General stuff

Teena meets astronomy

• Dinner Rolls and Star Dust
• Tiramisu and Gemstones
• A Nightcap And Secrets

Techniques

• Naming the place and placing the name
• See also the sequence under Multi-messenger Astronomy

Telescopy and Applications of Hubble’s Constant

1. The Fellowship of A Ring
2. The Biggest Telescope in The Universe
3. Tocatta for A Rubber Ruler
4. Étude for A Rubber Ruler
5. Trio for Rubber Ruler
6. Zarzuela for Rubber Ruler
7. Terzetto for Rubber Ruler
8. Quartetto for Rubber Ruler
9. Concerto for Rubber Ruler
10. Shadow Plays
11. Look, Look Again, Then Think
12. The Beaming Beacon

Ladders

1. One Step After Another
2. EROs Atop A Ladder
3. The Not-so-dangerous Banana
4. The Oldest Clocks Tick Slowest

Neutrinos and Neutrino Astronomy

1. Bigger than you’d think
2. The Neapolitan Particle
3. Einstein’s Revenge
4. Cube Roots
5. “Hot Jets, Captain Neutrino!”

Spitzer Space Telescope and Infra-red Astronomy

1. Above The Air, Below The Red
2. A Far And Dusty Traveler
3. A Tale of Four Brothers
4. The Fourth Brother’s Quest
5. Myopic Astronomy
6. Presbyopic Astronomy
7. The Methane Story

Radio Astronomy

1. For The VLA, Timing Is Everything
2. Arecibo ¡que lástima!
3. Earth’s Closed Eye
4. A Non-political Polarizing Topic
5. The Ultimate Pinhole Camera

James Webb Space Telescope

1. Yardsticks
2. Pinks In Space
3. Attitude Adjustment
4. Turn This Way to Turn That Way
5. Which Way s Up?
6. Now You See It, Now You Don’t
7. E Pluribus
8. It’s Not All Black And White
9. Lord Rayleigh Resolves
10. The Red Advantage
11. The Bottom of Time
12. Now And Then
13. Now And Then And There
14. When The Stars Are Aligned Right
15. A Needle in A Needlestack
16. A Thumbtack in A Needlestack
17. Why I Never Know What Time It Is
18. The Tops of Time
19. Time Is Where You Find It

Finding Exoplanets

1. Useful Eccentricity
2. The Stars from A Different Viewpoint
3. Astrometers Are Wobble-Watchers
4. Significant Twinkles
5. To See Beneath The Starlight
6. Visionaries Old and New

Gravitational Astronomy

LIGO Series 1

1. LIGO: A New Kind of Astronomy
2. Would The CIA Want A LIGO?
3. Gravitational Waves Ain’t Gravity Waves
4. aLIGO and eLISA – Tuning The Instrument
5. Three LIGOs Make A Banana Slicer
6. Gravitational Waves Are Something Else
7. Michelson, Morley and LIGO

LIGO Series 2

1. Here We LIGO Again
2. Gentle Pressure in The Dark
3. Breathing Space and Frames of Reference
4. Prelude to A Waltz and Black Holes
5. See also the sequence under Multi-messenger Astronomy

Pulsar Timing Arrays

1. LIGO And NANOGrav
2. Inspecting A Pulsar
3. Not A Hum, A Rumble
4. White Noise And Red
5. Little Strings and Big Ones

Multi-messenger Astronomy

• Heavenly Messengers
• A Three-dog Night Would Be So Cool
• A Cosmological Horse Race

Planetary science

Multiplanetary

1. Should These Three Be Alike?
2. The Still of The Night
3. Traces of Disparity
4. The Moon And Chalk
5. Where Would You Put It All?
6. Zeroing In on Water
7. The Sky’s The Limit

Asteroid 16 Psyche

1. GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! Not.
2. The Road To Gold
3. Planetary Chemistry
4. A Disk of Heat and Violence

Atmosphere Physics

1. A Brief History of Atmospheres
2. A Fleeting Shadowed Sky
3. The Ideal Gas Game
4. To Fly on Another World
5. Auroras And Magnetism
   1. Sky Lights
   2. Colors Made of Air
   3. Why Those Curtains Ripple
   4. Snap The Whip
6. Atmosphere Circulation and The Coriolis Effect
   1. When It’s Not The Same Frame
   2. When It’s Not The Same Frame – Never Mind
   3. Directional Reset
   4. The Polar Expression
   5. Atmospheric Jiu-jitsu
   6. The Big Water Pump

The Earth-Moon System

1. Moon Shot
2. Two Against One And It’s Not Even Close
3. Here’s A Different Angle
4. Several Big Sloshes
5. Rotation, Revolution And The Answer
6. Shadow Play
7. Space Potatoes
8. Three Feet High And Rising
9. Eclipse Seasons
10. Eclipse Vectors
11. Elliptically Speaking
12. A Fleeting Shadowed Sky

Tectonics

1. An Italianate Mantle Piece
2. Just Floating Along
3. The Tale of The Stripes
4. Ka-RUNCH!
5. The Bad, Sad, Rad Red Dot
6. Mineral Winds
7. Listen to The Rock Music

Mars

1. Helios versus Mars, Planetary Version
2. Why Is Mars Red But Earth Is Blue?
3. Holes in The Ground — Big Ones
4. The Big Splash? Maybe.
5. Why So Big?
6. To Swerve And Project
7. No Symphony on Mars
8. New Volcano, Old Crater

Jupiter

1. A close look at The GRS
2. The GRS Is A Hurricane Done Inside-out
3. So How Does It Work?
4. A Recourse to Pastry
5. Lemon, Vanilla, Cinnamon
6. Icing on The Brownie
7. Red Velvet with Icing
8. Clouds from Both Sides Now
9. Red And Blue Enigmas
10. Stripes And Solids
11. The Big Skip?
12. Big Spins May Make Littler Spins
13. Revising The Model
14. Zoning Out Over Jupiter
15. Screaming Out Of Space
16. A Pencil In Space
17. Sectorial Setbacks
18. Completing The Triad
19. A Loose-end Lagniappe
20. Shapes And Numbers
21. Jupiter And The Atoms
22. A Spherical Bandstand

Jupiter’s Moon Io

1. Why Is Io Hot, Europa Not?
2. A Lazy Day at 1400°C
3. Phases And Changes
4. Surf Lake Loki? No, thanks.

Saturn’s Moon Titan

1. The Basis for Life on Titan, Maybe
2. Titan’s Atmosphere Is A Gas
3. The Titanic Winds of Titan (And Venus)
4. Fifty Shades of Ice
5. Life And Energy on Titan, Maybe
6. A Better Idea for Life on Titan

Other planets and moons

• Hoppin’ Water Molecules (Luna)
• Plutonic Goofyness
• Smart Dinosaurs (Earth)
• To Swerve And Project (Earth and Mars)
• The Trough And The Plateau (Earth)
• The Methane Story (Earth)

Planetary system mechanics

1. A Brief History of Atmospheres
2. Gettin’ Kinky in Space
3. Is There A Lurker in The Solar System?
4. The Solar System Is in Gear
5. The New System’s in Tune
6. Conjunction Function

Stellar-system science

• Far Out, Man
• Water, Water Everywhere, How Come?
• Generation(s) of Stars
• Rhythm Method
• Fierce Roaring Beast
• Cal’s Gallery
• Why A Disk?

How do stars work?

1. Layer upon Layer
2. Stars Are REALLY Warm-hearted
3. A Tug at The Ol’ Gravity Strings
4. Hiding Among The Hill Spheres
5. SPLASH Splish plink
6. Old Sol And The Pasta Pot

TRAPPIST-1

1. The New System’s in Tune
2. The Luck o’ the (insert nationality here)
3. How Many Ways Can You Look at The Sky

Tabby’s Star

1. The Weirdest, and Naughtiest, Star in The Galaxy
2. Tabby’s Star – Weird or Really Weird?
3. Twinkle, Twinkle, Tabby’s Star

Collections of stars

• Galaxies Fluffy and Faint
• Galaxies Sing in A Low Register
• Sounds, Harsh And Informative
• A Million Times Weaker Than Moonlight
• Sussing Out The Unseeable

Cosmology

• The Shape of π And The Universe
• A Summertime Slice of π
• The Edges of The Universe
• A High-contrast Image
• Black, White and Wormy
• Hillerman, Pratchett and Narrativium
• Got To Be Good-lookin’ ‘Cause He’s So Hard To See
• A No-Charge Transaction
• A Shot Through The Dark
• Does Tomorrow Exist?
• Posts under Symmetry
• Posts under Event Horizon

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

1. The Prints of Darkness
2. Dark Passage
3. Dancing in The Dark
4. Dark Horizon
5. Dark Shadows
6. Three Shades of Dark
7. A Play Beyond The Play
8. Posts under Subatomic Phenomena

Quantized Space

1. Small, yes, but how small?
2. Maybe even smaller

Parallel Universe Proposals

1. Worlds Enough and Time Reversed
2. Too Many Schrödingers
3. Question Time
4. Avoiding A Big Bang
5. Big Bang ¦ Gnab Gib?
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. A Two-way Stretch, Maybe
8. The Futile Search for Anti-Me
9. Noodles Or A Sandwich?
10. So Many Lunches
11. A Matter of Degree
12. Time And The Egg
13. Reflection, Rotation and Spacetime
14. Symmetry And The Loopholes
15. Five More Alternate Universes?
16. A Play Beyond The Play

Time

1. The Bottom of Time
2. Now And Then
3. Now And Then And There
4. When The Stars Are Aligned Right
5. A Needle in A Needlestack
6. A Thumbtack in A Needlestack
7. Pushing It Too Far
8. Why I Never Know What Time It Is
9. The Tops of Time
10. Time Is Where You Find It
11. Not Crunch Time
12. Three Phases of Ever
13. Constant’s Companion
14. En Route to Spreading Out
15. Generation(s) of Stars
16. In Vacuo Veritas?
17. A Carefully Plotted Tale
18. Confluence
19. The Time Is Out of Joint
20. Squaring The Circle
21. Properties of Space

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Hyperlinks to specific topic headings…

1. General stuff
   1. Teena meets astronomy
2. Techniques
   1. Telescopy and Applications of Hubble’s Constant
   2. Ladders
   3. Neutrinos and Neutrino Astronomy
   4. Spitzer Space Telescope and Infra-red Astronomy
   5. Radio Astronomy
   6. James Webb Space Telescope
   7. Finding Exoplanets
   8. Gravitational Astronomy
      1. LIGO Series 1
      2. LIGO Series 2
      3. Pulsar Timing Arrays
   9. Multi-messenger Astronomy
3. Planetary science
   1. Multiplanetary
      1. Asteroid 16 Psyche
      2. Atmosphere Physics
   2. The Earth-Moon System
      1. Tectonics
   3. Mars
   4. Jupiter
   5. Jupiter’s Moon Io
   6. Saturn’s Moon Titan
   7. Other planets and moons
   8. Planetary system mechanics
4. Stellar-system science
   1. How do stars work?
   2. TRAPPIST-1
   3. Tabby’s Star
5. Collections of stars
6. Cosmology
   1. Dark Matter and Dark Energy
   2. Quantized Space
   3. Parallel Universe Proposals
   4. Time