Keep watching the stars! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The VASCO project monitors anomalies in the sky, like strange lights and vanishing stars. While studying astronomical photographs from the 50’s, Stephen Bruehl and Beatriz Villarroel noticed something strange. Bright spots were found in the sky the
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Can dark matter shine bright? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Dark matter is an invisible substance all around us, with gravitational pull. We don’t know what it’s made of, or where it came from… but ancient stars might illuminate the picture. It’s theorized that
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The weather today: clear with a chance of showers… on the Sun? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The sun gives off gas that zips through space just like gusts of wind. This solar wind is what causes our beautiful Northern Lights. But, where exactly
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Space…the final frontier! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Breakthrough Starshot is a globally funded engineering research project. Their mission? To send thin, sheetlike “starChips” into space and take closeup pictures of alien stars. A whole fleet of these objects is designed to sail through
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Astronomy? More like PASTA-nomy! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… We are stardust – no, really! The elements in our bodies were created by supernovas — stars that exploded long ago. But now astronomers believe that some of those dying stars met a different
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