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NASA has selected new space telescope project to study Milky Way's evolution - Space.com
Oct 20, 2021 53 secs

The most violent and powerful events in the universe produce gamma-ray bursts.

NASA has picked a new telescope to head into space, where it will peer out in search of the most powerful light emissions made in the universe.

The most violent and powerful events in the universe, like supernovas and neutron star mergers, produce gamma-ray bursts. .

After several decades of scientific planning and several tiers of NASA concept reviews, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) telescope is finally making its way to space.

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Once COSI makes it to orbit, this gamma-ray telescope will observe the recent history of star life cycles, help map where certain chemical elements were formed in the Milky Way and gather data about mysterious subatomic particles that are the size of electrons but which carry a positive charge.

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