• NASA's Hubble Telescope Discovers the Origin of Short-Duration Gamma Ray Bursts
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[t]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/08/130804080954.jpg[/t] [quote]NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are triggered by the merger of two small, super-dense stellar objects, such as a pair of neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole. The definitive evidence came from Hubble observations in near-infrared light of the fading fireball produced in the aftermath of a short gamma-ray burst (GRB). The afterglow reveals for the first time a new kind of stellar blast called a kilonova, an explosion predicted to accompany a short-duration GRB. A kilonova is about 1,000 times brighter than a nova, which is caused by the eruption of a white dwarf. Such a stellar blast, however, is only 1/10th to 1/100th the brightness of a typical supernova, the self-detonation of a massive star. ...[/quote] [url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130804080954.htm[/url]
Obviously god and the space kraken playing laser tag.
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