NASA is currently working with Stephen Hawking to understand his fantasies of sending a nano-starship to the nearest star system to our nearby planetary group. This journey will take 20 years and requires a huge measure of inestimable radiation. They will go through Alpha Centauri to search for an alien life because the experts estimate that there is a possibility of an Earth-like planet that existed in a 'habitable zones' of Alpha Centaur.

According to International Business Times, Hawking and a Russian venture capitalist, Yuri Milner announced that they are cooperating on the Breakthrough Starshot activity. It is used to create a small rocket that could go at one-fifth of light speed (100 million mph) by using light beams as a part of a request to make it to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system that is located 4.3 light years away (25 trillion miles).

Reaching the star system would take 30,000 years, however, by this light weight tiny nano-starships that can send thousands of them will be the hope that there is at least one will make it through the Alpha Centauri in just two decades and will have the capacity to send back helpful information to Earth. This tiny spacecraft can utilize the sun for power, in that case, it will be liable to the components as they make their journey. And now, NASA choose to participate and conceptualizing ways to protect the shuttle from being harm.

Meanwhile, Mail Online stated that there are still various innovative difficulties to be overcome before the mission can launch, not least the issue of space radiation. Re-directing the mission to keep away from high-radiation ranges could add years to the mission, while defensive protection would add an excess of weight to the tiny spacecraft. Another research from NASA and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said that self-healing silicon ships could be utilized to drag out the life of the tiny shuttle.

The researchers said that this chip is tiny 20-nanometer highlights, make them lightweight and additionally strong to astronomical cosmic rays. Consequently, the device's lifetime can be expanded, which opens an opportunity for nano-spacecraft manageable for over 20 years of profound space investigation. Last week, the result was presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.

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