Physics and Astronomy News Archive: February 2017

Image: The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae

The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae
Source: ESO Posted: 2/6/17
The beautiful, glowing, cosmic clouds of gas and dust catalogued as NGC 6334 and NGC 6357 now have new names.

Image: First Look at Magnetism of Real Nanoparticle

First Look at Magnetism of Real Nanoparticle
Source: ORNL Posted: 2/3/17
Scientist help solve a unique problem: to model magnetism at the atomic level using experimental data from a real nanoparticle.

'For the sake of persons of ... different types, scientific truth should be presented in different forms, and should be regarded as equally scientific, whether it appears in the robust form and the vivid coloring of a physical illustration, or in the tenuity and paleness of a symbolic expression.'

James Clerk Maxwell
(1831-1879)