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A terrifying fate may lurk inside the Milky Way

Popular Science 21 Mar 2025
The roiling gamma, cosmic, and X-rays documented coming from its black hole are almost only seen in elliptical galaxies ... If a hypothetical Milky Way TDE’s cosmic rays lined up with the solar system, ...
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New research on 'Death Star' that looks like a cosmic pinwheel reduces gamma-ray burst threat ...

Space 21 Mar 2025
The cosmic pinwheel that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once thought ....
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Is There A Power Plant Under the Pyramid of Khafre?

Windermere Sun 21 Mar 2025
In March 2023, the ScanPyramids project, employing muon radiography—a technique that detects cosmic-ray muons to visualize internal structures—identified a previously unknown corridor within the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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UK cybersecurity agency warns over risk of quantum hackers

AOL 20 Mar 2025
However, qubits are extremely vulnerable to the slightest interference including minor temperature changes and cosmic rays, a key reason why a large-scale quantum computer has yet to be developed despite significant investment from tech firms ... .
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Sunita Williams' 288 days in space: The hidden effects of long-term space missions

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
When NASA astronaut Sunita Williams returned to Earth a few days ago after , her transformation was striking ... While Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field shield us from harmful cosmic rays, astronauts don’t have that protection ... IOL Lifestyle .
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Can any nearby supernova cause a mass extinction?

Sott 19 Mar 2025
The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays ... But then once they get hit by x rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays, they get broken apart.
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What Suni & Every Other Astronaut Endure Up There

The Times of India 19 Mar 2025
The most immediate challenge is the launch itself ... This atmosphere provides essential protection from harmful radiation from the sun and cosmic rays — something missing in space, which could have short-term and long-term effects ... .
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Supernovae Blamed For 2 Of Earth’s Mass Extinctions, The Devonian And Ordovician

IFL Science 17 Mar 2025
ADVERTISEMENT ... ADVERTISEMENT ... A mix of gamma and X-rays from a supernova would probably destroy Earth’s ozone layer, if the explosion was close enough, letting in an excess of ultraviolet light ... Ongoing increased cosmic rays would slow recovery ... .
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Swollen eyeballs, baby-like skin, and gravity shock: What Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore might experience upon returning to Earth

The Times of India 17 Mar 2025
... particles from the SunGalactic cosmic rays from outside the Solar SystemRadiation protection remains a key challenge in planning future deep-space missions, such as human exploration of Mars.
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The Lithium Problem

Astronomy Now 17 Mar 2025
Artist impression of the Big Bang. Image NASA/HST ... Here’s the issue ... Image ... This model predicts lithium production through cosmic rays interacting with carbon and oxygen nuclei, a process more prevalent in the galaxy’s early, rapidly forming stages ... .
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15bn miles from Earth — now power-saving may propel Voyagers to the 2030s

The Times/The Sunday Times 16 Mar 2025
Last month, Voyager 1’s cosmic ray detector subsystem — a suite of three telescopes designed to study cosmic rays, including protons from the galaxy and the sun — was powered down.
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Scientists Find Evidence of a New Form of Dark Matter Swirling at Center of Our Galaxy

Futurism 15 Mar 2025
Nor can the phenomenon be explained by cosmic rays, powerful beams of energetic particles that zip throughout the universe at nearly the speed of light ... "Cosmic rays, the usual culprits for ionizing ...
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Swollen eyeballs, baby-like skin, and the overview effect: how astronauts feel when they return to earth

The Observer 14 Mar 2025
So what happens to a person’s body – and mind – back on earth?Gravity ... These include particles trapped in the earth’s magnetic field, solar energetic particles from the sun, and finally galactic cosmic rays ... Then consider that lasting for nine months ... .
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Is Sunita Williams at high risk of cancer after her space mission?

The Times of India 13 Mar 2025
The highly harmful cosmic rays and solar radiation available in space not only damages DNA but also leads to severe mutations that may trigger cancer.
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