shall detail the news flash appeared on the Republic and is available directly from the NASA.
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NASA scientists have detected beams of antimatter produced by terrestrial thunderstorms through the Fermi Space Telescope, a phenomenon never seen before.
Scientists have concluded that particles of antimatter were formed by a terrestrial gamma-ray burst (TGF). A short burst was produced in time, certainly associated with the generation of lightning. It is estimated that about 500 TGF occur every day around the world, but most are not detected.
" These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms produce beams of particles of antimatter, " said Michael Briggs, a member of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He presented the results Monday, during a press conference at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.
The Fermi telescope is designed to monitor gamma rays, high-energy radiation. When antimatter collides with Fermi collides with a particle of normal matter, both particles annihilate immediately and is transformed into gamma rays. The GBM has detected gamma rays at 511,000 electron volts of energy, a clear signal that an electron has met its antimatter counterpart, a positron.
Although the Fermi GBM was designed to observe high-energy events in the universe, offers valuable insights through this strange phenomenon. The GBM constantly monitors the whole sky above and earth below it. The GBM team has identified 130 TGFs occurred since the launch of Fermi in 2008.
" In orbit for less than three years, the Fermi mission has proven to be an instrument incredible to probe the universe. Now we learn that one can discover the mysteries much, much closer to our house , "said Ilana Harrus, program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington Fermi.
probe was immediately placed on top of storms for most of the TGF observed, but in four cases, the storms were far from Fermi. In addition, the radio signals generated by lightning strikes detected by a global monitoring network showed the lightning at the time to a distance of hundreds or more miles. During a TGF, which occurred Dec. 14, 2009, Fermi was placed over Egypt. But the storm was in Zambia, about 2,800 miles south. The storm was below the horizon of Fermi, so any gamma rays produced could not be detected.
" Although Fermi could not see the storm, the spaceship, however, is was magnetically connected to it , "said Joseph Dwyer at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida" TGF produced electrons and positrons high speed, which then approached the Earth's magnetic field to strike the spacecraft. "
The range has continued to invest Fermi, has reached a point, called the mirror point, which was reversed its motion, and then hit the spacecraft for the second time in just 23 milliseconds later. Each time, the positron beam to collide with the electrons of the spacecraft. The particles are annihilated each other, and the emission of gamma rays were detected by the Fermi GBM.
Scientists have long suspected TGF caused by strong electric fields in the vicinity of thunderstorms. Under the right conditions, they say, the field becomes strong enough that pushes up an avalanche of electrons. The speeds of nearly approaching that of light. The high-energy electrons released when gamma rays are deflected by air molecules. Normally, these gamma rays are detected as TGF.
But the cascade of electrons that produces so much gamma-ray electrons and positrons explode in the atmosphere. This happens when the gamma-ray energy is transformed into a pair of particles: an electron and a positron. It is these particles that reach the orbit of Fermi.
detection of positrons can be inferred that many high-energy particles are ejected from the atmosphere. In fact, scientists now think that all TGF emit beams of electrons / positrons. The documentation on the results has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters.
" The results obtained with the Fermi telescope has enabled us to take another step forward in understanding how TGF consider "said Steven Cummer at Duke University. " We have yet to understand what is special about these storms and the precise role that lightning in the process have noted .
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope NASA is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and was designed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France , Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United States.
Below, here is a video that recreates the process of formation of anti-strokes are from within NASA:
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