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gamma-ray astronomy

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gam·ma-ray astronomy  (gm-r)
n.
The branch of astronomy that deals with the origin and nature of emissions from extraterrestrial sources in the gamma-ray range of electromagnetic radiation rather than in the visible range.


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Piro and Harrison presented their teams' findings April 4 at a meeting on gamma-ray astronomy in Baltimore.
Beginning in the 1970s, gamma-ray astronomy launched a comeback.
In 1962 radioastronomy had already developed alongside optical astronomy, but X-ray astronomy hardly existed, and such exotica as gamma-ray astronomy and neutrino astronomy were hopes or promises rather than science.
 
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