth planet may also be the reason for a tilt in our solar system
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... stronomers
A novel approach to studying a star's environment from light curves
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-approach-s ... nment.html
Deep-space images show violent wind collision in one of the heaviest stars in our galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-deep-space ... viest.html
NGC 5128: Mysterious cosmic objects erupting in X-rays discovered [Only EDs and ring stars show x-rays]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ngc-myster ... -rays.html
Discovery of first binary-binary calls solar system formation into question
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-pluto-disc ... ation.html
HD 87646's primary star has 1.12 solar masses; its secondary 22AU away has .9 solar masses; its two giant planets with 12 and 57 Jupiter masses are only .1AU and 1.5AU away respectively, too close to be stable according to conventional theory. But Charles has a better explanation of star and planet formation at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/2ndParty/Pages/6031.html.
Astronomers explore mysteries of star formation with uniquely sensitive camera
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... ation.html
Astronomers predict possible birthplace of Rosetta comet [in Kuiper belt]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... comet.html
Hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-results-lo ... tions.html
Cassini sees dramatic seasonal changes on Titan
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-cassini-se ... titan.html
Did Viking lander discover life on Mars?
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-year-old-v ... -mars.html
Is the universe really expanding at an accelerating rate? [nope]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-universe-rateor.html
Oldest known planet-forming [or ejection] disk
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-oldest-pla ... tists.html
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views Schiaparelli landing site
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-mars-recon ... relli.html
Extinction event: Evidence of supernova blast found in fossils
https://www.sott.net/article/331402-Ext ... in-fossils
Sun Oct 30, 2016 10:43 am
New Secrets Revealed about Ancient Mars from ‘Black Beauty’ Meteorite
http://www.sci-news.com/space/ancient-m ... 04294.html
The rise of ‘citizen astronomers’: An era of new discoveries and collaboration
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1 ... laboration
Looting Asteroids’ Water Will Make Manned Missions Cheaper
http://www.seeker.com/space-tug-asteroi ... 43672.html
Cold Gas ‘Halos’ Found Around Brightest Objects in Universe: distant galaxies
http://www.space.com/34504-quasar-halos ... holes.html
Bright new nova discovered in Sagittarius
https://www.sott.net/article/332112-Bri ... agittarius
Saturn’s weird hexagon changes colour
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37766918
Ancient Quasars Cast Light on Mysteries of the Cosmic Web
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... c-web.html
Previous studies have shown that around 10% of all quasars examined were surrounded by halos, made from gas [of] the intergalactic medium, [which] extend up to 300 000 light-years away from the centres of the quasars. This new study ... involv[ing] 19 [bright] quasars.... has ... detect[ed] large halos around all 19 quasars [instead of just 2 of them]....
Jupiter-Like Planets Can Send Mars-Size Worlds out of their star systems
http://www.space.com/34480-gas-giants-e ... anets.html
First peek under clouds reveals Jupiter’s surprising depths [over 400 kilometers]
https://www.sott.net/article/332210-Jup ... Juno-probe
Binary 'Heartbeat stars' unlocked in new study
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-heartbeat-stars.html
In a heartbeat star system, the distance between the two stars varies drastically [from] a few stellar radii to ... 10 times that distance during ... one orbit. At ... closest encounter, the stars' mutual gravitational pull causes them to become slightly ellipsoidal in shape, which is one of the reasons their light is so variable.
Hotspots in an active galactic nucleus
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-hotspots-g ... cleus.html
Here's something on Charles Chandler's model on that: Galactic Jets from Quasars [not Black Holes]
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... 99#p115587
Earth-sized planets with abundant water statistically likely around red dwarfs [This supports the Earth-Saturn theory]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-earth-size ... y-red.html
Four luminous blue variables found to be much closer than previously assumed [about 2-5 times closer]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-luminous-b ... ously.html
10 years of revolutionary solar views
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-stereo10-y ... views.html
Astronomers use observations of a gravitationally lensed galaxy to measure the properties of the early universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... rties.html
Young stellar system dusty disk of material fragmenting into a multiple-star system
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-young-stel ... iples.html
Dead star's ghostly glow [supernova glow]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-dead-star-ghostly.html
Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the moon
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-formation-crater-moon.html
NASA missions harvest a passel of 'pumpkin' (strong x-ray source) stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-nasa-missi ... mpkin.html
Charles explains that x-ray sources can only be ring-stars and I think also electric discharges.
More than 15,000 near-Earth objects and counting [not counting satellite debris etc]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-near-earth.html
Something is happening: Outer solar system getting weirder (L91's distant path is shifting etc)
https://www.sott.net/article/332319-Som ... ng-weirder
Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:52 am
Distant Niku's Weird Orbit Puzzles Scientists
http://www.space.com/34479-niku-weird-o ... tists.html
Scientists plan to create ‘Asgardia’ nation state in space
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37650274
Stephen Hawking leads investigation into ‘alien megastructure’ around distant star
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/ca ... n-12086124
NASA’s New ‘Intruder Alert’ System Spots An Incoming Asteroid
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... g-asteroid
New Moon Craters Are Appearing Faster Than Thought
http://www.space.com/34372-new-moon-cra ... ought.html
Mystery solved behind birth of Saturn’s rings
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-mystery-birth-saturn.html
Forming star system spits out a third star
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/ ... -mechanism
Hypervariable galactic nuclei
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-hypervaria ... uclei.html
New instrument could search for signatures of life on Mars
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-instrument ... -mars.html
Study reveals relationships between chemicals found on comets
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-reveals-re ... omets.html
Astrophysicists conduct very high energy studies of a highly extended pulsar wind nebula
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-astrophysi ... ulsar.html
Pillars of destruction: Colourful Carina Nebula blasted by brilliant nearby stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-pillars-de ... ebula.html
Close galactic encounter leaves 'nearly naked' supermassive black hole [or something]
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-galactic-e ... black.html
Study confirms that stellar novae are the main source of lithium in the universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-stellar-no ... thium.html
Scientists catalog nearly 100 dusty globules in the Crab Nebula
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-scientists ... ebula.html
Hubble with the toucan (galaxy) and the cluster
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-image-hubb ... uster.html
Gravitational lens makes distant galaxy visible
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-detour-gra ... alaxy.html