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…

13 years ago

[/caption] From a NASA press release: NASA's Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study…

13 years ago

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[/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

Only about 1% of supermassive black holes emit large amounts of energy, and astronomers have wondered for decades why so…

14 years ago

[/caption] Normally, the Swift satellite is searching for distant cosmic explosions. But recently it took some time to take a…

15 years ago