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Tag: gamma ray
The moon is actually brighter than the sun — in gamma rays
The findings raise serious health concerns when it comes to putting astronauts on the moon.
The most energetic light recorded thus far hits Tibetan plateau
Gamma-ray particles trillions of times more energetic than regular light hit the Tibetan plateau.
NASA names new constellations after Doctor Who, Hulk, and Godzilla
Someone call a Doctor!
Most convincing evidence for Dark Matter found – still not conclusive
Scientists have been analyzing high-energy gamma rays originating from the center of our galaxy and they've reported that there's a ...
Armada of instruments witness the brightest cosmic event of the century: the birth of a black hole
An artist’s conception of the processes by which a star collapses and becomes a black hole, ...
Astronomers identify the 514 most powerful objects in the Universe – they don’t know what 65 of them are
The Fermi Space Telescope has catalogued the 514 most powerful objects in the Universe, that we know of. Astrophysicists don't ...
One third of the discovered gamma rays so far have unknown sources
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Gamma-ray bursts might cause mass extinction on Earth
Most of us tend to believe the Earth is a safe ...
Intense Gamma Ray blast indeed traced back to supermassive black hole
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Mysterious cosmic blast triggered by black hole
On the 28th of March the Swift telescope observed a peculiar gamma-ray blast in a distant corner of the visible ...
Black hole in Dragon’s belly swallows star and everything goes nutty from here
The Draco constellation (which ...
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...
The most distant object in the universe found so far
ESO's Very Large Telescope has shown something that scientists concluded is the signature of the explosion of the object furthest ...
Nasa discovers a dozen pulsars that change understanding about dying stars
Recently, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered no more, no less than 12 pulsars, and it also detected gamma ray ...