Sentences with phrase «bursts of gamma rays coming»

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

Meanwhile, astronomers using another NASA satellite, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, believe they now know the source of powerful bursts of gamma rays coming from points distributed evenly across the sky.

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MYSTERIOUS gamma ray bursts that occur in the first moments of a storm, as lightning jumps between clouds, hint at where lightning comes from.

«People used to think supernovae and gamma - ray bursts were all the same, then we learned they come from different types of events,» Bogdanov says.

The definitive evidence came from Hubble observations in near - infrared light of the fading fireball produced in the aftermath of a short gamma - ray burst (GRB).

Caltech and Penn State astronomers have found an explosive burst of gamma rays that seem to come from nowhere.

The event's unusual characteristics have led researchers to dust off one of the earliest theories for the origin of gamma - ray bursts: that they come from comets that stray too close to neutron stars.

On 3 June, NASA's Swift satellite caught a short burst of energetic gamma rays coming from a galaxy 3.9 billion light years away.

Ray Jayawardhana: It is a clue that most likely, these high energy neutrinos come either from jets of particles that are accelerated by super massive black holes at the hearts of galaxies, or from really gigantic stars that explode at the end of their lives that also produce a phenomenon we call gamma ray bursts, which also might accelerate particles to very high speeds and energies.

The powerful blasts of particles and light energy known as gamma - ray bursts come from violent cosmic events in deep space, such as stellar explosions and black hole collisions.

COULD the mysterious bursts of gamma rays that come from all parts of the sky be caused by distant collisions between balls of nuclear material measuring just 10 kilometres across?

It has been suggested that gamma rays coming from the dense region of space in the inner Milky Way galaxy could be caused when invisible dark matter particles collide, but two new studies suggest that the gamma ray bursts are due to other astrophysical phenomena such as fast - rotating stars called millisecond pulsars.

Workshops on themes as varied as «flying on stage», «the theatre of science», or «stem cell research» and «gamma - ray bursts», will give the attendees — teachers and other science educators — the chance to discuss and come up with solutions to the problem of growing disinterest for science in Europe.

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