Steve Nerlich
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Stellar Quakes and Glitches
The upper crust of a neutron star is thought to be composed of crystallized iron, may have centimeter high mountains…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Making Sense Of The Neutron Zoo
The spectacular gravity of neutron stars offers great opportunities for thought experiments. For example, if you dropped an object from…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Bringing The Planetology Home
We keep finding all these exoplanets. Our detection methods still only pick out the bigger ones, but we're getting better…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Astronomy On Ice
Well, here's a bit of a first for AWAT, because this is a story about a telescope. But it's not…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Nice Way To Build A Solar System
When considering how the solar system formed, there are a number of problems with the idea of planets just blobbing…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – One Potato, Two Potato
Sometimes it’s good to take a break from mind-stretching cosmology models, quantum entanglements or events at 10-23 seconds after the…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Is An Anomalous Anomaly A Normality?
The lack of any flyby anomaly effect when the Rosetta spacecraft passed Earth in November 2009 is what, an anomaly?…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Say No To Mass Extinction
[/caption] You may have heard that there is an 86 per cent chance that in a mere million years or…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – How To Impress An Alien (Or Not)
[/caption] It's about fifty years since Frank Drake sent out our first chat request to the wider universe. I say…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup
The most powerful operational heavy-ion collider in the world, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) recently recorded the highest ever…