Recently, astronomers were surprised to detect a blast of highly-energetic light, originating in a peculiar portion of the Universe. After initial analysis, experts concluded that the explosion may have been produced by the most distant object ever detected in the Cosmos. The impressive gamma-ray burst (GRB) was sho... |
26 May 2011
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On June 21, the brightest explosion ever seen in space temporarily blinded NASA's Swift observatory, scientists said on Wednesday. The gamma-ray burst called GRB 100621A, is the strongest and brightest that Swift has detected since 2005, 140 times brighter than any constant X-ray source in the sky, according to ... |
15 July 2010
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Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest and most powerful type of electromagnetic radiation that can be emitted in the universe in the outcome of a violent stellar explosion, whose afterglow remains extremely bright up to several hours after the occurrence of the event that generated it. A new study found that afterglows ... |
9 July 2008
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NASA's gamma-ray telescope developed in order to explore the high-energy universe, such as astrophysical and cosmological phenomena occurring inside active galactic nuclei, pulsars, dark matter and so on, has been fitted recently with the Ku-band communication system. The Ku-band system will have the role of ens... |
22 April 2008
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Three weeks ago, the Swift satellite detected the brightest gamma-ray burst in the visible universe in a galaxy located more than 7 billion light years away from Earth. It is though that the supernova explosion could have been the result of the collapse of a massive star into a black hole, and that, during the explos... |
12 April 2008
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GRB's, or gamma-ray bursts, are the most powerful radiation emissions released during cosmic collisions between massive objects such as neutron stars or possibly black holes. Most of the gamma-ray bursts received from the interstellar medium usually present long period bursts, which are thought to be produced b... |
9 January 2008
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