{"id":789951,"date":"2024-10-04T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=789951"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:57:54","slug":"space-may-be-filled-with-more-antimatter-than-we-can-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=789951","title":{"rendered":"Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The International Space Station with the particle-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 visible at centre left<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The neighbourhood of space where the International Space Station (ISS) resides seems to be littered with unexpected quantities of antimatter \u2013 and the culprits may be mysterious particles of dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very surprised. This is weird, and the mechanism that is producing this amount of antimatter should be something exotic,\u201d says Pedro De La Torre Luque at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. He and his colleagues found hints of this antimatter by analysing 15 years of data from the Alpha\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2450590-space-may-be-filled-with-more-antimatter-than-we-can-explain\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Space Station with the particle-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 visible at centre left NASA The neighbourhood of space where the International Space Station (ISS) resides seems to be littered&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}