{"id":148241,"date":"2022-10-15T21:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/huge-unusually-powerful-explosion-in-space-just-detected-by-scientists"},"modified":"2022-10-15T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T02:22:56","slug":"huge-unusually-powerful-explosion-in-space-just-detected-by-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/huge-unusually-powerful-explosion-in-space-just-detected-by-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Huge, unusually powerful explosion in space just detected by scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huge-unusually-powerful-explosion-in-space-just-detected-by-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An artist\u2019s conception of a supernova explosion. Credit: NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center \/ ESA \/ Hubble \/ L. Calcada In space, things frequently go boom. And recently, on Oct. 9, astronomers observed an extraordinarily colossal boom. NASA\u2019s Swift Observatory, which is specifically designed to spot the most powerful known explosions in the universe today \u2014 called gamma-ray bursts \u2014 detected an extremely strong such burst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception of a supernova explosion. Credit: NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center \/ ESA \/ Hubble \/ L. Calcada In space, things frequently go boom. And recently, on Oct. 9, astronomers observed an extraordinarily colossal boom. NASA\u2019s Swift Observatory, which is specifically designed to spot the most powerful known explosions in the universe today [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148241","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}