A Camera Containing Radioactive Material Is Missing in the Houston Area

Trillionth-of-a-Second Shutter Speed Camera Catches Chaos in Action

New 'camera' with shutter speed of 1 trillionth of a second sees through dynamic disorder of atoms

Launched in 1957, the first balloon-borne telescope (Stratoscope I) featured a 12-inch primary mirror and a 35mm movie camera. The floating observatory was used to study turbulence in the Sun’s photosphere from 80,000 feet above Earth’s surface, avoiding the obscuring effect of Earth's atmosphere.