Birth zone shrinks for top cosmic rays.(Brief Article)

Science News;  August 15, 1998 ;     549 words ...When cosmic rays, the universe's most energetic particles...pondered where and how the strongest cosmic rays acquire millions of times the energy...stretching across all of space. If cosmic rays come from the farthest reaches of the...

DISTANT BLACK HOLES MAY BE SOURCE OF HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......emanations of sufficiently energetic cosmic rays with a particular class of extrastellar...nature and origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays," said Nobel Prize winner and University...identify the exact sources of these cosmic rays and how they accelerate these particles...

Physicists propose new theory for origin of cosmic rays

AP Online;  June 11, 1998 ;     606 words ......AP Online 06-11-1998 SAN DIEGO (AP) _ Cosmic rays, mysterious high-energy particles that...say the theory solves a puzzle of how cosmic rays can make some heavy elements, including...have washed your hands in old broken up cosmic rays,'' Richard Lingenfelter of the University...

Ray tracing: energetic cosmic rays linked to giant black holes.(This Week)

Science News;  November 10, 2007 ;     547 words ......energies, known as ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, arise in the tumultuous surroundings...evidence linking these exceedingly rare cosmic rays--the most energetic particles in the...the study, the observatory recorded 27 cosmic rays with energies greater than 57 billion...

U. study confirms cosmic ray cutoff is real

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  March 24, 2008 ;     652 words ......substantiated a prediction about the behavior of cosmic rays. The new research also casts doubt on...space. According to the U., lower-energy cosmic rays stream from stars like our sun, while...hole gobbling matter in its vicinity. Cosmic rays continually rain onto Earth's ...

Scientists hot on trail of rare cosmic rays.(The Dallas Morning News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......particles, known as ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. One research team, led by Diego Torres...to confirm or disprove the new ideas. Cosmic rays are high-speed messengers from outer...universe. Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays that arrive from all directions. Most...

Scientists hot on trail of rare cosmic rays.

The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  May 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ......particles, known as ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. One research team, led by Diego Torres...to confirm or disprove the new ideas. Cosmic rays are high-speed messengers from outer...universe. Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays that arrive from all directions. Most...

High-energy cosmic rays raise questions

USA Today;  June 1, 1996 ;     453 words ......his colleagues indicate that the three cosmic rays, which were detected in the early 1990s...different from the trillions of ordinary cosmic rays that bombard the Earth every day. "These...entirely different processes from ordinary cosmic rays. This would be very exciting because...

Observatory aims to find the origin of cosmic rays.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  November 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Ronald Kotulak Nov. 10--Cosmic rays, the highest-energy particles in the...addition to searching for the source of cosmic rays, researchers will use the observatory...particle showers on Earth caused by cosmic rays. He later studied cosmic rays at the...

Auger Experiment Could Resolve Mystery of High-Energy Cosmic Rays.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  February 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ......periodically zaps Earth with high-energy cosmic rays from all directions. So far, the two...pierce the secrets of these high-energy cosmic rays and resolve the data conflict within...annual meeting in Denver. High-energy cosmic rays are subatomic scraps of matter that...

New suspect in global warming

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 8, 2003 ;     511 words ......Star P. One Star B THE IMPACT OF COSMIC rays on our climate might outweigh...Every 150 million years, blasts of cosmic rays cool the planet on its stately...through the cosmos, they argue. Cosmic rays thrown out by dying stars in the...

U. Utah researchers find home of space power rays

University Wire;  November 13, 2007 ;     546 words ......believe is the source of high-power cosmic rays, which are the most energetic particles in the universe. Cosmic rays are super-charged protons that are...at low-energy levels. Medium-level cosmic rays are known to originate from exploding...

Observatory to aid scientists in search for source of cosmic rays.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  November 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Ronald Kotulak CHICAGO _ Cosmic rays, the highest-energy particles in the...addition to searching for the source of cosmic rays, researchers will use the observatory...particle showers on Earth caused by cosmic rays. He later studied cosmic rays at the...

Moon shadow helps ray search

The Scotsman;  June 7, 1999 ;     431 words ......the Earth to search for the source of cosmic rays that rain down on our planet. Central...called muons which are created when the cosmic rays collide with the Earth's atmosphere...ten years has been trying to trace the cosmic rays back to their source. Cosmic rays, ...

Mysterious Cosmic Rays Linked to Galactic Powerhouse; Sources of...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  November 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......collaboration has traced the rain of high-energy cosmic rays that continually pelts the Earth to...identify the exact sources of these cosmic rays and how they accelerate these particles...are opening a new window in astronomy. Cosmic rays - mostly protons - fly through the ...