Among the most fascinating phenomena are gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. Recently, ...

That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation ... and a JFET wired up in a small brass tube to block most of the light and to offer some EM shielding. This, in turn, is attached to a ...

We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

During the time it takes for its wave to go through one cycle, a gamma-ray wave traveling at the speed of light will travel only the width of a proton, a tiny particle found within the nucleus of ...

"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 ...

(Gamma rays are on the same radiation spectrum as the likes of AM and FM radio, visible light you can see, and x-rays, though gamma rays have the most energy.) "This is incredibly, incredibly rare." ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has surveyed the sky for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the universe’s most luminous ...

For that, you need something like this gamma-ray spectroscope ... to protect the hygroscopic crystal from both humidity and light. There’s also a temperature sensor on the detector board ...

The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova which was observed almost 1000 years ago. Although it corresponds to one of the ...