Steve Nerlich
And Now Exo-magnetospheres
[/caption] New observations of one of the biggest and hottest known exoplanets in the galaxy, WASP 12b, suggest that it…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Alien Mining
[/caption] Recently, some researchers speculated on what types of observational data from distant planetary systems might indicate the presence of…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Assumptions
[/caption] The current standard model of the universe, Lambda-Cold Dark Matter, assumes that the universe is expanding in accordance with…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Our Unlikely Solar System
[/caption] Recent modeling of Sun-like stars with planetary systems, found that a system with four rocky planets and four gas…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Our Inferred Universe
[/caption] The universe is a big place - and getting bigger all the time - so at a large scale…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Dark Statistics
[/caption] The hypothetical dark flow seen in the movement of galaxy clusters requires that we can reliably identify a clear…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Doubly Special Relativity
[/caption] General relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity, gives us a useful basis for mathematically modeling the large scale universe -…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Black Hole Entropy
[/caption] An easy way to think about the entropy of black holes is to consider that entropy represents the loss…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Unreasonable Effectiveness
[/caption] Gravitational waves are apparently devilishly difficult things to model with Einstein field equations, since they are highly dynamic and…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Knots In Space
[/caption] So finally you possess that most valuable of commodities, a traversable wormhole - and somehow or other you grab…