SCIENCE

Ask Ethan: What’s the deal with cosmic inflation and the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024

From a region of space as small as can be imagined (all the way down to the Planck scale), cosmological…

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8 lessons on lifelong learning from an astrophysicist | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

This 1934 photograph shows Einstein in front of a blackboard, deriving special relativity for a group of students and onlookers.…

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Ask Ethan: Why is the Big Bang shown as a tube? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

The modern cosmic picture of our universe’s history begins not with a singularity that we identify with the Big Bang,…

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Time: yes, it’s a dimension, but no, it’s not like space | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

Different observers will mark different times and different spatial locations as far as the occurrence of events is concerned. However,…

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The 3 best locations for astronomy on planet Earth | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

The Milky Way and planet Jupiter shine brilliantly in this photo from the top of Mauna Kea. The yellow glow…

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Ask Ethan: Do evolution and natural selection occur cosmically? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

The Flame Nebula, shown here in a combination of X-ray data (from Chandra) and infrared light (from Spitzer), showcases a…

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Infinite Cosmos: The inside story behind JWST | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

The cover of Infinite Cosmos: Visions from the James Webb Space Telescope, is the first National Geographic book about JWST.…

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Starts With A Bang podcast #110 — Optical Interferometry | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

This image shows the first of ten relocatable 1.4 meter telescopes arranged in a Y, or three-pronged, configuration. Telescopes can…

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How to see the comet of the century from all over the world | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

The ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, shown here under construction in Chile, sports Jupiter and Mars rising in the pre-dawn skies,…

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Ask Ethan: Is Earth the center of the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024

A region of space devoid of matter in our galaxy reveals the Universe beyond, where every point visible here is…

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