Cosmic rays Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Cosmic rays
# 13828 bysraj99@... on Sept. 24, 2017, 3:19 p.m.
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Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays that occasionally hit the Earth may be coming
from a distant source outside the Milky Way galaxy, a study suggests.
by cosmic rays of enormous energies.
Since then, they have argued about the source of those ultra-high-energy
cosmic rays - whether they came from our galaxy or outside the Milky Way.
The answer lies in a galaxy or galaxies far, far away, according to a study
published in the journal Science.
Pierre Auger Collaboration - an internationally run observatory in
Argentina - has been collecting data on such cosmic rays for a more than a
decade.
Researchers found that the rate of such cosmic particles, whose energies
are a million times greater than that of the protons accelerated in the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is about six per cent greater from one side of
the sky than the other, in a direction where the distribution of galaxies
is relatively high.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/science/science/240917/cosmic-rays-striking-earth-come-from-outside-milky-way-study.html
Fifty years ago, scientists discovered that the Earth is occasionally hit by cosmic rays of enormous energies.
Since then, they have argued about the source of those ultra-high-energy cosmic rays - whether they came from our galaxy or outside the Milky Way.
The answer lies in a galaxy or galaxies far, far away, according to a study published in the journal Science.
Pierre Auger Collaboration - an internationally run observatory in Argentina - has been collecting data on such cosmic rays for a more than a decade.
Researchers found that the rate of such cosmic particles, whose energies are a million times greater than that of the protons accelerated in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is about six per cent greater from one side of the sky than the other, in a direction where the distribution of galaxies is relatively high.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/science/science/240917/cosmic-rays-striking-earth-come-from-outside-milky-way-study.html