Amanda earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at Salem College. She is also a former astronomy assistant at Primland Resort, where she gave presentations on deep space and night sky lore. She has also interned in a perinatal neurobiology lab where she measured stress reactions in rats.

Amanda Buchanan

More than 100,000 images were used to create this gorgeous video.

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Self Filling Water Bottles Have Arrived, but Just How Viable Are They?

Is Blowing up an Asteroid With a Bomb Really a Good Idea?

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