Steve Nerlich
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Universe Is Not In A Black Hole
[/caption] It has been reported that a recent scientific paper delivers the conclusion that our universe resides inside a black…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Our Ageing Universe
[/caption] It all started so full of promise. All at once, our universe burst upon the scene, but much of…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Brown Dwarfs Are Magnetic Too
[/caption] I feel a certain empathy for brown dwarfs. The first confirmed finding of one was only fifteen years ago…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Coloring In The Oort Cloud
[/caption] It's possible that if we do eventually observe the hypothetical objects that make up the hypothetical Oort cloud, they…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Animal Astronomy
[/caption] In the 1950s, the Sauer research team locked some birds in Olbers planetarium and started messing with them. First…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Stellar Archaeology
[/caption] Although, as we look further and deeper into the sky, we are always looking into the past – there…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – SETI 2.0
[/caption] Fifty years of eerie silence in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has prompted some rethinking about what we should…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Is Time Real?
Time is an illusion caused by the passage of history (Douglas Adams 1952-2001). The way that we deal with time…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Exoplanet Weather Report
Trying to determine the behaviour of the atmosphere of a hot Jupiter - a gas giant so close to its…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Life In Cosmic Rays
We all know that astronomy is just plain awesome - and pretty much everything that's interesting in the world links…