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Starts With A Bang #4: The story of Pluto and Charon
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh serendipitously discovered Pluto: the first object in our Solar System out past Neptune. For 48 years, it was the only object known out there, until Charon -- its giant moon -…
Published on 9 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #3: Why is there more matter than antimatter?
Everywhere we look in the Universe, we find that planets, stars, galaxies, and even the gas between them are all made of matter and not antimatter. Yet as far as we know, the laws of nature are symme…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #2 - Size Of The Universe
Although it's been only 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, we can see objects as distant as 46.1 billion light years away. How is this possible? Ethan Siegel explains in the second Starts With A …
Published on 10 years ago
Starts With A Bang #1 -- Water (and life?) on Mars
In the first inaugural Starts With A Bang podcast, astrophysicist Ethan Siegel discusses the latest evidence for water on Mars, what it means for Earth and potential life on the surface, as well as o…
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago