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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Jul 19
Ask Ethan: Is Earth’s climate changing as the Sun loses mass?
As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Mar 4
The gruesome fate of every planet when the Sun dies
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Feb 8
What was it like when the Sun was born?
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Jan 12
Ask Ethan: What if the Sun were a grain of sand?
The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Jan 11
How much energy does the Sun produce?
Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most…
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Ethan Siegel
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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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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
May 24, 2023
What color is the Sun? An astrophysicist answers
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Jan 21, 2023
Starts With A Bang podcast #89 — The active threat of the Sun
Here on Earth, the Sun is our primary…
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Ethan Siegel
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Jan 16, 2023
The Sun isn’t a typical star in the Universe
Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Jan 4, 2023
The surprising quantum reason why the Sun shines
Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, particle’s…
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