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Artwork of a short gamma ray burst created at the moment two neutron stars merge

Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies

Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies?
By Phil Plait | 
5 months ago
Artwork depicting a gamma-ray burst with a beam of material racing away. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser

One of the Universe’s most powerful explosions tried to disguise itself

Terrifying gamma-ray burst looked like a different kind of terrifying gamma-ray burst.
By Phil Plait | 
6 months ago
Liz Gamma Ray Bursts

Wait... was that a ginormous burst of cosmic energy or just space junk?

By Elizabeth Rayne | 
1 year ago
Artwork depicting the moment of collision between two neutron stars. The resulting explosion is… quite large. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.

The birth of a little black hole may have revealed a much bigger black hole

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
The Midnight Sky

The Midnight Sky's apocalyptic disaster has us wondering: What cosmic threats are out there?

By Cassidy Ward | 
2 years ago
Artwork showing the birth of a magnetar, a neutron star with a fiercely strong magnetic field, with the field lines depicted. If it forms from two neutron stars merging, twin beams of material get blasted away as well. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player

Did astronomers just witness the explosive birth of a magnetar?

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
An image of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 181123B’s host galaxy (circled) taken by the Gemini Observatory.

Astronomers nab the farthest visible explosion from a neutron star collision ever seen

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Artwork depicting a gamma-ray burst with a beam of material racing away. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser

Two gamma-ray bursts emit highest energy photons ever seen from GRBs

By Phil Plait | 
3 years ago
Artwork depicting beams of matter and energy tearing through a massive blue star, creating a hypernova and gamma-ray burst. Credit: NASA/Dana Berry/Skyworks Digital

When the first stars in the Universe exploded, they *really* exploded

By Phil Plait | 
3 years ago
The astonishing dust spiral around 2XMM J160050.7-514245, aka Apep — a star that may become a powerful gamma-ray burst. Credit: ESO/Callingham et al.

Is this cosmic sprinkler surrounding galaxy’s next gamma-ray burst?

By Phil Plait | 
4 years ago
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