Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. These Chandra observations of the GRB's x-ray glow hours after the initial explosion suggest an expanding fireball of material moving at near light speed has hit a wall of relatively dense gas. As the hypernova blasts sweep up dense clouds of material in the crowded star forming regions they may also trigger more star formation .
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