A burst of light from a newborn black hole billions of light-years away in space and time has struck Earth with such power, it rattled the planet's upper atmosphere. The gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A shattered records as it flared in the darkness of space in October 2022 some 2.4 billion light-years from Earth, its light blazing with up to 18 teraelectronvolts of energy in what is regarded as the brightest space explosion ever recorded. Now, scientists have determined that the explosion was so powerful that it caused large variations in the electric field of Earth's ionosphere, at an altitude of some 500 kilometers (310 miles). "In this work we present the evidence of variation of the ionospheric electric field at about 500 kilometers induced by the strong gamma-ray burst [that] occurred on October 9th, 2022," write a team led by astrophysicist Mirko Piersanti of the University of L'Aquila and the National Institute of Astrophysics in Italy.
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will there ever be another lyric as great as "cause if god made us all in his image then gods a fucking nerd" because i doubt there will
Some really truly terrible things have happened to Kaladin but frankly Kaladin dropping a classic one liner to Dalinar about taking care of the chasm fiend only to be immediately undermined by Shallan being like “it died of natural causes” is top 10 Kaladin L’s
If you are a science nerd like me and you like binging on space documentaries until 2 am, then I definitely recommend checking out documentaries about space narrated by Professor Brian Cox! I'm incredibly bad at physics, but he explains things in a way that it's not that difficult to understand, if that makes sense? Lol I highly recommend them! I actually wanted to go to one of his lectures, but sadly I was abroad at the time so couldn't go..
Lunchie the cat because he's a good boi and deserve to be seen by all!
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
EVI CAUGHT ON FIRE LMAOOOOOOOO
i love fur, i love leather, i love wool, i love long lasting materials without plastic in them that will decompose and go back into the ecosystem after serving me well for several decades.