We’ll Never See Another Explosion Like This One

An event unparalled in human history swept through the solar system last year

Alastair Williams
Predict
Published in
3 min readMay 24, 2023

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An artist’s impression of a gamma ray burst. Image credit: ESO.

Voyager 1 spotted it first. From its viewpoint, perched twenty billion miles from Earth, the wave of energy sweeping towards the Solar System showed up as a burst of activity in its particle detectors. Hours later, as the wave buffeted Mars, rovers and…

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Alastair Williams
Predict

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