One Universe at a Time

Note: This is a list of archived blog posts. A list of current posts can be found here.

• How To Weigh A Star
• Naming Day
• The Search For Aliens On A Visiting Asteroid
• The Black Hole At The Edge Of The Universe
• Getting It Wrong And Getting It Right
• How To Cook A Turkey On Venus
• A Universe Of Antimatter
• Measuring The Universe With Gravitational Waves
• The History Of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation
• An Interstellar Object Visits Our Solar System
• Quantum Thought Experiment Works In Space
• Egg-Shaped World Has A Ring
• A Big Science thank you to TV sizzle reel backers
• The Moon Once Had An Atmosphere
• How To Detonate A Star
• The Sun-Centered Galaxy
• Nibiru, Climate Change, and Other Pseudoscience
• How Saving Energy Can Hurt Astronomy
• The Puzzle Of Fluffy Galaxies
• Did You Look At The Sun? So Did Galileo
• And Thanks For Your Support
• How To Build A Pinhole Camera, And Why It Works
• What’s In It For Me?
• The Girl Who Loved Computers
• Big Science
• How To Tell If Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Are Safe
• Dark Matter Isn’t Warm And Fuzzy
• A Tale Of Three Cities
• The Eclipse And The Pendulum
• The Magic Rock
• A Man For All Seasons
• The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
• Thirty Helens Agree
• A Convenient Truth
• Supersize It
• Black Hole Dance
• Goodbye Planet Nine, Hello Planet Ten
• Citation Needed
• The Attraction Of A Star
• Black Holes And Gravitons
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Hit By Meteoroid
• How To Define Distance In An Expanding Universe
• The Rains Of Mars
• A Jovian Eclipse Reveals Lava Lakes On Io
• A Young Star System Holds Clues About The History Of Our Own
• Modified Gravity Need Not Apply
• I Believe
• The Dark Web
• Asteroid Gamble
• The Cool Spot
• Seeing The Future In The Stars
• Distant Dim DeeDee
• Living On Tatooine
• The Circle Of Life
• One Step Closer To The Holy Grail
• Syzygy
• Who Needs Dark Energy?
• Looking At The Void
• Crowdsourced Science Finds Four Candidates For Planet 9
• Live Fast, Die Young
• Grand Finale
• Legends Of The Cold
• How To Get Rid Of A Black Hole
• Millions In Motion
• Supermassive Black Holes Can Trigger Star Formation
• Hello, Rock!
• Black Holes And Dark Matter
• ALMA Sees Hydrogen Super-Halos Around Young Spiral Galaxies
• Nitrogen Powered
• Fast Radio Bursts And Aliens
• What We Really See
• Doomsday Scenario
• More Than Meets The Eye
• Is Eris A Brown Dwarf?
• One Ring To Bind Them
• Dust Bunnies
• How To Find A Star System
• All In The Family
• Sun With A Hundred Worlds
• Doing It Wrong
• Life In A Black Hole
• Starry Fate
• The Little Star That Could
• Light Braking
• Bigger, Stronger, Faster
• How Green Was My Meteor
• And The Heaven He Raised
• Many Moons
• National Observatory
• Surface Of The Sun
• Violet Sky
• The Last Eclipse
• Deep Field Black Holes
• Antimatter Astronomy
• Evidence Of Absence
• Winter Wonderland
• We Three Kings
• And Proxima Makes Three
• Through The Looking Glass
• Phantom Time
• Wonderful Precision
• The Pace Of Time
• Black Holes, Bright Lights
• A Light Change
• Doing The Wave
• Echoes From The Abyss
• The Stars Uncounted
• Jury Of One’s Peers
• The Tyranny Of Words
• The Born Identity
• Emergence Of Gravity
• Close Enough
• Order Of Magnitude
• Quantum Teleportation Across The Dark Web
• The Nine Billion Names Of God
• The Power Of Balance
• A World Of Pure Imagination
• Slings And Arrows
• Sacred Geometry
• An Elegant Weapon
• Why It Takes A Big Rocket To Reach Mars
• New Solar System Object, With Hints Of More
• Young Star In Nearby Galaxy Creates Complex Molecules
• ALMA Deep Field
• Nobel Surprise
• Sense Of Direction
• Death Spiral
• Galactic Motion Challenges Dark Matter
• Vaccines, Meteors, And Why Details Matter
• Dark Beginnings
• Ignorance Peddling In The Age Of YouTube
• Encyclopedia Galactica
• Planet X-Ray
• Jupiter Rising
• The Constant Of Time
• The Enemy’s Gate Is Down
• Dark Matter, Dark Photons, And The Fifth Force
• Dark Galaxy
• Why Neutrinos Aren’t “Real”
• Call Of The Wild
• Quantum Entanglement: Slower Than Light
• The Nitro Project
• When You See The Flash
• Here Be Dragons
• Too Big To Fail
• Dawn Of Time
• Beyond The Cold
• The Infinity Paradox
• Riddle Me This
• Get Off My Lawn
• The First Ones
• To The Edge Of Night
• Big Dreams
• To Boldly Go
• The Old Ones
• Fading Star
• Einstein’s Top
• Size Matters Not
• A Dwarf By Any Other Name
• Bouncing Back
• Year Of The Quiet Sun
• A Million Points Of Light
• Toe The Line
• The Far Side
• The Illusion Of Truth
• From Atoms To Everything
• Across The Bow
• Bell, Book, and Candle
• Seeing Gravitational Waves With Atomic Clocks
• From Many, One
• Are You A Black Hole?
• Eyes On A Distant World
• Asteroids And Quasicrystals
• A More Perfect Union
• Cool Story, Bro
• Exoplanet Water Hiding Under Cloudy Skies
• Behold The Grism
• Lost At Sea
• New Evidence Challenges Rate Of Cosmic Expansion
• Hair Of The Dog
• LIGO In Space
• Pay Per View
• An Alien Star
• The Fading Truth
• Big Planet Discovered Around A Very Young Star
• Primordial Black Holes Could Solve Dark Matter Mystery
• Win Some, Lose Some
• Chicken Universe
• The Heat of the Night
• The Gilded Age
• The Human Equation
• Astronomers Probably Discovered 1,284 New Planets
• Lost And Found
• An Artist’s Eye
• Harboring Potential
• The Challenge of Proving Black Holes
• Mercury Rising
• Cascade Effect
• Looking For Higher Dimensions In Gravity
• Manx Comet
• The Incredible Shrinking Universe
• Makemake Moon
• The Theoretical Dream Of The EmDrive
• Dark Matter Is Still Not Axions
• Looking For Narnia
• The Strange Case Of Decaying Neutrons
• Dust Upon The Moon
• Children Of The Lens
• Hidden In Plain Sight
• The Beast Within
• Black Hole Alignment Is Not So Mysterious
• Tension In The Universe
• Conforming To Gravity
• Even The Stars Move
• You’re Watching DSN
• Dreamt Of In Our Philosophy
• Huge Black Hole In A Cosmic Backwater
• Cassini and the Ninth World
• When Two Become One
• The Quantum Fluid Inside Neutron Stars
• Earth-Like Protoplanet Around A Young Star
• Ever Onward, Ever Upward
• Lava Planet
• Amateur Astronomers Capture Jupiter Impact
• Super-flare Super-hype
• The Wonder Of Exoplanet Skies
• Brace For Impact
• Duck And Cover
• Black Holes With A Twist
• How Computer Models Helped Discover Gravitational Waves
• Beyond The Universe
• Mystery Of The Largest Stars
• Young Star, Young Planet
• Ten Amazing Things Astrophysics Says About You
• Heart Of Our Galaxy
• Astronomy And The Cold War
• A Slice Of Pi
• A Bit Farther
• See And Be Seen
• A Repeating Mystery
• Edge Effect
• The Mystery Of Fast Radio Bursts
• A Dance Of Light
• Give Or Take A Day
• Milk Of Heaven
• The Sky Of A Different Sun
• The Man Behind The Curtain
• Breaking Bad
• Gravity Wave Black Hole Merger Might Coincide With Gamma Ray Burst
• How Close Is Too Close?
• Brightening The Cosmic Background
• Why Does Gravity Wave, And Why Does It Matter?
• What Makes A Planet A Planet?
• Direct Detection Of Gravitational Waves
• Not With A Bang But A Whimper
• Bang On
• Cycles Of Time
• Widdershins
• Watching A Black Hole From Your Back Yard
• What Are The Odds That Aliens Exist?
• Heisenberg’s Mirror
• Leave It To Smith
• Dead Aliens Tell No Tales
• The Surly Bonds Of Earth
• How Large Can A Solar System Be?
• Are Cosmologists Fooling Themselves?
• Field Of View
• Dance Of The Planets
• Five Little Planets All In A Row
• The Possibility Of Planet Nine
• Wants And Needs
• Brighter Than Twenty Galaxies
• How Galileo’s Moons Changed The World
• Facts and Figures
• Was The Wow! Signal Due To A Comet?
• Could You Build A Helium Star?
• Testing Relativity With Fast Radio Bursts
• Eta Carinae Isn’t Alone
• Pile Of Stones
• A Trick Of Gravity
• End Of Days
• The Flicker Of A Star Can Tell Us Its Mass
• Relative Units
• Entering Silent Mode
• The Strange Physics Of Cyclic Cosmology
• Double Pulsar Confirms Relativity
• Astronomers Find New Object, Possible Super-Earth In Our Solar System
• Planetary Storm On A Stellar Object
• Is The Sun Losing Mass?
• Is Earth Gaining Mass Or Losing Mass?
• How A Planet’s Distance Affects Its Formation
• Gemini Sky
• A Salt On Ceres
• Titan As An Earth-like World
• Second Time’s A Charm
• Using Light To Simulate Time Travel
• Ignorant Savages
• Yep, The Universe Is Not A Hologram
• Distant Exoplanet Has Blue Skies
• Precision Falling
• Some Galaxies Give Birth To 800 Stars Per Year
• Cosmic Cryptology
• The Crab Nebula
• The Optical Trifecta
• New Exoplanet May Have Detectable Atmosphere
• Sum Of The Parts
• Shore of Diamonds
• Obstructed View
• Earth’s Oceans Have Always Been Local
• The Galactic Main Sequence
• Citizen Science and Public Engagement
• Heffalumps and Woozles
• Triangulum II: A Dark Matter Galaxy?
• Black Hole On The Radio
• Flowers Of The Atacama
• Astronomy On The Side
• The Circular Economy
• Casting Radio Shadows To Map The Moon And Venus
• Phobos Is Running Out Of Time
• All the Makings of a Planet
• Radio Light Pollution
• Everybody Kills Hitler On Their First Trip
• Radio Quiet Zone
• Did Stars Form In The Center Of Our Galaxy First?
• How Many Planets?
• Back To The Future Is Easy – It’s Back To The Past That’s Hard
• Spooky The Dead Comet
• A Black Hole With Flare
• Is Gravity Quantized?
• Contact Binary
• A Lens Bigger Than A Galaxy
• Alcohol In Comet Lovejoy Points To Early Chemistry
• Cosmic Expansion and Tired Light
• Back to the Future and Time Travel
• Iridium Flare
• Ghost Planet
• Joseph Weber And The Failed Search For Gravitational Waves
• Parking Orbit
• How Do You Weigh A Neutron Star?
• What’s A Coronal Hole?
• Sports Statistics
• Protecting Planets Against An Alien Invasion
• Holding Measurements To A Higher Standard
• How Does Interferometry Work?
• Lagrange’s Gravitational Dance
• How to Find Planets in the Shadows
• The Curious Case of Planetary Orbits
• The Science of Online Dating
• The Blue Skies of Pluto
• High Flying Astronomy
• The Science Behind ‘The Martian’ Hermes Spacecraft
• Wish You Were Here
• The Flyby Mystery
• The Mathematics of Networks
• The Comet That Was Once Two
• Kronoseismology And The Rings Of Saturn