SCIENCE
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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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Ask Ethan: How does Hawking radiation really work? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
In the far future, there will be no more matter around black holes, but instead their emitted energy will be…
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What was it like when planet Earth first formed? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
When two large bodies collide, as they very likely did between proto-Earth and a hypothesized smaller but still massive world…
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Starts With a Bang podcast #102 — The missing exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
That’s what we’re exploring on this episode of the Starts With a Bang podcast, featuring Ph.D. candidate Dakotah Tyler as…
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What was it like when the Sun was born? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This two-toned image shows an illustration of the protoplanetary disk around the young star FU Orionis, which was imaged multiple…
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Galaxy clusters are graveyards for Milky Way-like galaxies | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies shows over 1000 galaxies all clustered together some 240 million light-years away,…
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Ask Ethan: Why is there a grand canyon on Mars? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
Imaged by the THEMIS camera on the Mars Odyssey mission, this photograph shows Valles Marineris, or Mariner Valley, discovered in…
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Giant ring? Giant arc? These “structures” may not even be real | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
This map comes from a simulation of a portion of the cosmic web, with shock waves (white), magnetic fields (cyan),…
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Ask Ethan: What explains the Fibonacci sequence? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2024
The normal, multi-armed spiral galaxy IC 342, as imaged by ESA’s Euclid, with a Fibonacci spiral overlaid atop it. As…
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