SCIENCE
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The Universe requires quantum fields, not just quantum particles | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed Neutrinos and antineutrinos are copious within this Universe, but we can only detect which flavor…
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What we’ve learned after 35 years of NASA’s Hubble | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed If you look farther and farther away, you also look farther and farther into the…
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Ask Ethan: Could our whole Universe be a black hole’s interior? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic…
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LIGO’s heaviest black hole demands next-generation science | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
When a gravitational wave passes through a location in space, it causes an expansion and a compression at alternate times…
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Ask Ethan: Can we fix the worst prediction in all of science? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
In theory, every quanta within each quantum field theory has a spectrum of excitations it can occupy, and those excitations…
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The top quark isn’t a loner after all: “toponium” is real! | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This illustration shows toponium, made of a top-antitop pair of quarks, bound together into a meson rather than the (more…
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Starts With a Bang podcast #119 — The CMB | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image shows the Large Aperture Telescope’s colossal, 6-meter primary and secondary mirrors at the Simons Observatory in February of…
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A unique mission to both Uranus and Neptune could launch in 2034 | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
In comparing JWST images of Uranus (left) and Neptune (right), features such as rings, moons, and cloudy “bright spots” on…
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5 ways our naked-eye views of the night sky deceive us | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Under ideal dark sky conditions, the unaided human eye can see up to 6000 stars at once, and up to…
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Ask Ethan: What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image, taken in April of 2025, shows the completed and operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory with its dome open…
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