... April 13, 1996 . The Compton Observatory Turns Five . Credit: NASA , STS-37 , Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . ... April 13, 1996 . The Compton Observatory Turns Five . Credit: NASA , STS-37 , Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . ...
... Named after the American Nobel-prize-winning physicist, Arthur Holly Compton , the Compton Observatory has spent the last 6 years making spectacular discoveries while exploring the Universe at extreme gamma-ray energies . ...
... 2000 April 8 . Compton Observatory In Orbit . Credit STS-37 Crew, NASA . ... Explanation: Nine years ago the massive Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was deployed in low earth orbit. ...
... 2000 January 16 . The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . Credit: STS-37 Crew, Compton Science Support Center , NASA . ... 2000 January 16 . The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . Credit: STS-37 Crew, Compton Science Support Center , NASA . ...
... 2000 June 3 . Compton Re-entry . Credit: NASA . ... Explanation: Nine years ago the massive Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , the second of NASA's space-based great observatories ...
... Explanation: Named for Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton , the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) Satellite was launched in April of 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis . ...
... Gamma Ray All Sky Map . Picture Credit: NASA, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . ... In the early 1990s NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, in orbit around the Earth ... For more information see Compton Science Support Center release. ...
... Relying on the Compton Effect , the COMPTEL instrument onboard NASA's immense orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory can "see" the 1.8 million electron Volt gamma rays emitted by the radioactive decay . ...
... The Gamma Ray Sky . Credit: EGRET Team , Compton Observatory , NASA . Explanation: What if you could see gamma rays ? ... In the early 1990s NASA's orbiting Compton Observatory , produced this premier vista of the entire sky in gamma rays , photons ...