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In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Messier 77 is one of the largest nearby spiral galaxies, with an active, brilliant core. Here's what JWST's incomparable eyes saw insideContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

A relatively tiny world in the Kuiper belt, just 500 km in diameter, has an atmosphere after all, joining Pluto. Here's what we know today.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Only nearby objects appear to the naked eye. With telescopes of all types, especially in space, we've smashed those records many timesContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Triton is Neptune's largest moon today, but it was once the undisputed king of the Kuiper belt. Here's why the outer solar system matters.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

There's a lot of room in interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space, but just how low the densities go is truly mind-boggling.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Newton's gravitational constant, G, is still known to just 3 significant figures in 2026. New measurements merely highlight ourContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

In 2006, the IAU defined "planet" for the first time, excluding Pluto and all other dwarf planets. In 2026, is it now time for a change?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

From within our own galaxy to behemoths billions of light-years away, supermassive black holes create jets like nothing else in the cosmos.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »