Images from an MIT exhibit showcasing the stroboscopic work of Harold Eugene “Doc” Edgerton, who was an MIT professor for years. The pictures above were taken by Doc with his Rapatropic camera in 1952. At an atomic test site in Nevada. (The rapatronic camera is a high-speed camera capable of recording a still image with an exposure time as brief as 10 nanoseconds (billionths of a second).