Gamma ray burst directed at Earth

GRB 080319B - at 2:13 a.m. EDT on March 19, 2008, in the constellation Bootes. The gamma-ray burst became bright enough to see even without a telescope. TORTORA, a robotic wide-field optical camera operated in Chile with Russian-Italian collaboration, also caught the early light.

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[petebkr]

That's not only impressive, but fortunate for us.

[khijasmith]

love the video man

[bribribri56]

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[staranjela]

great video thanks

[thegeffc]

Very enjoyable thank you

[thegeffc]

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[MrJonkelp]

i enjoyed this vid

[thejameskan]

great video thanks

[NO0Bstatus]

is that caused by a exploding star?

[majickoopa]

@Dracanomite It could roast the entire solar system!

[gogtjgog]

if thats a gamma ray burst, were lucky, its too far away to affect us, must be at least on the other side of the galaxy, cause a gamma ray directed at us even at a thousand light years away would kill the ozone layer and it would look like another sun in the sky, or much much brighter, not only that it would of happend almost a million years ago, your just seeing it now cause it take slight to travel that long, they say the radiation travels just as fast, soon as u see it, radiation has hit u