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Fri, 18 February 2005 16:43

Blazer
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/bright_flash_050218.html

This is, in a word, incredible.

For those to "arsed" to actually click the link, basically a dense magnetic neutron star, far far away let off explosion of gamma rays that is greater than anything we have ever seen or could imagine. If it was within 10 light years of Earth, we would all be dead now. The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away.

"The blast was 100 times more powerful than any other similar eruption witnessed"

"The star, named SGR 1806-20, spins once on its axis every 7.5 seconds, and it is surrounded by a magnetic field more powerful than any other object in the universe."

"The flare on SGR 1806-20 unleashed about 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts of energy."

"This is a once in a lifetime event, We have observed an object only 20 kilometers across [12 miles], on the other side of our galaxy, releasing more energy in a tenth of a second than the Sun emits in 100,000 years."

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		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Blazer on Fri, 18 February 2005 16:43
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: IRON FART on Fri, 18 February 2005 16:49
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Blazer on Fri, 18 February 2005 16:53
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Javaxcx on Fri, 18 February 2005 16:55
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: warranto on Fri, 18 February 2005 16:55
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: IRON FART on Fri, 18 February 2005 17:01
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: TheGunrun on Fri, 18 February 2005 17:09
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: cowmisfit on Fri, 18 February 2005 17:41
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: addseale2 on Fri, 18 February 2005 17:41
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Blazer on Fri, 18 February 2005 17:48
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: TheGunrun on Fri, 18 February 2005 17:59
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Renx on Fri, 18 February 2005 18:07
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: z310 on Fri, 18 February 2005 22:52
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Jecht on Fri, 18 February 2005 23:08
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: hunteroo2 on Fri, 18 February 2005 23:09
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: warranto on Fri, 18 February 2005 23:38
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Ripintou on Sat, 19 February 2005 00:02
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: GetSm0keD on Sat, 19 February 2005 02:32
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Nightma12 on Sat, 19 February 2005 03:04
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: JPNOD on Sat, 19 February 2005 03:16
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Crimson on Sat, 19 February 2005 04:50
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Nightma12 on Sat, 19 February 2005 05:43
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Walrus on Sat, 19 February 2005 06:20
		Most People Probably Won't Find This Interesting By: Xtrm2Matt on Sat, 19 February 2005 13:05

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