Researchers harness nonlinear Compton scattering to create sharper, multicolor gamma-ray beams

Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to ...
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The Sun’s most violent flares reveal a hidden new gamma-ray source

The Sun’s most violent flares are turning out to be even more extreme than I, or many solar physicists, had imagined. By ...
The Conversation

Exploding stars send out powerful bursts of energy − I’m leading a citizen scientist project to classify and learn about these bright flashes

Amy Lien receives funding from the NASA Citizen Science Seed Funding Program. When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes ...
Science News

Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays

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 ...