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By tracing solar flare gamma rays, scientists gain new insight into particle behavior that shapes space weather forecasts.

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions ever detected in the Universe. They are also one of the greatest mysteries of modern astronomy, since so far no clear evidence has existed to prove ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

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Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, may have triggered ...

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded was caused by the collapse and explosion of a massive star, astronomers have discovered. Dubbed the B.O.A.T. (‘brightest of all time’) a team of ...

Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to ...

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted spy plane soaring at 20 kilometers up revealed storms glowing and ...

which had occurred just a few days before. “We can now confidently say that the death of a massive star, a supernova, was the cause of a gamma-ray burst. However we still don’t know exactly how and ...