• By Charlie Jane Anders
    Jun 29, 2009 2:14 PM 1,928
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    The Most Efficient Particle Accelerator Known To Humanity

    Chinese astronomers observed this supernova, RCW 86, in the year 185 A.D. But it's still pumping out cosmic rays, and a new image shows how supernova remnants like this one are the Milky Way's "super-efficient particle accelerators." [Chandra Observatory]


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