Although the Spitzer space telescope’s infrared views could reveal many features, such as the warped…
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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…
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4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
In July of 1969, humanity took our first steps on the surface of another world:…
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Hubble completes the largest galactic mosaic of all-time | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This selection of the Andromeda galaxy comes courtesy of the largest photomosaic ever assembled with…
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Ask Ethan: Could dark matter be “normal stuff” we can’t see? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
The full-field image of MACS J0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters…
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JWST catches star vaporizing the hottest rocky exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This illustration shows a star, an orbiting exoplanet, and a cloud (or tail) of debris…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #114 — Pluto and Charon | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
Here in our own Solar System, we have at least three notable large, terrestrial-sized bodies…
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No, we can’t geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This map shows the global temperatures in each region of Earth for the year 2024,…
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Ask Ethan: What are the worst cosmic misnomers? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
The Egg Nebula, as imaged here by Hubble, is a preplanetary nebula, as its outer…
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How glorifying ignorance leads to science illiteracy | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
Starting in the 1990s, North Korea began to deforest much of their land to serve…