We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of…
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There are 7 states of matter; “topoconductor” isn’t one of them | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
When the proper conditions are achieved, even multiple fermions, which normally cannot occupy the…
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How astronomers solved the “Zone of Avoidance” puzzle | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This image shows a laser guide star being created towards the galactic center of…
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Ask Ethan: Does mass or energy increase near the speed of light? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This moving, zipping star field appears to depict an ultra-relativistic motion through space, extremely…
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How mapping galaxies can teach us what the CMB can’t | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
The SphereX (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices…
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Ask Ethan: Could dark matter be “normal stuff” we can’t see? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
The full-field image of MACS J0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate…
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Why ‘city-killer’ asteroid YR4’s impact probability keeps increasing | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
If a massive asteroid, similar in size to 2024 YR4 or the body that…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #114 — Pluto and Charon | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
Here in our own Solar System, we have at least three notable large, terrestrial-sized…
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How small are the fundamental particles of the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
From macroscopic scales down to subatomic ones, the sizes of the fundamental particles play…
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JWST shows surprising violence in a young star system’s birth | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This composite JWST image of the object Herbig-Haro 30 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud…