Gamma Ray Bursts
Physicists Have Created an Artificial Gamma Ray Burst in the Lab
For the first time, a team of researchers have managed to recreate gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in the lab, opening…
How Do Stars Go Rogue?
Rogue stars are moving so quickly they’re leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. How in the Universe could…
ALMA Sheds New Light on ‘Dark’ Gamma-ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) represent the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, sending out as much energy in a matter of…
Surprise Gamma-Ray Burst Behaves Differently Than Expected
Roughly once a day the sky is lit up by a mysterious torrent of energy. These events — known as gamma-ray…
Bright, Long-Lasting GRB Sets Energy Output Record
Last weekend (April 27, 2013), the Fermi and Swift spacecraft witnessed a “shockingly” bright burst of gamma rays from a…
New Kind of Gamma Ray Burst is Ultra Long-Lasting
According to astronomer Andrew Levan, there’s an old adage in studying gamma ray bursts: “When you’ve seen one gamma ray…
Integral: Ten Years Tracking Extreme Radiation Across the Universe
Caption: Artist's impression of ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. Image credit: ESA Integral, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory launched ten…
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…
Fermi Gamma Ray Observatory Harvests Cosmic Mysteries
[/caption] When it comes to high-energy sources, no one knows them better than NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Taking a…
Space Telescopes Observe Unprecedented Explosion
[/caption] From a NASA press release: NASA's Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study…