Steve Nerlich
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Black Holes: The Early Years
[/caption] There's a growing view that black holes in the early universe may have been the seeds around which most…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Plausibility Check
[/caption] So we all know this story. Uncle Owen has just emotionally blackmailed you into putting off your application to…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Situation Cloudy
[/caption] Most people agree that the Magellanic Clouds are in orbit around the Milky Way. What's not clear is whether…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravity Probe B
[/caption] There's a line out of an early episode of The Big Bang Theory series, where Gravity Probe B is…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Time Freeze
[/caption] There is a story told about traveling at the speed of light in which you are asked to imagine…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Why Carbon?
[/caption] Last week’s AWAT Why Water? took the approach of acknowledging that while numerous solvents are available to support alien…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Why Water?
[/caption] The assumption that alien biochemistries probably require liquid water may seem a little Earth-centric. But given the chemical possibilities…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Apparent Superluminal Motion
[/caption] The recent list of Universe Today's Top 10 Stories of 2010 included the story Faster than Light Pulsars Discovered…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Secular Evolution
[/caption] A traditional galaxy evolution model has it that you start with spiral galaxies – which might grow in size…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Edge of Greatness
[/caption] The so-called End of Greatness is where you give up trying to find more superlatives to describe large scale…