{"id":125534,"date":"2021-07-26T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/nasas-fermi-spots-a-weird-pulse-of-high-energy-radiation-racing-toward-earth"},"modified":"2021-07-26T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T03:23:56","slug":"nasas-fermi-spots-a-weird-pulse-of-high-energy-radiation-racing-toward-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/nasas-fermi-spots-a-weird-pulse-of-high-energy-radiation-racing-toward-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Fermi Spots a Weird Pulse of High-Energy Radiation Racing Toward Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-fermi-spots-a-weird-pulse-of-high-energy-radiation-racing-toward-earth.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On August 26, 2020, NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a pulse of high-energy radiation that had been racing toward Earth for nearly half the present age of the universe. Lasting only about a second, it turned out to be one for the record books \u2013 the shortest gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLIJ-4_tiic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GRBs are the most powerful events in the universe, detectable across billions of light-years. Astronomers classify them as long or short based on whether the event lasts for more or less than two seconds. They observe long bursts in association with the demise of massive stars, while short bursts have been linked to a different scenario.<\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NASA\u2019s Fermi Spots \u201cFizzled\u201d Burst From Collapsing Star\" width=\"777\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLIJ-4_tiic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <em>Astronomers combined data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, other space missions, and ground-based observatories to reveal the origin of GRB 200826A, a brief but powerful burst of radiation. It\u2019s the shortest burst known to be powered by a collapsing star \u2013 and almost didn\u2019t happen at all. Credit: NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 26, 2020, NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a pulse of high-energy radiation that had been racing toward Earth for nearly half the present age of the universe. Lasting only about a second, it turned out to be one for the record books \u2013 the shortest gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}