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What was it like when dark energy rose to prominence? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
The farther away we look, the closer in time we’re seeing towards the Big Bang. The newest record-holder for quasars comes…
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Ask Ethan: Why is there a grand canyon on Mars? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
Imaged by the THEMIS camera on the Mars Odyssey mission, this photograph shows Valles Marineris, or Mariner Valley, discovered in 1972…
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What was it like when the Milky Way grew up? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, Messier 83, displays many features common to our Milky Way, including a multi-armed spiral structure and a…
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Star clusters give birth like dogs, not humans, ALMA shows | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
This false-color look inside the star-forming region G333.23–0.06 shows ALMA data of multiple systems of high-mass protostars. Within these clumps of…
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Ask Ethan: What explains the Fibonacci sequence? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
The normal, multi-armed spiral galaxy IC 342, as imaged by ESA’s Euclid, with a Fibonacci spiral overlaid atop it. As you…
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Einstein, shown here at a Princeton luncheon in 1953, was not only a physics genius and global celebrity, but a kind…
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Ask Ethan: Why doesn’t radiation dominate the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and filled with high-energy, very densely packed, ultra-relativistic…
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Evaporating exoplanet WASP-69b solves two planetary puzzles | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
Around the star WASP-69, a “hot Jupiter” exoplanet has its outer layers of atmosphere photoevaporated away, creating a comet-like tail whose…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #101 — Quantum Computing | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
Riccardo is the author of a state-of-the-art textbook on quantum computers, has his PhD from Oxford in Quantum Computing, and has…