DID YOU KNOW
- Hawking is working with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Starshot project to send a fleet of tiny 'nanocraft' carrying light sails on a four light year journey to alpha centauri, the nearest star system to earth.
- if successful, scientists could determine if alpha centauri, a star system about 25 trillion miles away, contains an Earth-like planet.
- the small light-propelled vehicles will carry equipment like cameras and communication equipment.
- scientists hope the vehicles knows as nanocraft, will eventually fly at 20 per cent of the speed of light.
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