Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
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With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar system. However, the fleet’s constant watch and often-unique perspectives sometimes create opportunities to make discoveries that no one expected, helping us to solve mysteries about of the solar system and beyond.
Posted November 20, 2024
Astrophysics
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Goddard Space Flight Center
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
The Universe
After two decades in space, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is performing better than ever thanks to a new operational strategy implemented earlier this year. The spacecraft has made great scientific strides in the years since scientists dreamed up a new way to explore gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe.
Posted November 20, 2024
Astrophysics
BurstCube
CubeSats
Gamma Rays
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Goddard Space Flight Center
ISS Research
Small Satellite Missions
The Universe
The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion in the universe, according to a recent analysis of observations collected over the last several months.
Posted September 3, 2024
Black Holes
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Gamma Rays
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Goddard Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Stellar-mass Black Holes
The Universe
In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT — the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before.
Posted July 25, 2024
Astrophysics
BurstCube
CubeSats
Gamma Rays
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravitational Waves
International Space Station (ISS)
Neutron Stars
Sensing the Universe & Multimessenger Astronomy
NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m.
Posted March 21, 2024
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Gamma Rays
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Neutron Stars
Stars
The most powerful events in the known universe – gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with a quintillion (a 10 followed by 18 zeros) times the luminosity of our Sun. Now thought to announce the births of new black holes, they were discovered by accident. The backstory […]
Posted February 6, 2024
Astrophysics Division
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gravitational Waves
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Stephen Lesage’s phone started vibrating just after halftime on Oct. 9, 2022, while he was watching a soccer game in Atlanta with a friend. When Lesage saw the incoming messages, the match no longer seemed important. There had been a rare cosmic event, and he needed to get to his computer immediately. NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray […]
Posted January 24, 2024
Astrophysics
Black Holes
BurstCube
CubeSats
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Neutron Stars
Small Satellite Missions
The Universe
Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions.
Posted December 18, 2023
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