Search results for "Gamma ray burst" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and carries the BAT instrument for gamma-ray burst observations. Following ... * Gamma ray burst * Neutron star * Photon * Supernova * X-ray ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:09, 18 April 2024
- regions. The infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma ray regions of ... * The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission was launched in 2004 to detect ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation ... Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae. Cambridge ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy that focuses ... Astronomers have discovered various types of X-ray sources in the ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 14:15, 20 May 2023
- camera are Shri Kulkarni's search for gamma-ray bursts (this takes advantage ... the most distant explosion yet, a gamma-ray burst from the edge of the ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy. It was discovered ... they are produced in collisions of cosmic ray protons with nuclei in the ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- discovered 4.8-second pulsations in an X-ray source in the constellation ... A recent paper reported the detection of an X-ray burst oscillation ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by ... electron, producing a pair of annihilation (gamma) photons moving in opposite ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ray particles are protons, about ... == Cosmic ray sources == Most cosmic rays originate from extra-solar ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- ====Gurevich's cosmic ray theory==== A theory proposed by Alex ... is some mechanism capable of generating gamma rays, which escape the atmosphere ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- #039;s supernova might not cause a gamma ray burst in the direction of Earth large enough to damage its ecosystem even from a relatively close ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- A spacecraft is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Although it is, by definition, designed to travel into space, it may or may not ...18 KB (2,454 words) - 19:05, 7 February 2023
- html A Brief History of High-Energy (X-ray & Gamma-Ray) Astronomy ... forming neutrons and neutrinos in a burst of inverse beta decay, or ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
