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NASA / MSFC · 1991-01-01 · photograph (digital archive)

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In this photograph, Dr. Gerald Fishman of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), a principal investigator of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory's (GRO's) instrument, the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), works on the BATSE detector module. For nearly 9 years, GRO's BATSE, designed and built by MSFC, kept an unblinking watch on the universe to alert scientist to the invisible, mysterious gamma-ray bursts.

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Comption Gamma-Ray ObservatoryGROBATSEFishman
Credit lineSpace Science. NASA/MSFC, 1991-01-01. Public domain. ID: 9127922.
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