How to Use cosmic ray in a Sentence

cosmic ray

noun
  • This ruled out cosmic rays as a cause of this X-ray echo.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Not all involve capes or cosmic rays.
    — Gabrielle Principe, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
  • So an uptick in cosmic rays should lead to an uptick in gamma rays.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This makes sense, experts say, if cosmic rays are the source.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But galactic cosmic rays move through the body in a straight line, like a track.
    — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Above that, no cosmic rays at all were expected.
    — Big Think, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Some of it comes from the sun; some arrives as cosmic rays from far greater distances.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
  • People got hurt more than just getting hit by some kind of cosmic ray or punched across a room.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • That means we are protected from the harsh effects of cosmic rays.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 July 2025
  • But until now, scientists haven't known for sure where these cosmic rays come from.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
  • If the cosmic ray bound turns out to be meaningless, r is allowed to be even lower.
    — Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Where does the rain of high-energy particles from space known as cosmic rays come from?
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • In the tissues of the body, ionization leaves a trail of damage along the cosmic ray’s path.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2015
  • Like other cosmic rays, scientists knew this one came from outer space.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • So, the new find pegs blazars as accelerators of at least some of the fastest-moving cosmic rays as well.
    — Mike Wall, NBC News, 12 July 2018
  • The team hopes to extend the work by adding more physics, including cosmic rays and plasma effects.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For now, the researchers are turning to sunspots and cosmic rays for an explanation.
    — Alex Fox, Science | AAAS, 9 Sep. 2019
  • On top of that, cosmic rays and the Sun's own eruptions can upset electronics.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Jan. 2026
  • But shockingly, some cosmic rays have far, far higher energies than this.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • These filaments appear to be composed of huge amounts of cosmic ray electrons moving at close to the speed of light.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • The satellite, which weighed less than 31 pounds, was equipped with instruments to measure cosmic rays.
    — Sean Greene, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • That mission was a success and proved the deployment could work (though the spacecraft did get zapped a few times by errant cosmic rays).
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 21 June 2019
  • And very few places in the universe have magnetic fields strong enough to whip cosmic rays up to sufficient energies.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Simply put, cosmic rays are high-energy particles from space that travel at nearly the speed of light.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 July 2025
  • But the researchers looked at another consequence of these cosmic ray showers.
    — Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2019
  • At least two comet-like objects have made their way to our solar system, and naked cores of atoms rain down upon our heads daily in the form of cosmic rays.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2020
  • This allows axion searches to use light from the Sun, cosmic rays, and sources of radiation in the lab.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Astronomers have wondered about this since cosmic rays were first discovered, way back in 1912.
    — Mike Wall, NBC News, 12 July 2018
  • What sort of phenomenon creates and launches the cosmic ray sources of these neutrinos?
    — Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
  • It will also be shielded by steel and plastic to block out as much cosmic ray interference as possible.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025

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