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Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Come From Galaxies Far, Far Away (6 of 7)

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Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Come From Galaxies Far, Far Away (6 of 7)

image: An event display of a comic-ray air shower showing surface detectors recording air shower particles and light seen by all four fluorescence-detector sites of the Pierre Auger Observatory. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 22, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by The Pierre Auger Collaboration, and colleagues was titled, "Observation of a large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8 × 1018 eV." view more 

Credit: The Pierre Auger Observatory


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