While we often imagine that an alien civilization that’s intelligent and technologically advanced will be…
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Devouring “the Kraken” led to the modern Milky Way | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
Whether we examine satellites orbiting around planets, planets orbiting around stars, stars moving around a…
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Have we found a galactic “twin” of the Milky Way? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
From our own perspective on Earth, we’ve identified the presence of spiral arms. By viewing…
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Quantum gravity attempts to combine Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Quantum corrections…
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: the 2024 science book of the year | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The excellent popular science book, Waves in an Impossible Sea: How everyday life emerges from…
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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,…
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The quantum reason behind the solidity of matter | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Traditionally, atoms are viewed as dense nuclei, a mix of protons and neutrons, surrounded by…
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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…
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This is what we’ll see when Betelgeuse goes supernova | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Observation of the red supergiant star, Betelgeuse, revealed a vast plume of gas almost as…
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What JWST found beneath the Sombrero galaxy’s hat | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The Sombrero galaxy, commonly viewed in optical light (as shown at bottom, via Hubble), displays…