Artist's Rendering of GRB 130925A (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Artist's Rendering of GRB 130925A

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In this artist's rendering of GRB 130925A, a sheath of hot, X-ray-emitting gas (red) surrounds a particle jet (white) blasting through the star's surface at nearly the speed of light. The source may have been a metal-poor blue supergiant.

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NASA/Swift/A. Simonnet, Sonoma State Univ.

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