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A new #AstrophysicsFactlet prompted by a smart question posed by a student of my Astroparticle course for astronomers.

In a nutshell: why the maximum energy of the #CosmicRays we can capture as they collide with the atmosphere of our planet is so much bigger than the maximum energy of the cosmic rays we can accelerate with human made accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ?

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