gamma rays
Britishplural noun
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Most of that radiation comes in the form of gamma rays and other high-energy particles that are invisible to Webb's infrared instruments.
From Science Daily
The timing was especially telling: the new outflows appeared in the images while NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was also detecting high-energy gamma rays, directly connecting the shock-powered radiation to those colliding streams.
From Science Daily
The newly formed CZT, a semiconductor, can detect tiny photon particles in X-rays and gamma rays with incredible precision – like a highly specialised version of the light-sensing, silicon-based image sensor in your smartphone camera.
From BBC
Scientists have spent years examining regions where dark matter should be concentrated, especially the center of the Milky Way, searching for these specific gamma rays.
From Science Daily
LHAASO's hybrid detector array enables both the detection of high-energy gamma rays from cosmic accelerators and precise measurements of the cosmic rays that reach near-Earth space.
From Science Daily
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