Steve Nerlich
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Solar Or RTG?
[/caption] It used to be the case that if you wanted to send a spacecraft mission out past the asteroid…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – A Snowball’s Chance
[/caption] Wanna build celestial objects? I mean it sounds easy - you just start with a big cloud of dust…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Dark Denial
[/caption] A recent cosmological model seeks to get around the sticky issue of dark energy by jury-rigging the Einstein field…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Not So Ordinary
[/caption] Sorry - a bit of southern sky bias in this one. But it does seem that our favourite down…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – One Crowded Nanosecond
[/caption] Remember how you could once pick up a book about the first three minutes after the Big Bang and…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Space Towers
[/caption] Arthur C Clarke allegedly said that the space elevator would be built fifty years after people stopped laughing. The…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Galactic Gravity Lab
[/caption] Many an alternative theory of gravity has been dreamt up in the bath, while waiting for a bus -…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – A Universe Free Of Charge?
[/caption] If there were equal amounts of matter and anti-matter in the universe, it would be easy to deduce that…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Alchemy By Supernova
[/caption] The production of elements in supernova explosions is something we take for granted these days. But exactly where and…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Strange Stars
[/caption] Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. If you cram them together and heat them up you get…