{"id":773134,"date":"2023-11-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773134"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:00:00","slug":"blast-from-the-past-gamma-ray-burst-strikes-earth-from-distant-exploding-star-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773134","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past:\u202fgamma-ray burst strikes Earth from distant exploding star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An enormous burst of gamma rays, detected by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Integral_overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA\u2019s Integral space telescope<\/a>, has struck Earth. The blast caused a significant disturbance in our planet\u2019s ionosphere. Such disturbances are usually associated with energetic particle events on the Sun but this one was the result of an exploding star\u00a0almost two billion light-years away. Analysing the effects of the blast could provide information about the mass extinctions in Earth\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Integral\/Blast_from_the_past_gamma-ray_burst_strikes_Earth_from_distant_exploding_star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blast from the past:\u202fgamma-ray burst strikes Earth from distant exploding star<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enormous burst of gamma rays, detected by ESA\u2019s Integral space telescope, has struck Earth. The blast caused a significant disturbance in our planet\u2019s ionosphere. Such disturbances are usually associated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773134","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=773134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}