Gamma Rays

The Moon glows in gamma rays, created as cosmic rays slam into its surface. This series of images displays longer and longer exposures by the Fermi space telescope, showing how the images gets better with time. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
The Moon is brighter than the Sun … in gamma rays
Phil Plait
Aug 19, 2019
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Artwork depicting the explosion of a massive star: a supernova. Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/ illustration by Joy Pollard
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A Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash from Earth (right) seen by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor in space was traced to a lightning storm over Borneo. Credit: University of Valencia
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Artwork depicting the moment of collision between two neutron stars. The resulting explosion is… quite large. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.
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