NASA’s Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast

Caption

Swift’s X-Ray Telescope captured the afterglow of GRB 221009A about an hour after it was first detected. The bright rings form as a result of X-rays scattered from otherwise unobservable dust layers within our galaxy that lie in the direction of the burst.

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Credits: Credit: NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester)

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