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glassed is designed to look at gamma

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rays and gamma rays of the highest

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energy form of light there's the light

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we see with our eyes but there are lots

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of other types of light gamma rays are

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the most energetic form of light the

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most powerful gamma rays are the part of

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what we call the electromagnetic

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spectrum

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which starts in radio at very long

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wavelengths goes through optical then

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through x-rays and then gamma rays at

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the very highest energy form of that

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type of radiation the reason it's

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important to look at the high-energy

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gamma rays is that many objects the most

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violent and some of the most interesting

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objects in the universe emit most of

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their light in this high-energy gamma

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ray part and the only thing that can

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generate gamma rays are incredibly

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violent events incredibly energetic

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events and we're talking stars exploding

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and neutron stars with really strong

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magnetic fields and really exotic and

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strange objects like that

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it's like Christmas trees shining and

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it's flaring there are Russians every

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day gamma ray bursts being example

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something that for a brief instant of

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time outshines the entire rest of the

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universe these are the biggest

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we think that there are the signals that

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happen when a black hole is born we

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don't know in detail how it works and by

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looking with glass we'll be able to

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study the physics of what causes a

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gamma-ray burst the thing is that most

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of the gamma rays we look at in terms of

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gamma-ray astronomy never reach people

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in the atmosphere essentially absorbs

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all of those chemicals which is the

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reason why glass has to fly on the

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settlor there's none of the gamma rays

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we want to see actually to make it to

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the ground glass is going to open up

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that part of the electromagnetic

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spectrum to better understand the

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universe it provides the widest energy

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coverage for gamma-ray bursts that has

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ever been put into space it's going to

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see the frontiers of many objects

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high-energy objects in history shows

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that when you open up a new band in the