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Ethan Siegel
@startswithabangTracked since May 2026
Observed Jul 25, 2026 · stalePublic earnings
creating Science Stories.
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Paid members
252
0.4% · 30 days
Total audience
473
incl. free followers
Observed monthly earnings
$1.4K
Starting price
$1/mo
9 membership tiers
Membership tiers
Where the 470 observed tier members sit
$047%$116.2%$514.3%
Largest observed tier is $0 Free— the bar only uses public tier patron counts.
$0/moFree22147% of observed tier members
$1/moPlanet Supporter7616.2% of observed tier members
$2/moGiant Planet Supporter316.6% of observed tier members
$3/moStar Supporter367.7% of observed tier members
$5/moSupernova supporter6714.3% of observed tier members
$10/moNebula supporter234.9% of observed tier members
$20/moGalaxy supporter112.3% of observed tier members
$50/moUniverse supporter20.4% of observed tier members
$100/moMultiverse supporter30.6% of observed tier members
Growth signals — Ethan Siegel
+0.4%
Membership252 paid members · past 30 days
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May 202614 weeks trackedNow
Ethan Siegel252 members · $1.4K/mo
The chart only uses Ethan Siegel's observed public history. Comparison peers are listed below, but comparable trend series are not available yet.
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Only Ethan Siegel has a comparable public 30-day member gain; at least one measured peer is needed for a cohort rank.Ranking data · includes stale rows| Rank | Creator and why included | 30-day member gain | Gap vs Ethan Siegel | Freshness |
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| Not ranked | Ethan SiegelProfilePodcasts30-day member gain position in Recommended cohort | +1 | Reference | Jul 25, 2026Stale |
| Not ranked |  Paul M. SutterPodcastsContent relevance + business context | 30-day comparison unavailable | Not comparable | Jul 28, 2026 |
| Not ranked |  Space the NationPodcastsContent relevance + business context | 30-day comparison unavailable | Not comparable | Jul 23, 2026Stale |
| Not ranked |  Do Not Worry PodcastPodcastsContent relevance + business context | 30-day comparison unavailable | Not comparable | Jul 15, 2026Stale |
| Not ranked |  Andrew KornhaberWritingContent relevance + business context | 30-day comparison unavailable | Not comparable | Aug 4, 2026 |
The rank uses the full fixed cohort. This table shows up to five creators around Ethan Siegel; the coverage summary above still counts everyone.
What they publish
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2,691Profile posts4 postsLast month91.7%Members-only
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Image Latest post$1 tier & upView 0 commentsStarts With A Bang podcast #131 - The Baryon Life Cycle
Yesterday at Jul 5 crawl 0 likes 0 commentsView 0 commentsAsk Ethan: Could we spot an extinction-level asteroid?Article2 days ago at Jul 5 crawl$1 tier & up 0 0Join to unlock 1 2 Share Gift access LockedNo public preview was captured for this post.Article1mo ago$1 tier & up 0 2Is it finally time to take dark matter-free galaxies seriously?This Hubble image shows the stars of ultra-diffuse galaxy DF9, along with a series of background objects, mostly galaxies, located at much greater distances. DF9 makes almost a perfect line, at least in two-dimensional space, with previously identified dark matter-free candidate galaxies DF2 and DF4, suggesting, but not proving, a possible association. (Credit: M.A. Keim et al., Hubble Space Telescope/ESA/NASA, Astrophysical Journal, 2026)...Image4 days ago at Jul 5 crawl$1 tier & up 2 3View 0 commentsThe most distant lensing cluster reveals a dark matter surpriseArticle5 days ago at Jul 5 crawl$1 tier & up 0 0View 0 commentsCould nearby relic galaxy NGC 1277 lead to the first stars?ArticleJune 29$1 tier & up 0 0Ask Ethan: What super-galactic structures are we a part of?June 26 The galaxies shown in this picture all lie beyond the Local Group, and as such are all gravitationally unbound from us. As a result, as the Universe expands, the light from them gets shifted toward longer, redder wavelengths, and these objects wind up farther away, in light-years, than the number of years it actually takes the light to journey from them to our eyes. As the expansion relentlessly continues, they'll wind up progressively farther and farther away. (Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute)... When you become a member,ImageJune 26$1 tier & up 4 4View 0 commentsEinstein’s E = mc² is only half of the full equationArticleJune 25$1 tier & up 0 0One stringy thought causes inflationary cosmologists to lose sleepJune 24 This timeline of the Universe shows how, from a Planck-scale region of space that possessed an inflationary state, the properties of the hot Big Bang were set up beforehand. Once the Big Bang occurs, our Universe becomes filled with a primordial particle soup, which evolves into the atoms, stars, galaxies, and large-scale structure we're familiar with today. However, unanswered questions about inflation, as well as the young Universe that emerged in its aftermath, still remain. (Credit: Ben Gibson/NASA/Pablo Carlos Budassi/Big Think)... When you become a member, you geArticleJune 24$1 tier & up 3 4Yes, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is older than the Solar SystemJune 23 This multi-frame animation shows interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves across a field of stars in this Hubble Space Telescope imagery from July 21, 2025. Observations from Hubble, SPHEREx, and JWST have revolutioned what we know about this novel object, and did so even as early as July and August of 2025: when the comet was still approaching its October 2025 perihelion. Since then, it has sped out of the Solar System, and is extremely unlikely to visit us again. (Credit: David Jewitt/NASA/ESA/Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI); Processing: Nrco0e/Wikimedia Commons)... To access this whole post, join Patreon tArticleJune 23$1 tier & up 1 2View 0 commentsFamous globular cluster Terzan 5: an imposter after allArticleJune 22$1 tier & up 0 0Ask Ethan: How do space telescopes stay focused?June 19ArticleJune 19Public 0 0
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