Sentences with phrase «farthest gamma ray burst»

This 4.1 - meter telescope in Chile first spied the fireball of the farthest gamma ray burst yet seen (circled).

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The distance to the merger makes the source both the closest gravitational wave event detected so far and also one of the closest gamma - ray burst sources ever seen.

Connecting kilonovae and short gamma - ray bursts to neutron star mergers has so far been difficult, but the multitude of detailed observations following the detection of the gravitational wave event GW170817 has now finally verified these connections.

For decades scientists have struggled to explain the origins of gamma - ray bursts, huge blasts of energy that occur daily in far - off galaxies.

The trouble was, nobody could figure out where the gamma - ray bursts were — in and around our Milky Way galaxy or at the far reaches of the universe.

Further study showed that gamma - ray bursts are the most distant and powerful explosions in the universe.

Comets being way too cold to emit gamma rays, Paczy» nski advocated the latter hypothesis — that the bursts came from far away, which meant their energy must be preposterously large.

Gamma - Ray Burst A far - distant object brightens suddenly and is detected first in the gamma - ray waveleGamma - Ray Burst A far - distant object brightens suddenly and is detected first in the gamma - ray wavelegamma - ray wavelength.

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

Off the coast of west Africa, perched on the highest point of the Canary Islands, a gamma - ray telescope called MAGIC — the name stands for the Major Atmospheric Gamma - ray Imaging Cherenkov telescope — scans the heavens for bursts of high - energy photons from far corners of the univgamma - ray telescope called MAGIC — the name stands for the Major Atmospheric Gamma - ray Imaging Cherenkov telescope — scans the heavens for bursts of high - energy photons from far corners of the univGamma - ray Imaging Cherenkov telescope — scans the heavens for bursts of high - energy photons from far corners of the universe.

Gamma rays from the far - off explosion triggered Swift's Burst Alert Telescope at 1:47 a.m. EDT on Sept. 13.

By the time a spectrum of the gamma - ray burst's afterglow was obtained on February 8, 2000, its brightness had decreased further.