V. Dorokhov

High above Earth, a satellite flies, and inside it is an instrument the size of a small wardrobe. It catches particles that have been racing through the galaxy for billions of years and finally slam into the detector. Such particles are called cosmic rays, and they bring news of distant stellar explosions.

Cosmic rays are charged particles that fly to us from the depths of the Galaxy. If you plot how many particles arrive at each energy, the line runs smooth, then suddenly drops sharply.