Swift Detects its 500th Gamma Ray Burst
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.](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
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.](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
This is the final image of the catalog, with all 500 bursts.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Video editor
- Scott Wiessinger (UMBC)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (UMBC)
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Writer
- Francis Reddy (SPSYS)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, April 19, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
Missions
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[Swift]
ID: 217
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