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The UK will see a significant partial solar eclipse on 12 August, when the Moon covers a large part of the Sun's rays as it passes between the Earth and Sun.

From BBC

Most of that radiation comes in the form of gamma rays and other high-energy particles that are invisible to Webb's infrared instruments.

From Science Daily

The timing was especially telling: the new outflows appeared in the images while NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was also detecting high-energy gamma rays, directly connecting the shock-powered radiation to those colliding streams.

From Science Daily

Using multi-scale synchrotron X ray techniques and a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, the researchers observed that reactions inside single-crystal particles do not occur evenly.

From Science Daily

Measurements show that this distant supernova closely matches the brightness and spectral features of SN 1998bw, a well known supernova linked to a gamma ray burst that exploded much closer to Earth.

From Science Daily