Post by concerned on Feb 23, 2009 9:51:38 GMT -5
news.aol.com/article/gamma-ray-burst/351469
The artical is short, read the whole thing. "All I can say is:tHE HEAVENS PROCLAIM YOUR GLORY OH LORD AND THE UNIVERSE YOUR MAGNIFICANCE."
Feb. 20) - A first sighting for NASA's newest gamma-ray hunter has apparently shattered the record books.
The gamma-ray blast detected by the Fermi (GLAST) Gamma-ray Space Telescope on Sept. 15, 2008 exceeded the power of approximately 9,000 ordinary supernovas, or exploding stars. This assumes that the energy was emitted equally in all directions, although gamma ray bursts usually shoot their energy out in tight jets.
In the case of the burst detected by Fermi, a ground-based astronomy team at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile checked out the fading afterglow using a 2.2-meter telescope. With the help of the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector, known as GROND, they established that the explosion had taken place 12.2 billion light-years away. That means it occurred 12.2 billion years ago — when the universe was only about 1.5 billion years old — and the light just arrived at Earth.
The artical is short, read the whole thing. "All I can say is:tHE HEAVENS PROCLAIM YOUR GLORY OH LORD AND THE UNIVERSE YOUR MAGNIFICANCE."
Feb. 20) - A first sighting for NASA's newest gamma-ray hunter has apparently shattered the record books.
The gamma-ray blast detected by the Fermi (GLAST) Gamma-ray Space Telescope on Sept. 15, 2008 exceeded the power of approximately 9,000 ordinary supernovas, or exploding stars. This assumes that the energy was emitted equally in all directions, although gamma ray bursts usually shoot their energy out in tight jets.
In the case of the burst detected by Fermi, a ground-based astronomy team at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile checked out the fading afterglow using a 2.2-meter telescope. With the help of the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector, known as GROND, they established that the explosion had taken place 12.2 billion light-years away. That means it occurred 12.2 billion years ago — when the universe was only about 1.5 billion years old — and the light just arrived at Earth.