Swift
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes
Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair…
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A Day in the Life of a NASA Satellite Team
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is on the hunt to uncover the mystery of the universe’s most powerful explosions: gamma-ray bursts. These extreme events are some of the farthest objects we’ve ever detected and are associated with some of the most dramatic events in our cosmos, like the collapse of massive stars or the mergers of two neutron stars. In celebration of fifteen years of excellent science, join a Swift scientist as she describes a typical day for the team.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Swift Looks at Galaxy M101
M101, or the Pinwheel galaxy, glitters in blues and reds in this image captured by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope.
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