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Hubble Sees the Fireball from a “Kilonova”
Sunday, August 4, 2013 9:51
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August 3, 2013: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a new kind of stellar blast called a kilonova, which happens when a pair of compact objects such as neutron stars crash together. Hubble observed the fading fireball from a kilonova last month, following a short gamma ray burst (GRB) in a galaxy almost 4 billion light-years from Earth.
“This observation finally solves the mystery of short gamma ray bursts,” says Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, who led a team of researchers conducting this research.
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Learn more:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sci…_kilonova/
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