Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
25 Jun 2009, 16:00 UTC
ESO 23/09 - Science Release:
Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way.s particle accelerators. They show in a paper published today on Science Express that cosmic rays from our galaxy are very efficiently accelerated in the remnants of exploded stars.
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