Sentences with phrase «energetic subatomic»

These turbulent events also send out a burst of solar wind — energetic subatomic particles — that strikes Earth's magnetic field within 21 hours, creating a geomagnetic storm.

He believes that cosmic rays — energetic subatomic particles from outer space — help seed cloud - forming water droplets in the lower atmosphere.

For decades, physicists have sought the sources of the most energetic subatomic particles in the universe — cosmic rays that strike the atmosphere with as much energy as well - thrown baseballs.

Well, the magnetic field deflects particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun, as well as even more energetic subatomic particles from deep space.

Shock waves create energetic subatomic particles called cosmic rays, which can tear apart biomolecules and damage DNA beyond repair.

Solar wind creates a huge magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, that protects Earth and the other planets from energetic subatomic particles that constantly zip around in deep space.

Not exact matches

Energetic events at the subatomic level are measured in megaelectronvolts (MeV), and when two bottom quarks fuse, the physicists found, they produce a whopping 138 MeV.

Boynton and his team used the Odyssey instrument to zero in on energetic gamma rays, which are emitted by hydrogen when it is stimulated by subatomic collisions, and on sluggish neutrons that had been slowed down by their interaction with hydrogen.

Each second, the AMS will encounter 25,000 cosmic rays — high - speed atomic and subatomic particles (some from the sun, some from deep space), the most energetic of which pack hundreds of times as much energy as anything a scientist can whip up in an Earth - based particle accelerator.

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.

The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory is netting signals from the most energetic particles in the universe: ultrahigh - energy cosmic rays, which slam into the atmosphere at speeds no accelerator can match, sparking air showers of subatomic particles and ultraviolet light.

They are energetic charged subatomic particles, originating from outer space.