{"id":157,"date":"2008-01-15T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/01\/gamma-ray-burst-from-nowhere.html"},"modified":"2008-01-15T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T13:31:00","slug":"gamma-ray-burst-from-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/01\/gamma-ray-burst-from-nowhere-157.html","title":{"rendered":"Gamma Ray Burst from Nowhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The current theory holds that that gamma ray bursts like GRB 070125 are given off by super-jumbo-sized stars that run out of fuel and violently collapse to form black holes, explains Neil Gehrels, principal investigator of NASA&#8217;s Swift telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Such huge stars can only be created in very gas and dust-rich parts of galaxies where lots of other stars are also being born. So it makes no sense to find such a star living and dying in the empty space between galaxies. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another space nasty to worry about. If it doesn&#8217;t come from a star we can see, then the possibility exists that we can be zapped from one that is either a star we cannot see, or not a star at all. More at <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2007\/12\/19\/gamma-ray-burst.html\">Discovery.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current theory holds that that gamma ray bursts like GRB 070125 are given off by super-jumbo-sized stars that run out of fuel and violently collapse to form black holes, explains Neil Gehrels, principal investigator of NASA&#8217;s Swift telescope.<br \/>\nSuch huge stars can only be created in very gas and dust-rich parts of galaxies where lots of other stars are also being born. So it makes no sense to find such a star living and dying in the empty space between galaxies.<br \/>\nYet another space nasty to worry about. If it doesn&#8217;t come from a star we can see, then the possibility exists that we can be zapped from one that is either a star we cannot see, or not a star at all. More at Discovery.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamma-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->