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The extremely luminous afterglow of GRB 080319B was imaged by Swift's X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right). This was by far the brightest gamma-ray burst afterglow ever seen. Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al. 62

Ancient Nova Sets Modern Record

by Douglas Mefford

published 2 years ago

Long before our planet Earth had completed its formation from the swirling material around our local sun another star in our universe died in the fiery blast of a supernova. For seven and a half billion years...

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