Steve Nerlich
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cubic Neutrons
[/caption] The nature of the highly compressed matter that makes up neutron stars has been the subject of much speculation.…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Impact Mitigation
[/caption] The save-the-Earth rehearsal mission Don Quijote, commissioned by the European Space Agency, is planned to test the potential of…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – A Photon’s Point Of View
[/caption] From a photon's point of view, it is emitted and then instantaneously reabsorbed. This is true for a photon…
The Russian Hubble?
[/caption] This is hardly breaking news, but there's a new Russian space telescope in town. With a name like an…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Unlikeliness Of Being
[/caption] History has proved time and again that mathematical modelling is no substitute for a telescope (or other data collection…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Bubblology
[/caption] One model of a hypothetical multiverse has, perhaps appropriately, some similarity to a glass of beer. Imagine an eternal…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravitational Waves
[/caption] Gravitational waves have some similar properties to light. They move at the same speed in a vacuum - and…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Granularity
[/caption] The very small wavelength of gamma ray light offers the potential to gain high resolution data about very fine…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Big Rips And Little Rips
[/caption] One of a number of seemingly implausible features of dark energy is that its density is assumed to be…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Backgrounds
[/caption] You’ve probably heard of the cosmic microwave background, but it doesn’t stop there. The as-yet-undetectable cosmic neutrino background is…