What are gamma-ray bursts? /
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest--and, until recently, among the least understood--cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs beginning in 1997 re...
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Princeton, N.J. :
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Series: | Princeton frontiers in physics.
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