My first project at Goddard Space Flight Center was the design, construction, and testing of the power supplies for the X-ray detectors in Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope.
Video Credit: NASA
Swift and Fermi Spot a Long Gamma-Ray Burst
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A Kilonova
Video Credit: NASA
NGC 4993
On 17 August, 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision. Within 12 hours, observatories had identified the source of the event within the galaxy NGC 4993 and located an associated stellar flare called a kilonova. Hubble watched as the flare of light from the kilonova faded over the course of 6 days. The inset images show the decreasing brightness in observations taken on the 22nd, 26th, and 28th.
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A Visible Signature of a Gravitational Wave Event
Video Credit: ESO