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Limits RegistryNASA's Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the ISS produced Bose-Einstein condensates of rubidium atoms reaching effective temperatures around 100 nanokelvin (one ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero) starting in 2018, with subsequent microgravity experiments extending free-expansion observation times far beyond what's possible in Earth-bound labs due to the absence of gravitational sag.
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NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the ISS produced Bose-Einstein condensates of rubidium atoms reaching effective temperatures around 100 nanokelvin (one ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero) starting in 2018, with subsequent microgravity experiments extending free-expansion observation times far beyond what's possible in Earth-bound labs due to the absence of gravitational sag.
The lowest effective temperature achieved for a Bose-Einstein condensate produced aboard NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory facility on the International Space Station, exploiting microgravity's removal of gravitational sag on the trapped atom cloud.
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Limits Registry. LR-COLDEST-BOSE-EINSTEIN-CONDENSATE-MICROGRAVITY. Coldest Bose-Einstein condensate created in microgravity. 2026.