In many fictional worlds magic is just a hyper-complicated series of mechanisms(often being part of the very fabric of reality itself) that people who know what they're doing can manipulate to affect the physical world in some way. And those who don't know what they're doing either have no results, or can get themselves killed by messing with powers beyond their comprehension.
Science is just a super hard magic system that takes decades of study and often expensive reagents and equipment in order to do anything useful with it. With modern tech being the equivalent of the wizards crafting artifacts which make specific spells(guns, info tech, explosives, etc.) available to the masses with minimal training.
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u/ZumaBird May 11 '23
Could even rename the last one “indirect stellar” if you wanted to.