Posted on 04/29/2016 5:07:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
from an aging webpage:
http://today.slac.stanford.edu/feature/gammaraysfromthesun.asp
> Gamma Rays from the Sun: A New Way for Looking at the Solar System — Until now, gamma-rays emitted directly from the sun have been detected only during rare intense solar flares. However, a paper to be published by Igor Moskalenko of Stanford/SLAC, Troy Porter of SCIPP/UCSC, and Seth Digel of SLAC — in Astrophysical Journal Letters in December — finds that collisions between cosmic-ray electrons and solar photons (sunlight) make the inner solar system a relatively-bright, diffuse source of gamma rays with energies 100 million to 1 billion times greater than visible light. Although the intensity is greatest near the sun, the entire sky glows faintly in high-energy gamma rays from this effect, which is known as inverse Compton scattering.
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