Saturday, July 12, 2008

TELESCOPE TO SPOT OUT HIGH ENERGY GAMMA RAYS

NASA on Wednesday launched a telescope to spot out dark,elusive, super high-energy gamma rays prevailing in this universe.The telescope accounting to $700 million will pick up where NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory left off before its deliberate destruction in 2000, but in a better way. In addition to the U.S,many countries like Germany,swedan,Italy,Japan also participating in this. Gamma rays at the maximum peak of their high energy will go splat when they come in contact with the earth’s upper atmosphere, so scientists are looking for space observatories to reveal the secrets of gamma rays. With an outstanding technology and using of Compton and other telescopes, Glast will be able to do in three hours, or two orbits of Earth survey the entire sky what Compton took 15 months to do.
Glast and its particle detectors are much more precise,efficient,sensitive and will be able to give a clear view of these high energy rays

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