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9/27/96--Purdue astrophysicists and their colleagues at several institutions used this telescope, at the Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona, to detect very-high-energy gamma-ray bursts from a galaxy 400 million light-years from Earth. The 10-meter-diameter spherical mirror is made up of many smaller mirrors. Click on photo to download a (878k) JPEG photo. Color print, electronic transmission, and Web or ftp download available from Purdue News Service, (765) 494-2096. The story accompanying this photograph can be seen by clicking this link to the Gamma-ray bursts (Photo courtesy James Gaidos, Purdue Physics Department)

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