Cosmic Explosion Observed In October 2022 Is The Brightest Ever Recorded, May Be A 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-Ray Burst
ABP NewsAn intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through the solar system on October 9, 2022, triggering gamma-ray detectors on numerous orbiting satellites, and spacecraft. NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was triggered by a bright transient near the plane of the Milky Way, an hour after the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst sent the first announcement. In a NASA statement, Eric Burns from the Louisiana State University said GRB 221009A was likely the brightest burst at X-ray and gamma-ray energies to occur since human civilization began. X-ray rings helped researchers locate dust rings in the Milky Way Campana said that researchers were able to use the rings to reconstruct part of the gamma-ray burst's X-ray emission and to determine where in the Milky Way the dust clouds are located. X-ray rings of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded The above image shows the dust rings recorded by XMM-Newton.
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