Thursday, 17. April 2003
Topic: SCIENCE - on April 17, 2003 at 10:11:35 AM CEST
Gamma-ray burst mystery solved
Scientists may have solved one of astronomy's major puzzles - the origin of powerful gamma-ray bursts.
For a few seconds a gamma-ray burst can pour out more radiation than anything else in the Cosmos.
About once a day a flash of high energy radiation coming from deep space and lasting only a few seconds is detected by satellite observatories orbiting the Earth. The enormous power of the energy bursts has long mystified astronomers.
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