The Milky Way's Magnetic Field

For about fifty years now, astronomers have been detecting particles with energies greater than eight billion electronvolts "bombarding" Earth. Up until now, the origin of these particles has been a mystery. The reason the answer took so long for us to get, is because these high charged particles only falls on about one square kilometer of Earth per year. With this little amount of impact, it was quite difficult for astronomers to determine its origin. This miraculously changed when the same type of cosmic rays hit three thousand square kilometers of some Argentinian grasslands. After this large accumulation of cosmic rays hit, many people thought it had come from the center of the Milky Way, as it had been known to contain celestial objects that can accelerate objects to at least a million billion electronvolts. After steady research by the Pierre Auger Collaboration, the belief of these particles coming from the Milky Way were proven to be false. They found this out by detecting the
This would help in the locating of the direct origin of these cosmic rays. While this is occurring, other telescopes will be looking out for highly energetic gamma rays, as some has been found recently. The astronomers do know, however, that these gamma rays did not come from the same origin as the cosmic waves, as the gamma rays did not deflect off of the Milky Way's magnetic field. Though they haven't found the origin of these rays yet, astronomers are on the right path to get there. If it takes months, or years, they won't rest until answers are given, thus expanding our small intergalactic knowledge.

This article was about specific cosmic ray groups, and astronomers trying to find their origin. I find this topic quite interesting, as I have aspired to be an astrophysicist for some time now. I feel like finding these cosmic ray's