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Counting electrons in space

Publication date: 28 February 2012

Image of the Crab Nebula. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope/NASA

Space isn't really a empty. In reality it's filled with particles that can be measured by instruments on spacecraft. But there aren't that many of them so special techniques need to be used to work out the density and temperature of the particles surrounding the planets, and our spacecraft.

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