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The Hennings Building, UBC Campus.
Photo taken by Darren Peets, graduate student.
July, 2003
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The world's best crystals of YBaCuO are grown at UBC,
and used to unlock the puzzles of high temperature superconductivity by
researchers around the globe.
http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~supercon
Image courtesy of Patrick Turner, graduate student.
July, 2003
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The BaBar experiment studies CP violation and electroweak physics at
the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The UBC BaBar group assembled
the drift chamber at TRIUMF and shipped it to California.
Image courtesy of Chris Hearty, faculty member.
July, 2003
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The launch of MOST aboard a former Russian ICBM at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
Image courtesy of Jaymie Matthews, faculty member.
July, 2003
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The UBC telescope in its dome, with the crescent Moon in the background.
photo: P. Durrell, 1999.
October, 2004
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A rare snowfall at UBC - photo taken from the AMPEL Building.
Photo taken by Darren Peets, graduate student.
October, 2004
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The scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) group at AMPEL
works toward the design of novel supramolecular nanosystems.
Shown here is the smallest UBC ever written. Letters are a
mere 2 nm wide and consist of CO molecules on a Cu surface,
individually positioned and imaged by a low-temperature STM.
Image courtesy of STM group.
September, 2004
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The BLAST
telescope with balloon is prepared for launch from Kiruna, Sweden June, 2005.
The balloon carried the telescope over the Arctic, landing on Victoria Island, NWT
Image provided by Galaen Marsden, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2005 June
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The Large Zenith Telescope is a zenith-pointing telescope employing a rotating liquid-metal primary mirror 6-meters in diameter, with which to conduct astronomical surveys.
Image provided by Paul Hickson, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2005 November
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The Large Zenith Telescope is a zenith-pointing telescope employing a rotating liquid-metal primary mirror 6-meters in diameter, with which to conduct astronomical surveys.
Image provided by Paul Hickson, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2005 November
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A portion of an Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6397, a globular cluster
in the local Milky Way, showing a distant background galaxy with its own globular
cluster system. The enlargement shows some of these distant globulars clusters circled
Image provided by Harvey Richer, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2007 January
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Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the
largest structures in the universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives
of galaxies.
STAGES:
Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey
Image provided by Catherine Heymans, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2008 January
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The cosmic microwave temperature fluctuations from the 5-year WMAP data seen over the full sky. The average temperature is 2.725 Kelvin (degrees above absolute zero; equivalent to -270 C or -455 F), and the colours represent the tiny temperature fluctuations, as in a weather map. Red regions are warmer and blue regions are colder by about 0.0002 degrees. Mark Halpern is part of the WMAP team.
Photo Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team.
2008 March
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The cone of light produced by a neutrino interacting in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). UBC researchers working with the SNO experiment have demonstrated that neutrinos produced in the Sun can change flavours on their way to Earth.
Image provided by Scott Oser, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2008 March
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T2K is a neutrino experiment that shoots a beam of neutrinos a distance of 300km through Japan's main island. At the far end these neutrinos are detected by Super-Kamiokande (shown here): a large cylindrical tank holding 50 kilotons of water instrumented with 11000 photomultiplier tubes.
Image provided by Scott Oser, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2008 March
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This image shows: (a) prehistoric cave art? (b) extra-terrestrial landscaping as seen from space? (c) paving stones in front of the Hennings Bldg.? (d) or possibly all of the above?
Image provided by Mark Halpern, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2008 May
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A photo of the inside of the TRIUMF cyclotron ( the world's largest at 18m in diameter) showing the upper and lower halves of the resonators. The D-gap is visible as the break in the lower resonator structure.
Image provided by Mike Hasinoff, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2008 July
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Artistic rendering of the change in number of electrons on a YBCO sample's surface. Potassium is evaporated at the surface to replenish the charge to the desired level. See ARPES Group Web Site and Nature Physics 4, 527 (2008).
Image courtesy of David Fournier and Andrea Damascelli, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2008 October
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The Fermi surface of the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.5 as revealed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). It provides direct information on the motion of the electrons propagating inside the material, as exemplified by the horizontal nearly-straight lines which define a region where the electron motion is highly unidirectional. See ARPES Group Web Site and Nature Physics 4, 527 (2008).
Image courtesy of David Fournier and Andrea Damascelli, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2008 October
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Hickson Compact Group 90 -- as seen with the HST. The image
shows three strongly interacting galaxies: a dusty spiral galaxy stretched and
distorted between a pair of large elliptical galaxies. This appears to be an early stage of galaxy merger, which will result in a single large galaxy.
Paul Hickson and colleagues
identified and cataloged some 100 such compact groups of galaxies.
This image was featured as Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2009 March 13.
Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Sharples (Univ. Durham)
2009 March
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Thermal emission from clouds of cold dust,
mixed with gas in the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen
by the BLAST balloon borne sub-mm telecope.
Colour is an indicator of temperature, with blue areas warmed
above 20 K by recent or ongoing star formation. Red regions,
where the gas and dust are not being warmed by young massive stars,
have cooled to around 12K. The image is of 50 square degrees towards
the constellation Vela.
For more information on BLAST see
www.blastexperiment.info..
Photo Credit: BLAST Team
2009 April
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The Plotkin and Rottler research groups
investigate the molecular origins of DNA properties including chirality, stiffness and base-interactions. Shown here is a rendering of a coarse-grained strand of DNA, with bases represented by effective ellipsoids.
Image courtesy of Erik Abrahamsson and Steven Plotkin, Physics & Astronomy UBC
2009 July
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