But the flood of more visible cosmic -ray data makes it difficult to pick them out.

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By sheer coincidence, a programme to study it had just begun, so dozens of the world's telescopes - from visible to radio to gamma-ray - were watching.

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Only instead of amplifying visible light, it amplifies photons in the X-ray spectrum.

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But for a short-lived event such as a gamma-ray burst it means that the same blast may become visible again in the future.

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Charley Pride is by far the most visible, but other artists have dabbled in country as well -- the Supremes, for instance, and Ray Charles.

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