For this reason, there are not many images of astronomical objects in gamma wavelengths. This one, a gamma-ray image of the entire sky as seen from earth, took 18 months to create.

Gamma rays are much shorter in wavelength than visible light, and carry a lot more energy—so much energy, that here on Earth we typically detect strong gamma-ray bursts only from the detonation ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, and so is the visible light that our eyes have evolved to see. All electromagnetic radiation has a wavelength and a frequency. We can see just a ...

An ingenious telescope in a satellite has provided the first view of the universe at the shortest wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. This historic glimpse is supplied by just 22 gamma rays ...

It includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. Each type of light has a different wavelength and frequency. Understanding the electromagnetic ...

Radio waves have the longest wavelengths and gamma rays have the shortest wavelengths. Radio waves have the longest wavelengths of all EM waves. Radio waves have wavelengths ranging from thousands ...

When you think of a radiation detector, you’re probably thinking of a Geiger tube and its high voltage circuitry. That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation, though, and [Alan] has a ...

SVOM had already detected 78 gamma-ray bursts and around ten scientific publications are in preparation. "Gamma-ray bursts ...