This map comes from a simulation of a portion of the cosmic web, with…
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Ask Ethan: What explains the Fibonacci sequence? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
The normal, multi-armed spiral galaxy IC 342, as imaged by ESA’s Euclid, with a…
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Stars alone can’t explain black holes, JWST data reveals | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
The overdense regions that the Universe was born with grow and grow over time,…
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Ask Ethan: Why doesn’t radiation dominate the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and…
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4 unexpected lessons from the Milky Way’s weirdest star | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
The supernova remnant 1E0102.2–7219 (inset) sits next to the nebula N76 in a bright,…
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How many times must you fold a paper to reach the Moon? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
If you fold a piece of paper in half enough times, you could eventually…
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Ask Ethan: What if the Sun were a grain of sand? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
A typical grain of sand might only be from millimeter to sub-millimeter sized, with…
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What was it like when the Universe formed the most stars? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
An artistic representation of a starburst galaxy, where the entire galaxy itself behaves as…
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What was it like when supermassive black holes arose? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
The farther away we observe, the closer in time we find ourselves looking near…
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What was it like when the first galaxies began to form? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
An illustration of the galaxy CR7, which was originally hoped would house multiple populations…