Gamma ray bursts
Written by Rob on February 12, 2008 – 3:39 pm -Giving the series name “Mega Disasters” all new meaning. Can you imagine the power necessary to cause a mass extinction from 6000 LIGHT YEARS away? Actually, I can’t myself, but it’s gotta be a lot! Enough to make all our nukes going off at once look like a fart in a hurricane. And that, for a brief moment, that gamma ray burst outshines the entirety of our cosmos, that is even more mind boggling. I think that’s why astronomy is so fascinating, just about everything in it, just boggles the mind!
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