SCIENCE

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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The Big Bang doesn’t mean what it used to | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size From a pre-existing state, inflation predicts that a series of…

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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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LIGO’s 10th anniversary gift confirms Hawking’s theorem | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This aerial view shows the main science hub of the…

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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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10 incredible facts about the Big Bang Theory | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size The ultramassive, merging dynamical galaxy cluster Abell 370, with gravitational…

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JWST improves, surpasses Hubble’s view of Pismis 24 | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This animation shows the Hubble image (left) and JWST image…

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Ask Ethan: Could “positive geometry” unlock the theory of everything? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This illustration shows the set of real zeroes of a…

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New theory: could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size An illustration of the first stars turning on in the…

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Ask Ethan: Is dark energy no longer a cosmological constant? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

This animation of DESI’s 3D map of the large-scale structure in the Universe, the largest such map to date, was…

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