How to Use gamma ray in a Sentence

gamma ray

noun
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  • It’s like the gamma ray emerging from a box of red light.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2022
  • And the WIMPs tied to the gamma rays are almost as flexible.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2014
  • In space, there are no clouds or rain to shield humans from such gamma rays.
    — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Physicists do not think the sun emits any gamma rays from within.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But gamma rays weren't the only thing the merger produced.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
  • But only some of these gamma rays escape the sun and make it to our detectors.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
  • There's radio, radio waves all the way up to past the visible spectrum to gamma rays.
    — WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Electrons in the plasma would collide with the photons, nudging them up to gamma ray strength.
    — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The Fermi telescope has spent the last decade scanning the sky to compile list of gamma ray sources in the observable universe.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Scientists now believe that a burst of life known as a gamma ray may have helped play a vital role in the origins of life on Earth.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Given a bit of energy (via an X-Ray or a gamma ray), the vibrations will get faster.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
  • Astronomers estimate that such a bright a gamma ray burst may not appear again for decades.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
  • To their surprise, the researchers found the most intense gamma rays appear strangely synced with the quietest part of the solar cycle.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The link between gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae has been a confusing one.
    — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019
  • The resulting explosion sent a burst of gamma rays streaming through space and rippled the very fabric of the universe.
    — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
  • When neutron stars slam together, all kinds of things burst out: gamma rays, X-rays, radio waves.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Same could apply to changes in the Earth's magnetic field or gamma ray bursts that would bathe the whole planet in radiation.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The gamma rays would rip apart the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Yet dark matter wasn’t the only thing that could be generating the excess gamma rays.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The brightest outpourings of energy in the universe are gamma ray bursts.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • Bursts of gamma rays may be the key to identifying whether this primordial black hole exists.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In the coming days, dozens of observatories would study the event at every wavelength of light, from gamma rays to radio waves.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Draw a circle on the sky around the galactic center 30° in radius and the excess will account for 2% of all gamma rays coming from within it.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Excess gamma rays from the center of our own galaxy were, for a while, thought to be a possible signature of dark matter.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • These cosmic rays tend to be gamma rays generated by the fusion reactions in the sun.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2 Nov. 2017
  • That's good news because while our ozone layer protects us from most gamma rays, a powerful burst would be far too much to handle.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2016
  • The overwhelming likelihood is that the black hole spewed out both the gamma rays and massive amounts of neutrinos, including the one IceCube caught.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
  • Seconds later, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope saw a bright flash called a short gamma ray burst that lasted two seconds.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Also produced in lesser amounts are gamma rays, which don’t cause much tissue damage but allow healthcare providers to track in real time where the drug is distributed in the body.
    — Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
  • Supernovae can also produce a sudden burst of gamma rays, as can the merger of compact objects like neutron stars.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2024

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