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Compton Gamma Ray ObservatorySpace observatory in service from 1991 to 2000 that was designed to identify the sources of celestial gamma rays. It was named after physicist Arthur Holly Compton. Its mission was to determine whether gamma-ray bursts were in the Milky Way Galaxy or in remote galaxies. The satellite found that the bursts were scattered evenly across the sky, which showed that they came from outside the Milky Way Galaxy and were very powerful objects. |
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| Diehl and other researchers had previously constructed maps of the galaxy's aluminum-26 by using less-sensitive instruments, such as a detector on the now-defunct Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (SN: 1/25/,92, p. 14 pulse was also detected by the United States' Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite. Riccardo Giacconi, Nobel Laureate and Research Professor with Johns Hopkins University, will open the day with a discussion on the many breakthrough discoveries of NASA's observatories, including the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Hubble and Chandra. |
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