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Astronomers just spotted the most powerful flash of light ever seen

By Misty Severi
Published October 15, 2022 10:25pm ET
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Astronomers just spotted the most powerful flash of light ever seen
Astronomers around the globe spotted the most powerful gamma ray burst in recorded history last week, NASA announced Thursday. A wave of X-rays and gamma rays passed through the solar system, setting off radiation detectors on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and the Wind spacecraft on Sunday. The pulse was […]

Astronomers around the globe spotted the most powerful gamma ray burst in recorded history last week, NASA announced Thursday.

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