Daniel Perley

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GRB article

Thanks for your contributions on the gamma ray burst article. It is now vastly better than before.--JyriL ^talk 18:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

We did it!

		The Expert Contributor Barnstar
		For your work on Gamma-ray burst, I award you this barnstar. You have taken time away from what I can only imagine to be a busy schedule to help us accomplish something great. Moreover, you applied your knowledge without being condescending or uncooperative and while adhering to and learning Wikipedia's style guidelines. This is something few people can claim to have done. I hope your experience here has made you want to stay and continue to help us push towards the goal of free knowledge for everyone. If not, take this barnstar as a token of our appreciation, and best of luck to you with all of your future endeavors. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 14:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you're too busy to edit, I suppose the next best way to contribute would be to find others who can! Perhaps some of your fellow students/professors would, given a push in the right direction, be interested in contributing. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 04:56, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:GRB080319B illustration NASA.jpg

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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of gamma rays associated with extremely energetic explosions in distant galaxies. GRBs are the most luminous electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe. A typical burst lasts 20–40 seconds, but can last from ten milliseconds to several minutes. The initial burst is usually followed by a longer-lived "afterglow" emitted at longer wavelengths. Most observed GRBs are believed to be a narrow beam of intense radiation released during a supernova event, as a rapidly rotating, high-mass star collapses to form a neutron star or black hole. The sources of most GRBs are billions of light years from Earth, implying that the explosions are both extremely energetic and extremely rare. GRBs were first detected in 1967 by the Vela satellites, but it was not until 1997 that they were better understood, with the use of optical spectroscopy 1997 to detect the first X-ray and optical afterglows and to directly measure their redshifts. (more...)