{"id":148407,"date":"2022-10-18T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-gamma-ray-burst-possibly-the-brightest-of-all-time-sweeps-over-earth"},"modified":"2022-10-18T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T20:22:39","slug":"a-gamma-ray-burst-possibly-the-brightest-of-all-time-sweeps-over-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-gamma-ray-burst-possibly-the-brightest-of-all-time-sweeps-over-earth","title":{"rendered":"A gamma ray burst \u2014 possibly the brightest of all time \u2014 sweeps over Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gamma-ray-burst-possibly-the-brightest-of-all-time-sweeps-over-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a breathless press release, NASA emphasized that their detectors all over the planet picked up on this, including NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and the Wind spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Gamma-ray bursts are some of the most powerful releases of energy in the universe. Their causes may vary slightly, but typically relate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/05\/10\/astronomers-see-a-big-boom-when-a-black-holes-magnetic-field-suddenly-flips-over\/\">black holes<\/a>. Some may be caused when merging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/04\/30\/neutron-stars-are-very-very-weird-and-we-just-learned-a-fascinating-new-detail-about-them\/\">neutron stars<\/a> create a black hole, or when a neutron star and a black hole merge. Because they are so energetic, even a gamma-ray burst that originates on the other side of the universe will often be detectable by astronomers on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breathless press release, NASA emphasized that their detectors all over the planet picked up on this, including NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and the Wind spacecraft. Gamma-ray bursts are some of the most powerful releases of energy in the universe. Their causes may vary slightly, but typically relate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148407","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}