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Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery ...


GLAST Observatory reveals entire gamma-ray sky

GLAST Observatory reveals entire gamma-ray sky

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created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's newest space telescope is giving scientists their best look yet at the highest-energy gamma ray bursts generated by violent events in space. For Toby Burnett, a University of Washington ...





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Resolving a galactic mystery

Resolving a galactic mystery

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 3

An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our Galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the Galaxy. The glow in the region covered ...


A new X-ray spectroscopic tool for probing the interstellar medium

A new X-ray spectroscopic tool for probing the interstellar medium

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first clear detection of signatures long sought in the spectra of X-ray astronomical sources. These signatures, the so-called EXAFS standing for "Extended X-ray ...


A Black Hole in Medusa's Hair

A Black Hole in Medusa's Hair

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

This composite image of the Medusa galaxy (also known as NGC 4194) shows X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and optical light from the Hubble Space Telescope in orange. Located above ...


GLAST: The Challenge of Too Much New Data

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created May 22, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The astrophysics community enthusiastically awaits the upcoming launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), the latest and most powerful gamma-ray telescope. But interpreting the huge amount of new data that ...


Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms ...


Galactic X-ray emissions originate from stars

Galactic X-ray emissions originate from stars

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created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 25-year old astronomical mystery has been solved: Most of the diffuse X-ray emissions in the Milky Way do not originate from one single source but from so-called white dwarfs and from stars ...


Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 ...


Integral expands our view of the gamma-ray sky

Integral expands our view of the gamma-ray sky

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created Feb 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Integral's latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers have been ...


Westerlund 2: A Stellar Site

Chandra Lifts the Veil on Milky Way 'Hotspot'

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created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is helping to demystify Westerlund 2, a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one- or two-million years. Heavily obscured by dust and gas, Westerlund 2 has been ...


Integral sees the Galactic centre playing hide and seek

Integral sees the Galactic centre playing hide and seek

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created Jan 18, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

ESA's gamma ray observatory Integral has caught the centre of our galaxy in a moment of rare quiet. A handful of the most energetic high-energy sources surrounding the black hole at the centre of the Galaxy ...



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