High‐Redshift Absorption Lines Show Convincingly that Gamma‐Ray Bursters Are Very Far Away

Last month in these pages we wrote, “Gamma‐ray astronomers expect that [the 28 February gamma‐ray burst] is but the first of many GRBs that will soon be revealing much more of themselves…” (page 17). “Soon” turned out to be an understatement. On 8 May, just as we were going to press, the new Italian‐Dutch BeppoSAX satellite recorded another GRB, one that will surely make its way into the textbooks.