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6) Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia (-67.7°C) Oymyakon is the coldest permanently-inhabited place on Earth and is found in the Arctic Circle’s Northern Pole of Cold. In 1933, it recorded its lowest ...
Permanently shadowed craters near the moon’s south pole stay at a constant -240 °C – 10 °C colder than Pluto. Poor Pluto. First it gets kicked out of the planet club, now it’s not even the ...
Advertisement. The record was set on 10 August, 2010, when the surface temperature plummeted to -93.2 °C. Another pocket dropped to -93 °C on 31 July, 2013. These record lows occurred in small ...
Physics. The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there. Weird things happen down at -273°C, the coldest possible temperature. Now we're building quantum fridges, which could ...
Chilling out in the coldest place on Earth. VOSTOK Station in Antarctica currently holds the crown for the coldest place on the planet. It recorded -89.2 °C on 21 July 1983. But it could get even ...
A gas cloud called the Boomerang nebula, 5000 light years away, has a temperature of only 1 K. The nebula is expanding rapidly, which actively cools its gas in the same way that expansion chills ...
THE emperor penguin is an impossible bird. It breeds in the middle of winter in some of the coldest places on Earth, surviving temperatures as low as -50 °C and hurricane-force winds. In March or ...
The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, 5,000 light years away from us in the constellation Centaurus. Scientists reported in 1997 that gases blowing out from a central ...
Some of the moon’s craters may contain “double-shadowed” regions that are so dark they would be among the coldest places in the solar system. The small tilt of the moon – just 1.5 degrees ...
Space-age architecture in the coldest place on earth. The Antarctic explorers of the heroic era will be turning in their graves: Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton had to make do with wooden huts. And ...