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Starts With A Bang #6: The most distant galaxy in the Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope has just shattered the record for most distant galaxy in the Universe. How did we break this record, and what do we expect…
9 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #5: Gravitational Waves and LIGO
In February of 2016, less than six months after first becoming operational, LIGO (the laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory) announced …
10 years ago
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…
10 years, 1 month 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. Y…
10 years, 2 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? …
10 years, 3 months 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 Ear…
10 years, 4 months ago