How to Use gamma ray in a Sentence

gamma ray

noun
  • 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 only some of these gamma rays escape the sun and make it to our detectors.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Astronomers estimate that such a bright a gamma ray burst may not appear again for decades.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps the gamma rays were produced in events that gave rise to the radio outbursts of quasars.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2025
  • This helps your body use the tracer as sugar in your cells, which emits a form of energy called gamma rays.
    — Susan Russell, Health, 12 Sep. 2024
  • There's radio, radio waves all the way up to past the visible spectrum to gamma rays.
    — WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The gamma rays also appeared to be spread out in a halo-like structure across a large region of the sky.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Electrons in the plasma would collide with the photons, nudging them up to gamma ray strength.
    — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The excited states and gamma rays are a fingerprint for each isotope.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Bursts of gamma rays may be the key to identifying whether this primordial black hole exists.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Yet dark matter wasn’t the only thing that could be generating the excess gamma rays.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Being exposed to gamma rays has clearly been no walk in the park for Bruce Banner.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • In this scenario, the rapid spinning movement of the magnetar alters the gamma ray jet.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That gamma ray would transform into an electron and its antimatter twin, a positron.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • The plane also detected two types of gamma ray bursts never before recorded.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • However, the gamma rays could also come from less exotic sources like pulsars.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2019
  • These cosmic rays tend to be gamma rays generated by the fusion reactions in the sun.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Long needles of ice may set off bolts in one cloud while a deluge of electrons producing gamma rays does it in another cloud.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • The brightest outpourings of energy in the universe are gamma ray bursts.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • 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
  • The gamma rays would rip apart the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • This led us to uncover an excess of gamma rays that earlier studies had also hinted at.
    — Christopher Karwin, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • Astronomers captured the event in x-ray and gamma ray, radio emissions, and visible light images.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The stack of runaway relativistic avalanches could explain the gamma rays.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The other stuff looks like an integration of exposure over a range of gamma ray energies.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 25 June 2021

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