In theory, every quanta within each quantum field theory has a spectrum of excitations it can occupy, and those excitations occur…
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The top quark isn’t a loner after all: “toponium” is real! | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This illustration shows toponium, made of a top-antitop pair of quarks, bound together into a meson rather than the (more typical)…
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Starts With a Bang podcast #119 — The CMB | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image shows the Large Aperture Telescope’s colossal, 6-meter primary and secondary mirrors at the Simons Observatory in February of 2025.…
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A unique mission to both Uranus and Neptune could launch in 2034 | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
In comparing JWST images of Uranus (left) and Neptune (right), features such as rings, moons, and cloudy “bright spots” on the…
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5 ways our naked-eye views of the night sky deceive us | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Under ideal dark sky conditions, the unaided human eye can see up to 6000 stars at once, and up to 9000…
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Ask Ethan: Could dark energy be more negative than a cosmological constant? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
For the first several billion years of our Universe’s history, the Universe’s expansion rate was decreasing and distant galaxies slowed in…
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Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
This map of stars in the vicinity of the identified object Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1 in two-dimensional space, with the contours…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #117 — Gravitational waves and the Universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
The image above shows an illustration of the three future LISA, or Laser Interferometer Space Antennae, spacecrafts, in a trailing orbit…
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What to know about vaccines in the do-your-own-research era | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
In this photo, a patient receives a vaccine known as the Jynneos vaccine, which is used to combat mpox. Although vaccines…
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Ask Ethan: Is dark energy just leftover momentum from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration have…