{"id":232606,"date":"2026-03-05T06:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/what-gemingas-100-tev-cutoff-may-mean-for-cosmic-ray-acceleration-in-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:20:31","slug":"what-gemingas-100-tev-cutoff-may-mean-for-cosmic-ray-acceleration-in-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/what-gemingas-100-tev-cutoff-may-mean-for-cosmic-ray-acceleration-in-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"What Geminga\u2019s 100 TeV cutoff may mean for cosmic-ray acceleration in the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-gemingas-100-tev-cutoff-may-mean-for-cosmic-ray-acceleration-in-the-milky-way3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the Tibet AS\u03b3 Experiment has successfully measured magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence on scales below one parsec (approximately 3.3 light-years) within the gamma-ray halo surrounding the Geminga pulsar wind nebula (PWN). This observation extends to the highest energies, above 100 tera-electron volts (TeV), providing new insights into the behavior of cosmic rays and magnetic fields within the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adv8173\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>. The study was conducted by the Tibet AS\u03b3 Experiment, including the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Astronomical Observatories of CAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the Tibet AS\u03b3 Experiment has successfully measured magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence on scales below one parsec (approximately 3.3 light-years) within the gamma-ray halo surrounding the Geminga pulsar wind nebula (PWN). This observation extends to the highest energies, above 100 tera-electron volts (TeV), providing new insights into the behavior of cosmic rays and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232606","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}