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GRB 080319B

Caption: The extremely luminous afterglow of GRB 080319B was imaged by Swift's X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right). This was by far the brightest gamma-ray burst afterglow ever seen.

Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al.

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