Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
Friday, June 26, 2009 - 06:56
in Astronomy & Space
Thanks to a unique 'ballistic study' that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle accelerators. They show in a paper published today on Science Express that cosmic rays from our galaxy are very efficiently accelerated in the remnants of exploded stars...
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