Category Archives: Astronomy-General

Astronomy – general: general astronomical cycles – use solar, lunar, or planets in preference.

Shifting Sun-Earth-Moon Harmonies, Beats, & Biases

A recent post to”Watt’s Up With That?” concerns Shifting Sun-Earth-Moon Harmonies, Beats, & Biases, in particular as regards affects on Earth dynamics and climate. That link is just a brief overview of the graphics. The PDF paper is more detailed, … Continue reading

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When minor planets Ceres and Vesta rock the Earth into chaos

Jacques Laskar and colleagues have been leaders in the field of long term solar system planetary motion calculations. Their earlier efforts have produced calculations of the solar system motions for more than 20 million years. These motions are important because … Continue reading

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Harmonically Related Solar Cycles in UV

There are many reported cycles in the Sun ranging from long to short periods, and often periods found are harmonically related to each other. Sometimes the reasons for this rather obvious, but at other times the related cycles have appeared … Continue reading

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Astronomers Discover That Galaxies Are Either Asleep or Awake

A new survey looks at galaxies to see whether they are actively forming stars (awake) or not forming stars (asleep). Under commonly accepted cosmology, the galaxies at 12 billion light years distance are seen quite shortly after the big bang … Continue reading

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Solar Studies Predict Sun Headed Into Hibernation

Firstly, it should be stated that predicting solar cycles has not been a thing that has had great success in the past. But when three groups come to the same conclusion, it is worth looking at what they say. National … Continue reading

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Stellar Rotation Periods and Stars Age

The Kepler Cluster Study: Stellar Rotation in NGC6811 is a new study resulting from NASA’s Kepler Mission. It has been found that the rotation period of cooler stars is a function of age and mass. This has applications for determining … Continue reading

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A Cycles Analysis Approach to Predicting Solar Activity

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, “How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?” I thought for a moment about our … Continue reading

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Fluctuations in Nuclear Decay Rates and Solar Activity

For many years Professor Simon Shnoll and other scientists at the Russian Biophysics Laboratory at Pushchino has reported that some nuclear decay rates are not constant. They found there are variations in histograms of nuclear decay rates sampled at regular … Continue reading

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Indian Monsoon Cycles Through The Last Twelve Million Years

This article titled Indian Monsoon Cycles Through The Last Twelve Million Years written by Shyam Murti Gupta appears in Earth Science Dta eJournal for October 2010. He writes: Although Indian monsoon mostly sets on in early June, it often deceives … Continue reading

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The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements

Reported here: This story is from the Aug. 23, 2010 issue of Stanford Report. When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end … Continue reading

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