Sentences with phrase «cosmic death ray»

It turns out it was a sort of cosmic death ray - when a massive star in the distant universe died, it shot out a high - speed jet of particles straight at Earth.

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Over the next decade, Southwood's «cosmic vision» program calls for, among other goals, landing spacecraft on Mars, Mercury, Saturn's moon Titan, and a comet; observing the birth, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies at gamma ray and infrared wavelengths; studying the afterglow of the big bang; and mapping the positions and motions of nearly every star in the Milky Way.

Now a new theory holds that cosmic rays are born in the shock waves following the explosive deaths of massive stars.

Vazquez's laboratory experiments have shown that cosmic rays induce what is called programmed cell death in neurons.

Furthermore, there are studies (# 1, # 2, # 3, # 4) linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in the general population.