JWST surprises the world with the discovery of neutron stars colliding | By Ethan Siegel | Start with an explosion! | February 2025

The universe itself, through a variety of nuclear processes that involve stars and star remains, as well as other media, can naturally produce almost 100 elements of the periodic table. It is known that the mergers of neutron stars produce the heaviest elements, such as gold, in great abundance, but the fusion rate of the…

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Start with a Bang #116 podcast – Disintegrant exoplanets | By Ethan Siegel | Start with an explosion! | APR, 2025

This image shows an illustration of an evaporating rock exoplanet, with a huge tail of dust that arises from the flying material from the planet from its interaction with the nearby star. (Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH) Exoplanets can exist anywhere around their matrices, even so close that they evaporate or disintegrate. Even the rocky. In the universe,…

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The most recent climate state

There are no surprises in the scientific results summarized in these reports. Unfortunately, but also completely insecure, no politician in power, even more pretend to be listening to scientific warnings. Perhaps that is why scientific advice has become increasing (both on the network, so much. Fossil fluidist and military). Trump’s choice (formally made by the…

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