Brightest Gamma-ray Burst Shines Light on Milky Way Structure

Brightest Gamma-ray Burst Shines Light on Milky Way Structure - by Astroguyz

, the outburst added a full gigawatt of power—equivalent to the output of a terrestrial power station—to the Earth’s upper ionosphere. Other spacecraft across the solar system to include the joint NASA/ESA Solar Heliospheric Observatory mission, Gaia, ESA’s Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo and ESA’s XXM-Newton were all witnesses to the event across the spectrum.to catch it, though there’s no evidence that any lucky imagers had indeed spotted the outburst.

launched the Vela satellite series starting in 1963, meant to detect terrestrial bursts from nuclear testing. The best working theory is that GRBs are emitted from supernovae or neutron star mergers. An event as energetic as GRB 221009A is thought to only happen once every few thousand years, leading astronomers to refer to it as a BOAT—Brightest of All Time.

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