This 1934 photograph shows Einstein in front of a blackboard, deriving special relativity for…
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5 big surprises when comparing the worlds in our Solar System | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
Here in our own Solar System, a single star anchors the system, where inner,…
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Ask Ethan: Can we detect dark matter if it’s truly collisionless? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This image shows the insides of a prototype Time Projection Chamber (TPC), one of…
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Modern astrophysics answers Isaac Newton’s oldest question | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This illustration of the dust-rich and comet-rich exoplanetary system, Epsilon Eridani, has a lot…
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Ask Ethan: Did black holes form directly from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This set of illustrations explains how a large black hole can form from the…
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10 revolutionary finds from JWST’s first 2 years of science | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
This rotating spiral galaxy, NGC 1512, is located only 30 million light-years away, and…
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Ask Ethan: Does time exist, or is it an illusion? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
Time is normally something we measure with clocks: devices that record its passage from…
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Deep space really is completely dark, New Horizons shows | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
This region of space, viewed first iconically by Hubble and later by JWST, shows…
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Interacting galaxies are more than they seem, JWST shows | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
This composite view of “the Penguin and the Egg,” known as Arp 142, shows…
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Ask Ethan: Is Earth’s climate changing as the Sun loses mass? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
Over time, the Sun loses mass through the emission of solar wind particles and…