obbeel to Science · 1 year agoThe most extreme celestial objects in the universewww.astronomy.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down11
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minus-squareRandom Dentlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoFun fact! Occasionally the coldest place in the known universe isn’t the Boomerang Nebula, but a lab in the University of Kyoto.
minus-squarefiat_lux@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago The team used lasers to cool the matter by restricting the motion of 300,000 atoms within an optical lattice. Neat. I was unaware that we were able to reliably restrict atom movement, and using lasers to do it just makes it sound like a fun time.
Fun fact! Occasionally the coldest place in the known universe isn’t the Boomerang Nebula, but a lab in the University of Kyoto.
Neat. I was unaware that we were able to reliably restrict atom movement, and using lasers to do it just makes it sound like a fun time.