esahubble_opo9722a June 10th, 1997
Credit: Elena Pian (ITESRC), Andrew Fruchter (STScI), and NASA/ESA
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.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9722a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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