SCIENCE
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Science’s best answer to “where did the Universe come from?” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
During cosmological inflation, the space contained in the inflationary region grows exponentially, doubling in all three dimensions with each tiny…
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Ask Ethan: Couldn’t COVID-19 have originated in a Chinese Lab? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
The SARS virus (orange) has a crown-like structure, meaning that it’s part of the coronavirus family of diseases. The novel…
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The sky is brighter than astronomers imagined | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
Around galaxy UGC 00180, a great stellar halo consisting of approximately four billion stars’ worth of matter can be discovered…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #116 — Disintegrating exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
Believe it or not, we’ve actually caught a few exoplanets doing exactly this, and we’ve got the JWST spectra in…
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No, the “Kalam cosmological argument” doesn’t prove God’s existence | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
These aren’t a pair of eyes gazing at us from the depths of space, but rather a pair of interacting…
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Giant, spinning galaxies go back a whopping 12 billion years | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
This one prominent galaxy, known as the Big Wheel and located 22 billion light-years away at present, spans ~100,000 light-years…
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Ask Ethan: What does it mean to live in a quantum universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
By creating two entangled photons from a pre-existing system and separating them by great distances, we can ‘teleport’ information about…
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Just one exo-Earth pixel can reveal continents, oceans, and more | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
This image of Earth at night highlights the power of how different features are visible as the planet rotates about…
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Ask Ethan: Can we turn Einstein’s equations into Newton’s law? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
There may never be another Einstein or another Newton, but we can all learn to utilize their equations under the…
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Following the scientific consensus: how to be “the least wrong” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
Planet Earth, as viewed by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft as it departed from our location, clearly shows the spheroidal nature of…
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