Posted on 04/26/2015 10:39:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per second speed of the expelled gas, the light-year long length of the structure, and the magnetism of the star visible above at the nebula's center. One possible answer is that Mz3 is hiding a second, dimmer star that orbits close in to the bright star. A competing hypothesis holds that the central star's own spin and magnetic field are channeling the gas. Since the central star appears to be so similar to our own Sun, astronomers hope that increased understanding of the history of this giant space ant can provide useful insight into the likely future of our own Sun and Earth.
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[Credit: R. Sahai (JPL) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, ESA, NASA]
There is no big one.
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Yet, even in the small picture, it IS amazing! :-)
Does this ant carry the universe on its back?
For some reason, the “Rocky” movie theme comes to mind…
If you have Firefox, you can right click and click “view image.”
It is larger than the image in the first post. Then you can press
“ctrl-” and forward your mouse wheel, and voilá! The Big One!
In any case, this is quite a spectacular image, and I wonder if we
see these images so that we might know what will happen to our
own solar system one day, obviously too far in the future for us
to see.
Thank you for the post and ping, Mr. Civilizations.
Thanks! But there isn’t one. In Chrome, the mouse wheel can zoom in and out on a loaded image.
Is this big enough?
The Ant Nebula is going right into my wallpaper folder. I love these images of stellar explosions with the distinct lobes: it's like somewhere in the distant past, it was blasted in two by a Praxis shockwave.
you got it! :)
Trying to explain something they have no clue about is humorous. This object stays cohesive and symmetrical over more than light year and the "hot gases" ignore Boyle's laws, much to every physicist's consternation as they try to explain how this can be using gravity and an invisible postulated star orbiting close to the visible central sun. Such a star orbiting there doesn't explain the filamentary structures streaming further out into space from the bi-globular structures on either side of the center. They recognize the magnetic field, but they fail to recognize that magnetic fields are created by the flow of electricity.
This is actually a Z-Pinch plasma phenomenon in a Birkeland current flow, reproducible in a plasma laboratory with plasmids on either side of the pinch. The "hot gases" are by definition, charged ions, atoms stripped of their electrons. These are surprisingly common in the Galaxy. Some are even more obviously Z-pinch plasmas than the Ant Nebula. For example, the Butterfly Nebula:
Or M2-9. which is probably the best example found so far:
This one has very distinct plasmoid cores with high temperature cores. Much of it is glow discharge mode similar to what occurs in a neon gas sign while the pinch itself is in arc discharge mode, the plasma moves into dark mode the farther it gets from the pinch. The signatures are exactly what is seen in the laboratory Z-pinch Birkeland current double layer plasmas. In this one you can even see the twists in the filamentary structure.
"The "hourglass" discharge configuration, which may have nested hourglasses as viewed here, is forcing a reconsideration of the physics of nebular formation. According to Raghavendra Sahai, an astronomer at JPL in Pasadena, California, "What we thought we understood of planetary nebulae we no longer do. Something different and dramatic is going on." As to the dramatic shape and structure, especially the nested hourglass; this should all be a deal-killer for explosion-type theories, Sahai states, "It is very hard to see how you get it." But the embedding of similar configurations is not a surprise to experts on plasma discharge.
Yet gravity cosmologists refuse to see what is right in front of their eyes, choose to ignore a force that is 1039 times stronger than gravity and equally infinite in reach as gravity, in preference for the far weaker power as the driving force of the Universe. The Electric Universe Cosmologists are not so dismissive.
More information can be learned about Plasma and the Electric Universe here:
Great post. I think the cosmologists are well aware they are looking at electromagnetic effects - they just can’t say anything about it or they’ll lose their grants.
The whole field is suppressed that way, probably because it leads to physics that “they” want to keep secret because of the advanced technology it enables.
Outside of the usual lust for grant money, why do "they" oppose enabling advanced technology?
Primarily weapons systems, I imagine. But probably everything would be considered part of those weapon systems - anti-gravity, advanced propulsion, EM shield technology, literally God-knows-what. I imagine there are actually systems that are openly deployed at this point that are literally unreognizable as weapons to ordinary people, and easily explained away as something else even as you're looking straight at it. Beam weapons are a good example - what's the difference between how a "phase-array antennae" and a "de-molecularizing beam generator" looks? LOL, probably nothing!
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