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- September 10, 2008 - "Naked-Eye" Gamma-Ray Burst Was Aimed Squarely At Earth
- Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at Earth.
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- July 8, 2008 - Swift Newsletter - Issue 9
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- July 1, 2008 - New Release of the Swift Software and Calibration Data
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- May 21, 2008 - Swift Catches First Supernova in the Act of Exploding
- Using Swift, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding.
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- May 19, 2008 - Swift Sees Monster Flare from Nearby Star
- On April 25, NASA's Swift satellite picked up the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than our Sun.
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- May 2, 2008 - Swift's Neil Gehrels Elected Fellow of AAAS
- Swift PI Neil Gehrels has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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- March 20, 2008 - Swift Detects "Naked-Eye" Gamma Ray Burst
- A gamma ray burst detected by Swift on March 19 has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye.
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- March 5, 2008 - Swift Cycle 4 Results Announced
- The list of accepted proposals for Swift Cycle 4 is now available on the Web!
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- February 26, 2008 - Swift Images a Galaxy Ablaze with Starbirth
- Combining 13 individual frames taken over 11 hours of exposure time, NASA astronomers have created this ultraviolet mosaic of the nearby "Triangulum Galaxy." "This is the most detailed ultraviolet image of an entire galaxy ever taken," says Stefan Immler of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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- January 9, 2008 - Swift and Gemini Probe Mysterious Distant Explosion
- Using the powerful one-two combo of NASA'ss Swift satellite and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have detected a mysterious type of cosmic explosion farther back in time than ever before. The explosion, known as a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), took place 7.4 billion years ago, more than halfway back to the Big Bang.
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- December 18, 2007 - 'Shot in the Dark' Star Explosion Stuns Astronomers
- When a shot is fired, one expects to see a person with a gun. In the same way, whenever a giant star explodes, astronomers expect to see a galaxy of stars surrounding the site of the blast. This comes right out of basic astronomy, since almost all stars in our universe belong to galaxies.
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- December 7, 2007 - New Release of the Swift Software and Calibration Data
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- November 9, 2007 - Swift Newsletter - Issue 8
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- October 30, 2007 - Swift helps shatter Black Hole Record
- NASA's Swift and Chandra satellites discover that stellar-mass black holes can be much larger than previously thought.
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- October 19, 2007 - Swift Autonomous Slewing Re-Enabled
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- September 24, 2007 - New Release of the Swift Software and Calibration Data
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- September 18, 2007 - Swift Status and XRT Calibration Uncertainties
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- September 12, 2007 - NASA Astronomers Find Bizarre Planet-Mass Object Orbiting Neutron Star
- Using NASA's Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellites, astronomers have discovered one of the most bizarre planet-mass objects ever found.
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- August 29, 2007 - Swift Cycle 4: Proposals Due November 9, 2007
- Details on Swift Cycle 4 are now available. New in Cycle 4: proposals for non-GRB non-TOO astrophysical observations will be welcome, in addition to non-GRB TOO proposals and funding-only proposals accepted in previous rounds.
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- August 13, 2007 - Swift Observatory Off Line
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