SCIENCE
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JWST’s mysterious young galaxy: dead, or just sleeping? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
The “dead” galaxy JADES-GS-z7–01-QU, whose light comes to us from just 700 million years after the Big Bang, is low…
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Ask Ethan: How do symmetries work in physics? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
We can imagine that there’s a mirror Universe to ours where the same rules apply. If the big red particle…
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The “Big Bang” turns 75, thanks to its greatest opponent | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
Fred Hoyle was a regular on BBC radio programs in the 1940s and 1950s, and one of the most influential…
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Ask Ethan: Will our Universe end the same way it began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes will be spawned as inflation continues,…
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The 7 most bizarre facts about Leap Day | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
As Earth orbits around the Sun, it rotates on its axis. At the present time, it takes 366.242188931 full rotations…
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a coronagraph or a starshade, the terrestrial…
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Did the Universe have zero entropy when it first began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
An ordered, stable system of particles represents a low-entropy state, whereas a more randomized, energetic system of those same particles…
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How to make galaxies with the wrong amount of dark matter
Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. Here’s how some galaxies defy that…
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Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If you were to graph out the…
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The true reason why Einstein was history’s greatest physicist | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
A mural of the Einstein field equations, with an illustration of light bending around the eclipsed sun, the observations that…
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