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2023-06-08 18:22:47

GRBs (gamma-ray bursts) produce the highest energy light in the universe from catastrophic star events. A recent burst was nicknamed the BOAT (for brightest of all time), the 7-minute blast may have been the brightest GRB in 10,000 years! https://go.nasa.gov/3X0q3tc
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NASA Looks Back at 50 Years of Gamma-Ray Burst Science

Fifty years ago, on June 1, 1973, astronomers around the world were introduced to a powerful and perplexing new phenomenon called gamma-ray bursts, now seen somewhere in the sky about once a day on average.

^{Francis Reddy (NASA)}