diffraction

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Over a decade later, using a technique called electron backscattered diffraction, Jourdan and his team were able to determine if the returned particles of Itokawa had previously been impacted in space.

From Salon

One technique, X-ray powder diffraction, studies how an X-ray behaves when it’s trained on a mineral or other substance that has been ground into powder.

From Washington Post

The struts that hold the small mirror away from the primary mirror add six more diffraction spikes: Two visibly radiate horizontally from the center of a bright object.

From Scientific American

Foreground stars in all the Webb images can be identified by their “diffraction spikes,” which are an artifact of the telescope’s design.

From Washington Post

If you compare images taken by the new telescope to images taken by its predecessor, you’ll notice that Hubble only has four diffraction spikes to JWST’s eight.

From The Verge