New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 12:35
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen.