Sentences with phrase «cosmic shrapnel»
A further blow came in 1929 when American astronomer Edwin Hubble observed that galaxies were flying apart from each other like pieces of cosmic shrapnel.
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When a cosmic ray strikes the nucleus of a gas molecule in the atmosphere, both explode in a shower of subatomic shrapnel that triggers a wider cascade of particle collisions.
Collectively they make up the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, a $ 50 million physics experiment to study bits of atomic shrapnel that blast out from some of the most violent places in the universe.
The dinosaurs» fate may have been sealed by a piece of shrapnel from a cosmic collision that occurred long before the asteroid smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago.
The most energetic particles that strike us from space, which include neutrinos as well as gamma - ray photons and various other bits of subatomic shrapnel, are called cosmic rays.