{"id":84950,"date":"2018-11-20T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/star-spotted-on-the-brink-of-a-gamma-ray-burst-and-its-alarmingly-close-to-earth"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:43:09","slug":"star-spotted-on-the-brink-of-a-gamma-ray-burst-and-its-alarmingly-close-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/star-spotted-on-the-brink-of-a-gamma-ray-burst-and-its-alarmingly-close-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Star spotted on the brink of a gamma ray burst \u2013 and it\u2019s alarmingly close to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/star-spotted-on-the-brink-of-a-gamma-ray-burst-and-its-alarmingly-close-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the power to unleash as much energy in 10 seconds as the Sun does in its entire lifetime, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/fermi-gamma-ray-explosion\/11129\/\" target=\"_blank\">energetic events<\/a> in the universe, second only to the Big Bang itself. Given how sudden they are, we don\u2019t usually get any warning, but now astronomers have spotted the telltale signs of a star system that could blow its lid any moment \u2013 and it\u2019s far too close to Earth for comfort.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/gamma-ray-burst-star-supernova\/57308\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/gamma-ray-burst-star-supernova\/57308\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the power to unleash as much energy in 10 seconds as the Sun does in its entire lifetime, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events in the universe, second only to the Big Bang itself. Given how sudden they are, we don\u2019t usually get any warning, but now astronomers have spotted the telltale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84950","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}