"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays from a distant galaxy, an observation that is challenging how astronomers ...

126, No. 935, January 2014 The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration Gamma... The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...

Brace yourselves as we dive into the fascinating yet terrifying world of gamma ray bursts! 🌌🔭 They’re powerful, mysterious, and could change everything! #Astrophysics #CosmicEvents # ...

An illustration shows a gamma-ray burst erupting from a dying massive star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva)) First detected in 1967, gamma-ray bursts may be much more familiar to ...

The highly energetic explosion was initially attributed to a burst of gamma rays emitted either by the collision of two neutron stars or from the death of a massive star. Soon, however ...

The burst was linked to GRB 240315C, a gamma-ray burst, but its characteristics—like a 6-minute delay between X-rays and gamma rays—challenge existing theories of GRB formation. Weimin Yuan, ...