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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Mar 25
March 25, 2024’s full moon portends April 8th’s solar eclipse
The least exciting of all eclipses, a…
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Starts With A Bang!
Jan 15
How many times must you fold a paper to reach the Moon?
Each time you fold a piece of paper, you…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Oct 23, 2023
Extraordinary, moon-forming planet collision spotted 1850 light-years away
The Universe. although…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Jul 28, 2023
Ask Ethan: Are astronaut footprints disappearing from the Moon?
Over 50 years since humans last walked…
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Starts With A Bang!
Jul 26, 2023
First co-orbiting exoplanet hints at our Moon’s origin
The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was…
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Starts With A Bang!
Jul 12, 2023
We use lasers to keep track of the Moon
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon…
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Starts With A Bang!
May 31, 2023
Surprise: the Moon outshines the Sun at the highest energies
Across all wavelengths of light, the Sun…
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Starts With A Bang!
Oct 5, 2022
Why the Moon’s two faces are so different
The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the…
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Starts With A Bang!
Jan 20, 2022
The 4 scientific ways we can be certain the Moon landings were real
Even though no human has stepped…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Nov 24, 2021
The “airless” Moon really does have an atmosphere, after all
We once thought the Moon was completely…
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