GRB 221009A
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grb-221009a-183-11308629
title:
GRB 221009A
text:
GRB 221009A was an extraordinarily bright and very energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) jointly discovered by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on October 9, 2022. The gamma-ray burst was ten minutes long, but was detectable for more than ten hours following initial detection. Despite being around 2.4 billion light-years away, it was powerful enough to affect Earth's atmosphere, having the strongest effect ever recorded by a gamma-ray burst on the planet. The
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Gamma-ray burst
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_221009A
date created:
2022-10-14T11:55:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T00:45:23Z
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