{"id":102,"date":"2011-05-25T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-05-30T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T22:46:14","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/550930main_image_1952_946-710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103\" title=\"Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/550930main_image_1952_946-710-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/550930main_image_1952_946-710-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/550930main_image_1952_946-710.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2. Photo credit: NASA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s wallpaper shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams02.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2<\/a> (AMS-02) holding steady in its new home on the integrated truss structure of the International Space Station. Delivered to the ISS on May 19th by STS-134 under the command of Mark Kelly, the AMS-02 will be the first magnetic spectrometer used in space. \u00a0From its orbital position, the instrument will gather and measure cosmic rays as part of the on-going search for primordial antimatter and dark matter in the universe. \u00a0At the heart of the AMS-02 is a\u00a0large magnet, the field of which will be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams02.org\/what-is-ams\/tecnology\/magnet\/\" target=\"_blank\">used to distinguish matter from anti-matter<\/a>. As particles and anti-particles pass through a uniform magnetic field, they bend in opposite directions. \u00a0The specific particle curvature (positive or negative) identifies the particle as electron or positron. \u00a0In addition, the radius of the curvature allows scientists to measure the particles momentum at the time of collection. More on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams02.org\/what-is-ams\/what-for\/\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a> (dark matter, anti-matter, strangelets, and cosmic rays)\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams02.org\/what-is-ams\/tecnology\/\" target=\"_blank\">technology<\/a> (instruments) of the AMS-02 can be found on the instrument&#8217;s website.\u00a0You can also follow the instrument on twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AMS_02\" target=\"_blank\">@AMS-02<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s wallpaper shows the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS-02) holding steady in its new home on the integrated truss structure of the International Space Station. Delivered to the ISS on May 19th by STS-134 under the command of Mark Kelly, the AMS-02 will be the first magnetic spectrometer used in space. \u00a0From its orbital position, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}