Pierre Auger and HiRes observatories confirm rapid drop-off in number of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays reaching Earth
... has discovered a puzzling surplus of high-energy electrons bombarding Earth from space. The source of these cosmic rays is unknown, but it must be close to the solar ...
... findings are the strongest indications yet that the distribution of cosmic rays is not so uniform. When these high energy ... it possible for the observatory to record over 200 billion cosmic-ray collisions with the Earth's atmosphere. This allowed ...
A new study supports earlier findings by stating that changes in cosmic rays most likely do not contribute to climate change.
... unpredictable. This study has shown, for the first time, that cosmic-ray data can be used effectively to identify these events ... quite tricky to measure". Interestingly, the muon cosmic-ray dataset used in this study was collected as a by-product ...
... balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged particles in the universe ...
... cosmic rays be influencing climate by charging up more frequent lightning storms? Several factors influence global ...
MIAMI, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Four Miami-area high school students have an unusual summer job on their resumes: building a cosmic ray detector alongside nuclear physicists.
... ; they pose a health hazard to astronauts; and a single cosmic ray can disable a satellite if it hits an unlucky ... than they are now. Researchers know this because when cosmic rays hit the atmosphere, they produce an isotope of beryllium ...
... control our everyday clouds. Researchers have traced the consequences of eruptions on the Sun that screen the Earth from some of the cosmic rays -- the energetic particles raining down ...
... as generated by any particle accelerator on Earth. ("Cosmic ray" is a historical misnomer, since they are individual ... . "This discovery provides fundamental insight into the origin of cosmic rays," said Rene Ong, a professor of physics ...
... instead of one by one. As they reported in Nature the correlation between the high cosmic-ray density in the core of this galaxy and its high ... of only a few tera-electron-Volts, and by the standards of cosmic rays, that's nothing. Some of them have energies 100 ...
... directions of the sky, cosmic rays rocket through space with incredible speed. These `rays` -which mostly consist ... these particles to such high energies. The high-energy cosmic rays appear to be coming from supernova remnants ...
Cosmic rays originate in the distant remnants of dead stars, new evidence confirms.
... their paths and masks their origins. "Understanding the sources of cosmic rays is one of Fermi's key goals," said Stefan ... Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, Calif. When cosmic rays collide with interstellar gas, they produce ...
