This kind of explosion is so bright that if you could see gamma rays, you would be blinded by it every time one goes off.
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Because the burst was brighter than a billion suns, many telescopes could study it even from such a huge distance.David Burrows
The jet looks like steam from a high pressure boiler, except when you realize you are looking at a stream of matter and antimatter electrons moving at half the speed of light.
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This was a massive star that lived fast and died young. This star was probably quite different from the kind we see today, the type that only could have existed in the early universe.
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Soon, we expect that Swift will find bursts that are even farther back in time than this explosion -- more distant than any object ever observed. We are in the process of pushing back the boundaries of the observable universe.
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I think this is a temporary distance record that will be broken some time in the near future.
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Stars are exploding two, three, and sometimes four times in the first minutes following the initial explosion, ... First comes a blast of gamma-rays followed by intense pulses of X-rays. The energies involved are much greater than anyone expected.
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