Subject:  08/95 Atomic ice cube.JPG
Author:  Eric A. Cornell et al., NIST
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Date:  7/7/1995

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From the August 1995 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Science and the Citizen

Coming in from the Cold

by Philip Yam

This 640 x 301 pixel image shows how 30,000 atoms at 35 nanokelvins, near Bose-Einstein condensation, are colored to reveal the distribution of atoms across 100 microns, from packed (red) to sparse (yellow).