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A small NASA satellite receives its first gamma ray burst

NASA’s probe designed to search for the most powerful and violent explosives in the universe has successfully detected its first explosion, space agency officials announced earlier this week.

BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite launched in April to observe and study gamma-ray bursts, or GRBsobserved a “mega blast” in the small, dim constellation Microscopium in the southern sky. The big bang happened on June 29 and in less than two seconds it was quintillion times brighter than the sun, NASA said. recent statement.

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