Gigantic explosion in space
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jdang307subscriberOPhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090219/sc_afp/sciencespaceastronomy
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency's Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said.
How long until we get a good Uranus joke. I love those, they're always funny.
jason8erluxury_boxGood thing it wasn't pointed at us. Those things could literally fry us, even from light years away.
cnc66luxury_box12.2 billion years ... that's a long long time ago
BumrushsubscriberWow.... Only 1.5 billion years after the big bang... Before the earth even existed..
Phinz420New Member
Taking into account the huge distance from earth of the burst, scientists worked out that the blast was stronger than 9,000 supernovae -- powerful explosions that occur at the end of a star's lifetime -- and that the gas jets emitting the initial gamma rays moved at nearly the speed of light.
