Los Alamos observatory fingers cosmic ray 'hot spots'Milagro Observatory unveils something never before seen from Earth

An international team of researchers, using the Laboratory's Milagro Observatory, has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays.

John Pretz of LANL says, "With the Milagro observatory, we identified two distinct regions with an excess of cosmic rays. These regions are relatively tiny bumps on the background of cosmic rays, which is why they were missed for so long. This discovery...raises the possibility that an unknown source or magnetic effect near our solar system is responsible for these observations."

The research calls into question nearly a century of understanding about galactic magnetic fields near our solar system.

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