The most incredible video I have ever seen...

[wanderingrogue]

Just watch this video. It's one of the rarest and deadliest things in the Universe, and we actually got to see it.

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I know it simply looks like a dot appearing and then disappearing in a grainy home video, but it's actually anything but that. It's a gamma ray burst, an event that occurs when a star runs out of fuel and collapses into either a black

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[gleichfalls]

It is truly amazing. My brain explodes when I think about that stuff long enough, but I love it. :-)

[wanderingrogue]

Mine too. Our brains simply aren't equipped to deal with a Universe this vast. The fact that we are capable of touching on how incredibly overwhelming the scale of space and time truly are honestly is a great testament to how brilliant we can be as a species, even if it's just for a moment. :)