Musings of a Babylon Lurker » cosmology http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog Science, technology and science fiction/Fantasy Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:32:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New record for Gamma Ray Bursts http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/04/28/new-record-for-gamma-ray-bursts/ http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/04/28/new-record-for-gamma-ray-bursts/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:51:12 +0000 lurker http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=258 On April 23th the most powerful gamma ray burst ever recorded was detected by the Swift telescope. More about can be found here at NASA’s site.

With that type of bursts we look back in time, this time more than 13000 million years, this belongs to the earliest generations of stars in the known Universe. Impressive.

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