NASA confirms the origin of cosmic rays
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A multiwavelength composite image of supernova remnant IC 443, known as the Jellyfish Nebula
The W44 supernova remnant
The thousand-year-old SN1006 supernova remnant
The ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) studied the shock front of SN1006
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The study of data collected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revealed that cosmic rays, some of the fastest traveling particles in the universe, are produced by supernovae. A separate study by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has made similar findings, largely corroborating the Fermi results.
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