Sentences with phrase «particles came from a direction»
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When it comes to the highest energy cosmic rays — subatomic particles raining in from space — the sky is lopsided: More come from one direction than the other, according to a new study.
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An international team analyzed about 12 years of data to show that particles with energies above 8 billion billion electron volts generally come from a particular direction in the sky, and it's not the galaxy's center.
Solar plasma produces a distinctive magnetic field because it all comes from the same source; scientists expected that the field would shift in interstellar space, where particles flit around in all directions.
However, due to the rotation of Earth around its own axis, dark matter particles that come from the direction of the dark matter wind, travel different distances during the 24 hour period of a day.
How many of these particles are coming in, and what direction are they coming from?
Three hours later — just long enough for some of those particles to have decayed into neutrinos — an array of sensors buried in Antarctic ice, called IceCube, saw one of the highest - energy neutrinos ever detected coming from the direction of the galactic centre (Physical Review D, doi.org/v3p).