{"id":150096,"date":"2022-11-14T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-spot-brightest-energy-burst-ever-detected-in-space"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:25:00","slug":"scientists-spot-brightest-energy-burst-ever-detected-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-spot-brightest-energy-burst-ever-detected-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Spot Brightest Energy Burst Ever Detected in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-spot-brightest-energy-burst-ever-detected-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered the brightest energy burst ever detected in space \u2014 and Astronomy Twitter is abuzz over the electrifying finding.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/g5v887\/scientists-detect-completely-unprecedented-gamma-ray-burst-grb\" class=\"\"><em>Vice<\/em> reports<\/a>, this uber-bright gamma ray burst (GRB), which are huge bursts of energy that occur during major galactic events such as star deaths, was detected by both NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory at England\u2019s University of Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrightest GRB ever just dropped,\u201d University of Alabama astrophysicist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmsantander\/status\/1579499778974830592\" class=\"\">Marcos Santander tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered the brightest energy burst ever detected in space \u2014 and Astronomy Twitter is abuzz over the electrifying finding. As Vice reports, this uber-bright gamma ray burst (GRB), which are huge bursts of energy that occur during major galactic events such as star deaths, was detected by both NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150096","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=150096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}