A galactic 'comet' called Terzan 5 illuminates a 100-year-old puzzle about cosmic rays

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When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial laboratory in Terzan 5, a dense star cluster currently plunging through our galaxy at breakneck speed.

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