Science news articles about 'burst grb'

... finds that the blast had an unusual structure that researchers heretofore had never observed.Gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B was already on record as the brightest stellar explosion ever recorded. [More]

The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star- ... University of Toledo. "Many so-called dark bursts, with no observable afterglow, probably mark ...

The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a ...

... both locate and point at gamma ray bursts (GRBs) far quicker than any other telescope, ... astronomers were able to obtain an ultraviolet spectrum of a GRB just 251 seconds after its onset - the earliest ...

... scheme. The newly discovered object, known as SWIFT J195509+261406 and showing up initially as a gamma-ray burst (GRB 070610), is the first candidate. The magnetar hypothesis for this ...

... what may prove to be one of the most important gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) seen in recent years. As the data ... gamma rays if a celestial source is as bright as GRB 041219A. "So, for now we just have to wait ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful flashes of energetic gamma-rays lasting from less than a second to several minutes. They release a tremendous amount of energy in this short time ...

... stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). The explosion was detected on April 23 by ... explosive deaths, as supernovae or Gamma Ray Bursts," said Poonam Chandra, of the Royal Military College ...