AstroAli takes the universe’s most extreme “what if” questions — a magnetar replacing the Moon, Yellowstone erupting tomorrow, vacuum decay tearing through spacetime — and follows the real physics all the way to the end. No clickbait, no invented numbers: just the cosmos’s wildest hypotheticals, explained clearly enough to actually understand.

I’m the person behind every article here, and I want you to know exactly who that is.

Ali Asghar Mohammadyar — founder of AstroAli

Ali Asghar Mohammadyar

Founder & Writer · AstroAli

A national medalist in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad, with a background in aerospace engineering and a lifelong obsession with how the universe actually works. I research, write, and fact-check every piece on this site myself.

Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad Medalist
Aerospace Engineering Background
Science Writer

Why I built AstroAli

My fascination with the sky started long before any of this was a website. As a teenager I chased that curiosity all the way to a national medal in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad — the moment I realized that the universe’s strangest scenarios aren’t just fun to imagine; they’re solvable with real physics and honest math.

That took me into aerospace engineering, and alongside it I’ve spent years building things on the web. AstroAli is where those two worlds meet: rigorous science, told like the best documentary you’ve ever watched.

Somewhere along the way I noticed a gap. Search the internet for “what if a strangelet hit the Earth” and you mostly find recycled, half-accurate summaries — or breathless clickbait that invents numbers for drama. I wanted a place that treats these questions seriously: take one extreme hypothetical, apply the actual physics, and follow it honestly to wherever it leads — even when the real answer turns out stranger than the myth.

How every article is made

Everything here is written by me, grounded in established physics and astronomy. When I put numbers on a scenario, they come from real models — not from imagination. Where the science is uncertain or genuinely debated, I say so rather than papering over it. And where a claim leans on a specific result, I point you toward the source so you can dig deeper yourself.

The goal is simple: you should leave every article knowing something true about the universe that you didn’t know before — and trusting that it was explained straight.

Work with me

AstroAli is hand-built — the design, the site architecture, the SEO structure, the whole publishing system. If you like what you see and want something similar for your own project — a custom site, a content engine, or technical SEO — I take on a small number of outside projects. Get in touch and tell me what you’re building.