18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... along the way. Interest in aluminum-26, which emits a gamma ray when it decays, was piqued back in the 70s when...see if it could reproduce the radionuclides scientists see today in gamma rays. The model included the star’s mass, age, and probability...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... flares lead to the release of radiation with the power of a thousand atomic bombs, sending high powered x-rays and gamma rays streaming into space at the speed of light United Nations (UN) action to create the International Asteroid Warning Network...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... the amalgamation produces radiation that we observe in the optical and infrared as a bright kilonova transient and a short gamma-ray burst at higher energy. Models of binary stars will explain how physics works in the most extreme environments...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
... decades, scientists have found a multitude of high energy outbursts or flashes of radiation known as transient events, such as gamma-ray bursts, that can generally be attributed to accretion processes onto objects such as neutron stars, black holes...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
... around? Some scientists argue that objects like these start off as magnetars and gradually stop outbursting X-rays and gamma rays over time to become normal pulsars. But not everyone agrees with this hypothesis. It is possible therefore...
08 April 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
... 2020. The paper is titled "TXS 2116-077: A gamma-ray emitting relativistic jet hosted in a galaxy merger." In addition to...the form of radiation, such as intense radio waves, X-rays, and gamma-rays. "Jets are the best accelerators in the universe -- ...
