New York Times Lauds Discoveries From NASA's Swift Satellite

A New York Times editorial this morning praises NASA’s Swift satellite for finding the “afterglow” of the explosion that ended the life of star GRB 090423 13.1 billion light-years away.

“It’s one thing to explore such remote recesses of time in theory. It’s something else again to witness their afterglow. And GRB 090423 is an invitation for all of us to unfetter our imaginations. We imagine looking outward from that distant point knowing that our own exploration still lies some 13 billion years in the future.”