Last October, astronomers witnessed a fleeting, extraordinarily bright gamma ray burst in the distant universe. Since dubbed ...

Radiation from the brightest cosmic explosion ever seen may have been mixing with gas and dust around its dying star – making ...

Few cosmic explosions have attracted as much attention from space scientists as the one recorded on October 22 last year and ...

Mystery behind brightest explosion ever seen is finally solved - Blast was pointed right at Earth, researchers believe ...

Scientists believe they may have finally solved the mystery behind the brightest explosion ever seen. Last October, Earth was ...

Fifty years ago, on June 1, 1973, astronomers around the world were introduced to a powerful and perplexing new phenomenon ...

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a gamma ray burst that they’ve labeled “the brightest of all time.” Yet a gamma ray burst is only a single exploding star. When far more mass is ...

Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more ...

On June 25, 2016, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts in the history of observations ... the polarization of the gamma-ray burst's own radiation was measured. An article in Nature was devoted to ...

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 ...

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