ASTRONOMY NEWS & LINKS
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Feb 27 2006	[PPARC] Scientists Detect New Kind of Cosmic Explosion
Dec 15 2005	[PPARC] The Cosmic Shredder and the Magnetar
Dec 14 2005	[ESO] Witnessing the Flash from a Black Hole's Cannibal Act. Short Gamma-Ray Burst Confirms Formation Scenario
Oct 06 2005	[ESO] First time observation of the visible light from a short gamma-ray burst
Oct 05 2005	[Harvard] In a Flash, NASA Helps Solve 35-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
Sep 22 2005	[NOAO] SOAR Telescope First to Observe and Measure Distance to Massive Explosion
Sep 12 2005	[ESO] GRB 050904 - the farthest known Gamma-Ray Burst with redshift 6.3 (distance 12.7 billion light years)
May 31 2005	[Keck] Hot on the Trail of Nature's Exotic Flashers
May 26 2005	[NAOJ] Hypernova Reveals Hidden Identity As Gamma-Ray Burst
Feb 18 2005	[NRAO] Mysterious Magnetar Yielding Secrets to VLA
Feb 14 2005	[Keck] Afterglow from Two 'Swift' Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected
Aug 31 2004	[MPA] Short Gamma-Ray Bursts - New models shed light on enigmatic explosions
Aug 04 2004	[CalTech] Gamma-ray burst of December 3 was a new type of cosmic explosion
Jun 02 2004	[Harvard] Smoking Gun Found for Gamma-Ray Burst in Milky Way
May 26 2004	[CfA] Double Stars Emerge As New Heavyweight Champions
Mar 19 2004	[MPIfR] High energy radiation from the inner region of our Milky Way testifies to a Gamma Ray Burst a long time ago
Feb 09 2004	[RAS] ULTRACAM, SUPER WASP and the Liverpool Telescope - new instruments improve observations of time-variable objects
Nov 12 2003	[NRAO] Despite Appearances, Cosmic Explosions Have Common Origin, Astronomers Discover
Nov 12 2003	[ESO] Observing a Burst with Sunglasses. Unique Five-Week VLT Study of the Polarisation of a Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow
Sep 17 2003	[ESA] Gamma-ray bursts: are we safe?
Aug 13 2003	[NASA] Biggest Cosmic Explosions May Also Propel Fastest Objects in the Universe
Aug 12 2003	[NASA] Many gamma-ray bursts go undetected, MIT mathematician estimates
Jun 19 2003	[CfA] Historic GRB Discovery
Jun 18 2003	[ESO] Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts and Hypernovae Conclusively Linked. Clearest-Ever Evidence from VLT Spectra of Powerful Event
Jun 13 2003	[NAOJ] Gamma-Ray Bursts = Hypernovae ?!
May 28 2003	[NRAO] Closest Gamma Ray Burst Providing Scientists With Crucial Test for Burst Physics
Apr 10 2003	[CfA] CSI Astronomers Link Gamma-Ray Bursts And Supernovae
Apr 04 2003	[RAS] Magnetism of Colliding Neutron Stars Can Power Gamma-Ray Bursts
Mar 31 2003	[RAS] Spinning Black Hole Clue in Gamma-Ray Burst Signatures
Mar 24 2003	[ESA] A gamma-ray burst bonanza
Mar 24 2003	[Harvard] Cosmic Forensics Confirms Gamma-Ray Burst And Supernova Connection
Mar 10 2003	[CfA] Twin Bursts Provide Several Firsts
Dec 18 2002	[ESA] Integral's first look at the gamma-ray Universe
May 17 2002	[AAO] Gamma-Ray Burst mystery solved: exploding stars the culprit
Apr 04 2002	[ESA] GRB 011211: X-ray observation confirms supernova hypothesis for gamma-ray bursts
Feb 19 2002	[RAS] First discovery of afterglow of short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Jan 08 2002	[NASA] Newly discovered subclass of Gamma Ray Bursts concentrate in the Supergalactic Plane.
Jan 07 2002	[Rice] New method measures cooling time to measure distance of Gamma-Ray Bursts.
Jul 12 2001	[Harvard] Gamma-Ray Bursts may be caused by the formation of electrically charged black holes.
Jun 05 2001	[NRAO] First radio observations of the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.
Apr 04 2001	[Harvard] Gamma-ray Bursts may originate in star-forming regions.
Nov 03 2000	[Harvard] GRB991216: X-ray emission lines from the gamma ray burst strengthen the case for a hypernova model.
Oct 17 2000	[ESO] GRB 000131: The most remote gamma-ray burst so far.
Sep 26 2000	[CfA] GRB 000301C: For the first time the optical blast wave of a gamma ray burst has been resolved.
Jun 27 2000	[ESA] First high-resolution details in a gamma ray burst host galaxy.
Oct 29 1999	[NASA] Swift: NASA selects a mission to rapidly locate gamma-ray burst sources.
Oct 14 1999	[NASA] The next two missions in NASA's MIDEX program: the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer and the Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer FAME.
Apr 05 1999	[NASA] Eight years after the start of the Compton Gamma Ray observatory: Answer to Gamma Ray Bursts remains elusive.
Mar 26 1999	[NASA] GRB 990123: Analysis of a gamma ray burst.
Mar 25 1999	[NOAO] Kitt Peak observations of the GRB 990123 afterglow
Mar 11 1999	[STScI] GRB 990123: Hubble images of the rapidly fading visible-light fireball from the most powerful gamma ray burst to date.
Feb 11 1999	[NASA] GRB 990123 - one of the most powerful cosmic explosions: Hubble photograph of the fading optical counterpart.
Jan 27 1999	[NASA] GRB 990123: Robotic telescope captures visible light from Gamma Ray Burst during the explosion.
Jan 15 1999	[NASA] Supernova and gamma-ray burst most likely not related.
Jan 08 1999	[NASA] Gamma ray bursts show distinctive patterns in color-color diagram.
May 17 1998	[STScI] Gamma-Ray Burst found to be most energetic event in universe.