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one zero and

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swift satellite rode to orbit aboard a

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delta rocket on november 20th 2004 and

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is still going strong

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swift's unique instrumentation allows it

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to quickly locate an interesting

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high-energy outburst automatically

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determine its position

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and rapidly investigate it with

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ultraviolet optical and x-ray telescopes

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swift's versatility has led to amazing

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observations across a wide swath of

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astronomy

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a seven year campaign to monitor the

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center of our galaxy with swift has

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given astronomers a unique bounty it has

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more than doubled the number of bright

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x-ray flares observed from our galaxy's

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central black hole and led to the

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discovery of a rare highly magnetized

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neutron star

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swift's primary target is gamma ray

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bursts or grbs the biggest and most

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mysterious explosions in the cosmos on

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april 13 2010 the spacecraft's burst

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alert telescope cataloged its 500th grb

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on september 16 2012 nasa's swift

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noticed a new and rapidly brightening

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additional x-ray behavior told

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astronomers that the object at the

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center of this activity was a previously

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swift and other satellites used x-ray

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telescopes to monitor interactions

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between a pair of gigantic stars

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as the stars approach each other their

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fierce outflows called stellar winds

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crash together at several million miles

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an hour reaching temperatures of

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the swift uv mosaics allow us to study

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the evolution of young stars in the lmc

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and smc all in one view

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these images are the highest resolution

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wide field surveys of the galaxies at

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on january 21st 2014 astronomers

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discovered an exceptionally close

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stellar explosion in m82 a galaxy

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located about 12 million light years

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swift's ultraviolet optical telescope

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imaged the brightening supernova the

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when a neighboring red dwarf star named

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dgcvn erupted in an enormous x-ray flare

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on april 23 2014 swift caught it and

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monitored the eruption the blast was

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some 10 000 times more powerful than the

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biggest flare we've ever seen from our

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three unusually long-lasting stellar

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explosions discovered by swift

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established a previously unrecognized

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class of grbs called ultra-long

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astronomers think they arise from the

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catastrophic death of supergiant stars

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on march 28 2011 swift detected intense

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x-ray emission from a galaxy's

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supermassive black hole

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astronomers realized they were seeing

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the signal of a sun-like star being

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shredded by the black hole

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in-falling gas was captured in an

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accretion disk and powered an x-ray jet

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a record-setting blast of gamma rays

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from a dying star in a distant galaxy

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wowed astronomers around the world in

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april 2013.

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the blast produced the highest energy

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light ever detected from a grb

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uv optical x-ray and gamma-ray

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observations from swift provided

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valuable data

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asteroids crash all the time but the

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effects dissipate quickly so catching

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the aftermath of a recent collision in

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2010 was something special

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swift's ultraviolet vision helped

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astronomers rule out the possibility

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they were seeing a comet

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a grb so bright it could have been seen

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by the naked eye that's what swift and

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ground-based telescopes detected on

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march 19 2008 thanks to a grb jet aimed

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almost directly at earth

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incredibly the light from this dying

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star began its travels 7.5 billion years

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on april 29 2009 a five-second long

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burst of gamma rays became the farthest

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explosion yet identified by swift

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its light had been traveling for 13.14

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billion years placing it among the most

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distant objects known

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using swift observations astronomers

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identified an abrupt slowdown in the

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rotation of a neutron star an event

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dubbed an anti-glitch

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the discovery holds important clues for

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understanding neutron star interiors

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which contain some of the densest matter

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in the universe

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swift observations combined with

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theoretical research have shown that

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colliding neutron stars are a likely

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explanation for gamma-ray bursts lasting

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nasa's swift mission ushered in a new

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era of research into gamma-ray bursts

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as swift begins its second decade of

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operation its speed flexibility and

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versatility make it an important

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platform for studying the most energetic