The Death Of A Star Visible To Naked Eye

If you think that whatever happens to the universe some twenty billion light years away from our solar systerm could not be possibly seen by the naked eye, you better think again. Early morning of March 19, 2008 a satellite named Swift had discovered a great burst of light from that distance which was so bright that one would not even need gadgets to help his eyes see that light. These light bursts are called Gamma-ray bursts (or GRBs). These are deaths of stars, but fortunately these powerful explosions happen in galaxies billions of lightyears away, so they appear just like a faint light. But this news is different, because the explosion was so large that it took only the naked eye for human to see it.

Usually the Swift satellite records only two gamma ray bursts in a week, and for the first time they have found five GRBs in just one day. The release of energy meant the forming of a black hole from a dead star. Because of such an exceptional event, investigators from the Swift have been monitoring and exploring these Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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