Ma & Pa Kettle Corn

07/04/2026

Introducing our newest Flavor.
#107 RyRy......Caramel, Peach, Vanilla

07/04/2026

07/04/2026

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!
Come on out and Celebrate with us at Yantis Park in Miltonfreewater. We're here till 9pm. There's a car show, games and bouncy houses for the kids. And vendors and music.

KIDS IF YOU FIND ONE OF OUR PAINTED WOODEN STARS, BRING IT TO OUR TENT AND TRADE IT FOR A SNACK BAG OF KETTLE CORN....YOUR CHOICE OF FLAVOR WE HAVE IN STOCK.

HAVE A SAFE AND WONDERFUL DAY!!!!!

07/03/2026

We're crashing Miltonfreewater July 3rd and 4th - you're invited. Join the shindig for Miltonfreewater's 75th Anniversary and America's 250th. Expect ridiculous family fun, tunes and games. Plus, bouncey houses, grub and vendors galore. And on the 4th, a car show to boot. Kids, keep your eyes peeled for our secret painted rocks or wooden stars - trade one in for a snack bag of kettle corn in any flavor we've got.

06/13/2026

⚡ Jupiter has been caught doing something usually associated with the most violent places in the Universe.

Using NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists have directly observed electrons near Jupiter being accelerated to relativistic energies, meaning they were pushed to nearly the speed of light.

The action happens at Jupiter’s bow shock, the huge boundary where the solar wind slams into the planet’s enormous magnetic field. Just upstream of that boundary is a turbulent foreshock region, where magnetic structures can trap and energize particles.

Juno crossed this region on October 1, 2023. Its instruments detected electrons reaching at least 1 MeV, far higher than the nearby bow shock crossing itself. The real accelerator seems to be a giant foreshock transient, a moving plasma structure spanning several Jupiter radii.

That is important because collisionless shocks are found everywhere in space, from planets to supernova remnants. They are also one of the main suspects behind cosmic rays, the high energy particles constantly raining through the galaxy.

The study suggests there may be a scaling rule: bigger shock systems can build bigger acceleration regions, and those regions can push particles to higher energies.

Jupiter is not just a planet here. It is a nearby laboratory for cosmic particle acceleration.

📄 RESEARCH PAPER
📌 Raptis et al., “Relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and beyond”, Nature (2026)

06/13/2026

Last day of the Car Tunes Music Festival, come out, have fun, get your Kettle Corn. Or order by text to 541-561-4250 for pick up, we're here till 9pm.

06/13/2026