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Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth

Posted by timothy on from the betting-that's-estimated-rather-than-measured dept.

phenon writes "On December 27th scientists detected the largest cosmic blast to strike the Earth, actually altering the earths ionosphere briefly. MSNBC reports (along with Space.com), that this event happened from a magnetar 50,000 light years away from us, and if it had happened from a distance of 10 light years away, we would be talking about mass extinction here on earth. The cosmic ray blast was measured at 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts of power!"

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  1. Stroy is a dupe by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Informative

    The first one hasn't even dropped off the front page yet.

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  2. Dupe! by Shapemaker · · Score: 1, Informative

    This has been mentioned here already!

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  3. Re:Story is a dupe by jericho4.0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    There was a dupe in the last year that only had one story seperating them....

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