News tagged with cherenkov telescopes
Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes
(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Has our black hole been blowing bubbles?
Our galaxy is a relatively quiet neighbourhood with the supermassive black hole at its heart gently dozing: or is it?
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Physicists scrutinize the universe with a novel camera
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a telescope has been equipped with a camera based on a new technology that uses semiconductors. This instrument will observe the flashes of light that are produced by gamma ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Challenge theoretical models, Crab pulsar beams most energetic gamma rays ever detected from a pulsar
A thousand years ago, a brilliant beacon of light blazed in the sky, shining brightly enough to be seen even in daytime for almost a month. Native American and Chinese observers recorded the eye-catching event. ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Gamma-ray emission from Terzan 5
(PhysOrg.com) -- The H.E.S.S. telescope system in Namibia discovered a new source of very-high-energy gamma-rays from the direction of the globular cluster Terzan 5. Being very likely located in the outer ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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IceCube: World's largest neutrino observatory completed at South Pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Saturday, December 18, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory sank the last of 86 strings of sensitive photodetectors to a depth of almost two and a half kilometers in the ice at the South Pole, ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Neutrinos: Clues to the Most Energetic Cosmic Rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- ARIANNA, a proposed array of detectors for capturing the most energetic cosmic rays, is being tested in Antarctica with a prototype station built last December on the Ross Ice Shelf by a Berkeley ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Physicists on the prowl for dark matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- 95%. That is the percentage of the known Universe that is missing. As in it is not there. Or at least if it is there, we can't see it. We call this unseen stuff "dark matter". That has been ...
Jul 23, 2009 |
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The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up
(PhysOrg.com) -- Together with the MAGIC-I telescope, MAGIC-2 allows stereoscopic observations using these two largest gamma-ray telescopes. Astronomers can explore sources of very-high energy gamma rays. ...
Apr 15, 2009 |
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