Multiple Choice
What is a cosmic ray shower?
A) a shower of particles produced when a cosmic ray strikes atoms in Earth's atmosphere
B) a burst of high-energy atomic nuclei arriving at Earth from interstellar space
C) another name for a meteor shower
D) a pulse of gamma rays arriving at Earth from a rotating, magnetized neutron star
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