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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter

The Quanta Podcast

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What Is This Gamma-Ray Burst?

The gamma-ray burst was so bright that it oversaturated the Fermi space telescope. It appears to have caused Earth's ionosphere to swell in size for several hours. The fact that you can change the entire ionosphere of the Earth's level by kilometers is just pretty incredible.

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