In this photo taken on July 22, 2019, a villager holds a meteorite that crashed in a field in the eastern India state of Bihar. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) At a Glance The object left a large crater where it landed.Witnesses said it was smoking.The rock is being sent to India's science and technology department for confirmation. A group of farm workers in India were stunned when what appeared to be a meteorite crashed down in the rice paddy they were tending....

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The Big Red Ball at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Jeff Miller/University of Wisconsin-Madison) At a Glance Physicists at the University of Wisconsin built a machine to help study the sun's behavior.The sun's effect on Earth is known as space weather.Scientists are seeking to better understand solar wind. Physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have replicated solar wind in a laboratory, thanks to a machine they built called "The Big Red Ball." "Solar wind interacts with the magnetic field and plasma...