Object 158: Dark Burst

Update: 2025-09-14

Description

The gamma ray burst GRB 020819 took place in a galaxy containing so much light-obscuring interstellar dust that people initially misidentified which galaxy contained the burst.

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Object 159: That One Very Famous Double Star

2025-09-2808:58

Object 158: Dark Burst

2025-09-1408:11

Object 157: Something More Interesting than Three Exoplanets

2025-09-0108:23

Object 156: Dust Puffs

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Object 155: Pinwheel

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Object 154: The Binary Star System That Needed to Go on Hiatus

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Object 153: A Wolf Within a Wolf

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Object 152: The Spiderweb Flashlight

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Object 151: A Magnetic Whale

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Object 150: And Now for Something Completely the Same

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Object 149: Spaghetti Leftovers

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Object 148: Problem Solving

2025-04-1408:01

Object 147: Nothing But Gas

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Object 146: The Prototype of Peculiar

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Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time

2025-03-0310:56

Object 144: Heavy Metals

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Object 143: Almost Absolutely Awesome

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Object 142: The Littlest Galaxy Ever Found

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Object 141: Just a Very Nice Spiral

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Object 140: Imagine All the Dust

2024-12-2309:44

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Object 158: Dark Burst

George Bendo

Object 158: Dark Burst