The Five Telescopes of H.E.S.S. (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The Five Telescopes of H.E.S.S.

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The five telescopes of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), located in Namibia, capture faint flashes that occur when ultrahigh-energy gamma rays are absorbed in the upper atmosphere. A new study of the galactic center combines high-energy observations from H.E.S.S. with lower-energy data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to show that some of the speediest particles become trapped there.

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H.E.S.S., MPIK/Christian Foehr

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