SCIENCE
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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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Starts With A Bang podcast #115 — Dwarf galaxies in isolation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
However, while most of the dwarf galaxies we know of are found as satellites around larger, more massive galaxies, they…
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Confirmed at last: exoplanets found around nearest single star | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This illustration shows Barnard’s star, with the correct size and temperature/color, as orbited by the four recently confirmed exoplanets around…
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Surprising stars reveal second-closest supermassive black hole | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This illustration shows how binary stars interact with a supermassive black hole to create a population of hypervelocity stars that…
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Ask Ethan: Does the multiverse explain our fundamental constants? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic inflation, with our Big Bang…
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The truth about banning “dangerous gain-of-function” research | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This illustration shows a coronavirus molecule with a string of RNA inside. Although a SARS-CoV-2 virus might have a genome…
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Ask Ethan: Does mass or energy increase near the speed of light? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This moving, zipping star field appears to depict an ultra-relativistic motion through space, extremely close to the speed of light.…
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How charges and masses create the Universe around us | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
In the very early Universe, there were tremendous numbers of quarks, leptons, antiquarks, and antileptons of all species. After only…
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