Anything 2 billion lightyears away ain’t going to do diddly squat to life on earth. Now let’s check the article to find what the heck today’s apocalyptic headline is misrepresenting…
Here we go. You remember October 2022 right? When a gamma ray burst seared the atmosphere, and that’s why we all live underground now.
the October 2022 event, known as GRB 221009A, was exceptional, saturating detectors on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and leaving an afterglow at longer visible wavelengths that even amateur astronomers could see for hours.
I liked NYT headline (A Supernova ‘Destroyed’ Some of Earth’s Ozone for a Few Minutes in 2022) better but it was behind paywall and I don’t want to editorialize titles unless necessary.
Oof my grouchiness was intended for the headline writer - sorry that you caught some of it. It’s fine enough to read a little blurb about GRBs over morning coffee, and this article for the most part was just that. It’s just a shame today’s journalism needs to cram some sort of angle into everything.
