There’s a binary star system out there in the Milky Way, and it’s acting very weird. “AG Draconis,” as astronomers call it, is made up of two stars: a relatively cool giant and a relatively hot white dwarf — the stellar corpse of a low- to medium-size star. They’re 16,000 light-years away from Earth. (A light-year is the distance light travels …
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Rainbows form as sunlight shines on droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. The droplets act like prisms, “refracting” or separating light into its component colors and sending them shooting off at a range of angles between 40 and 42 degrees from the direction opposite the sun. Of course, rainbows are no longer scientifically mysterious. …
Perhaps you’ve noticed that, in bowls of mixed nuts, the Brazil nuts always seem to be sitting on top. This is known as the “Brazil nut effect,” and the seemingly mundane phenomenon is actually one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in many-body physics the science that describes large quantities of interacting objects. Among an assortment …
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