SCIENCE
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How to see the comet of the century from all over the world | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, shown here under construction in Chile, sports Jupiter and Mars rising in the pre-dawn skies,…
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Ask Ethan: Is Earth the center of the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
A region of space devoid of matter in our galaxy reveals the Universe beyond, where every point visible here is…
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Your head lives a longer life than your feet do | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
Both space and time coordinates are needed to describe an object in our Universe. Your location in this Universe isn’t…
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JWST shows a new side of planet formation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This side-by-side view shows the extended emission regions around the protostar L1527, one of the closest and youngest protostellar systems…
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Ask Ethan: Does space require dark energy in order to exist? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
While we conventionally think of quantum physics as bringing an inherent uncertainty and “quantum-ness” to the particles that exist in…
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Why we’ll never shoot Earth’s garbage into the Sun | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This illustration shows the Sun with a spacecraft, nominally the Parker Solar Probe, approaching it. In reality, the Parker Solar…
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Ask Ethan: Could a “copy” of me exist in the Multiverse? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that there are an infinite number of parallel universes that exist, holding…
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Why the electron’s mass is vital to life in the Universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
The traditional model of an atom, now more than 100 years old, is of a positively charged nucleus orbited by…
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Starts With A Bang Podcast #109 — Launching a galactic cone | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This image shows galaxy NGC 3227, at left, with its neighbor NGC 3226, as viewed in optical light by the…
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Physics heresy: projectiles don’t actually make parabolas | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
Any object that’s fired upwards from Earth’s surface at a certain angle and with a specific initial speed will inevitably…
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