SCIENCE
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Starts With A Bang podcast #103 — Active galaxies and the universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] Here to help us explore these objects and their impact this month is Skylar Grayson, a PhD candidate at…
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Why scientists think the Multiverse isn’t just fiction | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] How likely or unlikely was our Universe to produce a world like Earth? And how plausible would those odds…
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Ask Ethan: Will our Universe end the same way it began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes will be spawned as inflation…
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The 7 most bizarre facts about Leap Day | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] As Earth orbits around the Sun, it rotates on its axis. At the present time, it takes 366.242188931 full…
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The gruesome fate of every planet when the Sun dies | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] When our Sun evolves into a red giant and then dies in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination, the innermost…
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a coronagraph or a starshade, the…
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The 4 big black hole frontiers for gravitational waves | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] When two black holes merge, a significant portion of their mass can get converted into energy in one very…
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Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If you were to graph out…
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How far away are the stars?. For thousands of years, humanity had no… | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] The European Space Agency’s space-based Gaia mission has mapped out the three-dimensional positions and locations of more than one…
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Ask Ethan: How does Hawking radiation really work? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] In the far future, there will be no more matter around black holes, but instead their emitted energy will…
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