SCIENCE
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A new origin story for supernovae after 94 years | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This animation of the double detonation scenario shows two white dwarfs in close orbit around one another. When material accumulates…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #111 — Black hole jets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This illustration shows how black hole jets can be as large as the scale of the cosmic web itself, with…
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Is “round” the only allowable shape for planets? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
Although most large, massive objects in space are spherical, many can be stretched into spheroidal shapes by their rotation. Other…
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The physics behind curly hair. Whether your hair is straight, wavy… | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This photo was taken as part of the Dutch festival of Internationale Roodharigen Dag, or International Redhead Day, in 2011.…
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Ask Ethan: Why isn’t Richard Feynman your personal hero? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
Richard Feynman and his family with their custom-painted van in Altadena, California. (Credit: Ralph Leighton/Symmetry Magazine) One of the 20th…
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The biggest holes in NASA’s suite of observatories | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This composite image of the galactic center shows features ranging from ultra-high energy X-rays down to very low energy radio…
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Ask Ethan: What’s the deal with cosmic inflation and the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
From a region of space as small as can be imagined (all the way down to the Planck scale), cosmological…
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8 lessons on lifelong learning from an astrophysicist | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This 1934 photograph shows Einstein in front of a blackboard, deriving special relativity for a group of students and onlookers.…
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Ask Ethan: Why is the Big Bang shown as a tube? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The modern cosmic picture of our universe’s history begins not with a singularity that we identify with the Big Bang,…
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Time: yes, it’s a dimension, but no, it’s not like space | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
Different observers will mark different times and different spatial locations as far as the occurrence of events is concerned. However,…
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