Galaxy hosting GRB (IMAGE)
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On Oct. 5, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers their clearest view of the host galaxy of a powerful explosion called GRB 250702. The galaxy is so far away its light takes about 8 billion years to reach the Earth. It appears within a star field in the densely packed central plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. In the zoomed inset, tick marks indicate the burst’s position near the top edge of the galaxy’s dark dust lane. This location eliminates the possibility that the burst was associated with the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s core.
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NASA, ESA, CSA, H. Sears (Rutgers). Image processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
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