A NASA cubesat designed to search for the universe's most powerful and violent explosions has successfully detected its first massive burst, space agency officials announced earlier this week.
BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite placed into orbit in April to detect and study gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, spotted a "mega blast" in the small, dim constellation of Microscopium in the southern sky. The cosmic blast occurred on June 29 and in less than two seconds shone a quintillion times brighter than the sun, NASA said in a recent statement.
