Gigantic explosion in space

jdang307 · Feb 20, 2009

http://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.
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How long until we get a good Uranus joke. I love those, they're always funny.

jason8er · Feb 20, 2009

Good thing it wasn't pointed at us. Those things could literally fry us, even from light years away.

cnc66 · Feb 20, 2009

12.2 billion years ... that's a long long time ago

Bumrush · Feb 20, 2009

Wow.... Only 1.5 billion years after the big bang... Before the earth even existed..

Phinz420 · Feb 20, 2009

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.
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