https://spacescoop.org/en/scoops/2222/gamma-ray-bursting-with-surprises/

Fron Dec 12, 2022.

In 2021, NASA’s Fermi & Swift space telescopes simultaneously picked up a powerful flash of gamma rays - named GRB 211211A, that was unusually close to our planet, only about a billion light-years away. So this GRB is one of the last GRBs to happen. 

A late bloomer!

The beauty of it being so close by is that astronomers could now study this newly discovered long GRB in great detail. 

 

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