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Humanity’s third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, is arriving now | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image, taken with a small telescope on the night of July 1, 2025,…
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Starts With a Bang podcast #119 — The CMB | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image shows the Large Aperture Telescope’s colossal, 6-meter primary and secondary mirrors at…
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Will American science become the “Hitler’s gift” of the 21st century? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This “fleet chart” catalogues every NASA science mission across the four main subdivisions —…
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Ask Ethan: What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image, taken in April of 2025, shows the completed and operational Vera C.…
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Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and…
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JWST captures its most extreme gravitational lens ever | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jun, 2025
This side-by-side image shows galaxy cluster Abell S1063 as imaged with JWST (L) and…
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Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension a real problem? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jun, 2025
The construction of a cosmic distance ladder begins with measuring the parallax of individual…
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Video: NASA’s PUNCH mission sees the Sun’s corona in action | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jun, 2025
This clip from NASA’s PUNCH satellite shows a strong coronal mass ejection emanating from…
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Ask Ethan: Does cosmic inflation violate energy conservation? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jun, 2025
When the Universe undergoes a period of cosmic inflation, the fabric of space —…