2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11901I discuss the recent exciting results of discovery of TeV photons from several galactic and extragalactic sources, and highlight some objectives of VHE gamma ray astronomy that can be achieved in the near future by means of new generation ground-based detectors.27 pages, 15 figures, uses epsf, wrapfig, lprocl, talk at the XVIII Int. Symp. on "Lepton-Photon Interactions", Hamburg 28 July - 1 August, 1997; World Scientific, in pressAstrophysicstext