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The burst, the burster and its lair

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Figure 1: Artist's impression of a γ-ray burst's optical afterglow, shining out from a star-forming region in a spiral galaxy.

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Wijers, R. The burst, the burster and its lair. Nature 393, 13–14 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/29868

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