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What really happened with GRB 080319B? NASA talks about the most intrinsically bright object ever observed in the universe

What really happened with GRB 080319B? NASA talks about the most intrinsically bright object ever observed in the universe

Sep 10, 2008

Burst Alert! March 19th was an exciting day for NASA. We know “why” it was special, but we don’t know “why why” it was special. They finally explain the why why today, and you can read all about it in Nature tomorrow. There was something amazing about GRB 080319B and the other cosmic bursts that NASA’s Swift satellite detected that day. (See NASA's animation of what they think happened). "Even by the standards of gamma-ray bursts, this burst was a whopper," says Swift lead scientist Neil Gehrels of NASA. "It blows away every gamma ray burst we’ve seen so far." Here’s the why (we'll get to the why why in a second):

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Matthew Brown comes to Science 2.0 from the University of Oxford, where he received his Master of Science degree in Physiology. His previous research has included Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy and Polycystic Kidney Disease, and his most recent w…
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