After decades of looking in vain, astronomers have finally found the optical and x‐ray “afterglow” of a gamma‐ray burster (GRB), together with a fuzzy object that may well be its parent galaxy. Of the several thousand GRBs that have been recorded by orbiting gamma detectors since the early 1970s, the one detected by the Italian‐Dutch BeppoSAX satellite on 28 February is the first, and so far the only one, for which a transient or persistent counterpart has been identified at any other wavelength.