Editor’s note:This story was updated February 19 after Michael Briggs of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt., Md., reported that the gamma-ray burst known as GRB 080916C is the most energetic burst known.
RECORD BURST The X-ray afterglow of the record-breaking gamma-ray burst GRB 080916C appears orange and yellow in this composite image from two telescopes on NASA’s Swift satellite.
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