11 billion year-old blast from the past captured by UWA Zadko Telescope
Friday, January 9, 2009 - 13:14
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Galileo Galilei, who recorded the first astronomical observations with a telescope 400 years ago, would be impressed. Just in time for the International Year of Astronomy, astronomers at The University of Western Australia have seen a massive gamma ray burst that happened 11 billion years ago - long before our own planet had even been formed.