SCIENCE
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Ask Ethan: Will anything persist when the Universe dies?
This illustration shows a spacetime grid where the grid is being dragged due to rotation, but where expansion farther out…
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The biggest overlooked problem in the hunt for alien Earths
This image of Earth at night highlights the power of how different features are visible as the planet rotates about…
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Ask Ethan: Can we see the expanding Universe changing?
At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and filled with high-energy, very densely packed,…
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Last gasps of dying Sun-like star captured by Hubble
This visualization shows the three main components of the Egg Nebula, with all of the foreground and background stars removed.…
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Starts With A Bang Podcast #126 — The origin of dust
This image shows the Pillars of Creation within the Eagle Nebula, as assembled by two entirely different data sets. On…
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8 ways that Venus is the Solar System’s most extreme planet
This photograph from March 1, 2023 shows Venus and Jupiter separated by less than 1 degree in the sky: the…
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JWST shakes up the hunt for earliest galaxy cluster
The Universe formed stars, galaxies, and even galaxy clusters extremely early on in our cosmos. This new marvel is one…
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Ask Ethan: How much damage could a cosmic ray do to a human?
At the upper limits of what’s energetically possible, cosmic rays still persist. What happens if a human gets hit by…
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Yes, one image from space can change humanity’s perspective
Our view of the world, the Universe, and ourselves can change with just one glimpse of what’s out there. It’s…
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Ask Ethan: Where are all the blueshifted galaxies?
Even in an expanding Universe, we expect both redshifted and blueshifted galaxies. But nearly every one we see is redshifted.…
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