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3 Comments to "The Largest Gamma-Ray Burst Stellar Explosion Ever Seen by Humans"
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Scot
March 22nd, 2008 at
2:04 am
I’d like to leave some kind of interesting comment, but that is just stunning. 7.5 billion light years away… The idea of that thing being 7 billion light years closer and lighting up the nighttime like daylight is incredibly awesome. Oh, and they detected it (and 5 other GRBs) the day Arthur C. Clarke died…
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emptyminded
March 22nd, 2008 at
4:02 am
I had read this story earlier on CNN but they had left out the part about Arthur C. Clarke dying the same day. What they did mention was that no one from the observatory actually went outside to look at the event.
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The Slapster
March 22nd, 2008 at
5:57 pm
Let’s see, a quick Google states that “a light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles” and this was 7.5 billion light years away, soooooo…
/does some quick math
Ow, I think I sprained my brain.
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