Gamma-ray bursts

most revolutionary telescope since Galileo first looked through one over four hundred years ago. Hubble played a large role in helping scientists discover and learn about many things like dark matter and dark energy, the age of the universe, and gamma ray bursts. None of these discoveries would have been possible without Hubble’s unique view of the universe.

Supernova’s can eject horrifying flashes of radiation known as Gamma Ray Bursts. Gamma ray bursts are conceivably the brightest electromagnetic events in the universe. A regular gamma ray burst gives off as much energy as our sun will give in its 10 billion year lifespan, in just a matter of seconds. If WR104, a gamma ray burst future candidate were to directly hit earth, for less than 15 seconds, it would consume 25% of out ozone layer, and lead

hot plasma, and mass ejection. The payload was built of seven instruments like Ultraviolet Spectrometer and Polarimeter (UVSP), the Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM), the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS), the Hard X-Ray Burst Spectrometer (HXRBS), the soft X-Ray Polychromator (XRP), the Hard X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (HXIS), and the Coronagraph Polarimeter (CP), which were exclusively chosen to study different criterias such as short-wavelength and coronal manifestations of the solar

How It Works- Refracting telescopes use two glass lenses to gather and focus light. They bend, or refract light as their name suggests, as it passes through different mediums. The objective lens gathers and then refracts it to a focus near the end of the tube. The image is magnified and brought to the viewer’s eye by the eyepiece. Information It Provides- Optical telescopes are used to observe objects, which are in the visible light spectrum, by magnifying the image and thereby improving the detail

Accidents happen on a regular basis, some having larger effects than others, that being the case involving Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB). Since their accidental discovery in 1969 to having GRB 090423, the farthest astronomical discovery, the GRB’s have had intriguing history in the few years we’ve known acknowledged them. Investigating how we uncovered these wonders into how they form will give perspective into a GRB. The breakthrough of GRB’s occurred during 1969 by the Vela satellite during the Nuclear

compressed into an infinitely small, infinitely dense point called a singularity. This is the centre of a black hole.” This is when the black hole forms. In conclusion Black Holes are not Sci Fi anymore, because we can observe them, they give off gamma rays which traces back to black holes, and they come from stars with large mass. Though they were once thought to be the work of Sci Fi writers we now know that they are really out there, nomading their way. But even though they seem all powerful

Andrea Matthews 3/24/17 SCI135-SP17-B1 – Term Paper I. TOPIC: Hubble Space Telescope results in planetary science. II. PURPOSE: Talk about the history and great discoveries of the Hubble Telescope. Why was the Hubble constructed? What were some of the problems encountered and how has it moved the discoveries of the universe forward. III. AUDIENCE: A. Expectations Most of the audience will most likely be familiar with the Hubble Telescope. Some might know of the spherical aberration that caused

the brightest objects in the X-ray sky. Their powerful electromagnetic radiation is powered by the gravitational potential energy of the accreted matter. The accreting matter is directed by the magnetosphere onto the the magnetic poles of the star, thereby increasing its energy and angular momentum in the process. The rapid slowdown of the accreting matter at the polar surface of the star releases gravitational potential energy as X-rays, and the rotation of these X-ray hot spots across our line of

Over the course of the last 80 years nuclear weapons have transformed how countries conduct warfare, politics and economic development. In World War 2 the first nuclear bomb ever was dropped on the city Hiroshima, Japan showing the true devastation that man could develop11. Since then, the power that nuclear weapons hold has shaped the US and Russia relations and relationships throughout the world. However, how were these weapons developed and what is the chemistry behind them that makes them the

Black holes are one of the many amazing unexplainable wonders around the world. Black holes are also very abundant in many galaxies especially the Milky Way. There is believed to be at least over ten million black holes scattered around the Milky Way galaxy alone. In every galaxy there is a supermassive black hole that is at least billions of times as big as the sun and it is big enough to swallow the whole solar system. The first black hole was discovered in 1971 and John Wheeler, an American