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Most powerful cosmic rays in the universe start shockingly close to Earth, paper claims
The most powerful cosmic rays in the universe currently have no explanation. New research suggests that exotic, ...
LANL researchers point to cosmic showers as likely element in triggering lightning
Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of ...
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Cosmic rays, explained
Trillions upon trillions of cosmic rays hit the Earth every day. The vast majority of them are blocked by Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, but sometimes they will strike particles in the ...
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Scientists detect highest-energy ghost particle ever seen — where did it come from?
Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) An interaction between a cosmic ray and the CMB would have created a shower of high-energy neutrinos. If that is the case, this would be the first detection ...
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Evidence of a spectral hardening in cosmic ray proton spectrum observed by the GRAPES-3 experiment (IMAGE)
A view of the GRAPES-3 experiment in Ooty, India depicted with a simulated cosmic ray shower. Results of cosmic ray proton spectrum measurement by GRAPES-3 along with space and ground-based ...
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The KASCADE Air Shower Visualization Project
The purpose of the project is to provide a visualization of the characteristics of cosmic ray and gamma ray induced air showers ... displays the tracks of the charged particle sin the air shower.
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Try this at home
The Čerenkov detectors pick up particles reaching the ground from a cosmic-ray shower, revealing their energy and trajectory; the telescopes expose the development of a shower by detecting the ...