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stanley mug at 10:52 p.m. ETA crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago.Special Section: Disas
stanley deutschland ter in the GulfIt took 29frac12; hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton blowout preventer from a mile beneath the sea to the surface. The five-story high device breached the water s surface at 6:54 p.m. CDT, and looked largely intact with black stains on the yellow metal.FBI agents were among the 137 people aboard the Helix Q4000 vessel, taking photos and video of the device. They will escort it back to a NASA facility in Louisiana for analysis. The AP was the only news outlet with a print reporter and photographer on board the ship.The blowout preventer was placed into a metal contraption specifically designed to hold the massive device at 9:16 p.m. CDT Saturday. As it was maneuvered into place, crew members were silent and water dripped off the device.Crews had been delayed raising the device after icelike crystals - called hydrates - formed on it. The device couldn t be safely lifted from the water until the hydrates melted because the hydrates are combustible, said Darin Hilton, the captain of the Helix Q4000.Hydrates form when gases such as methane mix with water under high pressure and cold temperatures. T
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Earlier this year, astronomers detected one of the brightest explosions ever seen in
stanley flask space. Now, some seven months later, the unusual event has been confirmed as a gamma-ray burst 鈥?and it changing the way we think about these cataclysmic explosions.
https://gizmodo/astronomers-witness-an-extraordinarily-bright-stellar-e-493109611 Called GRB 130427A, it now officially the brightest gamma-ray burst GRB ever recorded. The event was chronicled on April 27 by the Large Area Telescope, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and other ground based telescopes. It was a protracted explosion that lasted for an unprecedented 20 hours. The explosion produced 35 billion times the energy of vis
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stanley thermoskannen at result from the death of massive stars in distant galaxies. They ;re relatively rare, but this one happened a quarter of the way across the observable Universe, which is relatively close as far as these things go. The event offered astronomers a unique opportunity to study the little-known phenomenon, and to test our theories of physics under the most extreme circumstances. NASA animations of the gamma-ray burst: NASA explains more: Theorists believe that GRB jets produce gamma rays by two processes involving shock waves. Shells of material within the je
