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StarBurst

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Richard Woolf, Ph.D., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory(NRL) Research Physicist, holds a crystal detector unit that is part of StarBurst in Washington, D.C., February 18, 2025. StarBurst was fabricated and designed at the U.S. NRL and is a SmallSat instrument that will detect gamma rays from events such as the mergers of dense stellar remnants called neutron stars. (U.S. Navy photo by Jonathan Steffen-Arnold)

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(U.S. Navy photo by Jonathan Steffen-Arnold)

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