Nasa just sent a mini lab to the ISS to create the coldest place in the universe
The Cold Atom Laboratory will allow scientists to study atoms in unprecedented detail.
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Nasa announced last year that it was attempting to create the coldest place in the universe to find out more about how atoms behave in space.
Now the US space agency has built the device and sent it to the International Space Station (ISS) to create a spot 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.
The set-up will chill a small area to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, which is minus 273C.
The ice-box sized mini lab, which travelled on Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft, will allow scientists to experiment remotely without interference from Earth’s gravity.
