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Robotic Telescope Unravels Cosmic Blast Mystery

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the eagle-eye dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that scientists from Liverpool John Moores University have used their robotic telescope in the Canary Islands to measure the polarization of light from a Gamma Ray Burst just 203 seconds after its detection by NASA's Swift Gamma Ray Observatory Satellite. The result suggests that the emitting material flowing out from the explosion may not be highly magnetized in the way that some theories had predicted."

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  1. um, ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Matt Damon!!

  2. Re:Big Bang? by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!/Seems like someone got up on the wrong side of the rock today!

    Pick whichever seems appropriate.

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