SCIENCE
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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…
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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…
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Ask Ethan: Why doesn’t dark matter collapse due to gravity? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
Galaxies can be found along, nearby, and within cosmic filaments. There is often both neutral and ionized matter within the…
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The CMB: the most important discovery in cosmic history | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
This composite image shows the microwave sky as imaged by three generations of spaceborne CMB missions: COBE (1990s), WMAP (2000s),…
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Ask Ethan: How are the heaviest elements of all made? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
The elements of the periodic table, and where they originate, are detailed in this image above. While most elements originate…
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The tiniest, most isolated galaxies grow unstoppably | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
The nearby dwarf galaxy Leo P, whose individual blue stars are clearly visible, was imaged by JWST in order to…
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Ask Ethan: What are the biggest JWST discoveries so far? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
This side-by-side view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 shows the MIRI (left) and NIRCam (right) views of this region from…
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Protons: made of quarks, but ruled by gluons | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
The proton isn’t just made of three valence quarks, but rather contains a substructure that is an intricate and dynamic…
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Cosmic first: supermassive black hole caught “turning on” in real-time | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
This artist’s depiction shows a tidal disruption event around an active black hole. Whereas most active black holes that have…
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Ask Ethan: How do photons mediate both attraction and repulsion? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
Today, Feynman diagrams are used in calculating every fundamental interaction spanning the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, including in high-energy…
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