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…
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Ask Ethan: Is Earth the center of the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
A region of space devoid of matter in our galaxy reveals the Universe beyond,…
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Why hasn’t JWST broken the cosmic distance record by more? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This image of deep space was acquired with JWST’s NIRCam instrument by the CEERS…
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Ask Ethan: Does space require dark energy in order to exist? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
While we conventionally think of quantum physics as bringing an inherent uncertainty and “quantum-ness”…