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Originally Posted by ngcles
All the cosmic ray hits I've seen in images are very small comparable to faint or very faint stars. It would appear this one has produced a flash in the order of 20-25 (stellar) magnitudes brighter than your average cosmic ray hit -- which I'd reckon implies either an extremely energetic one ... or, invoking Occam's razor, more likely that it's not a cosmic ray hit.
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From what I can research, the Highest Observed Cosmic Ray Energy is the Fly's Eye Event, about 320 EeV = 3 x 10^20 GeV. Considering CERN only accelerates lead nuclei to around 574Tev, this would be 6x10^15 more energetic than those nuclei!