Astronomers using the NASA Swift Satellite are tracking a spectacular comet as it closes in on Earth and sheds gas and dust from its vaporized ice.
A comet is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. ...
UK astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift Satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma ray burst - the most violent and luminous explosions occurring in the ...
... monster blast of radiation was picked up with NASA's Swift satellite, which scans space looking for Gamma ... studied with high-energy telescopes like those on Swift. Swift's wide field of view and rapid ...
NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast, designated GRB ... light-years closer than GRB 080913.
Swift, launched in November 2004, has had a banner year. ...
Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts ... the distance to the dust clouds."
NASA's Wind satellite, the joint NASA-Japan Suzaku mission, ...
A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown during a ...
On Aug. 22, 2008, NASA's Swift satellite reported multiple blasts of radiation from a rare object ... Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellites. The object, designated SGR 0501+4516, was ...
... searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view ... eye.
Between May 25 and July 26, 2008, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) acquired ...
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Strohmayer next enlisted the help of NASA's Swift satellite to search for subtle variations of X-rays ... of times a week as part of an on-going campaign.
Swift detects a slight rise and fall of X- ...
... weeks after the explosions’ start. Both luck and the Swift satellite’s unique design played a role ... Edo Berger of Princeton University, USA, were using the satellite, which measures gamma rays, X rays ...
... galaxy NGC 2770, located 90 million light-years away towards the Lynx constellation. The Swift satellite was studying a supernova that had exploded the previous year in the same galaxy, but the burst ...
... the Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL), was operating autonomously on a direct link from the Swift satellite. Bloom's graduate students Daniel Perley and Adam A. Miller analyzed ...
... about GRB 080319B and the other cosmic bursts that NASA’s Swift satellite detected that day. (See NASA's ... of gamma-ray bursts, this burst was a whopper," says Swift lead scientist Neil Gehrels of NASA. ...
... associated with this "shock breakout" existed only in computer simulations until January 9, 2008. That's when NASA's Swift satellite detected a 5-minute-long X-ray pulse ...
... afterglow, probably mark the dusty, highly extinguished environments of young star-forming regions."
NASA's Swift satellite detected the gamma-ray burst and began x-ray ...
