Big Picture Science – Catch a Wave: Gamma-ray Blazars

by Gary Niederhoff on September 2, 2013

Catch a Wave: Gamma-ray Blazars
Part 4 of Catch A Wave, featuring Alan Marscher, professor of astronomy at Boston University, speaking about the phenomenon of gamma-ray blazars, and singing about starlight.
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