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Monday, November 7, 2016

A recent cosmic burst cracked the Earth’s magnetic field wide open

A burst of galactic cosmic rays was recorded by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope located at TIFR’s Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty. That burst of rays occurred when the sun let loose a giant cloud of plasma that struck our planet at a speed of roughly 2.5 million kilometers.

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