Some of the light from the sun is extra energetic than it needs to be
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The highest-energy daylight is just too bright. Astronomers have detected gamma rays coming from the sun which might be extra energetic than any we have seen earlier than, and there are extra of them than any of our fashions of the sun can account for.
Many of the gamma rays we see coming from the sun are produced by cosmic rays, that are charged particles that hurtle by means of area at unimaginable speeds. When cosmic rays hit the sun, the …