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Nerdrage27 t1_je56hry wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in NASA Missions study what may be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst, the most powerful class of explosions in the universe. On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time. by ICumCoffee

I was thinking this last night when I first saw the news story, we've only been looking for the last few decades, how are we able to determine the gap between these huge events?

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