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Blast From the Past Offers Clues About Early Universe


October 28, 2009

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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained insight into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the universe--a gigantic stellar explosion known as a gamma ray burst (GRB). The explosion was first detected on April 23, 2009 by NASA's Swift satellite, and scientists soon realized that it was more than 13 billion light-years from Earth. Full Story

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