A galactic ‘comet’ called Terzan 5 just illuminated a 100-year-old puzzle about cosmic rays
- Written by Mark Krumholz, Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University
The star cluster Terzan 5.ESA / Hubble, CC BYWhen my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial laboratory in Terzan 5, a dense star cluster currently plunging through our galaxy at breakneck speed.
This stellar oddity has allowed us to study the behaviour of cosmic rays – high-energy...





