Multiwavelength Astronomy Multimedia


Title

Hubble Stays on Trail of Fading Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball, Results Point to Extragalactic Origin

Description

It is difficult to determine the origin of a GRB, but sometimes it can be done. The visible light of this GRB was detected by ground-based telescopes, and once the light had faded a deep picture by the Hubble showed this GRB was located in a faint distant galaxy

Facility

Hubble Space Telescope

Instrument

Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

Subject

  • GRB 970228
  • Gamma Ray Burst

Spectral Type

Optical

Date Created

1997-09-05

Credits

Andrew Fruchter (STSci) , Elena Pian (ITSRE-CNR), and NASA

Type

Collage

Associated Lesson

Gamma Ray History

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under Grant Nos. NNX09AD33G and NNX10AE80G issued through the SMD ROSES 2009 Program.

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