Record-breaking Gamma-Ray Burst Caught With Gemini
Thanks to a fast reaction by observers and staff, near-simultaneous observations were made of GRB221009A from Gemini South in Chile. The image is a combination of 4 exposures in I, J,H, K with two instruments taken in the morning of Friday 14 October 2022.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. O'Connor (UMD/GWU) & J. Rastinejad & W Fong (Northwestern Univ)
Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller, M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
About the Image
| Id: | noirlab2224a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | Oct. 14, 2022, 11:19 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2224 |
| Size: | 2480 x 1600 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Cosmology |
