Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension a real problem? Is the Universe's expansion rate 67 km/s/Mpc, 73 km/s/Mpc, or somewhere in between? The Hubble tension is real, and not so easy to resolve. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 14 days 14d Share
ANITA did see weird particles, but not parallel Universes The ANITA experiment found cosmic rays shooting out of Antarctica. One interpretation claims "parallel Universes," but is that right? $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 15 days 15d Share
Is the Hubble tension real? Exclusive interview with Wendy Freedman Different methods of measuring the Universe's expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real? $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 16 days 16d Share
Video: NASA's PUNCH mission sees the Sun's corona in action Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 17 days 17d Share
Could supermassive black holes anchor the tiniest galaxies? The tiniest galaxies of all are the most severely dominated by dark matter. Could black holes be the cause of the extra gravity instead? $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 18 days 18d Share
Ask Ethan: Does cosmic inflation violate energy conservation? A few physical quantities, in all laboratory experiments, are always conserved: including energy. But for the entire Universe? Not so much. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 21 days 21d Share
How to understand the Universe's the most important equation If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 22 days 22d Share
Uranus's moons are darkened on one side, Hubble reveals Viewing Uranus's largest moons with Hubble, astronomers hoped to find darkening on the trailing side. They found the exact opposite ... $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 23 days 23d Share
Astronomers close in on the source of the highest energy particles On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 24 days 24d Share
JWST reveals that galaxies grow up quickly in our Universe The first galaxies were irregular blobs of gas and stars. But modern features, like spiral arms and bars, appeared earlier than expected. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 25 days 25d Share