Mysterious Fireball from a Cataclysmic Explosion
The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes in the center of this image, taken with the CCD camera (Charge Coupled Device) on the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, a new instrument on Hubble Space Telescope.
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9722a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 10 June 1997, 17:00 |
| Size: | 918 x 518 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Gamma Ray Burst, GRB970508 |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Cosmology : Phenomenon : Gamma Ray Burst • Cosmology Images/Videos • Miscellaneous Images/Videos |
| Distance: | z=0.835 (redshift) |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Hubble Space Telescope STIS |
