Swift Telescope
Hit and Run Asteroid Caused Scheila’s Comet-like Behavior
Asteroid or comet? That was the question astronomers were asking after an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and seemingly…
14 years ago
Space Telescopes Observe Unprecedented Explosion
[/caption] From a NASA press release: NASA's Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study…
14 years ago
Swift Briefly Blinded by Mega X-ray Blast
[/caption] A record-breaking gamma ray burst from beyond the Milky Way temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space…
14 years ago
Galaxy Mergers Make Black Holes ‘Light Up’
Only about 1% of supermassive black holes emit large amounts of energy, and astronomers have wondered for decades why so…
15 years ago
Best Ever View of Andromeda in Ultraviolet
[/caption] Normally, the Swift satellite is searching for distant cosmic explosions. But recently it took some time to take a…
15 years ago