Robert Navarro, Blog 01 Part 2!

Hello everyone, I will post a few fun facts about Physics (and Astrophysics) every Tuesday!

Facts!!

1. Scientists use detectors that are about the size of buildings to capture the products made by particle colliders. These detectors can pick up just about all particles created in these collisions.
2. A big question that is still asked today, is the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Dark Energy is about 68% of the Universe and 27% of the Universe is Dark Matter, and the rest is what we have only observed so far!
3. The Voyager 1 spacecraft which was launched on September 5, 1977, is the farthest human sent object from Earth and has entered interstellar space, which means that it is in the process of leaving the influence of the Sun’s solar winds.

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