Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray captured by the Telescope Array experiment on May 27, 2021, dubbed “Amaterasu” (IMAGE)

Osaka Metropolitan University

Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray captured by the Telescope Array experiment on May 27, 2021, dubbed “Amaterasu”

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The detected cosmic ray had an estimated energy of 244 EeV, comparable to the most energetic cosmic ray ever observed

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Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige

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