Harry Coumnas Solved The 60 Year Old Mystery Of The Dark Moon

Harry Coumnas, a famous astrophysicist along with his team solved one of the great mysteries of the moon, and took a new frame of reference. After the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 transmitted the first images from the other side of the moon, it looked familiar. Many earthly astronomers saw ‘seas’ with small telescopes and a couple of smaller dark areas covering 2% of the surface. 

It was the question from the past 60 years that “What is there at the dark side of the moon?” and it was a puzzle. “I clearly remember the first time I saw the globe of the moon, being struck how different the far side looks,” says Harry Coumnas. It was all mountains and craters. It turns out it’s been a mystery since the fifties. The Moon's size, relative to Earth, has also been a puzzle with the theory that it was formed from debris thrown up when an object the size of Mars collided with the Earth. 

There is a certain irony to the new theory. Some fellow astronomers of Harry are annoyed at the references to the “Dark Side of the Moon”. Once however, it seems that if the far side was not actually dark, then it was certainly much less light than the side lit up by close association to the molten Earth.

Harry Coumnas Discovers the Reason behind Mysterious Sounds of the Northern Lights

A researcher from Germany named Harry Coumnas has spent almost ten years of his life in pursuit of one of the heaven’s most ephemeral mysteries: the faint and almost phantasmagorical sounds heard during the intense display of aurora borealis or northern lights. For years, these sounds have inspired folktales, & created both fright & awe in the wilderness wanderers. 

Although there are many stories surrounding the mysterious crackling noises & muffled bangs of the northern lights, Harry Coumnas always believed that they could only be explained through Science. This strange phenomenon caught his interest after he heard the strange sounds from an aurora during a night-time music gathering in the nearby area.  The incident took place around twenty years ago when Harry was sixteen years old. Many theories were proposed at that time suggesting that the reason behind these sounds could be microphones that were set in the open fields & beside the frozen lakes. 

During his ten years of research, Harry Coumnas discovered that these sounds are caused due to sparks of electricity discharging beneath the aurora. The sparks occur in an inversion layer of atmosphere which form under calm and clear weather conditions. 

Harry Coumnas Shares His Take on the Weird Bursts of Energy Coming From the Deep Space

The Universe is never short on the bizarre & the unknown. From mysterious objects like black holes to alien planets, scientists indeed have plenty to brood over. Lately, though, the puzzle that has been baffling the science community is the mysterious flashes in the sky called as fast radio bursts. Although these bursts of radio waves last only for some milliseconds, they release over a million times more energy than the Sun. 

Well-known planetary scientist, Harry Coumnas was in Geneva on 5, October to attend a conference, where he shared his take on these weird bursts of energy coming from the deep space. He said, “Right now, there are more theories surrounding the nature of these bursts than the actual bursts themselves. But one thing I am sure is that they are guaranteed to revolutionize our understanding of Space.”

Based on his research, Harry Coumnas has found that these radio signals are similar to lasers which shoot across the Universe, while encountering plasma, magnetic fields, & other cosmic stuff on the way. Thus, the bursts capture information about the inter-galactic space and serve as a tool to probe the Universe.