Steve Nerlich
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Flat Universe
[/caption] A remarkable finding of the early 21st century, that kind of sits alongside the Nobel prize winning discovery of…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Light Speed
[/caption] The recent news of neutrinos moving faster than light might have got everyone thinking about warp drive and all…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – FTL Neutrinos (Or Not)
[/caption] The recent news from the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) neutrino experiment, that neutrinos have been clocked travelling…
365 Days of Astronomy Now More Than 1,000 Days
September 27 2011 was the 1,000th day since the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast was instituted on 1 January 2009,…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Star Formation Laws
[/caption] Take a cloud of molecular hydrogen add some turbulence and you get star formation – that's the law. The…
Carnival of Space #215
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by our very own Steve Nerlich at his very own Cheap Astronomy website.…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Edge Of Significance
[/caption] Some recent work on Type 1a supernovae velocities suggests that the universe may not be as isotropic as our…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – New Physics?
[/caption] Radioactive decay – a random process right? Well, according to some – maybe not. For several years now a…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Coincidence
[/caption] Cosmologists tend not to get all that excited about the universe being 74% dark energy and 26% conventional energy…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Why The LHC Won’t Destroy The Earth
[/caption] Surprisingly, rumors still persist in some corners of the Internet that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going to…