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All news for October 31, 2008

• FEATURE Gamma-ray Bursts: The Mystery Continues, ESA, Science & technology (Oct 31, 2008)
  
  October 16, 2008: People of the 'Deep South' love a good story and they're about to get a doozy. It begins next week when researchers from 25 countries converge on Huntsville, Alabama, to share the latest findings on the biggest explosions since the Big Bang itself. The 6 th Huntsville Gamma-ray Burst Symposium 2008 convenes Oct. 20th and the talking won't stop...
• NASA Fermi Telescope Discovers First Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar, NASA (Oct 31, 2008)
  
  Clouds of charged particles move along the pulsar's magnetic field lines (blue) and create a lighthouse-like beam of gamma rays (purple) in this illustration. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON -- About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by...
• INTEGRAL confirms distinct, low-luminosity population of gamma-ray bursts, ESA, Science & technology (Oct 31, 2008)
  
  An analysis of the 47 gamma-ray bursts detected by INTEGRAL since its launch reveals a previously unnoticed population of faint gamma-ray bursts associated with the local supergalactic structure. This result is reported by Suzanne Foley and colleagues in the June 2008 issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics....