Jul
31
2010

Antarctic Experiment Finds Puzzling Distribution of Cosmic Rays

pitchpipe writes “A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica. [...]it turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new study detected an overabundance of cosmic rays coming from one part of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming from another.” The map of this uneven distribution comes from the IceCube neutrino observatory last mentioned several days ago.

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