{"id":180360,"date":"2024-01-12T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/gamma-ray-bang-unexpected-signal-surprises-astronomy-world"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:41:00","slug":"gamma-ray-bang-unexpected-signal-surprises-astronomy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/gamma-ray-bang-unexpected-signal-surprises-astronomy-world","title":{"rendered":"Gamma-ray bang! Unexpected signal surprises astronomy world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gamma-ray-bang-unexpected-signal-surprises-astronomy-world3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers discovered a mysterious <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/14-year-timelapse-gamma-ray-sky\" title=\"gamma-ray feature\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">gamma-ray feature<\/a> outside our galaxy by analyzing 13 years of data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a completely serendipitous discovery,\u201d said Alexander Kashlinsky, a cosmologist at the University of Maryland and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, who presented the research at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in New Orleans. \u201cWe found a much stronger signal in a different part of the sky than the one we were looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gamma-ray signal is unexpected and intriguingly <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/fermi-space-telescope-detects-once-in-a-10000-years-gamma-ray-burst\" title=\"similar to another\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">similar to another<\/a> unexplained feature produced by some of the most energetic cosmic particles ever detected. A paper describing the findings is published in The <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/acfedd\" title=\"Astrophysical Journal Letters\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><em>Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers discovered a mysterious gamma-ray feature outside our galaxy by analyzing 13 years of data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. \u201cIt is a completely serendipitous discovery,\u201d said Alexander Kashlinsky, a cosmologist at the University of Maryland and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, who presented the research at the 243rd meeting of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}