Record-Breaking X-ray Blast Briefly Blinds Space Observatory (IMAGE)

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Record-Breaking X-ray Blast Briefly Blinds Space Observatory

Caption

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen in X-rays temporarily blinded Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June 2010. This image merges the X-rays (red to yellow) with the same view from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, which showed nothing extraordinary. (The image is 5 arcminutes across.)

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NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler

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