GRB blog and Supernovae on-line

GRBlog provides a handy live feed of the Gamma Ray Burst circulars - the GCN notices.

Same bunch has the Texas Supernova Search online. Using ROTSE-III(b) to find optical supernovae, piggybacking on the gammar ray burst optical transient searches.

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