Gamma-ray burst 211211A, the location of which is circled in red, erupted on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy around 1 billion light-years away in the constellation Boötes. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the image with its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.
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![Gamma-ray burst 211211A (Surprise kilonova upends established understanding of long gamma-ray bursts)](https://ciera.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Kilonova_2filters_Final_Marked-1024x986.jpg)
Credit: NASA, ESA, Rastinejad et al. (2022), and Gladys Kober (Catholic Univ. of America)