Caltech’s Lightsail Experiment Brings Interstellar Travel Closer to Reality
Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...
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Lightsail propulsion could enable interstellar travel at speeds never before imagined
To begin their research, the team built a small, tethered lightsail within a larger membrane. They then shined a visible ...
First steps taken toward developing interstellar lightsails
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...
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Getting A Laser Eye Injury And How To Avoid It
This was in 1999, and fortunately [Phil] only suffered some fairly minor damage to his retina from the laser beam reflection. What happened to the customers (who wore argon laser safety glasses ...
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Histology of xanthelasma lesion treated by argon laser photocoagulation
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