ASTROPHYSICS:
Robotic Telescopes Catch Up With Gamma Ray Bursts
Robert Irion
Astronomers have trained robotic telescopes to sweep the skies in one of the field's most glamorous pursuits: the hunt for gamma ray bursts, brief but enormously powerful blasts of high-energy radiation from deep space. Now, after years of unrealized hopes, the automatons have come through--with surprising results.