Swift mission measures distance to star explosions
April 6, 2005 In another first for the NASA-led space telescope mission calledSwift, five months into its mission it measured the distance to twogamma-ray bursts (GRB), back to back, from opposite parts of the sky.The GRB’s are over nine billion light years away from the Earth. The measurements were obtained utilizing the Ultraviolet/OpticalTelescope (UVOT). “Swift […]