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Kamioka Observatory uses Super-Kamiokande - the world's largest water Cherenkov detector for cosmic particles, installed underground in the Kamioka region of Hida city, located in Gifu prefecture of central Japan - to capture particles known as neutrinos, a type of cosmic rays that are perpetually falling from outer space to earth. Another explanation of the vent light migh involve something called Cherenkov radiation, which comes from radioactive elements such as potassium-40. That is why astronomers glowed with excitement last year when two Cherenkov radiation detectors recorded the first, normally elusive neutrino particles from a supernova (SN: 3/21/87, p. |
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