Single Trapped Atom Captures Science Photography Competition's top prize
An image of a single positively-charged strontium atom, held near motionless by electric fields, has won the overall prize in a national science photography competition, organised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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Amazing but I thought an atom would be smaller.
It’s a picture of an atom re-emitting laser light which is what is visible by the naked eye. An actual atom is “visible” only under advanced electron microscopes
This is so cool. Nature never ceases to amaze me.