Where do cosmic rays originate?
The life story of cosmic radiation is immense in scope and very long. The speeding particles of cosmic rays are indeed children of the COSMOS, spawned there perhaps millions Of years ago. Those that strike our upper atmosphere have accidentally collided with the earth. From the Earth, the heavens above the weathery atmosphere look calm and serene. The daytime sky of peaceful blue changes after sunset to silent black, and black is the color of the vast reaches of outer space seen above the atmosphere. As scientists began to explore the edgeb Of outer space, they soon learned that the cosmos is far from serene. Space is far from empty and far from calm. It is occupied by speeding sub atomic paiticles and seeths with various forms of electromagnetic energy. It is Swept by cosmic winds and torn by cosmic storms. On a grand scale these cosmic upheavals are a little like the weather on our planet. They are born of cosmic particles at the mercy of cosmic energies. This seething fabric of spac
