Swift Detects its 500th Gamma Ray Burst

  • Released Monday, April 19th, 2010
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:54PM
  • ID: 3702

The NASA Swift mission has detected 500 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to-date.

This movie is presented as an all-sky map in a Hammer projection (Wikipedia). Each burst lights on the appropriate date and then fades to a green dot to emphasize the random distribution of GRBs on the sky.

Another version of this visualization is available at Swift's 500 Gamma-ray Bursts.

This movie presents a frame for each Swift-detected gamma-ray burst.

First frame of the movie, with no bursts plotted.

First frame of the movie, with no bursts plotted.

This is the final image of the catalog, with all 500 bursts.

This is the final image of the catalog, with all 500 bursts.

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