SCIENCE
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The most important lesson from JWST’s “baby Milky Way” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The Firefly Sparkle galaxy observed with JWST (left) reveals ten bursty star clusters stretched and magnified by gravitational lensing. The…
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Ask Ethan: Does quantum computation occur in parallel universes? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The Google Willow chip is the first quantum chip to have more than 100 qubits, with 105 qubits to it.…
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The Big Bang: a series of steps down an energy staircase | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Our Universe, from the hot Big Bang until the present day, underwent a huge amount of growth and evolution, and…
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Starts With A Bang Podcast #112 — Galactic Archaeology | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
This illustration of our Milky Way shows an ancient galactic stream wrapped around our galaxy’s plane at nearly a 90…
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How B-mesons are threatening to break the Standard Model | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
When B-mesons decay, they often decay to either two pions, two kaons, or a kaon and a pion. The fact…
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Why the number “1/137” appears everywhere in nature | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Each s orbital (red), each of the p orbitals (yellow), the d orbitals (blue) and the f orbitals (green) can…
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What happens when a gravitational wave meets a black hole? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
When a gravitational wave passes through a location in space, it causes an expansion and a compression at alternate times…
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Scalar fields: the secret sauce of theoretical physics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The gravitational field on Earth varies not only with latitude, but also with altitude and in other ways, particularly due…
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Ask Ethan: Does the CMB really “prove” the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This map shows the CMB’s polarization signal, as measured by the Planck satellite in 2015. The top and bottom insets…
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What do JWST’s “red monster” galaxies mean for cosmology? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
These three “red monster” galaxies, found just 1 billion years after the hot Big Bang, are dusty, massive objects with…
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