GRB 970228 was the first gamma-ray burst (GRB) for which an afterglow was observed. It was detected on 28 February 1997 at 02:58 UTC. Since 1993, physicists...

February 1997 when the satellite BeppoSAX detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB 970228) and when the X-ray camera was pointed towards the direction from which...

"GRB 990123". GCN Circulars. 7094: 1. Bibcode:1999IAUC.7094....1O. Bloom JS; et al. (2001). "The Redshift and the Ordinary Host Galaxy of GRB 970228"...

GRB 970508 was a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected on May 8, 1997, at 21:42 UTC; it is historically important as the second GRB (after GRB 970228) with a...

this breakthrough. Analyses of previously discovered bursts, such as GRB 970228 and GRB 980326, showed that they may have also been affected by supernovae...

the distance to a GRB, and it further proved that GRBs occur in extremely distant galaxies. Prior to the localization of GRB 970228, opinions differed...

started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery. February 27 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds...

Way (in 1995) and the first optical observation of a gamma-ray burst (GRB 970228) (in 1997). Since the mid-1990s the WHT has faced increasing competition...

known for discovering the first optical afterglow of a gamma-ray burst, GRB 970228, in February 1997, together with two of his students, and for establishing...

gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a highly luminous flash of gamma rays — the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. GRB 970228 was a GRB detected on Feb...