The science pros at TKOR make simple DIY magic lanterns anyone can try at home, merging optics, light, and creativity.

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Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

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A new startup has come up with a way to sell sunlight on demand, proposing a constellation of satellites that would reflect ...

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Astronomy content creator Sunshine Nate visited Hawaiʻi to capture a rare planetary parade and blood moon eclipse. Along the ...

Lead researcher Nathan Roth said the image shows the comet is “bursting with methanol in a way we just don’t usually see.” ...

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