Powerful GRB Detected

[sheeny (Al)]

Found this in nature this morning:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0803....2008.687.html

This GRB was calculated as 7.5 billion light years away, but had it occurred at the centre of our Milky Way the optical flash would have been as bright as the midday sun!

Al.

[MikeyB (Michael)]

Also discussed at: Naked-eye gamma-ray burst 19 March 2008, including link to animation.

If one of those went off in our galactic neighbourhood, we'd be toast!