From: Dave Dooling <deesqrd@iquest.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: "Smoking Gun" in Gamma Ray Burst Mystery?
Organization: D2 Associates


An international team of University and NASA astronomers has detected a
flash of light from a distant galaxy - a sentinel that may definitively
solve a 30-year mystery in astrophysics by demonstrating that cosmic
gamma-ray bursts come from the distant reaches of the universe.

That would mean gamma-ray bursts represent an energy release in a few
seconds equivalent to the amount our Sun will emit in its entire
ten-billion-year lifetime.

The team has identified a dim, distant galaxy as the possible source of
a gamma-ray burst that swept through ...
http://wwwssl.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast31mar97_1.htm

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