{"id":178459,"date":"2023-12-16T20:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/riding-the-cosmic-wave-how-plasma-instability-is-changing-our-view-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2023-12-16T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T02:22:22","slug":"riding-the-cosmic-wave-how-plasma-instability-is-changing-our-view-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/riding-the-cosmic-wave-how-plasma-instability-is-changing-our-view-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Cosmic Wave: How Plasma Instability Is Changing Our View of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/riding-the-cosmic-wave-how-plasma-instability-is-changing-our-view-of-the-universe2.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 cosmic rays 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 particles from outer space flying close to the speed of light rather than radiation. However, the name \u201ccosmic rays\u201d outlasted these findings.<\/p>\n<p>Recent advances in cosmic ray research.<\/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":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178459","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}