Tag Archives: gamma rays

How do astronomers test-drive a telescope?

Graduate student Leslie Taylor helped fine-tune a high-energy gamma-ray telescope this summer. Detecting the Crab [...]

Gamma-ray telescope ready for prime time

A new telescope, part of an international effort to develop and build the world’s largest, [...]

Mountain-top observatory sees gamma rays from exotic Milky Way object

For the first time, an international collaboration of scientists has detected extremely high-energy gamma rays, [...]

Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope

A unique high-speed camera, designed to capture the fleeting effects of gamma rays crashing into [...]

APS April meeting highlights: IceCube results on neutrino oscillations and WIPAC talks

The American Physical Society meeting on astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, the so-called April [...]

Advancing neutrino, gamma-ray, and cosmic-ray astrophysics

Those of us working with high-energy neutrinos always have great expectations for a new year, [...]

TARGET 5, enabling precision gamma-ray astronomy

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will detect gamma rays with unprecedented precision. To do this, [...]

HAWC reveals new look at the very high energy sky

Today, at the APS April Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, scientists operating the High-Altitude [...]

Star-forming galaxies are not the main source of IceCube neutrinos

IceCube data are stubbornly showing us only a glimpse of the extreme universe at a [...]

ARA presents first results with two complete radio stations

The ARA Collaboration announces today the first results using data taken during 10 months in [...]