The Pierre Auger Observatory shares 10% of data

The observatory has made detailed information about an initial selection of its recorded cosmic-ray events available for outside scientists to use. In Argentina, far to the west of Buenos Aires, sits the world's largest cosmic-ray detector: the Pierre Auger Observatory. It's made up of an array of 1600 detector stations, each spaced about a mile apart. From the mountains that separate the country from neighboring Chile, you can see a portion of its grid of detector tanks, which spread across an ...