One of the brightest explosions ever recorded occurs in Earth’s ‘cosmic backyard’ – Tales Buzz

An international team of scientists used the High Energy Stereoscopic System in Namibia to get the best observation yet of one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever recorded. 
The stellar explosion, dubbed GRB 190829A, happened just 1 billion lightyears away in the constellation of Eridanus, which may seem like quite a hike, but the typical gamma-ray burst occurs 20 billion lightyears away. 
Gamma-ray bursts occur when a star collapses in on itself, forming a black hole and releasing a massive…

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