[/caption] NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have keyed in on a rowdy stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The…
[/caption]From 1991 to 2000, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory dominated the search for the largest explosions ever observed in the…
[/caption] NASA's Swift satellite captured the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast came from an exploding star 12.8…
[/caption] On March 19, 2008 at 2:13 am EDT, NASA's Swift satellite detected an explosion from the constellation Bootes, and…
[/caption] With "first light" successfully observed by the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, as it has been…
[/caption] After a 60-day checkout period, science operations have begun in earnest for GLAST, the Gamma ray Large Area Space…
[/caption] Just when we thought we were beginning to understand what supernovae and gamma ray bursts were all about. Astronomers…
No sooner had NASA's Swift X-Ray Telescope caught the record-breaking Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) in the act on Wednesday (March 19th),…
A record-breaking gamma ray burst was observed yesterday (March 19th) by NASA's Swift satellite. After red-shift observations were analysed, astronomers…
A team of astronomers from the University of Sydney in Australia have been keeping an eye on a binary star…