Steve Nerlich
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Star Seeds
[/caption] Molecular clouds are called so because they have sufficient density to support the formation of molecules, most commonly H2…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Oh-My-God Particles
[/caption] Cosmic rays are really sub-atomic particles, being mainly protons (hydrogen nuclei) and occasionally helium or heavier atomic nuclei and…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Enough With The Dark Already
[/caption] The recent WiggleZ galaxy survey data further confirming that the universe is expanding with a uniform acceleration prompted a…
Twisted Ring Of Gas Orbits Galactic Center
[/caption] The Herschel Space Observatory scanned the center of the galaxy in far-infrared and found a cool (in all senses…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Holographic Dark Information Energy
[/caption] Holographic Dark Information Energy gets my vote for the best mix of arcane theoretical concepts expressed in the shortest…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Small Bangs
[/caption] Most gamma-ray bursts come in two flavors. Firstly, there are long duration bursts which form in dense star-forming regions…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – SLoWPoKES
[/caption] The Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars (SLoWPoKES) catalog was recently announced, containing 1,342 common proper motion…
Photopic Sky Survey
[/caption] The Photopic Sky Survey, the largest true-color all-sky survey – along with a constellation and star name overlay option…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Planet Spotting
[/caption] The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia counted 548 confirmed extrasolar planets at 6 May 2011, while the NASA Star and Exoplanet…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Magnetic Fields
[/caption] The mention of cosmic-scale magnetic fields is still likely to met with an uncomfortable silence in some astronomical circles…