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This illustration shows the locations of the dust layers associated with the five smallest X-ray rings (inset, circled) from the BOAT GRB. Our Milky Way galaxy is shown in side (top) and plan views.

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English: This illustration shows the locations of the dust layers associated with the five smallest X-ray rings (inset, circled) from the BOAT GRB. Our Milky Way galaxy is shown in side (top) and plan views. The thick line shows the direction to the burst, and dark patches within it represent the dust layers responsible for producing the X-ray rings. The smallest ring corresponds to the most distant dust, located about 61,000 light-years away from the Sun and 4,600 light-years above the galaxy's midplane.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Date 28 March 2023, 17:50:00 (upload date)
Source NASA Missions Probe What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst
Author NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Scott Wiessinger, Francis Reddy, Brad Cenko, Eric Burns
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Swift; Galaxy; Supernova; Star; XMM-Newton observatory; Astrophysics; Gamma Ray; Space; Fermi; Black Hole; X-ray; Hubble Space Telescope; Gamma Ray Burst

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