Credit: University of Bergen/Mount Visual, CC BY 4.0 Neutron stars, supernova explosions, and other extremely energetic phenomena across the universe produce gamma rays, the highest-energy ...

Gamma rays originate from a variety of sources in both the Marvel Universe and the real world. Primary among non-fictional cosmic gamma-ray sources, are supernovas, neutron stars, and gamma-ray ...

A view from a retrofitted spy plane soaring at 20 kilometers up revealed storms glowing and flickering in gamma rays, high-energy light invisible to the eye. Ten flights with the plane ...

In the 1990s, NASA scientists got an unexpected surprise. While scanning the cosmos for high-energy gamma radiation bursts from supernovas and black holes, they stumbled upon a curious finding.

The team used a NASA-owned spy plane to fly above tropical thunderstorms and take a gander that the gamma radiation from the storms. The plane—an ER-2, a modified version of Lockheed Martin’s ...

(Infographic: M.Platonova/ IAEA). The circle in the middle of the trefoil represents an atom and the blades represent the three common types of ionizing radiation emanating from it — alpha (α), beta ...

Gamma rays (denoted as γ) are electromagnetic radiation of high energy. They are produced by sub-atomic particle interactions, such as electron-positron annihilation, neutral pion decay, radioactive ...

Several years of research in polymer radiation chemistry have led to numerous applications of commercial and economic importance (e.g. biotechnology, biomedicine, agriculture and food chemistry).

The gamma rays from the burst impacted Earth's atmosphere for a span of about 13 minutes on Oct. 9, 2022. They were detected by the European Space Agency's Integral (International Gamma-Ray ...

X-rays and gamma rays are known human carcinogens (cancer-causing agents). The evidence they can cause cancer comes from many different sources, including studies of atomic bomb survivors in Japan, ...

Scientists have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a dead star called a pulsar. The energy of these gamma rays clocked in at 20 tera-electronvolts, or about ten trillion times the ...