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Hubble Spots Source of Short Gamma Ray Burst
symbolset writes "Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have imaged some evidence that the merger of neutron stars is responsible for producing a short-duration gamma ray burst. On June 3rd the Swift gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission detected GRB 130603B, a burst lasting only one tenth of a second nearly 4 billion light-years away. Imaging with Hubble, they located a small red dot which, over the course of the following two weeks, dimmed."
... happen almost 4 billion years ago.
Sigh.
While this guy seems to occasionally spot something not typically mentioned by science reporters, and especially seems to spot solar flare and other solar activity based upon his monitoring of various solar observatories over the internet about as good as any space weather forecaster, he has some really silly ideas about the causal relationships between solar storms and geological activity here on the Earth that goes into what could charitably called fringe science.
If you really want to see some more reliable forecasts, I'd recommend instead the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Still, this YouTube channel is at least worth an occasional chuckle or two. You certainly shouldn't take it too seriously.
>Imaging with Hubble, they located a small red dot which, over the course of the following two weeks, dimmed.
So that's why my cat has been frantically pawing at the sky for the last two weeks!
Perhaps you could call them... neuteron stars?
Again, does he have any other substantial group in the scientific community that agrees with his theories?
I sort of thought so. That is sort of the definition of fringe science. He may be correct (sometimes fringe researchers hit upon a good idea that takes time to become accepted into mainstream science), but by far it is more likely that he is a loose cannon and drifting off into spouting off pure nonsense. He also tends to spout off some fringe political ideas in his videos too, which is something that seems to be a reason to question his reliability.
Like I said, use his information with a grain of salt. I did use one of his predictions to help see a real nice Aurora Borealis (aka Norther Lights). You can get a prediction for something like that from other sources, but he did seem to get the prediction a little bit earlier due to his watching sun spots like a hawk and suggested that such a solar flare might be coming.