Gamma-ray burst brightest ever seen

Mystery Cosmic Rays Beaming at Us from Far away in the Galaxy:
[link to 2012portal.myfeedportal.com]

Any chance for mentions to a Lion in quatrains? ;)

Happened 3.6 billion years ago
now the light finally reached us

Last Edited by Used Rubber on 11/22/2013 05:57 AM

Says who?

so could we eventuly see this with the naked eye?

in the article

real?
the light reached us in april
hmmmmmm

Oh, right. Ok, understood.

They say what they have to say, otherwise they lose their jobs, accreditation and retirement pay, which they pump up the last year "in office" so that they milk the system for as much money as possible.

Reading the article reveals that their theories have been thrown into chaos, they keep using terms such as "mystery", doesn't match their models, etc etc etc - just what is it that they do know? Oh yea, billions and billions of years ago, when nothing was still nothing.

Yep. I like that, "when nothing was still nothing." Great quote!

The biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed was captured by orbiting telescopes last spring, astronomers have said.

Branded ‘the monster’ by scientists, lucky for us on Earth, the huge gamma ray explosion happened in a far off galaxy 3.7 billion light-years away.

"This burst was a once-in-a-century cosmic event," Nasa astrophysics chief Paul Hertz said at a news conference Thursday.

A gamma ray burst happens when a massive star dies, collapses into a black hole, explodes in what's called a supernova and ejects energetic radiation. A planet caught in one of these bursts would lose its atmosphere instantly and be left a burnt cinder, scientists say.

Although orbiting Nasa telescopes have been capturing bursts every couple of days for more than 20 years, this one smashed records, four studies published Thursday in the journal Science said.


[link to www.independent.co.uk]