Artist's interpretation of the Earth's magnetosphere deflecting cosmic rays (Shutterstock.com)
Lola Gayle, STEAM Register On June 22, 2015, a burst of galactic cosmic rays was recorded by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope located at TIFR's Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty. That burst of rays occurred when the sun let loose a giant cloud of plasma that struck our planet at a speed of roughly 2.5 million kilometers…
