Los Alamos observatory fingers cosmic ray 'hot spots'

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sun, 11/23/2008 - 23:00

(DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) A Los Alamos National Laboratory cosmic-ray observatory has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays.

The research calls into question nearly a century of understanding about galactic magnetic fields near our solar system.

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