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It takes incredible energies to accelerate masses near the speed of light. So how do the farthest galaxies speed away from us so quickly?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

In 2006, Pluto was controversially demoted to "dwarf planet" by the IAU. Unless you ignore most of astrophysics, it won't ever be oneContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

The first colliding galaxy cluster to reveal dark matter, empirically, turns 20 this year. Here's why it cements dark matter's existence.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

NASA has just sent astronauts back to the Moon for the first time since 1972 with Artemis II. So why would we cut NASA and NSF science now?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Today, we have the Standard Model of particles with four fundamental forces governing them. But things weren't always the way they are now.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Many facts are well-known to professionals, but are unappreciated or even rejected outright by the public. "How stars work" takes the cake.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

For decades, theorists have been cooking up "theories of everything" to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Our dream of journeying to other star systems has a big obstacle to overcome: the vast interstellar distances. Can antimatter get us there?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

On cosmic scales, only dark matter (or something equivalent) gives us the Universe we observe. Now, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect agrees.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Although a star's "birth" is well-defined, it doesn't correspond to an ignition event in its core. Here's how stars are actually born.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »