[/caption] Situated about 4,500 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus is a veritable star factory called Cygnus X... one…
[/caption] A couple of years ago, the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics, PAMELA, sent us back some…
[/caption] It's one of the most famous sights in the night sky... and 957 years ago it was bright enough…
[/caption] The Crab Nebula is one of the most popular targets for astronomers of all stripes. It is readily viewable…
[/caption] In the universe there are kinds of energy and different ways it manifests itself. One common form is radiation.…
[/caption] From the name, electron volt, you might guess that this has something to do with electricity. Well, you'd be…
This illustration shows a pulsar's magnetic field (blue) creates narrow beams of radiation (magenta). Image credit: NASA How do you…
"Gamma wave" is not, strictly speaking, a standard scientific term … at least not in physics, and this is rather…
[/caption] While the Fermi Space Telescope has mapped the gamma ray sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity, it now has…
Cherenkov radiation is named after the Russian physicist who first worked it out in detail, in 1934, Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov…