Kamiokande

Neutrino astronomy started on a small scale back in the 1960s when Raymond Davis Jr. observed neutrinos from the sun.

This was confirmed by the research team at the Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory in Japan, led by Masatoshi Koshiba, as they were able to determine the neutrinos' path and trace their origin.

In 1987, Kamiokande captured a shower of neutrinos that could be linked to an exploding star, a supernova, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is our neighboring galaxy.

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 for these breakthroughs, which demonstrated that neutrinos could be used to study phenomena in space.

The path of protons in space is curved by the magnetic fields they travel through because of their charge, making it impossible to track the direction they took.