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Mr Kacper Rogala - University of Oxford (Diamond 02)
Image caption: Diamond Light Source - the UK's brightest microscope
Abstract: You are looking at the experimental hall of UK's largest microscope – Diamond Light Source. Worth nearly £500M pounds, this scientific instrument allows to peer into the world of the very small. Diamond accelerates electrons, charged sub-atomic particles, around a curved path to 600 million miles per hour – nearly the speed of light. Travelling at such impressive velocities, the electrons are vibrated by powerful magnets, causing them to radiate. Such radiation in a form of a highly-focused beam can be shone on samples that researchers want to study – for instance viruses, meteorites or even blood and hair from crime scenes. This brilliant microscope allows them to illuminate things that conventional microscopes may have missed, and takes UK to a completely new level of scientific exploration. Two photographs were merged together in Adobe Photoshop to create this final image. Camera: Nikon D7000, equipped with Nikkor 18-35mm lens.
Mr Kacper Rogala - University of Oxford (Diamond 02)
Image caption: Diamond Light Source - the UK's brightest microscope
Abstract: You are looking at the experimental hall of UK's largest microscope – Diamond Light Source. Worth nearly £500M pounds, this scientific instrument allows to peer into the world of the very small. Diamond accelerates electrons, charged sub-atomic particles, around a curved path to 600 million miles per hour – nearly the speed of light. Travelling at such impressive velocities, the electrons are vibrated by powerful magnets, causing them to radiate. Such radiation in a form of a highly-focused beam can be shone on samples that researchers want to study – for instance viruses, meteorites or even blood and hair from crime scenes. This brilliant microscope allows them to illuminate things that conventional microscopes may have missed, and takes UK to a completely new level of scientific exploration. Two photographs were merged together in Adobe Photoshop to create this final image. Camera: Nikon D7000, equipped with Nikkor 18-35mm lens.