A disco ball projector during the partial solar eclipse on Oct. 25, 2022 in Potsdam, Germany. An enlarged solar image is shown in the lower right corner. (Image credit: Cumming et al.) ...

While disco balls in space have been a thing for decades, some astronomers are arguing in a new paper that the mirrored delights should also be placed in universities and scientific facilities as ...

Space disco! NASA shares incredible pictures of Mercury resembling a disco ball - as the space agency jokes 'you better not kill the groove!' NASA references the Saltburn craze with lyric from ...

The Myriad Hotel features a disco ball installation in its lobby. “Couples skate. Ladies choice.” For children of the 1970s, those words spark memories of gliding around the roller rink to a ...

There’s just one rule: for a disco ball to truly work its magic, it needs a steady source of light. It can be daylight or spotlights; any source of illumination to make the sphere sparkle.

Typical disco balls can have mirrors as small as 4 mm and, taking the average wavelength of visible light to be 550 nm, the optimum imaging distance is 15 m. That might sound like a large distance for ...

A disco ball projector during the partial solar eclipse on Oct. 25, 2022 in Potsdam, Germany. An enlarged solar image is shown in the lower right corner. (Image credit: Cumming et al.) ...