Gamma Ray Bursts
GLAST Science Operations Underway: Now, About That Name!
[/caption] After a 60-day checkout period, science operations have begun in earnest for GLAST, the Gamma ray Large Area Space…
Astronomers Discover a Supernova/Gamma Ray Burst Hybrid
[/caption] Just when we thought we were beginning to understand what supernovae and gamma ray bursts were all about. Astronomers…
See that Record Breaking Gamma Ray Burst Go! (Video)
No sooner had NASA's Swift X-Ray Telescope caught the record-breaking Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) in the act on Wednesday (March 19th),…
Biggest Ever Cosmic Explosion Observed 7.5 Billion Light Years Away
A record-breaking gamma ray burst was observed yesterday (March 19th) by NASA's Swift satellite. After red-shift observations were analysed, astronomers…
Looking Down the Barrel of A Gamma Ray Burst
A team of astronomers from the University of Sydney in Australia have been keeping an eye on a binary star…
A Powerful Blast From the Distant Past
As sure as the Sun rises, you can expect that astronomers are going to beat their records. Today, we can…
Gamma Ray Observatory Will Launch in December
NASA has Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra to cover visible, ultraviolet, infrared and X-ray portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The next…
Integral Spots a Burst Out of the Corner of its Eye
Even it it's not actually watching the spot in the sky where a gamma ray burst goes off, ESA's Integral…