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A “beautiful effect” predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized X-rays emitted by a magnetar – a neutron star featuring a powerful magnetic fie...
Observatory Detects Extragalactic Cosmic Rays Hitting The Earth（图）
Observatory Detects Extragalactic Cosmic Rays Hitting Earth
2017/10/24
Fifty years ago, scientists discovered that the Earth is occasionally hit by cosmic rays of enormous energies. Since then, they have argued about the source of those ultra-high-energy cosmic rays—whet...
Study Confirms Cosmic Rays Have Extragalactic Origins（图）
Cosmic Rays Extragalactic Origins
2017/10/24
In an article to be published Sept. 22 in the journal Science, a group of more than 400 scientists from 18 nations describe how they detected an anisotropy, an asymmetry in the cosmic particles’ distr...
UChicago scientists detect first X-rays from mystery supernovas（图）
UChicago scientists first X-rays mystery supernovas
2017/9/5
Exploding stars lit the way for our understanding of the universe, but researchers are still in the dark about many of their features.A team of scientists, including scholars from the University of Ch...
Help astronomers find elusive muons disguised as gamma rays
astronomers muons disguised gamma rays
2017/3/30
A new citizen science project, led by astronomers at the University of Minnesota, is asking for help from the public to identify and categorize hundreds of thousands of ring patterns within images pro...
Physicists Leapfrog Accelerators with Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
Physicists Accelerators Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
2016/11/4
An international team of physicists has developed a pioneering approach to using Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs)—the highest energy particles in nature since the Big Bang—to study particle inter...
Galactic center's gamma rays unlikely to originate from dark matter,evidence shows
Galactic center gamma rays dark matter
2016/2/23
Bursts of gamma rays from the center of our galaxy are not likely to be signals of dark matter but rather other astrophysical phenomena such as fast-rotating stars called millisecond pulsars, accordin...
EUSO: using high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos as messengers from the unknown universe
fluorescence cosmic rays neutrinos extensive air showers
2015/9/16
Exploiting the earth atmosphere as a giant detector for the incoming extraterrestrial fl ux of high energy cosmic rays
and cosmic neutrinos, the mission «EUSO-Extreme Universe Space Observatory&...
The origin and initial mass function of young stellar clusters near the Galactic center are still poorly understood. Two of the more prominent ones, the Arches and Quintuplet clusters, may have formed...
UNH scientist: Cosmic rays threaten future deep-space astronaut missions（图）
Cosmic rays astronauts
2014/12/1
DURHAM, N.H. –- Crewed missions to Mars remain an essential goal for NASA, but scientists are only now beginning to understand and characterize the radiation hazards that could make such ventures risk...
Highly-detailed radio-telescope images have pinpointed the locations where a stellar explosion called a nova emitted gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic waves. The discovery reveale...
A Hotspot for Powerful Cosmic Rays PHYSICISTS A STEP CLOSER TO FINDING MYSTERIOUS SOURCES
The universe Ray Hot spots. Mysterious The big dipper. High-energy cosmic rays The sun
2014/7/18
July 8, 2014 – An observatory run by the University of Utah found a “hotspot” beneath the Big Dipper emitting a disproportionate number of the highest-energy cosmic rays. The discovery moves physics a...
Fermi-LAT Observations of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission: Implications for Cosmic Rays and the Interstellar Medium
Fermi-LAT Observations Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission Implications Cosmic Rays the Interstellar Medium
2012/2/23
The gamma-ray sky >100 MeV is dominated by the diffuse emissions from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas and radiation fields of the Milky Way. Observations of these diffuse emissio...
Kneelike structure in the spectrum of the heavy component of cosmic rays observed with KASCADE-Grande
ultra-high energy cosmic rays KASCADE-Grande composition extensive air shower
2011/10/20
We report the observation of a steepening in the cosmic ray energy spectrum of heavy primary particles at about $8 \times 10^{16}$ eV. This structure is also seen in the all-particle energy spectrum, ...
Three regions of excessive flux of cosmic rays with energies of the order of PeV are found in the experimental data of the EAS MSU array at a confidence level greater than 4\sigma. For two of them, th...