The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

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This NASA animation shows gamma rays (magenta) arise when accelerated particles in the explosion's shock wave crash into the ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for ... Think about this: a single sudden explosion, which becomes as bright as the combined light of millions ...

Recently, scientists have observed that gamma rays from deep space have penetrated Earth’s upper atmosphere. This revelation has sparked curiosity and intrigue among weather enthusiasts and ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

High-energy gamma-ray photons are relatively scarce, and it takes many photons to create a meaningful image of an object in space. For this reason, there are not many images of astronomical ...

The nova explosion hit in August of 2021. When it erupted, scientists watched the subsequent shock wave using a gamma-ray observatory called the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS). The ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...