A Decade-Long Particle Survey Could Shake Up Our Understanding of Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...
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The moon will be unusually high in the sky tomorrow. Here's why
The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...
Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...
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Cosmic rays, explained
Cosmic rays are particles from ... scientists narrowed this down. They knew there was some source of radiation that occasionally interacted with particles in their experiments, but no one was sure ...
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Where do cosmic rays come from?
"There are also electrons and positrons [the antiparticles of electrons] coming to us ... from the cosmic rays' compositions to their favored directions in the sky. Tjus thinks that with a ...