Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...

Seattle, Wash. – A team of University of California, Berkeley, astronomers announced today (Thursday, Jan. 9) that its robotic telescope has captured one of the earliest images ever of the visible ...

Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called “starburst” galaxies, plus a ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes ...

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A single pancake may capture where you poke a straw into it, but it takes a whole stack to record the straw's direction. Similarly, Kobe University researchers could accurately image a ...

Today, the European Space Agency's gamma-ray telescope ends its observations. During its 22 years in space, Integral has reshaped our view of the most dramatic events in the universe. The high-energy ...