Record cosmic explosion brightens student's first day
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 14:28
in Astronomy & Space
Adam Goldstein's first day on the job tending the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) instrument on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was a doozy. A graduate physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Goldstein was still learning the ropes the evening of 16 September 2008, nearing the end of his 12-hour on-call shift when the GBM called his cell phone to signal that a burst had been detected...