Some of the light from the sun is more energetic than it should be
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The highest-energy sunlight is too bright. Astronomers have detected gamma rays coming from the sun that are more energetic than any we have seen before, and there are more of them than any of our models of the sun can account for.
Many of the gamma rays we see coming from the sun are produced by cosmic rays, which are charged particles that hurtle through space at incredible speeds. When cosmic rays hit the sun, the …
