A sudden, record-breaking gamma-ray burst lit up the cosmos—leaving scientists ... Happening—Here’s the Story Unraveling in Real Time The 9 biggest wastes of money at the grocery store ...

Back in October of 2022, astronomers around the world were baffled and awed by the largest gamma ... burst was so powerful, in fact, that it has been nicknamed the BOAT (Brightest of All Time).

The largest explosion NASA has seen since the Big Bang occurred just now, but it began ages ago. It could possibly harm the ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. In fact, the team ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

A typical gamma ray burst lasting seconds or minutes produces about the same energy as our sun does over the course of its entire multi-billion-year lifecycle. Gamma-ray bursts are some of the ...

"The gamma-ray burst ... time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of Seeing in the Dark. The Sun produces enough energy in one second to supply all the ...

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