News From the Field Milagro Detects Cosmic Ray Hot Spots
November 25, 2008
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The University of Maryland-led Milagro collaboration, comprised of scientists from 16 institutions across the United States, has discovered two nearby regions with an unexpected excess of cosmic rays. This is the second finding of a source of galactic cosmic rays relatively near Earth announced in the past week.
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Source University of Maryland
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