# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/g_gmzToaCQ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11740557-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2013-11-21T21:48:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

NASA Sees 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail: This artist rendering is of a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy that on April 27 became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as one of the brightest ever seen. 
A trio of NASA satellites - Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) & the Swift Gamma-ray Burst Mission - working in concert with ground-based robotic telescopes, captured never-before-seen details that challenge current theoretical understandings of how gamma-ray bursts work. 
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a black hole. The black hole then drives jets of particles that drill all the way through the collapsing star at nearly the speed of light. 
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 
#nasa #space #astromony #gammaray #cosmic #discovery # astronomers #swift #fermi #nestar #radiation #telescope

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radiation, nasa, astromony, discovery, space, swift, fermi, cosmic, nestar, gammaray, telescope

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