{"id":416764,"date":"2022-03-16T03:33:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/theres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T03:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:33:47","slug":"theres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"#There&#8217;s a tiny star spraying antimatter all over the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af1ebc1a207d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af1ebc1a207d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way\/#%E2%80%9CTheres_a_tiny_star_spraying_antimatter_all_over_the_Milky_Way%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;There&#8217;s a tiny star spraying antimatter all over the Milky Way&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way\/#Annihilation\" >Annihilation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way\/#A_star_emerges\" >A star emerges<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way\/#A_whale_of_a_discovery\" >A whale of a discovery<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTheres_a_tiny_star_spraying_antimatter_all_over_the_Milky_Way%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;There&#8217;s a tiny star spraying antimatter all over the Milky Way&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            Scientists at NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory recently uncovered a twinkling little star that might hold the key to several of the universe\u2019s deepest mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>Called a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pulsar\">pulsar<\/a> for its twinkle, the star\u2019s scant the size of a large city. What makes it special is, as NASA describes it, the fact that it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently spewing a \u201cgargantuan stream of matter and antimatter\u201d into our galaxy.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Annihilation\"><\/span><span>Annihilation<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>Here\u2019s where we run into problems. Matter and antimatter don\u2019t get along. When, for example, a quark or a particle collides with their respective antiquark or antiparticle, a process called <\/span><i>annihilation <\/i><span>occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Big Think\u2019s Ethan Siegel <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/why-we-exist\/\">put it<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>If there were equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the Universe, almost all of it would have annihilated away. At present, there would be less than one particle of either matter or antimatter per cubic kilometer in the Universe remaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As it stands, however, the Universe is much denser than that by about a factor of a billion, and practically all of what remains is matter, not antimatter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The big mystery surrounding the origin of the universe involves trying to figure out how we got from the moments after the Big Bang, where most physicists assume matter and antimatter formed in equal amounts, to nearly 14 billion years later where <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2018\/01\/05\/how-did-the-matter-in-our-universe-arise-from-nothing\/?sh=6458f08d4c2e\">99.999+% of what exists is matter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Due to its rarity, anything we can learn about antimatter would help scientists to understand more about the Big Bang and, perhaps, even the period preceding it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And that\u2019s where our little diamond in the sky comes in.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_star_emerges\"><\/span>A star emerges<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"a NASA image showing a pulsar with a long trail\" width=\"864\" height=\"481\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2022\/j2030\/j2030_full_xray_labeled.jpg\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F03%2F16%2Ftheres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way-should-we-be-worried%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Credit: NASA\" data-title=\"Share Credit: NASA on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Credit: NASA on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2022\/j2030\/j2030_full_xray_labeled.jpg\" alt=\"a NASA image showing a pulsar with a long trail\" width=\"864\" height=\"481\" class=\"\" srcset=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><span>Scientists at the Chandra X-ray Observatory noticed this particular star spinning in space approximately 1,600 light years away from Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite its diminutive stature, it stands out against the cosmic background thanks to the huge stream of matter and antimatter it\u2019s emitting into the galaxy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While pulsars are defined by the visible radiation they emit, that light is usually confined to its own magnetic fields. It\u2019s incredibly rare to see that radiation <\/span><i>leak<\/i><span> into the universe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But, in this case, it\u2019s as though this little pulsar shoved a giant hose into the Milky Way\u2019s gravitational field and started pumping it full of matter and antimatter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Per a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/chandra\/images\/tiny-star-unleashes-gargantuan-beam-of-matter-and-antimatter.html\">NASA press release<\/a>, Martijn de Vries, the scientist who led the research, said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>It\u2019s amazing that a pulsar that\u2019s only 10 miles across can create a structure so big that we can see it from thousands of light-years away. With the same relative size, if the filament stretched from New York to Los Angeles the pulsar would be about 100 times smaller than the tiniest object visible to the naked eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the universe is <em>almost completely<\/em> composed of matter, scientists on Earth have found evidence for a significant amount of antiparticles on our planet \u2014 something that doesn\u2019t seem to add up.<\/p>\n<p>The leaky pulsar NASA found may offer some insight into this mystery. <span>According to the researchers, the pulsar\u2019s trail only appeared in the past 30 years or so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The scientists observed the star in a rarest-of-rare moment where it had <em>somehow<\/em> managed to burst past the \u201cbow\u201d of shock gas that moves ahead of it \u2014 NASA describes it as \u201csimilar to the pile-up of water in front of a moving boat\u201d \u2014 and, for whatever reason, that caused it to start leaking through its own magnetic field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_whale_of_a_discovery\"><\/span>A whale of a discovery<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>It feels a lot like the NASA team managed to do the cosmic equivalent of catching a blue whale spouting in the wild. Only, the researchers from the Chandra Observatory managed to do it from a distance of about 1,600 light years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, even from that far away, we\u2019re still not safe from the creeping menace of <\/span><i>antimatter<\/i><span>. <\/span>Actually, we are safe. And antimatter isn\u2019t a creeping menace \u2014 it\u2019s quite helpful.<\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the fact there\u2019s a fair chance that antimatter particles from that particular star could find their way into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere (don\u2019t look, but they could be standing behind you right now), they\u2019re not going to start a chain reaction that destroys the universe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If that was going to happen, it would have happened in the beginning when all the matter and antimatter in the universe was all in one place. Again, therein lies the mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Scientists hope this information will help them to discover new insights into why antimatter seems to have a lower survival rate than matter despite it not making much sense in the standard model of the universe. And perhaps it can explain all these extra antiparticles here on Earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It could also help us to better understand dark matter and dark energy, matter and antimatter\u2019s invisible cousins.<\/p>\n<p><span>And, not to sound too optimistic, but every piece of the matter\/dark matter puzzle we manage to solve brings us one step closer to the ultimate prize: t<\/span><span>he creation of an antimatter engine or, as you might recognize it, the propulsion system for Galaxy class ships in the <\/span><i>Star Trek<\/i> franchise.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><video class=\"gifsnomore size-full wp-image-1382630 \" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/03\/warp.mp4\"\/><\/video><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F03%2F16%2Ftheres-a-tiny-star-spraying-antimatter-all-over-the-milky-way-should-we-be-worried%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Engage!\" data-title=\"Share Engage! on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Engage! on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>Engage!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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