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Biggest Star Explosion Ever
Greenbelt :: MD :: USA | 10 days ago
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Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said in a statement. "The GRB lasted so long that a record number of telescopes on the ground were able to catch it while space-based observations were still ongoing." One of the gamma-rays emitted
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Gamma ray burst shocks scientists
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 13 days ago
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Fermi and Swift satellites detected a strong signal from the brightest gamma-ray burst in decades. Because this was relatively close, it was thousands of times brighter than the typical gamma-ray bursts that are seen by Swift every few days...We
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NASA`s telescopes capture record-setting gamma-ray burst
Greenbelt :: MD :: USA | 15 days ago
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Astronomers from around the world were blown away by a record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy. Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md said. "The GRB lasted so long that a record number of telescopes on the
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11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
Sai :: Japan | 1 month ago
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Most people take it for granted that we have yet to make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization...Our Galaxy is so old that every corner of it should have been visited many, many times over by now. No theory to date has satisfactorily
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'Cosmic bang' hit Medieval Earth
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 months ago
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Gamma-ray burst 'hit Earth in 8th Century' Science reporter, BBC World Service Gamma-ray bursts can occur when two neutron stars merge A gamma ray burst, the most powerful explosion known in the Universe, may have hit the Earth in the 8th Century. In
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Einstein Was Right: Space-Time Appears to Be Smooth
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope tracked the paths of three photons at different wavelengths that originated from a gamma-ray burst about 7 billion light-years away and arrived at the telescope a millisecond apart. In contrast, some theories of
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Space-time more like Einsteinian whiskey than foamy beer
Noida :: India | 4 months ago
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Space-time may be less like foamy quantum beer and more like smooth Einsteinian whiskey, according to a physicist...The photons originated about 7 billion light-years away from Earth from a gamma-ray burst and arrived at the orbiting telescope a mere
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X-ray vision 'may reveal moment of birth of violent supernovae'
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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A team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence suggesting that X-ray detectors in space could be the first to witness new supernovae that signal the death of massive stars. Astronomers have measured an excess of X-ray radiation in the first few
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Spacetime `more like clear whisky than frothy beer
Noida :: India | 9 months ago
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Spacetime, that combines space and time into a single continuum, may be less like beer and more like sipping whiskey, according to a scientist. Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in May 2009. "We have shown that the universe is smooth across the Planck
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Cosmic web of first stars when universe was in its infancy unveiled
La Palma :: Cuba | 11 months ago
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The research will be unveiled for the first time by Professor Rennan Barkana from Tel Aviv University at a conference organized by Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool and sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society and
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