{"id":772620,"date":"2023-11-12T18:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772620"},"modified":"2023-11-12T18:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:51:55","slug":"bright-gamma-ray-burst-might-mean-space-is-more-transparent-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772620","title":{"rendered":"Bright gamma ray burst might mean space is more transparent than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">GRB221009A surrounded by dust rings, pictured by the XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">ESA\/XMM-Newton\/M. Rigoselli (INAF)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The unexpectedly powerful light from the brightest space explosion ever seen may mean that space is more transparent than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, astronomers witnessed a flash of gamma rays that was brighter than anything they had previously measured. By comparing it with other gamma ray bursts, researchers estimated that such a bright event would happen only once every 10,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>This flash, called GRB221009A, was made of up of photons, or light particles, some of which had \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2398865-oddly-bright-burst-may-mean-space-is-more-transparent-than-we-thought\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRB221009A surrounded by dust rings, pictured by the XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory ESA\/XMM-Newton\/M. Rigoselli (INAF) The unexpectedly powerful light from the brightest space explosion ever seen may mean that space&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/772621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}