SSL's BATSE Experiment Science Highlighted on NPR's StarDate
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SSL's BATSE Experiment Featured on NPR's StarDate
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October 17, 1996
Cosmic gamma ray bursts are powerful flashes of gamma-ray energy that
occur at unpredictable times and in unpredictable locations in the sky.
Their origins are still a mystery some thirty years after their discovery.
The Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), currently operating aboard
NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was designed and built by scientists
and engineers from Marshall's Space Sciences Laboratory to learn more about
these enigmatic bursts of energy from space.
This week (October 14), the science from BATSE was the subject of a three-day
series on NPR's StarDateProgram,
produced by the McDonald Observatory in Texas. The first program talked
about the ever changing gamma-ray sky, and how it appears so very different
from the sky we're used to seeing with our eyes. On the second day, the
enigmatic gamma-ray bursts were presented, with a possible explanation for
their origins provided in the third program.
With permission of StarDate and its producer Damond
Beddingfield, the following audio versions (au format and wav format)
and scripts of Stardate are provided. The audio files are 1MByte each and
run approximately 2 minutes.
Monday October 14
Tuesday October 15
Wednesday October 16
For more information on Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts, please contact
Mail Code ES-81
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Al
35812
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HeadlinesAuthor: John
Horack
Curator: Bryan Walls
NASA Official: John M. Horack