... telescope to detect thousands of hitherto unknown gamma-ray sources. With its extraordinary sensitivity and wide ... -ray observatory capable of scanning the entire sky every three hours on a daily basis ...
... to launch the next generation of space-based gamma-ray detectors. If all goes as planned, GLAST-- ... flare-ups the cosmos has to offer.You may think of gamma rays as tools for scorching tumors or maybe ...
NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe.
Gamma rays are blamed for making Bruce Banner the Incredible Hulk. But what are gamma rays and what can they really do?
After 16 years NASA has finally launched GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope, to begin a unique and far-ranging survey of extreme events in our galaxy and beyond.At 12 ...
A new study casts doubt on a long-standing belief about the power behind gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the universe. [More]
... (SLAC).
The telescope will see the normally invisible gamma rays from stars and other cosmic objects and offer ... study, among other things, enormously powerful gamma-ray bursts, strange beams of charged ...
... have stopped holding their breath. Three weeks after the launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), researchers from Stanford University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its new orbiting gamma-ray telescope, still in its checkout phase, has detected 12 powerful gamma-ray bursts.
... its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed ... -ray Space Telescope. The new name honors Prof. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954), a ...
Officials working with the spacecraft formerly known as GLAST celebrated the probe's new name, Fermi, with the release of its first image of the full gamma ray sky.
The first results from a powerful gamma-ray telescope launched into orbit earlier this summer show it is on track to unlock new secrets of the most energetic explosions ...
... London, who is organizing Swift observations of the event.
Gamma rays from the far-off explosion triggered ... spacecraft's instruments caught the first X-rays from a new supernova days before optical ...
... day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky. ESA’s Integral ... observatory has observed several low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts, confirming the existence of an entire ...
... called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays. "This is the first example of a new class ... forms, including visible light and X-rays. However, the source in CTA 1 only pulses ...
