As sunlight strikes Earth from space, it doesn’t fall on the planet equally in all…
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What was it like when life first became possible? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
This conceptual image shows meteoroids delivering all five of the nucleobases found in life processes…
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What was it like when supermassive black holes arose? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
The farther away we observe, the closer in time we find ourselves looking near the…
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What was it like when the first “polluted” stars formed? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
When the very first stars form in the Universe, they form out of hydrogen and…
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What was it like when the very first stars died? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
X-ray emissions that are large, extended, and structure-rich highlight a variety of supernovae seen in…
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The top 15 JWST images of 2023. The Universe is an amazing place. Under… | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
The near-infrared JWST view (with NIRCam) of the Ring Nebula showcases tendril-like filaments emerging from…
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Ask Ethan: Do any particles not have antiparticles? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
Whether elementary or composite, all known particles can annihilate with their antiparticle counterparts. In some…
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What was it like when no stars yet existed? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
This view, of the Taurus Molecular Cloud of gas taken with the ESA’s Herschel space…
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10 fun facts as Halley’s Comet makes its big comeback | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
This 1986 photograph of Halley’s comet, taken from Easter Island on March 8 of that…
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Ask Ethan: Is it possible that gravity isn’t quantum? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
Quantum gravity attempts to combine Einstein’s General theory of Relativity with quantum mechanics. Quantum corrections…