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The mineral hackmanite (or tenacious sodalite) is an amazing natural phenomenon that has long been a mystery to scientists – even though we can now engineer synthetic materials that glow in the dark more effectively than anything in nature. Geologists first described the mineral in the 1800s, with its tendency …

The center of the Milky Way glows. Yes, there’s a big chonkin ‘black hole, and it’s a very energetic region, but there’s an extra high energy, gamma ray glow, above the activity we know about, and it’s something that still to be explained. This glow is called the Galactic Center …