This moving, zipping star field appears to depict an ultra-relativistic motion through space, extremely close to the speed of light. Under…
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4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
In July of 1969, humanity took our first steps on the surface of another world: the Moon. This was the crowning…
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Hubble completes the largest galactic mosaic of all-time | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This selection of the Andromeda galaxy comes courtesy of the largest photomosaic ever assembled with Hubble Space Telescope data. There’s an…
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Ask Ethan: Could dark matter be “normal stuff” we can’t see? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
The full-field image of MACS J0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters within the large cluster. The blue…
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JWST catches star vaporizing the hottest rocky exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This illustration shows a star, an orbiting exoplanet, and a cloud (or tail) of debris that emanates off of the exoplanet…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #114 — Pluto and Charon | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
Here in our own Solar System, we have at least three notable large, terrestrial-sized bodies with impressive lunar systems of their…
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No, we can’t geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This map shows the global temperatures in each region of Earth for the year 2024, relative to the average recorded temperature…
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Ask Ethan: What are the worst cosmic misnomers? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
The Egg Nebula, as imaged here by Hubble, is a preplanetary nebula, as its outer layers have not yet been heated…
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How glorifying ignorance leads to science illiteracy | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
Starting in the 1990s, North Korea began to deforest much of their land to serve agricultural purposes. However, just a few…
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Meet N79: home to the Local Group’s newest super star cluster | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This MIRI image from JWST data shows the central portion of the star-forming region N79, which is now known to house…