SCIENCE
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JWST could expose alien biosignatures on hazy exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size When an exoplanet passes in front of its parent star,…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #121 — Direct exoplanet imaging | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size This composite image shows a brown dwarf star, center, with…
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The Sun is fainter than the Moon, at least in gamma-rays | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size This 1991 photo shows the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory being deployed…
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See the whole Universe at once in this unique logarithmic view | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size This horizontally-oriented logarithmic map of the Universe shows how, from…
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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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SPHEREx and JWST reveal what comet 3I/ATLAS is… and isn’t | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size This multi-frame animation shows interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves…
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Ask Ethan: Can “zero-point energy” power the world? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size When we see something like a ball balanced precariously atop…
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NASA chief to defy agency’s charter, terminating science | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size In a shocking appearance to many, acting NASA administrator Sean…
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Ask Ethan: Did life begin when the Universe was room temperature? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size The panspermia hypothesis notes that on any world where life…
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Does the Universe expand faster than the speed of light? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size A visual history of the expanding Universe includes the hot,…
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