Beloved NASA Spacecraft Nearly Destroyed by Fire as Astronomers Mourn

Beloved NASA Spacecraft Nearly Destroyed by Fire as Astronomers Mourn

Swift Observatory was designed to observe brilliant explosions called gamma-ray bursts (artist’s illustration), but it has also been applied to the study of black holes, supernovae and comets. Credit: NASA/Science Photo Library NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope that has spent about 22 years studying gamma-ray bursts and a wide range of other [...]