Update on yesterday's post

BYOND Forums

Announcements · BYOND Help · Bug Reports · Feature Requests · Beta Testers · Beta Bugs · Developer Help · Design Philosophy · Demos & Libraries · Tutorials & Snippets · Art & Sound · Classified Ads · Game Updates · Contests & Events · Linux Talk · On Topic · Off Topic

ID:40693

Mar 22 2008, 4:01 pm

Popisfizzy

Yesterday I made a post about an extremely long, and extremely bright gamma ray burst that now hold the record for the most distant object ever visible with the naked eye. Today, images of the gamma ray burst from the ground have been released. Below is a series of shots taken ten seconds apart and pieced together that show the burst as it happened:

The actual burst was visible for about four minutes.

Mar 22 2008, 4:02 pm
Oronar	Neat.

Mar 22 2008, 7:15 pm
Garthor	My favorite line from a news article on this was along the lines of, "Telescopic observations have shown that the burst was bright enough to be seen without a telescope."

Mar 22 2008, 8:16 pm
Popisfizzy	Garthor wrote: My favorite line from a news article on this was along the lines of, "Telescopic observations have shown that the burst was bright enough to be seen without a telescope." Ahahaha, that's fucking wonderful. That sounds like it'd be a ridiculous headline from a SimCity game or something.