4.5 million fps microscope camera powered by ultra-fast X-ray flash

Remember those rugged gadgets we smashed to bits in super slow-mo? Well that impressive footage was shot at around 1,500 frames per-second. a brand new camera system being built for the ecu XFEL (X-ray Free-Electron Laser) facility will record stunning clips of viruses and cells at a virtually unimaginable 4.5 million fps. The camera is, partly, powered by a high speed flash created by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, that blasts its microscopic subjects with ultra-bright X-rays. The flashes themselves last as low as two femtoseconds, or 2×10^-15 seconds for you math nerds available in the market. When the entire apparatus is fired up in 2015 it can provide amazingly detailed, 3D images of individual molecules and answer some questions on the behavior of viruses and cells.

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