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BurstCube, shown in this artist’s concept, will orbit Earth as it hunts for short gamma-ray bursts. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Labon Thursday, March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After arriving at the station, BurstCube will be unpacked and later released into orbit, where it will detect, locate, and study short
The collisions that create short gamma-ray bursts also produce heavy elements like gold and iodine, an essential ingredient for life as we know it.– was in 2017. It was a watershed moment in multimessenger astronomy, and the scientific community has been hoping and preparing for additional concurrent discoveries since.
BurstCube’s main instrument detects gamma rays with energies ranging from 50,000 to 1 million electron volts.
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