Articles in category 'Gamma'

GLAST safely in orbit, getting check-ups

I can’t wait until data starts streaming back from this device. Prepare for an unprecedented view of the universe …
A week after launch, NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 350 miles (565 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface.
GLAST was successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket […]

By Ben, 6/21/2008, 10:56 pm o'clock
Gamma, Imaging, Satellite
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Super Black Holes: NASA mission seeks new laws of physics

The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) is an astounding mission to explore the most extreme environments in the universe, search for signs of new laws of physics, what composes the mysterious dark matter, and secrets found in gamma ray explosions.
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By Ben, 6/14/2008, 8:36 pm o'clock
Imaging, Gamma, Galaxies, NASA, Satellite, Physics, Space
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High Energy Gamma Rays Go Slower Than the Speed of Light?

The speed of light is the speed of light, and that’s that. Right? Well, maybe not. Astronomers studying radiation coming from a distant galaxy found that the high energy gamma rays arrived a few minutes after the lower-energy photons, even though they were emitted at the same time. If true, this result would overturn Einstein’s […]

By Ben, 10/6/2007, 2:30 am o'clock
Gamma, Light, Astronomy
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