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Optical Counterpart of Gamma Ray Burst


Depicts: GRB 970228
Copyright: K. Sahu, M. Livio, L. Petro, D. Macchetto, STScI and NASA

This is a false-color Hubble Space Telescope image of the visible fireball which accompanied the gamma ray burst called GRB 970228. This is the first optical image ever taken which associates a gamma-ray burst source with a potential host galaxy. This observation provides strong supporting evidence that gamma-ray bursts are cosmological- they originate in distant galaxies across the universe.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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