NASA has a plan to fix the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space-based telescope for investigating gamma-ray bursts which suffered a mechanical issue in January and has been in safe mode since then.

NASA's gamma-ray observatory is back in action after technical glitch. News. By Elizabeth Howell published 21 February 2022 ...

Today, scientists operating the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory released a new survey of the sky made from the highest energy gamma rays ever observed. The new sky map ...

A new type of gamma-ray telescope will be unveiled January 17 in an inauguration event at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona. Expected to see first light in early 2019, the ...

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) was the second of the NASA "Great Observatories" to be launched to space, following the Hubble Space Telescope. The observatory was launched on the Space ...

VERITAS spokesperson Rene Ong, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, credited Otte as the leading advocate for using the powerful gamma-ray observatory to study the Crab pulsar. “To me it’s a ...

The unusual cosmic explosion was detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory on Dec. 11, 2021, ... If they can catch a long-duration gamma-ray burst after they begin operating again in 2023, ...

An international team of astrophysicists using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered a possible ...

The final instrument will be between 10 and 15 times more sensitive than existing high-energy gamma-ray detectors, Goodman said. "We have already seen some sources that have not been seen before ...

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory. Special | 55m 15s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Stefan Westerhoff, Professor, Department of Physics, UW-Madison, introduces us to the next generation gamma ray ...

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...

An international team of astronomers, using NASA's Fermi observatory, has made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a kind of natural telescope formed when a rare cosmic ...