Portal:Physics/2008 Selected pictures

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This is an archive of entries that have appeared or will appear on Portal:Physics's Selected picture section in 2008.

[edit] January

Image credit: NASA

Launch of the Titan IVB/Centaur space booster carrying the Cassini Orbiter and Huygens probe. Cassini is currently orbiting Saturn.

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[edit] February

Image credit: NASA and JPL

The asteroid 243 Ida and its 0.7 km moon Dactyl of the Asteroid belt as seen by the Galileo spacecraft before its approach. The slight color variations of the asteroid's surface are due to differences in surface composition (and differences in lighting).

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[edit] March

Image credit: User:MichaelMaggs [1]

A time-lapse image of a bouncing ball, with each image appearing after a 1/25 second duration, illustrating projectile motion.

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[edit] April

Image credit: Joel Holdsworth

A Feynman diagram showing the annihilation of an electron and positron and production of two quarks. The green spiral to the right of the diagram represents the radiation of a gluon.

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[edit] May

Image credit: NASA

A drawing of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the gravitational wave detector being considered by NASA and ESA. ESA reported that the earliest launch date is 2018.

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