News tagged with bursts
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
