Sentences with phrase «in on a cosmic ray»

Whiffs of dark matter may be blowing in on a cosmic ray breeze.

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The AMS detects energetic particles, called cosmic rays, which rarely make it through Earth's atmosphere but are prevalent in space — hence the need to place the detector up on the ISS.

Space is permeated by cosmic rays, which are high - speed particles produced by powerful events like flares on the Sun or exploding stars in deep space.

To investigate the timing of Andean uplift, Dr Laura Evenstar from Bristol's School of Earth Sciences used a new method based on cosmic rays that create a rare form of helium (cosmogenic He - 3) in minerals at Earth's surface.

These particles are one of the most pervasive forms of matter in the Universe: they are created in the Sun and in supernovas, by cosmic rays crashing into the upper atmosphere, and they are even made on Earth, streaming out from nuclear reactors and radioactive rocks.

Prior to CRaTER and recent measurements by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars rover Curiosity, the effects of thick shielding on cosmic rays had only been simulated in computer models and in particle accelerators, with little observational data from deep space.

The renowned British physicist Paul Dirac first posited the existence of antimatter in 1928, and four years later researchers at Caltech detected the first documented antiparticles — positrons produced by the impact of cosmic rays on the atmosphere.

The GRAPES - 3 muon telescope located at TIFR's Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays of about 20 GeV, on 22 June 2015 lasting for two Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays of about 20 GeV, on 22 June 2015 lasting for two cosmic rays of about 20 GeV, on 22 June 2015 lasting for two hours.

It is a place human explorers will not visit in the foreseeable future, although the data on the flux of cosmic rays (energetic particles from deep space) into the solar system will allow engineers to better gauge the risk to both spacecraft and humans during extended space voyages.

Carbon dating doesn't work well on ice because carbon - 14 is produced in the ice itself by cosmic rays and only goes back some 50,000 years.

According to Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen, cosmic rays have a major affect on the Earth's climate.

Recent independent studies suggest cosmic rays can affect cloudiness, but not in the way Svensmark claims, and that their effect on climate is insignificant.

If the heliosphere ever shrank enough to uncloak the Earth, the increase in cosmic rays could chemically alter the atmosphere enough to bring on an ice age.

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.

Based on the previously measured concentrations of galactic cosmic rays, many scientists suspect that the particles get flung toward Earth in the shock waves of exploding stars.

And on the two - and - a-half-year mission proposed for Mars, they would be struck both in transit and on the planet, where, Vazquez says, the problem is compounded because cosmic rays interact with the surface to produce secondary radiation.

But the cosmic ray team is able to piggyback on normal astronomical observations in their search for air showers.

In addition to imaging heavy - ion tracks, Vazquez has studied the effect of chronic cosmic - ray exposure on the brains of rats, as measured by their ability to move around in a boIn addition to imaging heavy - ion tracks, Vazquez has studied the effect of chronic cosmic - ray exposure on the brains of rats, as measured by their ability to move around in a boin a box.

Cosmic rays can only penetrate about two to three meters below the surface, so the abundance of cosmic - ray - debris isotopes in rock indicates how long that rock has been on the suCosmic rays can only penetrate about two to three meters below the surface, so the abundance of cosmic - ray - debris isotopes in rock indicates how long that rock has been on the sucosmic - ray - debris isotopes in rock indicates how long that rock has been on the surface.

The problem is that magnetic fields in interstellar space deflect cosmic rays on their way to our detectors, scrambling their paths and making it difficult to trace their origins.

On the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray burstOn the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray burston the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray bursts.

It's not feasible to study the effects of cosmic rays on real astronauts, such as those living in the International Space Station, because many variables, including the stress of living on a spaceship, can affect cognition, says Patric Stanton, a cell biologist at New York Medical College in Valhalla.

On 25 August last year, when the craft was more than 18 billion kilometers from the sun, sensors noted a steep drop - off in the numbers of so - called anomalous cosmic rays, the charged particles that often become trapped in the magnetically turbulent region that separates the solar system from interstellar space.

On Mars, it may have been made in the atmosphere by solar ultraviolet light or in the ice and soil by cosmic rays.

The PAMELA findings, along with others from experiments flown on balloons as a cheaper alternative to the space shuttle, «are a demonstration of the rich science that is likely to be forthcoming from the AMS,» says AMS team member Eun - Suk Seo, a cosmic ray physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

The resulting interaction converted magnetic energy into kinetic energy and sent charged particles such as cosmic rays raining down on Earth's magnetosphere, the region around Earth where its own magnetic field is stronger than other magnetic fields in space.

The numbers were clear: The small, steady shower of cosmic rays would supply enough energy to power a simple organism on all of the planets he simulated except Earth, Atri reports this week in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

It will focus on resolving two mysteries: the origins of cosmic rays, and the nature of the dark matter that physicists believe constitutes 85 % of all matter in the universe.

The acknowledged role of sunspots and cosmic rays in forming clouds has been fertile ground for climate deniers, who have cast doubt on whether anthropogenic climate change (in other words, change caused by humans) is occurring at all.

Physicists don't know where such mind - bogglingly energetic particles come from, but they could be closing in on an answer thanks to the expansion of one of the world's biggest cosmic ray experiments.

Some cosmic rays detected on Earth are produced in violent events such as supernovae, but we still don't know the origins of the highest - energy particles, which are the most energetic particles ever seen in nature.

UHECRS, very high energy protons and charged nuclei, occasionally arrive on Earth, where they are detected by cosmic ray detectors such as the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina.

«The new maps allow us to analyze the excess and test whether more conventional explanations, such as the presence of undiscovered pulsars or cosmic - ray collisions on gas clouds, can account for it,» said Dan Hooper, an astrophysicist at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and a lead author of the study.

«My philosophy of life and research was in the sense that science and technology are the basis for improving the quality of life of a society» he stated and added, that he won this medal with the publications he has carried out in recent years on his work at the Pierre Auger Observatory to detect cosmic rays of ultra high energy.

VLT observations have shed new light on the mysterious cosmic explosions known as gamma - ray bursts, which are the most powerful blasts in the universe.

But radiation from the sun and cosmic rays is 100 times stronger in space than on Earth, which is protected by a layer of ozone and the Van Allen radiation belts.

Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very - high - energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays.

[Response: weaker cosmic ray flux - > fewer low clouds - > decrease in sunlight reflected back to space), then you need to explain why the night temperatures appear to increase faster then day temperatures (for any amplification mechanism involving te albedo, you'd expect the opposite, as there is no sunlight to reflect on the dark side of the planet...).

The prize is in honor of Professor Bruno Rossi, an authority on cosmic - ray physics and a pioneer in the field of X-ray astronomy.

His research summary report outlined the research he had conducted and, as Lovell later described in his autobiography Astronomer by Chance, «by an analysis and argument that now seems tortuous» Lovell remained convinced that the echoes he was receiving on his radar equipment might be caused by high - energy cosmic ray particles.

In November 2014 was recorded at the Pierre Auger collaboration meeting material to make a 25 - min movie on cosmic rays, with a focus on the radio signal with AERA and CODALEMA / EXTASIS at Nancay, France.

On the dwarf planet, the reddish color is likely caused by tholins, which are formed when cosmic rays and solar ultraviolet light interact with methane in Pluto's atmosphere and on its surfacOn the dwarf planet, the reddish color is likely caused by tholins, which are formed when cosmic rays and solar ultraviolet light interact with methane in Pluto's atmosphere and on its surfacon its surface.

Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed for lofty balloon flights high in Earth's atmosphere to the International Space Station next week to broaden their knowledge of cosmic rays, subatomic particles traveling on intergalactic routes that could hold the key to unlocking mysteries about supernovas, black holes, pulsars and dark matter.

Cosmic rays are not dangerous to people on Earth's surface, though their air showers of radiation do contribute to small upticks in cancer.

Based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee (who makes a cameo as he does in all the films based on his work), it picks up the story of those cosmic - rayed superheroes dealing with the end of the world and a fifth attempt at a wedding.

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And as this knowledge is disseminated and better understood, eventually we'll have better models, and can achieve more widespread adoption of them - if the solar / cosmic ray / cloud mechanism is significant it could explain why temperatures in neither hemisphere are proceeding upwards lock - step with IPCC forecasts - and opening the door for a more accurate and widespread acknowledgement of CO2 effects on temperature and climate.

How these cyclical climate take place is still unknown, but they «are most likely caused by variations in the solar wind and associated magnetic fields that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident on cloudiness, and thereby control the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface and thus the climate.»

Nature Journal of Science, ranked as the world's most cited scientific periodical, has just published the definitive study on Global Warming that proves the dominant controller of temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere is due to galactic cosmic rays and the sun, rather than by man.