When I say "yourself," I mean "whack a tealight candle underneath." It's certainly more DIY than plugging it into a wall socket and flicking the switch.

Energy is produced in the cores of stars through nuclear fusion and huge, hot bubbles of gas can carry this energy towards the star’s surface. They then cool down and sink, much like a lava lamp.

Astronomers were able to capture detailed observations of massive gas bubbles moving on the surface of a star, named R. Doradus, located 180 light-years away.

Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas ...

How a dying star is similar to a lava lamp. ... cells of gas 75 times as wide as the sun in this red giant star. A time series of images of the star R Doradus shows bubbles of gas rising and sinking.

As the lava lamp celebrates its 60th birthday, ... The iconic design still bubbles into life at the Mathmos’ lava lamp factory in Poole where a food-grade glass bottle is hand-filled with its ...

On the lava lamp’s 60th anniversary, we take a look at the Mathmos factory where the iconic design still bubbles into life Sign up to our newsletter Newsletter When you purchase through links on our ...

The home décor staple of the 1960s and early ’70s counterculture is making a comeback. By Jessica Bumpus Samuel Elmore first saw a lava lamp when he was about 12 or 13 years old and walking ...

The images show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the sun, appearing on the surface of the star, called R Doradus, and sinking back into it faster than expected.