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ICumCoffee OP t1_je33i4j wrote
Reply to NASA Missions study what may be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst, the most powerful class of explosions in the universe. On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time. by ICumCoffee
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The burst was so bright it effectively blinded most gamma-ray instruments in space, which means they could not directly record the real intensity of the emission. U.S. scientists were able to reconstruct this information from the Fermi Telescope data. They then compared the results with those from the Russian team working on Konus data and Chinese teams analyzing observations from the GECAM-C detector on their SATech-01 satellite and instruments on their Insight-HXMT observatory. Together, they prove the burst was 70 times brighter than any yet seen.
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Reply to [NASA on Twitter] Newly-discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT) by ICumCoffee
Asteroid can be live tracked over here : https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/asteroids/2023_dz2
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Reply to NASA Announces Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Team Members. The nine-month study will begin on Oct 24. by ICumCoffee
The study will focus solely on unclassified data. A full report containing the team’s findings will be released to the public in mid-2023.
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Reply to comment by NerfSchlerfen in NASA Missions study what may be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst, the most powerful class of explosions in the universe. On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time. by ICumCoffee
It IS one of the closest-and energetic Gamma Ray burst and most common cause of GRBs is formation of a new black hole. And one of the jet was exceptionally narrow and pointed directly at us, so that’s why it was brighter than usual.