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Related: About this forumNASA's Hubble Spots 'Bizarre Glow' After An 'Impossible' Explosion In Space.
Puzzled scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have seen a violent explosion billons of light-years that lasted just half a second.
The brightest infrared light from a short gamma-ray burst ever seen, the bizarre glow was spotted using the orbiting telescope in May 2020. It was 10 times brighter than it was thought possible.
The glow from a short gamma-ray burst called GRB 200522A was spotted by astronomers three days after. It was so powerful that it unleashed more energy in a split-second than our Sun will produce over its entire 10 billion-year lifetime.
A paper about the discovery of the radio afterglow in the center of a young, star-forming galaxy has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.'>>>
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/11/12/nasas-hubble-spots-bizarre-glow-after-an-impossible-explosion-in-space/?
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ty, Ellen!
Deuxcents
(16,177 posts)The Hubble has been well worth our efforts. A few years back, there was a movie featuring the pictures sent back on the iMax screen. I never got to see it n before I knew it, it was gone. I wish theyd bring it back.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)at the iMax in the Seattle science center a few years ago. It was so amazing! I hope you have a chance to see it..