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A cosmic ray dubbed Amaterasu is the 2nd astir almighty 1 we person ever seen, beaten lone by the "Oh-My-God particle". Both person baffled astronomers and defy explanation
By Alex Wilkins
Illustration of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray hitting Earth Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige
Astronomers person detected the 2nd astir almighty cosmic ray ever recorded, but it seems to person travel from an bare portion of the beingness known arsenic a cosmic void, wherever determination is thing evident it could person originated from.
This mysterious cosmic ray, which is astir apt a charged particle nucleus of immoderate variety, specified arsenic c oregon oxygen, has been dubbed Amaterasu aft the Japanese prima goddess.
Possible explanations for it see magnetic fields steering the particle off-course, an invisible root successful another…
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