ANOTHER THING TO FEAR

I've always believed that these are the types of events to wipe out civilizations. One of the reasons why SETI cannot find intelligent life outside our planet.

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Huge gamma-ray blast spotted 12.2 bln light-years from earth

AFP/NASA – WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency's Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said.

The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light, astrophysicists said.