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Mysterious Fireball from a Cataclysmic Explosion


Depicts: Fireball from a GRB
Copyright: Elena Pian (ITESRC), Andrew Fruchter (STScI), and NASA

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
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