But the legacy of ESA's gamma-ray observatory will serve scientists for many more years to come," concludes Matthias Ehle, Integral's Mission Manager at ESA.

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions ever detected in the Universe. They are also one of the greatest mysteries of modern astronomy, since so far no clear evidence has existed to prove… ...

ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory has resolved the diffuse glow of gamma rays in the centre of our Galaxy and has shown that most of it is produced by a hundred individual sources.

ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), which launched in 2002 and is still operational, has a similar mission to Swift.

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved plans for the Athena X-ray space telescope, which will be the largest of its kind ever built. Costing about €1 billion, the flagship project will launch in ...

The ESA has announced that it has used the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to view hot gas sloshing around inside a galaxy cluster for the first time. This behavior may have been driven by turbulent ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) nearly lost its veteran gamma-ray space telescope Integral last month when a charged particle disabled one of the reaction wheels that keep its solar arrays pointed ...

According to the ESA, a detailed analysis of the X-ray measurements from XMM-Newton showed that, far from sending out a single “puff” of gas, the centre of Markarian 817 produced a gusty storm ...

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