Satellite Detects Gamma‐Ray Glow from Center of Milky Way
JUL 01, 1968
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035061
An OSO (Orbiting Solar Observatory)‐III experiment has seen cosmic rays with energies above 70 MeV coming from our galaxy. The gamma rays show a bright glow around the galactic equator with the brightest spot near the direction of the galactic center in the constellation of Sagittarius. William Kraushaar, George Clark and Gordon Garmire of MIT, who discussed their work at the dedication of the MIT Center for Space Research on 25 April, noted that their experiment is the first definite observation of a nonuniform gamma‐ray brightness in the sky.
© 1968. American Institute of Physics
