{"id":92636,"date":"2019-06-25T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-highest-energy-light-ever-seen-hails-from-the-crab-nebula"},"modified":"2019-06-25T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:02:22","slug":"the-highest-energy-light-ever-seen-hails-from-the-crab-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-highest-energy-light-ever-seen-hails-from-the-crab-nebula","title":{"rendered":"The highest-energy light ever seen hails from the Crab Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-highest-energy-light-ever-seen-hails-from-the-crab-nebula.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have spotted the highest-energy light ever seen. It emanated from the roiling remains left behind when a star exploded.<\/p>\n<p>This light made its way to Earth from the Crab Nebula, a remnant of a stellar explosion, or supernova, about 6,500 light-years away in the Milky Way. The Tibet AS-gamma experiment caught multiple particles of light \u2014 or photons \u2014 from the nebula with energies higher than 100 trillion electron volts, researchers report in a study accepted in Physical Review Letters. Visible light, for comparison, has just a few electron volts of energy.\u201cThis energy regime has not been accessible before,\u201d says astrophysicist Petra Huentemeyer of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, who was not involved with the research. For physicists who study this high-energy light, known as gamma rays, \u201cit\u2019s an exciting time,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have spotted the highest-energy light ever seen. It emanated from the roiling remains left behind when a star exploded. This light made its way to Earth from the Crab Nebula, a remnant of a stellar explosion, or supernova, about 6,500 light-years away in the Milky Way. The Tibet AS-gamma experiment caught multiple particles of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92636","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}