S A P ~~ Sub Atomic Particles

    Our Sun, and hence Mother Earth, is receiving cosmic rays from places within and without the Milky Galaxy where star bursts are giving off sub atomic particles.  These beams of star dust can be collected adn used for our enlightenment to hold life in balance on Earth.

A powerful streamer of subatomic particles blasts away from the center of the galaxy Centaurus A in this combined radio and X-ray image. The radio energy, observed by the Very Large Array, is displayed in red, while the X-rays, from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, are in blue. The center of the galaxy is at lower right, and the streamer spans about 4,000 light-years. The particles in the streamer may be hurled from the galaxy's center by magnetic fields around a supermassive black hole. [NRAO/NASA]

The Earth is constantly bombarded by subatomic particles from space. The energy spectrum of these particles reaches far higher than any terrestrial accelerator could hope to probe. When these high-energy cosmic rays reach Earth, they interact with the atoms making up the earth’s atmosphere. These high-energy interactions create an immense shower of particles, traveling in a cone centered on the direction that the original cosmic ray particle was traveling. At the highest energies, a single shower can be detected at the Earth’s surface over an area on the order of 100 square kilometers. If groups of cosmic rays to reach the Earth, the effective detection area of these multiple showers can be much greater. (Courtesy of NALTA)