The 'Brightest of All Time' Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
Briefly

On the morning of October 9, astronomers' inboxes pinged with a relatively modest alert: NASA's Swift Observatory had just detected a fresh burst of energy, assumed to be coming from somewhere within our own galaxy.But six hours later-when scientists realized an instrument on the Fermi Space Telescope had also flagged the event-another more pressing email arrived.
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