Steve Nerlich
Journal Club: The Pulsar That Wasn’t
[/caption] According to Wikipedia, a Journal Club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Special Relativity From First Principles
[/caption] Einstein's explanation of special relativity, delivered in his 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies focuses on demolishing…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – How Big Is Big?
[/caption] You may have seen one of these astronomical scale picture sequences, where you go from the Earth to Jupiter…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Could Dark Matter Not Matter?
[/caption] You probably want to put on your skeptical goggles and set them to maximum for this one. An Italian…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Progenitor Problem
[/caption] With so much of our current understanding of the universe based on Type 1a supernovae data, a good deal…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Mass Is Energy
[/caption] Some say that the reason you can't travel faster than light is that your mass will increase as your…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Orphan Supernovae?
[/caption] For some years now astronomers have been scratching their heads over the appearance of supernovae that detonate out in…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Inconstant Supernovae?
[/caption] Given the importance of Type 1a supernovae as the standard candles which demonstrate that the universe’s expansion is actually…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Dark Matter Science
Dark matter - there’s a growing feeling that we are getting closer to finding out the true nature of this…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Green Peas
[/caption] The ground-breaking discovery of a new class of galaxies, Green Peas, in 2009 by a group of Galaxy Zoo…