Mysterious cosmic rays spotted coming from ordinary stellar explosions

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

The Ophiuchus constellation

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High vigor cosmic rays whitethorn beryllium released during commonly occurring stellar explosions. The find suggests these explosions tin sometimes beryllium much almighty than we believed, and mightiness springiness america a amended thought of however they occur.

Galactic cosmic rays – particles that determination astatine adjacent to the velocity of airy – are astir ever accompanied by precise precocious vigor gamma radiation. This co-occurrence is adjuvant due to the fact that cosmic rays are deflected by magnetic fields earlier they scope Earth, making it hard to enactment retired wherever they came from. But the gamma radiation isn’t deflected, truthful …