Sentences with phrase «remote host galaxy»

GRB 000131 was at least 10,000 times brighter than its remote host galaxy (more at GRB 000131 and Bloom et al, 2001).

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Those observations, published today in Nature, reveal that the location of the bursts coincides with a faint, remote galaxy that also hosts a faint, persistent source of radio waves.

Those observations reveal that the location of the bursts coincides with a faint, remote galaxy that also hosts a persistent source of radio waves.

Although GRB 000131, like other gamma - ray bursts, appears to have taken place in a remote «early galaxy» (or «sub-galactic clumps» of stars) that is smaller than today's luminous galaxies, astronomers found it difficult to detect that extremely dim, sub-galactic clump of stars even with the Hubble Space Telescope, as the observed fading of the afterglow indicated that the maximum brightness of the gamma - ray emission was explosion was at least 10,000 times brighter than its host galaxy.