Gamma Ray Bursts
A Gamma-Ray Burst as Music
This is awesome. What would a gamma-ray burst sound like? No one really knows, but members of the team that…
Gamma-ray Outbursts Shed New Light on Pulsars
Researchers using the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have developed a new method to detect a…
Cosmic Rays: They Aren’t What We Thought They Were
[/caption] The origin of cosmic rays has been one of the most enduring mysteries in physics, and it looks like…
Journal Club – Neutrino Vision
[/caption] According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles…
To The Extreme… NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope Gathers In High Energy
[/caption] It scans the entire visible sky every three hours. Its job is to gather light - but not just…
A Psychedelic Guide to Tycho’s Supernova Remnant
[/caption] By no means are we suggesting that NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope can induce altered states of awareness, but…
Did a Neutron Star Create the “Christmas Burst”?
[/caption] On December 25, 2010, at 1:38 p.m. EST, NASA's Swift Burst Alert Telescope detected a particularly long-lived gamma-ray burst…
Cygnus X – A Cosmic-ray Cocoon
[/caption] Situated about 4,500 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus is a veritable star factory called Cygnus X... one…
Astronomers Find the Justin Bieber of Millisecond Pulsars
[/caption] Astronomers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found a surprisingly young, powerful and luminous millisecond pulsar. Over the…
Early Galaxy Chemistry: VLT Observes Gamma-Ray Burst
[/caption] "Shot through the heart and you're to blame..." There's nothing more powerful than a gamma-ray burst. These abrupt, mega-bright…