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This series of Hubble Space Telescope images shows the likely home of the gamma-ray burster.
On Nov. 21, 2001, a burst of gamma rays was detected. The series of Hubble Space Telescope images show the fading transient lies to the right of a fuzzy, distant galaxy, likely home to the gamma-ray burster. The transient did not not simply fade away though. Instead, it brightened up again days after the burst. This is evidence that at least some gamma-ray bursts are produced when a star dies.
Credit: S. Kulkarni, J. Bloom, P. Price, Caltech - NRAO GRB Collaboration
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