"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

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This Powerful Gamma-Ray Blast Was the ‘Brightest of All Time’ Astronomers are “in awe” of the high-energy explosion, probably caused by a giant star’s death ...

An invisible blast of radiation a million times more energetic than a lightning discharge is unleashed in the form of gamma rays, before disappearing almost as quickly as it came.

The spectacular blast, which also raises new questions about gamma-ray bursts, was discovered by the FGST's Large Area Telescope, a collaboration among NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE ...

An unexpected and powerful new kind of star explosion has been discovered in the heavens: a so-called gamma-ray nova that radiates the most energetic form of light in the universe.

Sun’s most powerful blast of energy rays just detected ... Nasa 4K Sun timelapse. ... the gamma ray energy is redistributed into particle fragments and light which are observed by the HAWC.

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF). Researchers at the University of ...

The most powerful stellar explosion since the big bang has been linked to a newly discovered class of ultra-long gamma ray burst, astronomers said Tuesday at the 2013 Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst ...

Astronomers have chronicled a record-setting burst of gamma rays from the violent death throes of a relatively nearby massive star that imploded into a black hole.