News tagged with bursts
IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.
A Brief Mystery: What are Short Gamma-ray Bursts?
Oct 21, 2008 |
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For decades it was baffling. Out of the still night sky, astronomers peering through their telescopes would occasionally glimpse quick bursts of high-energy light popping off like flashbulbs at the far side ...
The Case of the Missing Gamma-ray Bursts
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Gamma-ray bursts are by far the brightest and most powerful explosions in the Universe, second only to the Big Bang itself. So it might seem a bit surprising that a group of them has gone missing.
Faint gamma-ray bursts do actually exist
Oct 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky. ESA’s Integral gamma-ray ...
Sporadic play activity as beneficial to child health as continuous bouts of exercise, study suggests
May 11, 2009 |
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New research suggests for the first time that frequent bouts of sporadic activity could be just as beneficial to children's health as longer exercise sessions. A team from the University of Exeter measured the frequency, ...
GLAST Burst Monitor Team Hard at Work Fine Tuning Instrument and Operations
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While only on orbit for 40 days and still in the process of a two-month checkout, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) has already detected 12 powerful gamma-ray bursts, an encouraging ...
