What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve?
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has delighted the world with their first look observations.
Now, here are the scientific advances this fully functional observatory should bring to us all.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/puzzles-vera-rubin-observatory-solve/
Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang
There are lots of arguments against the Big Bang, and many proclamations that it's already been disproven.
But those are mostly based on an incorrect depiction of what the Big Bang even is.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/busting-5-myths-big-bang/
JWST discovers how we’re able to see the Universe at all
It's only because all of the neutral atoms in intergalactic space became ionized that we can see so far away through space.
JWST, at last, has found who the culprit is.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-discovers-see-universe/
You can’t do your own research without doing your homework first
Nearly everyone who claims to "do their own research" isn't conducting research at all.
Most of them haven't even done their homework, and that's a huge part of the problem.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/do-your-own-research-doing-your-homework/
JWST captures its most extreme gravitational lens ever
Hubble previously viewed galaxy cluster Abell S1063, finding swirling, distorted lensed galaxies.
With a JWST deep field of that same region, you won't believe what we saw.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-most-extreme-gravitational-lens/
Is the Hubble tension a real problem?
Famed astronomer Wendy Freedman claims (including in an interview with me) that the Hubble tension may not be real.
A large suite of evidence, rebutting many of her claims, suggests otherwise.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-hubble-tension-real/
ANITA did see weird particles, but not parallel Universes
The ANITA experiment ended in 2018, and saw three very weird particles over Antarctica.
Now, a Pierre Auger follow-up has come in, and found the most likely (non-parallel-Universe) explanation.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/evidence-parallel-universe/
Is the Hubble tension real? Exclusive interview with Wendy Freedman
Famed astronomer Wendy Freedman thinks that the Hubble tension might not be real.
This is the most in-depth interview with her, about that topic specifically, that you'll ever see.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/hubble-tension-real-interview-wendy-freedman/
Video: NASA’s PUNCH mission sees the Sun’s corona in action
For the first time, we can track coronal mass ejections from their origin all the way to Earth, thanks to NASA's Punch.
Just as all of solar astronomy (heliophysics) is being defunded.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/video-nasa-punch-sun-corona/
Could supermassive black holes anchor the tiniest galaxies?
Some galaxies are so small they only have a few hundred stellar masses worth of stars.
Instead of being supremely dark matter dominated, could a central black hole explain what we see?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/supermassive-black-holes-tiniest-galaxies/
