Among the most fascinating phenomena are gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. Recently, ...

For this reason, there are not many images of astronomical objects in gamma wavelengths. This one, a gamma-ray image of the entire sky as seen from earth, took 18 months to create.

Gamma rays are much shorter in wavelength than visible light, and carry a lot more energy—so much energy, that here on Earth we typically detect strong gamma-ray bursts only from the detonation ...

It includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. Each type of light has a different wavelength and frequency. Understanding the electromagnetic ...

Radio waves have the longest wavelengths and gamma rays have the shortest wavelengths. Radio waves have the longest wavelengths of all EM waves. Radio waves have wavelengths ranging from thousands ...

After emitting an alpha or beta particle, the nucleus will often still be ‘excited’ and will need to lose energy. It does this by emitting a high energy electromagnetic wave called a gamma ray.