Proton-M rocket with a Breeze-M higher stage
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A flash of sunshine within the night time sky, thought to have been a burst from a galaxy within the early universe, may very well have been nothing greater than a glint from a bit of area junk.
In December 2020, Linhua Jiang at Peking College in Beijing, China, and his colleagues introduced that they had seen a brightening occasion in GN-z11, considered essentially the most distant identified galaxy within the universe, showing because it seemed 13.4 billion years in the past. The occasion was believed to be a gamma-ray burst, presumably …
