cosmic particles
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The Earth is protected from solar and cosmic particles by the magnetosphere, a region generated by the movement of molten iron in the planet’s core.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
As Orion swings around the moon, the spacecraft will be flying far beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field, in a realm relatively riddled with high-energy cosmic particles that can damage cells and DNA.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2022
If it does, other proposals could lose out, such as a continent-spanning radio array and detectors for neutrinos and other cosmic particles.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 31, 2021
Masatoshi Koshiba, 94, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2002 for studies of the ghostly cosmic particles known as neutrinos, died Nov. 16 in Edogawa Hospital in Tokyo.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2020
The layer of dust, the consequences of an airless world exposed without protection to the endless fall of cosmic particles, was indeed not the level, undisturbed surface it should have been.
From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen
