Milky Way Crack

Martin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:00:44 +0000

In pod 10 we said that NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope had discovered a crack in the Milky Way surprisingly similar in shape to the crack in the current series of Doctor Who.

But don’t worry it’s not a rip in fabric of space and time as in the show, it’s the core of a thick, sooty cloud which scientists suggest is like a star crèche. You can find out more on pod 10.

Nano Guitar

Martin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:33 +0000

In pod 5 we counted down the Top 5 objects shrunk down to nano-scales and here is our winner: the nanoguitar. It was made back in 1997 by a team at Cornell who sculpted it out of a single crystal of silicon on an oxide substrate. At 10 micrometers long it truly is the world’s smallest guitar and has six strings about 100 atoms wide, which when plucked using a laser beam produce a note 40 octaves above human hearing.

Hear about the nanoguitar and the rest of our nano-object in Pod 5.

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Milky Way Crack

Nano Guitar