Sentences with phrase «gamma radiation from a star»
A jet of gamma radiation from a star halfway across the universe scored a direct hit on Earth last March.
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Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).
In this artist's rendering, jets of high - energy radiation shoot out from a Gamma - ray burst, signaling the death of a massive star.
The detected burst is believed to have come from one jet of particles and gamma radiation that was fortuitously aimed towards the Solar System, one of two bi-polar jets which erupted from the implosion of a massive star that also created a black hole (see GRB animation).