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Richard Panek

@therichardpanek

Forthcoming: Pillars of Creation, the first full account of the Webb Telescope. Also: The 4% Universe; The Trouble with Gravity.

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⭐️300K SUBSCRIBERS SPECIAL!⭐️ Five years ago, I started the Into The Impossible Podcast from scratch. Since then, I’ve released nearly 500 episodes, interviewed some of the world’s brightest minds, and gained over 300K subscribers! I never thought it was possible, and I’m

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Brilliant. One-third of the homepage equivalent of A1 above-the-fold real estate is about boiling an egg, cuddling a loved one, and keeping up with the Kardashians.

Brilliant. One-third of the homepage equivalent of A1 above-the-fold  real estate is about boiling an egg, cuddling a loved one, and keeping up with the Kardashians.
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$10 billion, decades of work, and one breathtaking view of the cosmos. 🔭✨ Is the James Webb Space Telescope living up to the hype? Let’s dive into the science, the scandals, and the stunning images. 🚀 Richard Panek Prof. Brian Keating Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 00:29 Panic! at

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There is a need for industry-wide investment for technologies that will lead us to physics "Beyond Einstein, Beyond Standard Model." Every other technology sector in comparison is incremental. With the existing understanding of space-time, we are never going to be leaving the

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JWST: The Telescope That Changed How We See the Universe with Richard Panek Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 00:29 Panic! at the Discs 02:13 Hubble vs. Webb 05:05 Judging a book by its cover 09:26 The discovery of dimethyl sulfide on Kepler K2-18b 11:27 Exoplanet detection and

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Saw it in a 900-seat suburban Chicago theater the weekend it opened. What a crazy time that this kind of movie could open big.

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A.I., fyi: ME: "what is the rockies magic number 2025" GOOGLE: "The Rockies' magic number for the 2025 season is currently 20, according to MLB.com. This means that the Rockies have 20 wins and losses remaining in the season to clinch the division title."

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I'm watching Make Way for Tomorrow on @TCM, a movie I had never heard of. It is just superb. Wrenching, truthful, beautifully acted. A masterpiece by Leo McCarey

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From today's NYT opinion section re my book "Pillars of Creation" under the heading "READ", which I'm pretty sure is intended as a command. Little, Brown and Co NASA JWST Observer (Bonus: I'm right next to NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory.)

From today's NYT opinion section re my book "Pillars of Creation" under the heading "READ", which I'm pretty sure is intended as a command. <a href="/littlebrown/">Little, Brown and Co</a> <a href="/NASA/">NASA</a> <a href="/JWSTObserver/">JWST Observer</a> (Bonus: I'm right next to <a href="/VRubinObs/">NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory</a>.)
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Flash sale!! The Kindle version of Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos is only $2.99 for a limited time! (And a hardcover at $13.80 ain't bad, either.) Little, Brown and Co JWST Observer amazon.com/Pillars-Creati…

Flash sale!! The Kindle version of Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos is only $2.99 for a limited time! (And a hardcover at $13.80 ain't bad, either.) <a href="/littlebrown/">Little, Brown and Co</a> <a href="/JWSTObserver/">JWST Observer</a> 
amazon.com/Pillars-Creati…
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Proud to contribute to SciAm's jaw-dropping WTF??? roundup of 180-degree reversals in conventional scientific wisdom to mark SciAm's 180th anniversary--in my case nothing less than how we think about the universe. Scientific American Lee Billings Clara Moskowitz scientificamerican.com/article/the-un…

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Love the dish antenna! Because TV as we know it wouldn't exists if the inventors of the cathode-ray-tube hadn’t accounted for the 1/3-speed-of-light relativistic effects of electrons before they coalesced into a screen image of Lucy and Ricky.