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February 19, 2005
Boom!
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way
The flash of radiation on 27 December was so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth's atmosphere. [...]"Had this happened within 10 light-years of us, it would have severely damaged our atmosphere and would possibly have triggered a mass extinction," said Dr Bryan Gaensler, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who is the lead author on one of the forthcoming Nature papers.
Posted by Andrew at February 19, 2005 02:31 PM
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