A rare nuclear reaction that occurs in red giants has been observed for the first time at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. This result was achieved by the LUNA experiment, the world's only accelerator facility running deep underground.
Nel silenzio cosmico dei Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, L’esperimento LUNA ha osservato una rara reazione nucleare che avviene nelle stelle,
Prof. Martin Stratmann, the president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), recently visited LNGS.
There is five times more dark matter in the Universe than “normal” matter, the atoms and molecules that make up all we know. Yet, it is still unknown what this dominant dark component actually is.