Voyager probes detect a new form of cosmic ray burst from the Sun

The Voyager probes are continue to contributing to science over 40 several years later on and billions of miles from residence. Researchers have detected a new sort of cosmic ray electron burst working with devices aboard Voyager one and 2. Coronal mass ejections from the Sun produced shockwaves that first manifested as close to-light-speed electron waves, followed by plasma waves and then the shockwaves on their own.

The electrons seem to have been propelled following reflecting off a strong magnetic subject at the edge of the shockwave, with the wave motion and interstellar magnetic subject strains respectively accelerating and guiding the electrons. The idea isn’t new (it transpires with photo voltaic winds), but researchers haven’t witnessed interstellar shockwaves in a new medium like this.