{"id":158192,"date":"2023-02-16T06:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/weve-just-seen-an-exceptional-once-in-a-millennium-space-explosion"},"modified":"2023-02-16T06:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:23:30","slug":"weve-just-seen-an-exceptional-once-in-a-millennium-space-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/weve-just-seen-an-exceptional-once-in-a-millennium-space-explosion","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Just Seen an \u2018Exceptional\u2019 Once-in-a-Millennium Space Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weve-just-seen-an-exceptional-once-in-a-millennium-space-explosion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-detected-a-colossal-gamma-ray-burst-and-its-a-record-breaker\">record-breaking gamma-ray burst<\/a> detected in October 2022 has now been described as a one-in-a-thousand years event.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called GRB 221009A, and with up to 18 teraelectronvolts of energy packed in its emissions of light, it\u2019s considered the most powerful gamma-ray burst on record.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been waiting to learn more about this incredible explosion, and now the analyses have started to arrive on preprint server arXiv, with a trio of papers submitted to <em>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record-breaking gamma-ray burst detected in October 2022 has now been described as a one-in-a-thousand years event. It\u2019s called GRB 221009A, and with up to 18 teraelectronvolts of energy packed in its emissions of light, it\u2019s considered the most powerful gamma-ray burst on record. We\u2019ve been waiting to learn more about this incredible explosion, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158192","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}