Some of the mysterious, high-energy cosmic rays that bombard Earth may hatch from a colossal, gassy superbubble carved into space by hyperactive young stars in the Cygnus X region of the sky.
“We can pin down that — at least in this region — there are cosmic ray sources,” says astronomer and astrophysicist Isabelle Grenier, who led the study reported in the Nov.
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