How We Accidentally Discovered Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Gamma-ray bursts are one of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy, but the mystery began on accident, thanks to the Cold War! For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: azarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/sax/sax.html https://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/grbhist.html https://www.jstor.org/stable/24950462 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973ApJ...182L..85K http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973ApJ...185L..57W https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810274 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609142v1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.05620.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08123.pdf http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=grb+9

Published 2018-10-23 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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