This ambitious mission aims to study gamma-ray bursts, some of the most energetic and ancient cosmic phenomena in the Universe, resulting from massive star explosions, neutron star mergers ...

The mission was designed to detect, locate, and study short gamma-ray bursts, brief flashes of high-energy light created when superdense objects like neutron stars collide. These collisions also ...

Satellites captured images of how the gamma ... working on a mission Nasa calls Swift. ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli The images captured have shown unprecedented details of GRBs X-ray astronomer ...

This gamma-ray ... The burst’s effect on Earth’s atmosphere was detected by the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES), also known as Zhangheng, a Chinese-Italian space mission launched ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

26 issue of the journal Nature. In the past four years, the team of astronomers working at the Smithsonian's Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona has observed high-energy gamma-ray bursts ...

Today the GRACE mission is generating ... neutron stars. The Swift satellite, with its X-ray, ultraviolet and optical imaging capabilities, continues to detect gamma-ray bursts and trace their ...

While scientists are still debating the excess, one research group has proposed that gamma-ray bursts can be used as a powerful probe to examine the surplus, which could also observe the formation ...

The gamma ray burst lasted seven minutes and was so powerful that it was off the scale, overwhelming the instruments that detected them. Subsequent readings showed that the burst was 100 times ...

EIRSAT-1 Science Lead and gamma-ray expert, Professor Sheila McBreen said, "The detection of these bursts is a major milestone for the EIRSAT-1 mission and the GMOD instrument. GMOD was designed ...

That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation, though, and [Alan] has a great circuit to measure even relatively weak radiation sources. It uses a very small photodiode, and draws so little ...