It is the closest star system to Earth, located only 4.4 light years away, and best of all, it may also have rocky planets like Earth orbiting around it. Alpha Centauri represents a triple system, composed of two average stars relatively similar to the Sun, and a red dwarf. It is argued whether we will be able to go ... |
13 March 2008 08:06 GMT |
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Cosmological theories trying to explain the universe as we see it today postulate that, only a few moments after the Big Bang, the matter in the universe should have been composed of equal amounts of regular matter and anti-matter, but this is not what we are observing today, is it? We are not made half of matter and... |
14 February 2008 06:16 GMT |
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It is largely speculated throughout the astrophysical community that the first stars might have been created out of dark matter, albeit while we mostly know nothing about dark matter and dark energy, what it is made of and its properties, now a theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan, Katherine Freese, pr... |
13 February 2008 02:53 GMT |
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Most of the universe we live in is made of matter, not anti-matter, but, while to create anti-matter particles is extremely easy here on Earth, they immediately decay through what we call anti-particle annihilation, when an elementary particle and its counterpart interact and decay into pure energy, or particles that... |
12 February 2008 04:19 GMT |
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