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Ask Ethan: How do scientists color the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
At left is the iconic view of the Pillars of Creation as seen by Hubble. Beginning in 2022, JWST (at right)…
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How a nearby supernova could reveal dark matter | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This image of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant shows the aftermath of a type II, core-collapse supernova that occurred more than…
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How a companion can change a star’s fate | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
When a pulsar, a rapidly-rotating neutron star, finds itself in a tight orbit with another star, it will siphon mass from…
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Ask Ethan: Is antigravity even possible? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
A wormhole is the one way, in the context of General Relativity, that immediate transport between two disparate, disconnected events in…
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JWST compels us to ask: what’s wrong with Vega? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This two-panel view of the debris disk around Vega shows Hubble’s (left) and JWST’s (right) views, respectively. Hubble reveals a wide…
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Ask Ethan: Why isn’t Richard Feynman your personal hero? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
Richard Feynman and his family with their custom-painted van in Altadena, California. (Credit: Ralph Leighton/Symmetry Magazine) One of the 20th century’s…
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Mars could have lived, even without a magnetic field | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a…
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Ask Ethan: What’s the deal with cosmic inflation and the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
From a region of space as small as can be imagined (all the way down to the Planck scale), cosmological inflation…
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Einstein: the lone genius is pure mythology | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
Einstein, contrary to the popular narrative, wasn’t a lone genius, but rather only achieved the successes that he did because of…
