ANTIMATTER FACTORY ON SUN YIELDS CLUES TO SOLAR EXPLOSIONS

The best look yet at how a solar explosion becomes an antimatter factory gave unexpected insights into how the tremendous explosions work. The observation may upset theories about how the explosions, called solar flares, create and destroy antimatter.

Links:


http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/09/02_flares.shtml

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0006961D-9FCA-1F57-905980A84189EEDF

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/antimatter-03a.html

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002750/index.html