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A Stellar Explosion You Could See on Earth
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory imaged the extremely luminous afterglow of explosion GRB 080319B using its X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right). This was the brightest gamma-ray burst afterglow ever seen at the time.
Credits: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al.
Image CreditNASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al.
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