id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-007056 Getting a peek at power behind gamma bursts | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1223 54 67 Since their accidental discovery by Cold War satellites monitoring for nuclear tests in space 35 years ago, gamma ray bursts have been among the most mysterious and extreme phenomena in the universe. “They’ve got a smoking gun here,” said Jay Norris, an expert on gamma ray bursts at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Evidence Had Pointed to the Stars Norris said recent evidence has been leading astronomers toward the idea that exploding stars probably cause the gamma ray bursts. cache/news-007056.html txt/news-007056.txt