SCIENCE
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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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Starts With A Bang podcast #113 — Weird stars | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
The featured image shows the star RR Lyrae, as imaged by the digitized sky survey back at the turn of…
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Black hole myth busted: they don’t suck anything in | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
A black hole is famous for absorbing matter and having an event horizon from which nothing can escape,and for cannibalizing…
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How far back in time can we see in space? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
Galaxies identified in the eXtreme Deep Field image can be broken up into nearby, distant, and ultra-distant components, with Hubble…
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Ask Ethan: Can a lumpy Universe explain dark energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration…
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