Mysterious Fireball from a Cataclysmic Explosion
Depicts: Fireball from a GRB
Copyright: Elena Pian (ITESRC), Andrew Fruchter (STScI), and NASA
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The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a
gamma-ray burst, blazes in the center of this image, taken with the CCD
camera
(Charge Coupled Device) on the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, a new
instrument on Hubble Space Telescope.
Last Update: 1 September 2019