René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), Le Retour [The Return], C.1950. Gouache On Paper, 29.6 X 41.7 Cm.

House In Nakijin / Studio Cochi Architects Photos © Ooki Jingu

At the very centre of the image above is something incredible - a single, positively-charged strontium atom, suspended in motion by electric fields.

Not only is this an incredibly rare sight, it’s also difficult to wrap your head around the fact that this tiny point of blue light is a building block of matter.

The image was captured by physicist David Nadlinger from the University of Oxford, and it’s been awarded the overall prize in the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition.

To give you a little perspective on the size of this set-up, the atom is being held in place by electric fields emanating from those two metal needles on either side of it.

The distance between them is about 2 millimetres (0.08 inch).

The atom is being illuminated by a blue-violet laser. The energy from the laser causes the atom to emit photons which Nadlinger could capture on camera using a long exposure.

The whole thing is housed inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber and dramatically cooled to keep the atom still. Nadlinger took this photo through the window of the vacuum chamber.

To learn more, click here.

955. Adam Caruso & Peter St John /// Studio House /// Highbury, London, UK /// 1993-94

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Hélène Binet. Source: Gennaro Postiglione, ’100: One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century’, Köln: Taschen, 2004.)

Fala Atelier, House Along a Wall, Porto, 2018

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By Thomas Dubois

Meera Bai - Mystic Poet and Devotee Of Krishna Vintage Litho Tin Print (via eBay: Ishr2013)

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

955. Adam Caruso & Peter St John /// Studio House /// Highbury, London, UK /// 1993-94

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Hélène Binet. Source: Gennaro Postiglione, ’100: One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century’, Köln: Taschen, 2004.)

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) successfully carried out its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) to impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, satellite of Didymos

DART on-board camera

observed by Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)

observed by Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIA)

Meera Bai by Kshitindrnanath Majumdar, Bengal