{"id":381911,"date":"2017-10-02T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bee5efe9d7d04ad29c5e1e8ab33513b4"},"modified":"2017-10-02T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:00:03","slug":"researchers-get-first-look-at-electrons-escaping-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=381911","title":{"rendered":"Researchers get first look at electrons escaping atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have\u2014for just a fraction of a second\u2014glimpsed an electron&#8217;s-eye view of the world. That is, they have succeeded for the first time in tracking an electron leaving the vicinity of an atom as the atom absorbs light. In a way akin to taking &#8220;snapshots&#8221; of the process, they were able to follow how each electron&#8217;s unique momentum changed over the incredibly short span of time it took to escape its host atom and become a free electron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have&mdash;for just a fraction of a second&mdash;glimpsed an electron&#8217;s-eye view of the world. That is, they have succeeded for the first time in tracking an electron leaving the vicinity of an atom as the atom absorbs light. In a way akin to taking &#8220;snapshots&#8221; of the process, they were able to follow how each electron&#8217;s unique momentum changed over the incredibly short span of time it took to escape its host atom and become a free electron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381912,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381911\/revisions\/381912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}