ALMA Creates Its First-ever Movie of Cosmic Explosion

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ALMA’s time-lapse movie showing the “afterglow” of a powerful gamma-ray burst. These images of the millimeter-wavelength light reveal details about the energy in the GRB’s jets.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Laskar; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello
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