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Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Distance Record Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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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. "Swift was designed to catch these very distant bursts," said Swift lead scientist Neil Gehrels at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (source: nasa.gov)
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