Gamma rays from the Crab nebula.

Science News;  April 28, 1990 ;   Peterson, Ivars;   235 words ...Gamma rays from the Crab nebula The...strongest sources of X-rays and radio waves. Now a team of astronomers...source of highly energetic gamma rays. We have seen a very clear...completely steady source of gamma rays. The energy source powering...neutron star to generate ...

A hint of gamma rays. (observations of supernova 1987A)

Science News;  October 31, 1987 ;   Thomsen, Dietrick E.;   246 words ...A hint of gamma rays The various physical processes going...part of the spectrum not yet seen is gamma rays, but participants at the meeting heard...hint at an imminent discovery of them. Gamma rays are the hardest' (most energetic and...

GAMMA RAYS FROM SUPERNOVA ADD CHALLENGE FOR RESEARCHERS

The Boston Globe;  December 16, 1987 ;   David L. Chandler, Globe Staff;   708 words ......theorists had expected. Analysis of the gamma rays should help scientists understand how...Hampshire, who led the team that detected the gamma rays, said in an interview yesterday, "It...chance to really get a handle on it." The gamma rays revealed new details that suggest much...

Gamma Rays Found Surrounding Milky Way

The Washington Post;  November 5, 1997 ;     224 words ...A vast halo of gamma rays surrounds our Milky Way galaxy, scientists...there that should be obviously making gamma rays," said Dave Dixon, a physicist at...University of California-Riverside. "These gamma rays are providing the first evidence that...

Those mysterious cosmic gamma rays.

World and I;  April 1, 1998 ;   Maran, Stephen P.;   787 words ......about the universe. Gamma rays, as the most energetic...object discovered in gamma rays has been unexpected...conditions under which cosmic gamma rays arise as being the most...unlikely and bizarre. Like radio waves, visible light, and X rays, gamma rays ...

Astronomy: Gamma Rays Traced to Pulsar

The Washington Post;  May 25, 1992 ;   Kathy Sawyer;   240 words ...A mysterious source of high-energy gamma rays, located in the direction of the constellation...announced they have solved the puzzle. The gamma rays are flowing from a spinning 300,000-year-o...Gamma Ray Observatory to show that the gamma rays were pulsing at the same tempo as the...

Gamma-ray glow bathes Milky Way.(Compton Gamma Ray Observatory finds halo...

Science News;  November 8, 1997 ;   Perkins, Sid;   310 words ...A mysterious halo of gamma rays not associated with any known celestial...galaxy, astronomers report. These gamma rays are providing the first evidence...author of the forthcoming study. The gamma rays forming the halo have energies up...

Gamma Rays Can Help Kill Anthrax Spores: Israeli Expert

Xinhua News Agency;  October 17, 2001 ;     246 words ...Radiating all the suspected mail with gamma rays could help destroy possible anthrax spores...the paper that using the radiation of gamma rays, the 2.2 million pieces of mail coming...to treat the mail. Yarkoni said that gamma rays could kill brucellosis bacteria, which...

Catching some rays: Earth-based detectors hunt for violent stellar events....

Science News;  May 11, 1991 ;   Cowen, Ron;   787 words ......uncharged particles of light - photons called gamma rays. Believed to be created during such cataclysmic...cosmic rays - particularly high-energy gamma rays - is now uniting astronomers and particle...observations that suggest very-high-energy gamma rays have properties similar to ...

Mystery gamma rays yield nearest pulsar. (Geminga pulsar)

Science News;  May 23, 1992 ;   Peterson, Ivars;   474 words ......decades, Geminga--one of the three brightest sources of gamma rays in the sky--stood alone. Unlike the other two sources, associated...showed no pulsations and no traces of accompanying X-rays, radio waves or visible-light emissions. This was a big mystery for a...have proposed that all pulsars ...

Is Dark Matter a Source of High Energy Gamma Rays? Asks Physical Review...

AScribe Science News Service;  December 18, 2006 ;     787 words ......Is Dark Matter a Source of High Energy Gamma Rays? The HESS gamma-ray observations were...So it's worth looking for in cosmic gamma rays. In his 2003 book, How Dark Matter Created...galaxy-orbiting relativistic protons would generate gamma rays and x-rays. Some very relevant gamma...

Elusive Gamma rays beware: GLAST investigation selected.

M2 Presswire;  February 29, 2000 ;     727 words ......PRESSWIRE-29 February 2000-NASA: Elusive Gamma rays beware: GLAST investigation selected...have been observed to emit high- energy gamma rays and yet less than half of these have...sources. The discovery of high-energy gamma rays from these mostly low- energy gamma-ray...

Shuttle roars into space in hunt for gamma rays

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 6, 1991 ;   Harry F. Rosenthal;   345 words ......Observatories to work snaring elusive gamma rays. "Hey, thanks a lot. It was a great ride...years, it will circle Earth, measuring gamma rays that never make it through the atmosphere. Gamma rays are the hottest, most energetic radiation...

Gamma rays may point to dark matter

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  April 4, 2004 ;   Eli Kintisch;   304 words ......has made the first definitive report of gamma rays streaming out from the center of the...just been blasted with a few too many gamma rays. In a paper submitted to a physics journal...researchers around the world. If the gamma rays are shown to be unrelated to dark matter...

RADIATION HALO RINGS MILKY WAY GAMMA RAYS BATHE REGION, SCIENTISTS...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  November 5, 1997 ;   Verrengia, Joseph B.;   388 words ......galaxy containing Earth. It is made of gamma rays, invisible rays of light energy particles...visible light. Scientists are interested in gamma rays because they may be generated by some...there that should obviously be making gamma rays,'' said Dave Dixon of the University...