Sentences with phrase «hit by cosmic rays»
Not exact matches
When those atoms are hit by energetic cosmic ray particles, they break up in fragments, including beryllium nuclei, which can't be produced by any other means.
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«Depending on the size of the cell, we estimate that between 13 percent and 40 percent of brain cells will be hit once by cosmic rays,» Vazquez explains.
It was going at around the right speed, in the right direction, and didn't look like a blip caused by something like a cosmic ray hitting the camera.