This may look like a new promo pic from Tron Legacy , but it ’s actually the winning image in Princeton University ’s “ Art of Science ” competition . Physics does n’t just explain the most awesome phenomenon in the universe — it also creates graphics .
The above image is call “ Xenon Plasma Accelerator , ” by Jerry Ross , a researcher at Princeton ’s Plasma Physics Lab . And it bears the following account :
The Hall pusher is an electric propulsion engineering science that practice magnetised and electric champaign to ionize and speed up propellent . In this effigy the plasma accelerator is go on Xe propellant .
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Here ’s the image that amount in third place :
That ’s “ Neutron Star Scattering off a Super Massive Black Hole , ” by undergrad Tim Kirby in the Physics Department . [ Boston.comviaHermenautic Circle Blog ]
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