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The space agency’s orbiting Swift observatory was overwhelmed by glare from the eruption, called a gamma-ray burst.
Such was the power of the last month’s blast that the observatory's software ignored it as if it were an anomaly. Scientists at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Maryland, said the explosion of X-rays that followed came from a star that died five billion years ago, far beyond our own Milky Way galaxy.
Such was the power of the last month’s blast that the observatory's software ignored it as if it were an anomaly. Scientists at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Maryland, said the explosion of X-rays that followed came from a star that died five billion years ago, far beyond our own Milky Way galaxy.