A Gamma-Ray Burst
“Witnessing a long gamma-ray burst from a dying massive star. The collapsing core of a hypernova in the foreground erupts in tightly beamed gamma rays in twin polar jets, the star's outer envelope is ejected in a brilliant supernova, the surrounding interstellar medium begins to glow from the afterglow's UV and X-ray emission, and the event is briefly the brightest thing in the visible universe.”
