Swift Space Telescope

Illustration of the Neil Gehrles Swift Space Telescope in orbit around Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Chris Smith (KBRwyle)

NASA Examines Technology Demonstration to Raise Swift Space Telescope Orbit

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The telescope, which has been in space for over 20 years, could burn up in the atmosphere if its orbit is not raised. * Design studies are examining an orbit raise that could extend the Swift Space Telescope's operation and advance satellite servicing capabilities.
This image provides three different perspectives on the gamma ray burst GRB150101B, which is similar to the event where gravitational waves were measured and simultaneously also in the electromagnetic spectrum and there is a similarity between the two cases. In the center, an image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy where the GRB150101B burst occurred. In the top corner, two X-ray images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show the event as it appeared on January 9, 2015 (left), and as seen about a month later, on February 10, 2015 (right), as the explosion halo fades, point The bright light is the nucleus of the galaxy.Photo: NASA/CXC

Researchers have retrospectively identified another event of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars

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In this image, of the gamma-ray burst called GRB 130925A, a sheath of hot X-ray-emitting gas (in red) surrounds a jet of particles (in white) erupting from the star's surface at near the speed of light. This source may be a metal-poor blue giant, a good approximation of the first stars formed in the universe. Image: NASA/Swift/A. Simonnet, Sonoma State Univ.

A burst of gamma rays that lasted almost two hours

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The large galaxy in Andromeda (M81). Photo: shutterstock

The "gamma ray burst" in the Andromeda galaxy turned out to be a false alarm

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Galaxies collide. NASA illustration

Swift confirmed: super active black holes are those created by merging galaxies

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The Swift space telescope recorded the most distant gamma-ray burst

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The Swift space telescope photographed the most distant gamma-ray burst

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The most powerful gamma ray burst ever observed has been recorded

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The Swift space telescope discovered two supernovae in one galaxy

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Swift photographed the Supernova Universe Champion which contains two supernovae that erupted within a few months of each other

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An eruption on a huge scale in one of the neighboring stars

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

It took three satellites to discover one neutron star

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Swift is ready to detect gamma ray bursts

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Lunar Swift prepares to unravel the mystery of gamma-ray bursts (update)

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