{"id":148125,"date":"2022-10-13T19:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-swift-and-fermi-missions-detect-exceptional-cosmic-blast"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:29:37","slug":"nasas-swift-and-fermi-missions-detect-exceptional-cosmic-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-swift-and-fermi-missions-detect-exceptional-cosmic-blast","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Swift and Fermi missions detect exceptional cosmic blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-swift-and-fermi-missions-detect-exceptional-cosmic-blast.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth on Sunday, Oct. 9. The emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB)\u2014the most powerful class of explosions in the universe\u2014that ranks among the most luminous events known.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning Eastern time, a wave of X-rays and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gamma+rays\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gamma rays<\/a> passed through the solar system, triggering detectors aboard NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and Wind spacecraft, as well as others. Telescopes around the world turned to the site to study the aftermath, and new observations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Called GRB 221009A, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/explosion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">explosion<\/a> provided an unexpectedly exciting start to the 10th Fermi Symposium, a gathering of gamma-ray astronomers now underway in Johannesburg, South Africa. \u201cIt\u2019s safe to say this meeting really kicked off with a bang\u2014everyone\u2019s talking about this,\u201d said Judy Racusin, a Fermi deputy project scientist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is attending the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth on Sunday, Oct. 9. The emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB)\u2014the most powerful class of explosions in the universe\u2014that ranks among the most luminous events known. On Sunday morning Eastern time, a wave of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148125","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}