From Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media

NASA's Swift satellite detected the explosion on March 19 - formally named GRB 080319B
- at 2:13 a.m. EDT that morning and pinpointed its position in the constellation
Bootes. The event, called a gamma-ray burst, became bright enough for human eyes
to see. Observations of the event are giving astronomers the most detailed portrait
of a burst ever recorded.

"Swift was designed to find unusual bursts," said Swift principal investigator Neil
Gehrels at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "We really hit the
jackpot with this one."

Immediately after the blast, Swift's UltraViolet and Optical Telescope and X-Ray
Telescope indicated they were effectively blinded. Scientists initially thought
something was wrong. Within minutes, however, as reports from other observers arrived,
it was clear this was a special event.

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