File:NASA’s Fermi, Swift Capture Revolutionary Gamma-Ray Burst (SVS14255 - Kilonova 2filters).jpg

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Gamma-ray burst 211211A, the location of which is circled in red, erupted on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy around 1 billion light-years away in the constellation Boötes.

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English: Gamma-ray burst 211211A, the location of which is circled in red, erupted on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy around 1 billion light-years away in the constellation Boötes. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the image with its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.Credit: NASA, ESA, Rastinejad et al. (2022), and Gladys Kober (Catholic Univ. of America)
Date 7 December 2022 (upload date)
Source NASA’s Fermi, Swift Capture Revolutionary Gamma-Ray Burst
Author NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Scott Wiessinger, Aurore Simonnet, Jeanette Kazmierczak, Francis Reddy, Sophia Roberts, Aaron E. Lepsch
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Astrophysics; Fermi; Hubble Space Telescope; Universe; Swift; Gamma Ray Burst; Neutron

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