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Two bright celestial objects, including the brightest planet, shine in the night sky, partially obscured by clouds and surrounded by smaller, faint stars.
Starts With A Bang
8 ways that Venus is the Solar System’s most extreme planet
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that's visible from Earth, and then some!
Ethan Siegel
A dense field of distant galaxies and bright stars against a black background, as captured in a JWST early galaxies deep space telescope image.
Starts With A Bang
Yes, JWST should take the deepest deep-field image ever
Many collaborations have used JWST to take deep-field images: some wider and some deeper than others. Here's how it can surpass them all.
Ethan Siegel
connected entangled pair
Starts With A Bang
The most important quantum advance of the 21st century
A century ago, quantum physics overthrew our view of a deterministic Universe. A profound 21st century theorem closes the door even further.
Ethan Siegel
Image of a star field with numerous galaxies; several objects are circled in white, and one object is marked with an “X” near the center.
Starts With A Bang
JWST shakes up the hunt for earliest galaxy cluster
The Universe formed stars, galaxies, and even galaxy clusters extremely early on in our cosmos. This new marvel is one more JWST surprise.
Ethan Siegel
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