B. Cenko, et al. /W. M. Keck Observatory |

What the...?
A telescope imaged the afterglow of the mysterious burst called GRB 070125 on January 26, 2007. At right, an image taken of the same field on February 16 with the Keck I telescope reveals no trace of an afterglow, or a host galaxy. The white cross in the zoom-in view marks the GRB's location. The two nearest galaxies, and their distances, are marked with arrows.

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