Sentences with phrase «mysterious bursts of gamma rays»
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?
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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.
Another orbiting eye on the cosmos, the Compton Gamma - Ray Observatory, which was launched in 1991, recorded the transient afterglow of a mysterious gamma ray bGamma - Ray Observatory, which was launched in 1991, recorded the transient afterglow of a mysterious gamma ray bgamma ray burst.
Gamma - ray bursts are mysterious flashes of intense high - energy radiation that appear from random directions in space.
They could have emerged from gamma - ray bursts, mysterious and short - lived cataclysms that briefly rank as the brightest objects in the universe; shock waves from exploding stars; or so - called blazars, jets of energy powered by supermassive black holes.
In April a team of astronomers finally confirmed the origin of mysterious high - energy bursts of gamma rays that randomly pervade the universe about twice a day.
But the amount of energy converted into gamma rays is just what is required to explain the mysterious gamma - ray bursts, Piran calculates.
A giant flash of energy from a supermagnetic neutron star thousands of light - years from Earth may shed a whole new light on scientists» understanding of such mysterious magnetars and of gamma - ray bursts.
A team of astronomers using a pair of National Science Foundation radio telescopes has made the first measurements of the size and expansion of a mysterious, intense fireball resulting from a cosmic gamma ray burst last May.