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Starts With A Bang #126 - The origin of dust
Out there in the Universe, we're most aware of what we see: of all the forms of light that arrive in our eyes, instruments, telescopes, and detectors…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Starts With A Bang #125 - Large-scale structure
One of the most exciting developments in modern astrophysics isn't merely our standard "concordance cosmology" model, but rather the cracks that seem…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #124 - Astrochemistry
All across the Universe, stars are dying through a variety of means. They can directly collapse to a black hole, they can become core-collapse supern…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #123 - Alien physics
One of the great discoveries to be made out there in the grand scheme of things is alien life: the first detection of life that originated, survives,…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #122 - Galaxy evolution and JWST
It's no secret that the Universe and the objects present within it, as we see them all today, have changed over time as the Universe has grown up ove…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #121 - Direct exoplanet imaging
It's hard to believe, but it was only back in the early 1990s that we discovered the very first planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun. Fast f…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #120 - Exoplanet biosignatures
Out there in the Universe, somewhere, a second example of an inhabit world or planet likely awaits us. It could be some other planet or moon within o…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Starts With a Bang #119 - The CMB
Perhaps the strongest evidence we've ever acquired in support of the Big Bang has been the discovery of the leftover radiation from its early, hot, d…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #118 - Snowball Earth
When we search for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look for planets that are similar to Earth. To most of us, those signatures would look the…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #117 - Gravitational waves and the Universe
It might seem hard to fathom, but it hasn't even been ten full years since advanced LIGO, the gravitational wave observatories that brought us our ve…
9 months, 3 weeks ago