An expanding universe and distant stars: tips on how to experience cosmology from your backyard
- Written by Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University
The things you can do with an amaterur telescope. Shutterstock/AstroStar
For people like me, light years, the expanding universe and the Big Bang are part of daily language.
You might perceive these as distant and abstract concepts, best left to professional astronomers with million-dollar telescopes.
Or perhaps not. I think you can experience...

