Philip C James · @PhilipCJames
5 followers · 258 posts · Server mas.to

@APoD Thanks for this.

It's impossible to keep up with the rate of progress in the Sciences (as with the rest of society) nowadays. Judging by video this is a southern hemisphere location and so it turns out - Namibia. But if I'd heard of this project in 2004 - I'd long forgotten it. Fascinating.



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Ene

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Dr. Jürgen Knödlseder · @jknodlseder
813 followers · 4162 posts · Server astrodon.social

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051201 (2023) - Discovery of Gamma Rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC

link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysR

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Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the
witnessed emitting , highest-energy form of light, one trillion times more intense than visible sunshine. This constant gamma-ray flux is far brighter than expected based on models of Sun’s behavior, raising new questions.
"The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models," scientists say, and "decisive" new probes are needed to solve the mystery. vice.com/en/article/m7b38n/baf

#sun #astronomers #star #gammarays

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Miro Collas · @Miro_Collas
478 followers · 13463 posts · Server masto.ai

Light That Shouldn't Be Possible Detected From the Sun + Other Updates - YouTube
youtube.com/watch?v=pT8vOMPiPc

#astronomy #gammarays #sun

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Bonnie (she/her) · @BatsInLavender
656 followers · 3868 posts · Server hcommons.social

Isn't gamma radiation what turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk?

Space.com: Sun blasts out highest-energy radiation ever recorded, raising questions for solar physics

space.com/sun-blasts-highest-e

> "We thought we had this star figured out, but that's not the case."

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Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1509 followers · 4428 posts · Server mastodon.scot

More detail on Brightest of All Time –
Beams from brightest burst ever seen were pointed directly at
Boffins puzzle over 's shape unlike any other electromagnetic jets, it is a strange structure have never seen before. "It is 70x brighter than any other gamma-ray burst discovered in over 50yr of observation." Part of reason why e explosion is so bright is because beams were directly pointed at Earth
theregister.com/2023/06/12/gam

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Phil Smith · @ununseptimus
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Daily sketch challenge 28/04/23: Abomination.

With added Kirby dots despite him being created by Gil Kane rather than Jack Kirby.

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ScienceAlert · @ScienceAlert
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MusikBlog™ · @musikblog
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Moritz Hütten · @moritzhuetten
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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, researchers showed that compounds called , which are the building blocks of life, can be forged by that erupt inside rocks due to the decay of radioactive elements. bit.ly/3VElZ06

#space #gammarays #aminoacids

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Ansgar Schmidt :verified: · @Ansi
370 followers · 1126 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
· @NetMassimo
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An analysis of the Moon's gamma-ray brightness performed by Mario Nicola Mazziotta and Francesco Loparco of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Bari, Italy, using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument revealed that at certain electromagnetic wavelengths the Moon is brighter than the Sun. english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/0

#astronomy #moon #cosmicrays #gammarays

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