esahubble_opo9730b September 16th, 1997
Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI), Elena Pian (ITSRE-CNR), and NASA/ESA
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the fading fireball from one of the universe's most mysterious phenomena, a gamma-ray burst. Though the visible component has faded to 1/500th its brightness (27.7 magnitude) from the time it was first discovered by ground- based telescopes last March (the actual gamma-ray burst took place on February 28), Hubble continues to clearly see the fireball and discriminated a surrounding nebulosity (at 25th magnitude) which is considered a host galaxy.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9730b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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