Found this in another thread.

"A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB 130427A, produced the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event."

Likewise, scientists predict the star will go Super Nova around May 15th.

This would be a wave of energy, but I have no idea when/if it would hit the Earth - hopefully not!

[link to www.nasa.gov]

As a note, the Earth was actually hit with energy from a gamma ray burst on Dec. 27th, 2004 - some hours after the Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami. There is speculation that the energy affected the earth and had some kind of causal relationship: