This Week in the Electric Universe
May 04, 2009 Unveiling More of Mercury’s Secrets
The innermost planet is continuing to provide scientists with new, unexpected revelations.
May 05, 2009 Cometary Filaments
The Spitzer Space Telescope has returned remarkable images of Comet Holmes 17P, revealing structures that appear to confirm the electrical nature of comets.
May 06, 2009 Joining the Dots Part One: Fireworks on New Year’s Day
Can there be any truth in the traditional linkage of a total conjunction of planets and universal disaster or is this just arrant nonsense
May 07, 2009 Plasma Politics
The flood of new data during the space age has also inundated astronomers with surprises.
May 08, 2009 Joining the Dots Part Two: The Dating Scene in the Sky
Ancient astronomers from the Hellenistic world to China believed that the cosmos is ravaged by deluges and fires whenever the five naked-eye planets, the moon and the sun ‘meet’ in a linear conjunction.
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