Privitera credited Cronin, who died last year, with the original vision for the Auger observatory back in 1992. “The imprint detected in their arrival directions—a tantalizing evidence for ...

Observatory detects extragalactic cosmic rays hitting the Earth ... At the Auger Observatory, the shower particles are detected through the light they produce in several of 1,600 detectors, ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

A 50-year-old debate has at last been settled: the highest-energy cosmic rays do not originate in our own Galaxy but in galaxies located tens or even hundreds of millions of light years away. The ...

Advances in Very High Energy Astrophysics summarises the progress made by the third generation of imaging atmospheric ...

An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory ...

Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing. The Astrophysical Journal , 2018; 853 (2): L27 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaa5fb Cite This Page : ...

For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed a young star outside the Milky Way galaxy that’s ringed by a dense disk where planets may form. The massive star, called HH 1177, and its rotating ...

A particle detector at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Western Argentina. New results from the observatory suggest high-energy cosmic rays have extragalactic origins.

For the first time, astronomers have observed a disc around a young star in a galaxy outside of ours called Large Magellanic Cloud.This extragalactic neighbor of our home Milky Way galaxy is ...

Sep 22, 2017: Observatory detects extragalactic cosmic rays hitting the Earth (Nanowerk News) Fifty years ago, scientists discovered that the Earth is occasionally hit by cosmic rays of enormous ...