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Article: A three-telescope machine will explore gamma-ray bursts in space.
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- March 11, 1999
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. _ Billions of years ago, something exploded at the edge of the universe.
It was so powerful that only the Big Bang was bigger. Evidence of it hurtled through space all the way to the planet Earth, where astronomers detected it in January.
Soon, Penn State scientists could be part of a team with the best seats in the house when it comes to studying these cosmic mysteries, called gamma ray bursts. The astronomers are in the running to build a NASA satellite seen as the next step in learning more about the colossal explosions.
Almost every day, scientists detect these bursts, the most violent events in the universe. The ...