13 billion light years away. The burst, dubbed GRB 090423, was detected by NASA’s Swift satellite the burst’s origin. Data from Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical (blue, green) and X-Ray (orange and red) ...
Integral’s latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers ...
Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a gamma-ray binary system known as PSR ...
NASA has taken to its YouTube channel to announce the discovery of 300 additional pulsars that are shooting out the most powerful form of known energy in the universe. Pulsars are neutron stars that ...
A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.
Last December, astronomers caught sight of an extremely bright, extremely close gamma ray burst that lasted for a little under a minute — close as far as gamma ray bursts, anyways: about a billion ...
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A new study published on the pre-print server arXiv is shedding fresh light on one of the galaxy’s strangest high-energy objects. Using the powerful VERITAS telescope array, a team of astronomers has ...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 7, 2022—The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent astronomical observations, supported by theoretical ...
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was peering through eons and eons in September 2021 when it spotted a dramatic explosion, a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that had gone off in the early universe. The ...
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC) is a detector designed to look at gamma-ray emission coming from astronomical objects such as supernova remnants, quasars and rotating ...