Mysterious fireball from a cataclysmic explosion
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.
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About the Object
| Name: | Gamma Ray Burst, GRB970508 |
| Type: | Early Universe : Cosmology : Phenomenon : Gamma Ray Burst |
| Distance: | z=0.835 (redshift) |
| Constellation: | Camelopardalis |
| Category: | Cosmology Miscellaneous |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 6 53 49.36 |
| Position (Dec): | 79° 16' 19.55" |
| Field of view: | 0.39 x 0.22 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 8.9° left of vertical |
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Hubble Space Telescope
STIS |