It's Confirmed! Earth Has Been Hit By a Mysterious 'Goddess Particle' @TheSecretsoftheUniverse

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Scientists have recently confirmed that Earth was struck by a mysterious and highly energetic cosmic ray particle. This tiny single particle carried an astonishing energy of over 240 exa-electronvolts, equivalent to the kinetic energy of a high-speed baseball or the impact of dropping a lead brick on your toes from waist height. Named Amaterasu, after the Japanese Sun goddess, this particle is the second most energetic cosmic ray particle recorded to have struck our planet. The most energetic remains the Oh-My-God particle, detected in 1991, which boasted an energy of 320 exa-electron volts.

But where did this particle come from? How did scientists detect Amaterasu in the first place? Finally, and most importantly, why is detecting this particle such a significant breakthrough in physics and astronomy?

The 78th episode of the Sunday Discovery Series answers all these questions in detail.

Created By: Rishabh Nakra
Narrates By: Brian Pederson
Animations: Sankalp Dash

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$Game Changer! A Mysterious Galaxy That Emits No Light Has Been Found Astronomers have discovered a mysterious galaxy that emits no visible light. They have found the first dark galaxy in nature. Its a loner lying 94 million light-years away. Apart from a small fraction of stars, more than 90% of it is composed of dark matter. At first, the researchers thought it was a regular dwarf galaxy with very few stars. However, a detailed analysis of the galaxy revealed it’s an oddball that defies all expectations. Its properties challenge our understanding of extragalactic astronomy. Furthermore, this dark galaxy could solve one of the biggest astronomical mysteries, the missing satellite problem. But the intriguing question is that if it emits no visible light, then how did astronomers find it in the first place? How did they even conclude it’s a galaxy millions of light years away? Finally, and most importantly, what’s the missing satellite problem that has puzzled astronomers for decades? The 48th episode of the Sunday Discovery Series answers all these questions. All Episodes Of The Series: https://bit.ly/369kG4p Basics of Astrophysics series: https://bit.ly/3xII54M REFERENCES: Discovery of an isolated dark dwarf galaxy in the nearby universe, Xu et al. - http://bit.ly/3Z3XMSE There is No Missing Satellites Problem, Kim et al. - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.06267.pdf Created by: Rishabh Nakra and Shreejaya Karantha Narrated by: Jeffrey Smith The Secrets of the Universe on the internet: Website: https://bit.ly/sou_website Facebook: https://bit.ly/sou_fb Instagram: https://bit.ly/sou_ig Twitter: https://bit.ly/sou_twitter$

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