Although our planet is thought to have had about a 2:1 ratio of oceans…
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Ask Ethan: How do symmetries lead to conservation laws? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
Emmy Noether, the person who proved Noether’s theorem, which connects symmetries and invariances of…
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How to measure a lunar month during the solar eclipse | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
This partial solar eclipse, captured over Arlington, VA in 2021, shows the Moon’s disk…
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Ask Ethan: Has a new study disproven dark matter and dark energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
The full-field image of MACSJ0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters…
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NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor.…
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Ask Ethan: How did matter come to exist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
In the very early Universe, there were tremendous numbers of quarks, leptons, anti-quarks, and…
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If the Earth had the misfortune to either encounter a black hole or simply…
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JWST’s mysterious young galaxy: dead, or just sleeping? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
The “dead” galaxy JADES-GS-z7–01-QU, whose light comes to us from just 700 million years…
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Ask Ethan: How do symmetries work in physics? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
We can imagine that there’s a mirror Universe to ours where the same rules…
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The “Big Bang” turns 75, thanks to its greatest opponent | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
Fred Hoyle was a regular on BBC radio programs in the 1940s and 1950s,…