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What If a Gamma-Ray Burst Hit Earth?
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A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it changed Earth’s atmosphere, according to scientists. Gamma rays are ...
that here on Earth we typically detect strong gamma-ray bursts only from the detonation of nuclear bombs. The earth's atmosphere blocks most gamma rays from space, so gamma-ray astronomy was not ...
Previous flares observed from the distant galaxy consisted of a few gamma rays per minute hitting the team's detector ... to detect very-high-energy gamma-ray bursts from a galaxy 400 light-years from ...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers led a study that concluded a shredded star launched a powerful burst of energy toward the Earth.
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand ... When these jets are directed toward Earth, we can observe them from vast distances ...