18 results for "gamma-ray emissions"

NASA scientists have discovered a new type of gamma-ray emission produced by tropical thunderstorms, called "flickering gamma-ray flashes." Using advanced detectors aboard a high-altitude NASA aircraft, researchers found that these…

NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), marking a significant advancement for gamma-ray astronomy. The mission is set for an August 2027 launch...

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Science “Our solar system was most likely formed in a giant molecular cloud together with a young stellar cluster, and one or more supernova...

Posted on Dec 12, 2020 in Science During the past two years, two strange events have occurred at our Milky Way’s violent center. In October of 2019, Milky Way’s central...

Posted on May 16, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science In 2010, astronomers working with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope revealed a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way...

Posted on May 3, 2017 A mysterious gamma-ray glow at the center of the Milky Way is most likely caused by pulsars – the incredibly dense, rapidly spinning cores of...

Recent studies have provided new insights into the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs), linking these intense cosmic phenomena to highly magnetized neutron stars known as magnetars. These findings have...

The mysterious radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking, known as Hawking radiation, may soon be observable thanks to advancements in telescope technology. This radiation, emitted by black holes, has eluded detection...

This weekend’s stories include Why Ghost Particles Crashing Into Antarctica Could Change Astronomy Forever to What is the Shape of the Universe? and much more. Why the Ghost Particles Crashing...

“Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That’s stunning,” says astronomer and “Cosmos”...

Posted on Apr 20, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Science The frustrating quest for dark-matter continues. An unidentified X-ray signature recently observed in a nearby galaxy clusters is not...

In 2010, astronomers working with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way that spans 50,000 light-years that may be the remnant of...

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space Astronomers suspected that all of the gold and platinum on Earth formed as a result of ancient kilonovae created during neutron...

“A positive result in a search for the pattern would be one of the great experiments in the history of science.” Unidentified point-like very high energy gamma ray sources in...

Posted on Aug 3, 2021 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Evolution, Galaxies, NASA, Physics, Science, Space, Technology, Universe From our tiny blue dot, the universe appears inconceivably vast. In the grand...

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics, Science, Space “We thought, ‘That was weird,'” said Casey Law, assistant research astronomer in the Department of Astronomy at the University...

Is there a fundamental flaw in why we have not received a signal from an advanced alien civilization? How do we decode an alien message –alien is alien so it...

Posted on Jun 15, 2021 in NASA, Physics, Space, Universe The 2017 discovery of a binary neutron star merger opened a new era in astronomy. It marked the first time...