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The coldest place in the universe is a bit of a tricky question to answer definitively because it depends on what you're considering. However, the Coulomb force between charged particles in a plasma can, in theory, make it extremely cold. This is because the force resists the particles from getting too close to each other, which would be necessary for them to reach absolute zero, the theoretical lowest temperature.

In 2003, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, created a gas of ultra-cold atoms that they believe is the coldest substance in the known universe. This gas was cooled to a temperature of about 1/100,000,000,000 of a degree above absolute zero.

The Boson stars, hypothetical objects in astrophysics, are thought to be incredibly cold because they are composed of bosons, particles that can pile up on top of each other without limit at very low temperatures.

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A ghostly nebula shining about 5,000 light-years from Earth is also the coldest known object in the universe. The dead star creating the Boomerang Nebula is sloughing off gas from its shell, which is producing the strangely shaped cosmic object, astronomers have discovered.read more >>