Did you know that the world around us is filled with different types of light waves ? From the warm glow of the sun to audible radio waves and invisible gamma rays, electromagnetic waves (action ...

Theoretically, if one of these gamma-ray bursts happened within 1,000 light-years of Earth, it could wipe out all life on our planet. Astronomers have cataloged a stunning treasure trove of over ...

(Courtesy: Vahram Mekhitarian/CC BY-SA 4.0) Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on how thunderstorms can create flashes of gamma rays by accelerating ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...

There’s more to thunderclouds than rain and lightning. Along with visible light emissions, thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays, the most energetic form of light, that last for ...

India now holds the honour of having the world's highest-altitude gamma ray telescope situated at 4,270 metres above sea level and it has the largest mirror in Asia. The Department of Atomic ...

It does this by emitting a high energy electromagnetic wave called a gamma ray. Gamma radiation does not consist of particles but as short wavelength, high energy electromagnetic radiation emitted ...