SCIENCE
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Did LIGO just see its most important gravitational wave ever? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
A mathematical simulation of the warped space-time near two merging neutron stars that result in the creation of a black…
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Ask Ethan: What are the worst cosmic misnomers? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
The Egg Nebula, as imaged here by Hubble, is a preplanetary nebula, as its outer layers have not yet been…
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Our first “Earth-like” exoplanets probably won’t have atmospheres | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
When an exoplanet passes in front of its parent star, a portion of that starlight will filter through the exoplanet’s…
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Ask Ethan: Why doesn’t dark matter collapse due to gravity? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
Galaxies can be found along, nearby, and within cosmic filaments. There is often both neutral and ionized matter within the…
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Government-censored science ruined the USSR. Is the USA next? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
When governments embrace policies that are antithetical to factually established truths, including scientific truths, it’s a recipe for a societal…
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The great stellar dimming of T Tauri has begun | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This visible light image shows the T Tauri system along with the nearby nebula NGC 1555. Discovered way back in…
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Ask Ethan: How are the heaviest elements of all made? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
The elements of the periodic table, and where they originate, are detailed in this image above. While most elements originate…
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New science facilities are needed to keep America great | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array, or ALMA, is the most powerful, highest-resolution array of radio telescopes in the world. Although…
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Ask Ethan: What are the biggest JWST discoveries so far? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
This side-by-side view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 shows the MIRI (left) and NIRCam (right) views of this region from…
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JWST fully solves the mystery of “Little Red Dots” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
These six “little red dot” galaxies are examples of objects that, if their brightness was caused by the stars within…
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