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Are antimatter stars firing bullets of antihelium at Earth?

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At the time, scientists stated that if antihelium-4 were detected coming from space, then it would definitely have to come from the fusion process inside an antistar. The definitive discovery of antihelium would be absolutely fundamental,” says Dupourqué. The possible existence of antistars threatens to turn this on its head.

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Composition of gases in the Milky Way appears surprisingly patchy

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Definitely not,” says César Esteban López of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife. If the new results from De Cia’s team are correct, then it would have profound implications for models of the galaxy’s star-forming history and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way, and others. Difference of opinion.

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Scanning the cosmos for signs of alien technology

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In 1802 the young German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss suggested a way to make our presence known to would-be Martians – by clearing a huge area in the Siberian forest, planting it with wheat, and creating a pattern indicative of the Pythagorean theorem. These include the famous 72-second-long “WOW!” But can we see them?