Science | WPN World People News

Hubble Spots a Stunning Spiral.

Galileo

The computer system and software that controlled the Apollo 11 spacecraft — called the Apollo Guidance Computer and designed by the MIT Instrumentation Lab team — helped push technology forward in many ways. The computer itself was the first significant use of silicon integrated circuit chips.

Array of 1 millimeter magnetic droplets: Fluorescent green droplets are paramagnetic without any jammed nanoparticles at the liquid interface; red are paramagnetic with nonmagnetic nanoparticles jammed at the interface; brown droplets are ferromagnetic with magnetic nanoparticles jammed at the interface.

Interior view of an incubator cassette from the Bioculture System.

An impressionistic visualization of what’s called the “Tip of the Red Giant Branch,” when diagramming the distribution of stars’ brightness versus their color.

Revealing the galactic bar.

The Lunar Module ascent stage with Moon-walking astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. approaches for a rendezvous with the Apollo Command Module staffed by astronaut Michael Collins.

Schematic of graphene/boron nitride superconductor/insulator: The material is composed of three 2D layers of graphene (gray) sandwiched between 2D layers of boron nitride (red and blue) to form a repeating pattern called a moiré superlattice. Superconductivity is indicated by the light-green circles, which represent the positive charge sitting on each unit cell of the moiré superlattice.

Upper (left) and lower photomultiplier tube arrays are prepared for LZ at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota.