{"id":12385,"date":"2010-03-18T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/x-ray-eyes-visual-science\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:57:07","slug":"x-ray-eyes-visual-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/x-ray-eyes-visual-science.php","title":{"rendered":"X-Ray Eyes | Visual Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b4bd9_ESR022h1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><br><\/a><\/p><p>Pictured here is an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esrf.eu\/\">European Synchrotron Radiation Facility<\/a> double mirror system handy for focusing X-ray beams down to the nanometer range. ESRF has used these fine beams to examine <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8550924.stm\">recently discovered interstellar dust<\/a> collected in the Stardust spacecraft. Photographer Peter Ginter describes his process with this image: &ldquo;I wanted to photograph this detection device, hidden and growing&nbsp;in an eggshell of thoughts, going through many phases of an evolutionary process before it actually sees the light.&rdquo; While photographing, Ginter noticed the anxiously watching researchers&rsquo; faces reflected on the surface of the machine, and &ldquo;instantly had the gut feeling how very much this instrument was an extension of the scientist&rsquo;s mind.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Photograph courtesy ESRF\/Peter Ginter<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b4bd9_gQIDxEeNkTg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured here is an European Synchrotron Radiation Facility double mirror system handy for focusing X-ray beams down to the nanometer range. ESRF has used these fine beams to examine recently discovered interstellar dust collected in the Stardust spacecraft. Photographer Peter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/x-ray-eyes-visual-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}