Students from across Europe have been selected as the winners of the ESA’s ‘Explore the high-energy Universe’ competition.

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The human eye is crucial to astronomy. Without the ability to see, the luminous universe of stars, planets and galaxies would be closed to us, unknown forever. Nevertheless, astronomers cannot shake their fascination with the invisible.

Detectable for only a few seconds but possessing enormous energy, gamma-ray bursts are difficult to capture because their energy does not penetrate the Earth's atmosphere.

When opportunity knocked, NASA heliophysicist Doug Rowland answered.