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Mike Wehner
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Stars are great. Our own star, the Sun, is one of the big reasons why we're all here today. Without it, we'd be goners, but while stars can be life-giving, they can also be incredibly destructive forces of nature. As recent observations by NASA and astronomers around the world have shown, the death of a star can produce a truly cataclysmic release of energy that would destroy just about everything in its path.
On August 29th, 2019, scientists around all over the Earth were alerted to an intense event taking place roughly one billion light-years away. It was a massive gamma-ray burst, and while a billion light-years is an almost unfathomable distance, this event was unique among gamma-ray bursts. The huge distance is actually much closer to our planet than gamma-ray bursts scientists have observed in the past, and it offered them an opportunity to study the event in a new way.
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