Huge gamma-ray blast

Posted by janean Friday, February 20, 2009 0 comments »

The US space agency's Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said.

huge gamma-ray blast
AFP/NASA – This NASA image shows an X-ray afterglow in orange and yellow in this view that merges images from Swift's …

The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light, astrophysicists said. (Source)

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