Starts With A Bang — April 22, 2016

Podcast #7: Is Planet Nine Real?

Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all

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Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all

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Ask Ethan: How do scientists color the Universe?

When we see pictures from Hubble or JWST, they show the Universe in a series of brilliant colors. But what do those colors really tell us?

Animation of a star being engulfed by another star, emitting bright light and gas in space.

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A new origin story for supernovae after 94 years

Since 1930, type Ia supernovae have been thought to arise from white dwarfs exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass limit. Here’s why that’s wrong.

Bright cosmic explosion with flames and smoke surrounded by stars against a dark, starry background.

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Starts With A Bang podcast #111 – Black hole jets

Black holes are the most massive individual objects, spanning up to a light-day across. So how do they make jets that affect the cosmic web?

A Rubik's cube with a red X floats in space, next to a planet and moon—each marked with green checkmarks—that boast their perfect round shape.

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Is “round” the only allowable shape for planets?

All the stars, stellar corpses, planets, and other large, massive objects take on spherical or spheroidal shapes. Why is that universal?

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Einstein: The lone genius is pure mythology

Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.

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