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Scientists reach record-low temperature aboard China’s space station
Earth.com · By Eric Ralls ·
The Brief
- A cloud of atoms aboard China's Tiangong space station has reached what its creators report is a record-low temperature.
- For about 30 years, physicists have cooled atom clouds toward lower temperatures, with Earth's gravity limiting how far they could go.
- The report comes from Earth.com, which summarises the work of the Tiangong team.
Why it matters
Working in microgravity lets researchers cool atoms further than gravity allows on Earth, which could open new experiments in ultracold physics.
Who’s affected
- physicists studying ultracold atoms
- researchers interested in experiments on space stations
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- #microgravity
- #tiangong
- #quantum physics
- #space station
For 30 years, physicists have pushed clouds of atoms toward ever lower temperatures, with Earth’s gravity limiting how far they could go. Now, a speck of gas aboard China’s Tiangong space station has reached what its creators report is a record-low temperature. There, physicists…
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Scientists report a record-low temperature for atoms aboard Tiangong
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Scientists reach record-low temperature aboard China’s space station