The results of the study were reported at the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division Meeting, which is being held from June 12 to 16 at NewMexicoStateUniversity in LasCruces.
"Within just a few days, the heliospheric intensity of trapped radiation decreased, and the cosmic ray intensity went up as you would expect if it exited the heliosphere, " explained Prof Bill Webber from NewMexicoStateUniversity in LasCruces.
Luckily there is no record of anyone dying from eating peppers, according to Paul Bosland, head of NewMexicoState University's Chile Pepper Institute, in LasCruces, NewMexico.