Posted on Jun 29, 2023
Our own Milky Way is sending out neutrinos, the so-called 'ghost particles'
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A giant detector buried deep within the Antarctic ice at the South Pole has obtained the first evidence of eerie particles called neutrinos coming from the innards of our own home galaxy, the Milky Way.
The discovery is a step towards scientists being better able to use particles to study hidden or elusive phenomena in the universe, rather than having to rely on light seen by telescopes.
Neutrinos are subatomic particles that have been compared to "ghosts slipping through the night," because they're so insubstantial and seem to barely interact with the rest of the physical world.
The Earth is constantly being bombarded by neutrinos, but most originate in the sun or in the atmosphere.
A giant detector buried deep within the Antarctic ice at the South Pole has obtained the first evidence of eerie particles called neutrinos coming from the innards of our own home galaxy, the Milky Way.
The discovery is a step towards scientists being better able to use particles to study hidden or elusive phenomena in the universe, rather than having to rely on light seen by telescopes.
Neutrinos are subatomic particles that have been compared to "ghosts slipping through the night," because they're so insubstantial and seem to barely interact with the rest of the physical world.
The Earth is constantly being bombarded by neutrinos, but most originate in the sun or in the atmosphere.
Our own Milky Way is sending out neutrinos, the so-called 'ghost particles'
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Physisists have known about Neutrinos for quite some time in fact... in 1956, and the first discovery of the neutrino by an experiment. In this experiment, for which they were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995, Clyde L. Cowan and Frederick Reines used a nuclear reactor, expecting to produce neutrino fluxes on the order of 1012 to 1013 neutrinos per second per cm2, far higher than any attainable flux from other radioactive sources. We continue to learn more and more about them
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SPC Robert Coventry Since I was Master at Arms for Chief of Staff, Commander Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, I Try and Follow Some of the Space Science Stuff. Also One of My Uncles worked on the Apollo Project.
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