Sentences with phrase «especially gamma ray bursts»

Not exact matches

But the weather in Hawaii was not ideal, and this particular gamma - ray burst was not especially bright, limiting the amount of additional information astronomers could glean from the explosion.

And gamma - ray bursts — thought to result from especially powerful supernovas or stellar collisions — are so rare that the researchers calculated that, over a billion years, there's only about a 1 in 3 billion chance of one killing off tardigrades.