Truth
Mouseketeer
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- Sep 26, 2001
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It's a rerun but very interesting
In 1967, a United States satellite network intended to monitor Soviet
compliance with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty detected unusual signals
coming from outer space. Defying astronomers' expectations, these turned
out to be unimaginably violent bursts of gamma-ray radiation located at the
far edges of the known universe. The titanic explosions are so far back in
time that they conceal clues to the birth of the very first stars and black
holes, back when the cosmos had barely begun. "Death Star" is an intimate
detective story of the quest by leading astronomers to solve the riddle of
the gamma-ray bursts -- the most energetic events ever detected and
brighter than a billion billion suns.
In 1967, a United States satellite network intended to monitor Soviet
compliance with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty detected unusual signals
coming from outer space. Defying astronomers' expectations, these turned
out to be unimaginably violent bursts of gamma-ray radiation located at the
far edges of the known universe. The titanic explosions are so far back in
time that they conceal clues to the birth of the very first stars and black
holes, back when the cosmos had barely begun. "Death Star" is an intimate
detective story of the quest by leading astronomers to solve the riddle of
the gamma-ray bursts -- the most energetic events ever detected and
brighter than a billion billion suns.
