This composite image of supernova SN 1181 showcases the full extent of the nebula…
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Ask Ethan: What’s the deal with cosmic inflation and the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
From a region of space as small as can be imagined (all the way…
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How has the James Webb Space Telescope changed cosmology? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This image shows the same astronomical object, the Ring Nebula, in three different views:…
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Ask Ethan: Why is the Big Bang shown as a tube? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The modern cosmic picture of our universe’s history begins not with a singularity that…
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How NASA’s Europa Clipper helps the hunt for alien life | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The Europa Clipper mission represents NASA’s first mission dedicated to exploring an ocean world…
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Ask Ethan: Do evolution and natural selection occur cosmically? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The Flame Nebula, shown here in a combination of X-ray data (from Chandra) and…
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Why the black hole information paradox still hasn’t been solved | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The event horizon of a black hole is a spherical or spheroidal region from…
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Youngest Milky Way-like galaxy rotates just like we do | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
A zoomed-in view of many galaxies as taken with ESO’s VISTA camera, with the…
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Ask Ethan: How does the Universe’s temperature change over time? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The most comprehensive view of the cosmic microwave background, which is the oldest light…
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Does dark matter interact non-gravitationally at all? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This Hubble image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J1206 shows the arcing and smeared-out…