When cosmic rays crash into ordinary matter...

[the other mike]

You get gamma rays . I think it's the same way Reese's cups were invented.

The center of the Milky Way may be even more bizarre than astronomers thought, according to a new study.

For the study, a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing investigated a map of radioactive gamma-rays — the highest-energy form of light in the universe, which can arise when extremely high-speed particles called cosmic rays crash into ordinary matter — blasting in and around the center of our galaxy.

Astronomers discover enormous 'barrier' separating the center of the Milky Way from the cosmic ray sea

Something is keeping the universe's fastest-moving particles from entering the center of our galaxy.

www.livescience.com

 

[Damaged Eagle]

*****SMILE*****

 

[the other mike]

Start, with the sun and move on out....
The future's in the skies above.
The heavens unfold.
And a new star is born.
Space and time makin' love......

 

[miketx]

Neutron stars are no laughing matter.

 

[ReinyDays]

I know this post is over ten years old now ... not sure how this got by ...

Cosmic rays are for the most part the solar wind from other stars ... and we get trillions of trillions more particles like this from the Sun ... hydrogen in it's plasma state-of-matter is still considered "ordinary matter" ... bare naked protons ... like in a glass of water (pH=7) except more energy ... we've been back to the Apollo landing sites and the only noticable effect of the solar wind is the American flag has been bleached white ...

Got to go ... these new time machines run on thorium and that's not easy to get ... even today ...