SCIENCE
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Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size In July of 1969, humanity took our first steps on…
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Ask Ethan: Where are we located relative to the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size Artist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe. The Solar…
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Even before the Big Bang, space wasn’t truly empty | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size Black holes formed of different materials should have different information…
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The “most distant explosion ever” turned out to be rocket debris | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size A section of the GOODS-N field, which contains the galaxy…
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Ask Ethan: What is the true purpose of scientific peer review? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size A reviewer analyzes and evaluates a manuscript based on its…
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Science’s answer to the ultimate question: Where do we come from? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size Behind the dome of a series of European Southern Observatory…
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Ask Ethan: Where does cosmic dust come from? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size Dark, dusty molecular clouds, like Barnard 59, part of the…
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JWST could expose alien biosignatures on hazy exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size When an exoplanet passes in front of its parent star,…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #121 — Direct exoplanet imaging | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size This composite image shows a brown dwarf star, center, with…
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The Sun is fainter than the Moon, at least in gamma-rays | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size This 1991 photo shows the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory being deployed…
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