{"id":176031,"date":"2023-11-14T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/earth-struck-by-enormous-burst-of-gamma-rays-from-two-billion-light-years-away"},"modified":"2023-11-14T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:26:43","slug":"earth-struck-by-enormous-burst-of-gamma-rays-from-two-billion-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/earth-struck-by-enormous-burst-of-gamma-rays-from-two-billion-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Earth Struck By Enormous Burst Of Gamma Rays From Two Billion Light-Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-struck-by-enormous-burst-of-gamma-rays-from-two-billion-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it changed Earth\u2019s atmosphere, according to scientists.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen and detected impacted Earth\u2019s atmosphere. It came from a supernova and may reveal why Earth has had mass extinctions in its past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it changed Earth\u2019s atmosphere, according to scientists. The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen and detected impacted Earth\u2019s atmosphere. It came from a supernova and may reveal why Earth has had mass extinctions in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176031","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}