Thursday, November 04, 2004

Blown up in space.
"NASA plans to launch a new space telescope later this month capable of spinning around at a moment's notice to catch sight of the elusive, brief and powerful explosions that send blasts of light and radiation screaming through our universe every day."

Sounds a lot like my Aunt Ronnie at my brother's wedding... It takes 8 minutes for the light from our own Sun to reach the Earth so don't count on getting any recent photos from the satellite. Still, neither the Hubble or Chandra telescopes can do anything even remotely close to what the Swift spacecraft can do.
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