Cosmic Rays Cosmic Rays Cosmic Rays. Cosmic rays are energetic particles that are found in space and filter through our atmosphere.
Cosmic rays have interested scientists for many different reasons.
They come from all directions in space, and the origination of many of these cosmic rays is unknown. Cosmic rays were originally discovered because of the ionozation they produce in our atmosphere. Cosmic rays also have an extreme energy range of incident particles, which have allowed physicists to study aspects of their field that can not be studied in any other way. Now scientists have determined that the sun discharges a significant amount of these high-energy particles. Most solar cosmic ray events correlate relatively well with solar flares.