By Amelia Goldstein, Mariana Gomes, and Vanessa Battista

Gamma rays have wavelengths between and meters They have frequencies Hz and up Gamma rays are the most energetic waves and are located at the end of the spectrum

Gamma Rays are used as radiotherapy for cancer treatments They are also used for diagnostic purposes They are used industrially to inspect castings and welds

The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope looks at Gamma rays, and uses them to help understand pulsars, supernovae, active galaxies, dark matter, particle physics, and gamma ray sources.

Gamma rays are invisible People can only see visible rays

Because of their high energy, Gamma rays can damage and kill living cells such as cancer cells. They break up (ionize) atoms in the materials that make up cells. If someone or something living receives radiation at high exposure levels, the body can not keep up with the repairs necessary, and the body will get radiation sickness. If the radiation is at a low enough exposure level, it can repair cells well enough to prevent this.

Radiation in reproductive cells will alter genes and affect offspring. The shorter the wavelength, the more penetrating its energy is.

Gamma Rays were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard, a French Physicist

They were later found serendipitously in the 1960s bye U.S. Military satellites

Stars burst and create Gamma Ray Bursts, a.k.a. gamma ray photons, or supernovae These are the deaths of massive stars They are about a million billion times as bright as the sun

Gamma rays sometimes come from radioactive material in rocks or soil on Earth Radioactive substances on the ground are mostly gamma radiation Gamma rays are reaching the Earth from outer space.

Dressing a certain way can not block them Spark chambers are appropriate to measure gamma rays with energies above 30 MeV

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