News tagged with liquid helium
WISE Is Chilling Out
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2009 |
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LHC now colder than deep space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is once again colder than deep space as it is prepared for experiments to resume in late November.
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine?
(AP) -- When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Restart of Large Hadron Collider now November
(AP) -- Repairs to two small helium leaks in the world's largest atom smasher will delay the restart of the giant machine another month until November, a spokesman for the operator said Thursday.
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Supercooled and supersized technologies aboard Herschel and Planck
Away from sunlight it can get very cold in space, but not cold enough for the Herschel and Planck missions, which ESA and European industry have equipped with state-of-the-art refrigeration systems to make ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2009 |
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Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to New Career
The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of May 12, the telescope is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 06, 2009 |
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If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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