Near Speed of Light incident particles from space

Varieties

  • Solar Cosmic Rays
    • Ejected by the Sun during Solar Flares
    • eV
  • Galactic Cosmis Ray
    • Ejected by Supernovae
    • eV
  • Extragalactic Cosmic Ray
    • Ejected by massive black holes
    • Up to eV

Cosmic Ray Showers

Collisions between cosmic rays and the atmosphere cause showers of particles, as a chain reaction of collisions occurs beginning from the original collision