Gamma view of a big blast.Astronomers have for the first time used extremely high-energy gamma rays Gamma rays Electromagnetic radiation emitted from excited atomic nuclei as an integral part of the process whereby the nucleus rearranges itself into a state of lower excitation (that is, energy content). to image a celestial body. Paula Chadwick of the University of Durham (body, education) University of Durham - A busy research and teaching community in the historic cathedral city of Durham, UK (population 61000). Its work covers key branches of science and technology and traditional areas of scholarship. in England and her colleagues recorded flashes of blue light known as Cerenkov radiation, which is produced when Earth's atmosphere stops incoming gamma rays. The team aimed the High Energy Stereoscopic System High Energy Stereoscopic System or H.E.S.S. is a next-generation system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) for the investigation of cosmic gamma rays in the 100 GeV and TeV energy range. , an array of four telescopes in Namibia, at a supernova remnant in the Southern Hemisphere. The remnant is an expanding shell of debris left behind by a stellar explosion that sky watchers would have witnessed about 1,000 years ago. The production of gamma rays suggests that the supernova's blast wave acts as a cosmic version of a particle accelerator, revving up charged particles to energies a billion times those of a hospital X ray. The gamma-ray emissions are also some of the first proof that this and other supernova remnants are likely sources of the cosmic rays cosmic rays, charged particles moving at nearly the speed of light reaching the earth from outer space. Primary cosmic rays consist mostly of protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms), some alpha particles (helium nuclei), and lesser amounts of nuclei of carbon, nitrogen, that continually bombard bom·bard tr.v. bom·bard·ed, bom·bard·ing, bom·bards 1. To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles. 2. To assail persistently, as with requests. See Synonyms at attack, barrage2. 3. Earth, the team asserts in the Nov. 4 Nature.--R.C. 
My rating for this article is 5 stars.(sorry wrong typing above, that I can not correct).<br><br>Questions:<br>Astronomer Joe Parr reportedly said about Great Pyramid that because it is built on latitude 30 degrees,its base (a line from its top to center of the base) once every day points to the center of our Galaxy.<br>And also that the energy bubble that surrounds the Great Pyramid,follows the activity of the gamma rays emitted from the Great Annihilator, which is very close to that center.<br>Actually Parrs says that the Great Pyramid is a protector against those gamma rays,and even that the missing top of the Great Pyramid could have something to do with it.<br>Could anyone comment on these interesting statements?. Thank you .Gerardo Alvarez <br><br> |
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