The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, launched in 1991, used scintillators to record gamma rays from astronomical events such as gamma-ray bursts and thunderclouds. It discovered soft gamma repeaters, believed to be magnetars, and completed a survey of pulsars and supernova remnants before being deorbited in 2000. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is a space telescope […]
The Compton effect is the transfer of energy from electromagnetic radiation to stationary subatomic particles, confirming the theory of photons. Compton scattering is observed as a change in direction and wavelength of photons. Compton’s work on this phenomenon earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics. The Compton effect is the transfer of energy from light […]
