{"id":178155,"date":"2023-12-12T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-plasma-instability-sheds-light-on-the-nature-of-cosmic-rays"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:25:49","slug":"new-plasma-instability-sheds-light-on-the-nature-of-cosmic-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-plasma-instability-sheds-light-on-the-nature-of-cosmic-rays","title":{"rendered":"New plasma instability sheds light on the nature of cosmic rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-plasma-instability-sheds-light-on-the-nature-of-cosmic-rays3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have discovered a new plasma instability that promises to revolutionize our understanding of the origin of cosmic rays and their dynamic impact on galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the last century, Victor Hess discovered a new phenomenon called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cosmic+rays\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cosmic rays<\/a> that later on earned him the Nobel prize. He conducted high-altitude balloon flights to find that the Earth\u2019s atmosphere is not ionized by the radioactivity of the ground. Instead, he confirmed that the origin of ionization was extra-terrestrial. Subsequently, it was determined that cosmic \u201crays\u201d consist of charged <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particles<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/outer+space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">outer space<\/a> flying close to the speed of light rather than radiation. However, the name \u201ccosmic rays\u201d outlasted these findings.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2305.18050\">new study<\/a>, Dr. Mohamad Shalaby, scientists at AIP and the main author of this study, and his collaborators have performed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/numerical+simulations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">numerical simulations<\/a> to follow the trajectories of many cosmic ray particles and study how these interact with the surrounding plasma consisting of electrons and protons. The paper appears on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have discovered a new plasma instability that promises to revolutionize our understanding of the origin of cosmic rays and their dynamic impact on galaxies. At the beginning of the last century, Victor Hess discovered a new phenomenon called cosmic rays that later on earned him the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}