29 Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer (Space/USA)

NASA's Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, which orbits Earth 370 miles up, explores the universe in the optical, ultraviolet, X rays, and gamma rays. Swift has revolutionized astronomers' understanding of gamma-ray bursts -- the biggest explosions since the big bang. In between these almost daily blasts, Swift is making the most detailed survey of the sky in high-energy X rays and is studying supernovae, galaxies and comets. Swift was launched in late 2004."
http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/component/content/article/168
NASA - SWIFT Main Index
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/main/index.html

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[theorganichispanic]

Live fast, die young, and leave a spinning corpse!

[lighttowers]

if black holes attrackt even light, the light sucked in would achieve a speed higher than " c"

[GateMessenger]

If this GRB was located between Sagittarius and Ophiuchus then it came from towards the Milky Way's core. Was this GRB from a star in our Milky Way galaxy?

[PhilipLu3]

lol