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Do cosmic rays have more energetic than gamma rays?
The gamma rays observed by HESS have energies of the order of 1012 electron volts, presumably produced by cosmic ray particles of even higher energies,while almost all cosmic ray particles have much less.
What is more energetic than gamma rays?
Radio waves have photons with low energies, microwave photons have a little more energy than radio waves, infrared photons have still more, then visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, and, the most energetic of all, gamma-rays.
Do cosmic rays have the highest energy?
Cosmic rays are protons and heavier atomic nuclei zinging through space. The highest energy rays are millions of times more energetic than particles from human-made accelerators. In extreme cases, a single atomic nucleus can possess as much energy as a large hail stone falling on your head.
Are gamma rays high energy?
Gamma-ray photons have the highest energy in the EMR spectrum and their waves have the shortest wavelength. X-ray photons have energies in the range 100 eV to 100,000 eV (or 100 keV). Gamma-ray photons generally have energies greater than 100 keV.
Is gamma an energy?
Gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. They are produced by the hottest and most energetic objects in the universe, such as neutron stars and pulsars, supernova explosions, and regions around black holes.
Can cosmic rays be used for energy?
The most important events in space are solar wind and galactic cosmic rays. These events stream out highly energetic particles like proton, electron, alpha particle and HZE. The energy possessed by proton and electron is usually between 1.5 and 10 keV. This energy can be used to generate electrical energy.
Do galactic cosmic rays have high velocity?
Most galactic cosmic rays have energies between 100 MeV (corresponding to a velocity for protons of 43\% of the speed of light) and 10 GeV (corresponding to 99.6\% of the speed of light).