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Starts With A Bang #46 - Experimental Particle Searches
We know that there's more to the Universe than we presently know. As successful as the Standard Model may be, it cannot describe everything we observ…
6 years, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #45 - Beyond Earth 2.0
With all the planets out there in the galaxy and Universe, it's only a matter of time and data until we find another one with life on it. (Probably.)…
6 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #44 - The Expanding Universe
One of the biggest conundrums in the Universe surrounds the question of how quickly the Universe is expanding. Questions like what is the Universe ma…
6 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #43 - Gravitational Microlensing
When we think about finding planets in the Universe, we typically look for ways to detect them as they orbit their parents stars, either affecting th…
6 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #42 - Black Holes And Gravitation
So, you want to know about black holes, including how we're seeing them, what happens when you fall into them, what our future plans for direct and i…
6 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #41 - Before The First Stars
After the Big Bang, it took only a few hundred thousand years for the Universe to form neutral atoms. But it took tens or even hundreds of millions o…
7 years ago
Starts With A Bang #40 - Pristine Matter and Future Space Telescopes
One of the great goals in our study of the Universe is to see past the currently-known frontiers. That means going farther, to greater and greater di…
7 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #39 - The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Is there intelligent life out there in the Universe beyond planet Earth? If so, are they technologically advances, can they hear us, and are they bro…
7 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #38 - Interstellar Interloper `Oumuamua
In 2017, the incredible happened: for the first time in history, we were able to identify an object passing through our Solar System that originated …
7 years, 3 months ago
Starts With A Bang #37: The Outer Solar System
Our Solar System formed some 4.6 billion years ago from a molecular cloud that collapsed. Our proto-Sun formed along with a protoplanetary disk that …
7 years, 4 months ago