The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator, firing electrons to relativistic energies of at least 1 MeV, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

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Northern lights are projected across the Northern U.S. and Europe tonight as Earth gets hit by a strong solar eruption.

Chemtrails are real enough. Government agencies have been spraying the atmosphere with aerosols for decades. Solar Radiation Modification techniques, particularly Stratospheric Aerosol Injection, are intended to combat global warming but the potential agricultural and ecological damage is very concerning. I relate these developments to biblical prophecies about apocalyptic events.

Day 4 of creation, God made the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, establishing them as luminaries in the heavens. The language of the Bible uses an Earth-observer perspective, meaning that light from celestial bodies was instantly visible. Additionally, I confront naturalistic explanations for celestial origins, proposing a creationist model.

Jupiter dominates the Solar System’s architecture. At about 318 times Earth’s mass and orbiting far beyond Mars, it acts as a gravitational gatekeeper, tugging on asteroids and comets that might otherwise stay put or never reach the inner planets. Remove Jupiter from the picture and Earth’s impact environment would change in complicated ways. It would […]

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People filled the streets of New York on Thursday to get a glimpse of this year’s first Manhattanhenge. The spectacular view of the sun setting, flanked by the city’s streetscapes, will also occur on Friday and July 11 and 12.

While there is consensus that our Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a molecular cloud of gas and dust, less has been known about how long the formation of the star...

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