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Astronomers have recorded the most powerful cosmic explosion so far. It was a gamma-ray burst that took place two billion light years away from Earth. It is the closest such event ever detected and was caught by a fleet of observatories both on and above the Earth. The event is already yielding a trove of scientific treasure.
The gamma-ray burst was so powerful that it affected our atmosphere 20 billion trillion km away and was bright enough to be seen through a smaller amateur telescope. But what are these gamma-ray bursts? What phenomenon creates these mighty cosmic explosions? Finally, and most importantly, why was this record-breaking gamma-ray burst so crucial to astronomers?
The 35th episode of the Sunday Discovery Series answers all these questions.
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REFERENCES:
Research Paper: bit.ly/3Vd7akK
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GRB History: go.nasa.gov/3VwIPpX
Created By: Rishabh Nakra
Narrated By: Jeffrey Smith
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