It came from the constellation Sagitta more than 2 billion years ago.
Earlier this month, on October 9th, one of the most intense gamma ray bursts hit the Earth.
NASA
Astronomers named the event GRB 221009A and they report that it was at least 10 times brighter than previous gamma-ray bursts. The scientists speculate that it also released the same amount of energy that would take thousands of suns their entire lifetimes to generate.
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