SCIENCE

5 science facts that come from simply watching the Moon | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed This view shows the full Moon rising over the Marina in San Diego, California in…

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Ask Ethan: Did our Universe really arise from nothing? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed The Universe is an amazing place, and the way it came to be today is…

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The Universe is not the same forwards and backwards in time | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed By examining this strobe image of a bouncing ball, you cannot tell for certain whether…

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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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The single most amazing fact about the Universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed Today, the Universe has evolved into the complex, life-friendly place we know it to be…

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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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Jupiter endangers Earth, and may have extincted the dinosaurs | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

Earth, as well as all planets and moons with rocky surfaces, has experienced a large number of collisions from objects…

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Did JWST catch the Ring Nebula forming new planets? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

Mercury, Venus, and likely Earth will all be devoured. During the main phase of a star’s life, planets can orbit…

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Ask Ethan: Could the CMB arise from galaxies, not the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

This selection of 55 galaxies from the JWST’s GLASS Early Release Science program spans a variety of ranges in redshift…

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JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break the Universe. They revealed it. | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

This deep-field view of the Universe showcases a portion of the COSMOS-Web field acquired with JWST. In this field are…

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