Even if he refuses to bask in the afterglow of his big moment.

A year ago he was still in the summery afterglow of the Coronation, in which the Prince of Wales had played a central role, rather tenderly supporting his father the King.

Its microwave detectors will make detailed maps of the big bang’s afterglow in the hopes of detecting evidence of gravitational waves thought to have been generated shortly after the universe’s birth.

As though to confirm Smithy’s point, another jar of gunpowder exploded in the air, and in the afterglow an arrow stitched through Samir’s felt hat and sent it skipping off his head.

If this had been a short gamma-ray burst, caused by two colliding neutron stars, the collision would have created gravitational waves and have an afterglow in X-rays and visible light.