I have always been interested in these fields. In my last year in high school (1967-68) I was part of the Astro-Science workshop at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. I went on to get a B.A. in Physics from Carleton College in 1972 and an M.S. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1974.

Some of my posts about these fields.

• Black Hole Lifetimes
• Supernova notes
• So You Want to Discover the Higgs Boson?
• Dyson Sphere Update
• Curiosity: The Mars Science Laboratory
• The Life and Death of Stars
• The greatest theoretical physicist between Newton and Einstein
• A strange orbit
• Fun with the Big Bang
• Friday night physics
• Frozen dwarf planets
• A scientist at the Vatican
• Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay followed up at Scientists Confirm Nuclear Decay Rate Constancy
• A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center
• The way the future was
• Superconductivity
• Convergence 2010 — Physics and Fantasy
• Video of the Galactic Center. Since I wrote that, Professor Ghez has won a share of the 2020 Nobel prize in physics for this work. I was also pleased to learn that she went to the same High School I did.
• In general relativity… Energy is not conserved.
• Really long range thinking and Long range forecast: Very, very cold and very, very dark. Since I wrote those posts, Katie Mack has written a great book about the subject, The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking).
• Blinking Astronomical Photographs
• Einstein Was a Good Student