Wow! Cosmic Explosion From 2022 Was So Powerful It Acted on Earth As a Solar Storm

[@jakebradminster709]

Let's just hope this GRB remains the record holder for a long time to come.

[@raskov75]

We've only been looking for a century-ish. It's unlikely.

[@kennethstreet7868]

Highly unlikely

[@the80hdgaming]

It would be interesting to look at the logs of the ham radio beacons that are used to measure the propagation of certain frequency bands.. I'm sure they showed some changes in the ionosphere during that time frame as well...

[@MCsCreations]

And we should take a look at tree rings in a few years as well...

[@gregorydamario7977]

@@MCsCreations And mutant ninja turtle births. Seriously, not kidding. Gamma radiation should produce many non-viable but a few viable mutations. It's possible. We might get four male turtle backed warriors named after Dumas' four Musketeers. But if there are no female Muskatettes, the race will certainly not continue, despite current biological nonsense to the contrary.

[@mikehawkheir5554]

I like ham

[@alicekibbe]

I really appreciate your channel. Thx! On top of everything, it's nice to be called a wonderful person.

[@pugowner1347]

Impressive, Anton. Over 2.5K views in 20 minutes. Another informative post. Thanks, man.

[@allezlesrouges]

I remember when he had about 2k subscribers

[@stevesloan7132]

It was on it's way for 2.4 billion years. I'm compelled to wonder what else might also be on its way to us.

[@user-ns4eg9bt4x]

its insane how things so far away let you see into the past

[@Bit-while_going]

Imagine that an alien civilization was able to hitch a ride on that burst of energy, but it took them a while to get up to speed. So then they are just riding behind the wave and visiting planets along the way.

[@jamesmulholland540]

So much Is on its way

[@ScottSorrell-Mr.ChargeHigherPr]

Predator

[@spacelemur7955]

Our being in the direct line of this thing is like a cue ball hitting a target ball some absurd distance off. This what we need to worry about things that expand in a sphere, but that also dilutes the wallop a whole not at the point it hits us. The vast amount of matter/energy is in the part that doesn't hit us.

[@raskov75]

2.4 Billion ly away. That is terrifying. There are soooo many stars capable of this that are much, much closer.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Core-collapse SN generated GRBs are very narrow, collimated beams of light about the diameter of the solar system. They have to be pointed directly at the solar system to cause damage. This powerful GRB traveled for 2.4B years and hit nothing but gas and dust on its way here.

[@marcm.]

​​@@douglaswilkinson5700 in addition the direction is controlled by the procession of the planetary bodies or stellar body. So it is unlikely that anything closer to us which would have their jets pointed mostly at a 90° angle from our plane of travel due to them being in the same galaxy, would be a problem in the same regards. But, a Galaxy not too far away from us, significantly closer than 2.4 billion years from us, could be faced in such a way that we could have this happen with a star much closer to us than that 2.4 billion light year distance. So I'm less concerned about something like this from our own Galaxy then I would be from one from a different galaxy or stellar cluster. And also, how often would they be pointed towards us in the vastness of time, never mind space? Yeah I agree with you 100%

[@raskov75]

@@marcm. That's basically my point. The distances involved flatten the statistics is a frightening way. Add that to the fact that every GRB has been larger than the last and it suggests we haven't seen the cap.

[@raskov75]

@@djchristian82 He's saying they _tend to_ I think. I always thought stars spin in more or less randomly orientated disks compared to the galactic plane but I could be wrong and my point still stands when considering the distances/energies involved.

[@stevegoodson9022]

Terrifying to think that a close star could have blown like this a few decades ago and the first we'd know about it would be the planet being sterilised by a huge burst of gamma rays. Space is pretty scary

[@swiftycortex]

The universe is absolutely hostile to life!

[@denysvlasenko1865]

The air above you is equivalent to ~10 meters of water. It attenuates gamma rays from space by about a factor of 10^30: Each 10cm of water absorbs ~50% of incoming gammas, 10 layers of 10cm each (that is, one meter of water) attenuates gammas by 2^10=1024~=1000=10^3 times. 10 meters attenuates by 10^3 * ...(ten times)... * 10^3 = 10^(3*10) times. That's 1000000000000000000000000000000 times. The real attenuation for very hard gammas is lower (due to secondary beta electrons and such), but it's still so high you should not worry.

[@ashuradragosani5960]

The most humbling experience one can have is studying astronomy.

[@bustinnutsinslutsbutts]

​@@ashuradragosani5960for real...meteor crater, Arizona gave me a new kind of fear

[@DuelingBongos]

It has already happened, but there will not be anyone around to see it bc by then, the Earth will already have been sterilized by a nuclear war and the subsequent destruction of the ozone layer.

[@Ironbrigade]

Wonder how far reaching the extinction zone goes on something like that, would be interesting to find out what celestial bodies or solar systems that event passed through.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Dr. David Kipping (Professor of Astrophysics, Columbia University) has an excellent video about the lethality of GRBs on his "Cool Worlds" channel.

[@movax20h]

If it would be in a nearby galaxy we would be done.

[@gregorydamario7977]

@ironbrigade Why? Do you want their stuff?

[@Ironbrigade]

@@gregorydamario7977 free loot is free loot

[@woodandwandco]

I'd be interested to know if any of the debris from the supernova will reach Earth. I could imagine a shower of dust on the upper atmosphere causing either an incredible aurora or massive objects hurled at near the speed of light in our direction that could prove dangerous.

[@akasoleil]

you remain one of my favorite channels on youtube. this video was awesome thanks for your work Anton

[@drbuckley1]

It would be cool to know how many planetary systems it fried before it reached Earth.

[@thehellyousay]

Why would that be cool?

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Probably none. GRBs are powerful because the are collimated beams of light (i.e. narrow beams.) Their diameter is approximately that of our solar system (Dr. Stan Woosley, UC Santa Cruz.) That's extraordinarily narrow in astronomical terms. If you examine the source of the beam there is nothing material between it and Earth except dust.

[@deadmeat_0152]

@@thehellyousay science!

[@marcse7en]

​@@thehellyousay Because it's other planets, and NOT ours! 👍🤣

[@ColdHawk]

The Fermi paradox in action….

[@RandallSchwed]

That does it I'm moving !

[@thomfiel]

If any advanced civilizations have existed besides our own, I wonder how many have been obliterated by events like this.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Very few since these GRBs are *very narrow beams of collimated light* and therefore must be pointed directly at a star system to be dangerous.

[@jajupa78]

With trillions of planets in our galaxy alone. You can bet it's not zero..

[@midbc1midbc199]

Not that likely.......it probably is too uninhabitable for life in those parts of the universe due to the high levels of radiation normally seen around such objects

[@omahanprabla3058]

I was thinking the same thing, instant and total purge...

[@TX.hook-em]

That would fit (somewhat), with the idea of 12,000 year catastrophe cycles, and earth’s magnetic poles shifting.

[@peterroberts4415]

2 billion light years away? Thats nuts

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

GRBs are collimated beams (i.e. very narrow beams) of light. That's what makes them visible at 2.4B light years. The light does not spread out and become diffuse. So don't be too impressed by this GRB.

[@allezlesrouges]

​@@douglaswilkinson5700😂 😂

[@nothingbutlove4886]

@@douglaswilkinson5700 Still 2,4 billion light years, more than a 45th (>2%) of the visible universe. It's still impressive how precisely it was aimed at us.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

​@@nothingbutlove4886Satellites detect about one GRB hitting Earth *every day.* I've seen the all-sky map of the GRBs and most are not even close to the power of this one. The diameter of core-collapse type II supernovae generated GRB is about the width of the solar system (~30AU) per Professor Stan Woosley, Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz.

[@nothingbutlove4886]

@@douglaswilkinson5700 I see you are right and it makes sense. They are very narrow beams of light, but they are still cone shaped and the further the distance the bigger the diameter, the higher the chance of them hitting earth. There are far more distant GRB bursts which have been detected. 2 Billion light years is actually insignificant compared to the furthest GRB090429B with 13.14billion light years.

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙏😊

[@MeesterG]

Thanks for your hard work! I'm a little curious, how many hours per week do you work to keep this up?

[@kewlrob2]

Thanks!

[@vargas2046ann]

Thanks

[@murraymadness4674]

Interesting that at 2 billion light years away, the gamma rays have not redshifted into lower frequencies. It also seems having life in the ocean protects it from a lot of issues from space. It might be wise to have some permanent human colony living in the ocean?

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

How do you know they haven't shifted? The γ-rays arrived here at 20 TeV. At their source they could have been 40 to 50 TeV.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

I remember the day. The radio kept acting crazy, going into static and coming back

[@Tugela60]

What is a radio?

[@stagnant-name5851]

@@Tugela60 You really dont know what a radio is? Uhhh... It's a device that's picks up specific radio waves and then broadcasts a converted version of them into sound. Found in pretty much every car.

[@collieclone]

@@stagnant-name5851 Ever heard of irony?!

[@stagnant-name5851]

@@collieclone Yes

[@ThePowerLover]

@@stagnant-name5851And smartphones.

[@RealMiami33141]

Best description of a grb yet. You are my primary space science source.

[@jmanj3917]

8:52 Yeah, it is!😮

[@thruknobulaxii2020]

A *very important question* prompted by yet another great video… *When Anton waves, **_do you wave back?_* P.S. …and when he waves, is it really a wave? Or, could it a particle? What is the probability that his wave will interfere with your wave?

[@pauloakes6952]

Technically that event happened 2.7 billion years ago. The effects were felt on earth in 2022. The event that triggers earth’s demise has probably already occurred.

[@jackiechan7909]

Crazy that Voyager was the one to first detect it.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Voyager is about 15B miles or 22.4 light-hours from Earth so it was closer to the GRB's first detectable gamma rays than other satellites.

[@jackiechan7909]

@@douglaswilkinson5700 what I mean is that Y still delivers scientific data. Did both Voyager detect it?

[@Lionjsh]

This supernova happened 1 billion years before multicellular life as we know it formed on Earth.

[@glenmartin2437]

Thanks. That really helps me to appreciate the fragility of life and our biosphere. It is miraculous we are even here.

[@spacelemur7955]

Amazing, yes. Miraculous, no.

[@thewerst8346]

Cool stuff...How many times has this happened without our observation? Another tidbit to consider in the Fermi paradox and Mars.

[@spacelemur7955]

Mars is sterile for other known reasons.

[@christopherleubner6633]

In otherwords we got to see a real life gamma ray laser shined right at us. Essentially what occurred was a bunch of excited nuclei got in line for the relativistic jet and created a superluminous gamma ray laser of a truly cosmic scale.😮

[@chrisdaniels3929]

That's fascinating. Thanks Anton.

[@NoTimeForLies]

Space is truly mind blowing! Thank you Anton for covering this event 😀 One would think an event such as this would be reported by news media but I've seen nothing.

[@spacelemur7955]

Science news turns off most viewers, lamentabley. Look how little of any science is covered, except skeptically by right-wing media. Vaccines, climate change...

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

I do not recall where I read this quote. It might have been in one of Arthur C. Clarke's _sequel novels_ to *2OO1: A SPACE ODYSSEY:* *_"Some supernovae are just industrial accidents."_*

[@aaron_d_henderson1984]

great video. this confirms my original assumption that this burst seemed so powerful to us because the jets were mostly facing Earth's direction. I'm thinking it wasn't pointing directly at us, but it only has to be near our direction for us to see effects from it. if you know how GRB's work, you know that you can have two bursts from the exact same distance away and one of them seem more powerful than the other due to the direction of the explosion.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

The core-collapse generated GRBs are very narrow, collimated beams of light about the diameter of the solar system (Professor Stan Woosley, Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz.) The beam must be pointed at the solar system to be detected.

[@DrDrillBit]

like getting hit by a shotgun at 2bil lys vs a rifle bullet.

[@ScottSorrell-Mr.ChargeHigherPr]

​@@DrDrillBitthis was a laser

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

Anton uploaded. My day is complete. Dude, watching your videos is my pre-sleep ritual. GG WP.

[@therealfluxgate]

Type 2 civilization figured out how to turn a supernova into a directed energy weapon.

[@OneCreator87]

Thank you Antonio, God bless.

[@jazzman5598]

Thank you for my physics news for the day!

[@yamaasanyamaa6242]

This is mind blowing, fascinating and frightening in the same time. Thank you so much Anton for sharing your knowledge and pulling your audience out of ignorance day after day. Godspeed sir, wonderful person. ✨🙏

[@stevedolesch9241]

We're soooo lucky!

[@mariodasilva8729]

Nice and easy to understand! Well explained!

[@popcopone5172]

basically that happend at the half time since when earth was created and the present.. bcs it took light 2.4 bilion light years to travel here. bro space is such a mind blown mdfking thing.

[@grbadalamenti]

Man, now I know what dinosaurs thought before going to sleep: what if a GRB ...😂😂😂

[@Bildgesmythe]

Whether or not another civilization exists, the distance just makes it irrelevant. We are all too far apart. Hug the people important to you.

[@philochristos]

That is amazing. Space is so interesting!

[@yomogami4561]

thanks for the information anton

[@andypoppey5243]

Well I did get a really cool present on my birthday

[@GeorgeNoX]

Goes to show just how lucky we have been so far to avoid all of these events causing major damage to Earth and also how fragile our planet actually is

[@Foxxorz]

Caught in the headlights. Thank God our planet has a magnetosphere.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Magnetospheres deflect charged particles like protons and electrons. GRBs are high energy EM gamma rays that would pass through a magnetosphere.

[@michaelmartin8337]

Did it also produce gravitational waves? Do we stretch and compress with them? How would we even know if we had? A better question is how we can use such energies as power

[@genghisgalahad8465]

LIGO?

[@thehellyousay]

Something like 99.9995% of your volume is space, according to atomic theory. Add about 50 9s between the last 9 and the 5, and you've got our solar system, or was it our atmosphere ... 🤔 ... Meh. Good luck feeling a gravity wave.

[@IndigoWhiskey]

nothing like heavy enough to make anything significant gravitational wave wise, especially as there isnt a second mass being merged it's just a supernova. charged particles would barely make static electricity energy wise and collecting energy once every 10000 years is useless. and no the distance between your atoms is not affected by gravitational waves because the forces exerted are completely dwarfed by the electromagnetic bonds maintaining their relative positions in your reference frame.

[@spacelemur7955]

I wouldn't be investing in any energy source that only appears for a few seconds or minites once every few years.

[@_Killkor]

Space yet again reminding us of our insignificance in the grand scheme of things, the sheer luck of us still being alive on this small rock against all odds, and our absolute vulnerability against its chaotic displays of unfathomable power. Good thing that at least it's very pretty to look at and very fascinating to learn about... from afar.

[@MacCionnaith]

Ok we need more space ships

[@garylawson5381]

Totally amazing and scary! Thank you Anton Petrov.

[@-jeff-]

TY Anton for really rocking the BOAT!

[@jeaniebird999]

That's sofa king neato, man! 😃

[@rey_nemaattori]

If the direction of the jets is of importance, it could very well be this is quite common in supernovae, we just hadn't had the luck to have one pointed at us...

[@Washeek]

I guess we'd still see it? It would be hitting a lot of interstellar mess, that should refract some of the light to us.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Yes. GRBs are common. Our satellites record at least one per day hitting Earth, *however* most are very low energy GRBs compared to GRB221009A. They can be detected because their light is collimated in very narrow beams about the diameter of the solar system (Professor Stan Woosley, UC Santa Cruz.) A GRB generated up to 6,500 light-years away would cause a mass extinction if it hit Earth (Professor David Kipping, Cool Worlds.)

[@Washeek]

@@douglaswilkinson5700 A GRB... meaning a GRB of regular size, that we're used to detecting?

[@aussietaipan8700]

Love the channel mate. so interesting

[@david94549]

Was thinking about the possibility of an early warning system to detect these events, but then realised even if we detected this from satellites at the edge of the solar system, there'd be no way to communicate the warning back to us ahead of time

[@brianorca]

Can't beat the speed of light. It was interesting that having so many detections spread out over the solar system did give them highly accurate position information.

[@claudioseguel7813]

Very relevant event, thanks for descring it in a so detailed fashion. Always a pleashure watching your videos.

[@TheBruceKeller]

That's why we are lucky to be in a 1k lightyear void that's not near the center of the galaxy and why life is probably a lot more rare than blunt calculations tend to project.

[@untouchable360x]

It's a disturbance in the in the Force.

[@Karma-fp7ho]

Use the fork Luke

[@Nostrudoomus]

So this means we just had a Miyaki Event in 2022 😳😵‍💫!? What did it do to our sun 🌞😮? How does this change the analysis 🧐 of Betelgeuse? Were the effects uniform around the Earth 🌎 or strongest at one location?

[@yvonnemiezis5199]

Superinteresting, great video and presentation, thanks 👍😊

[@Canalcoholic]

And yet many would have you believe that the universe was created just for us.

[@SmallWonda]

Anton, have you ever produced a map showing where all the telescopes & devices are around the Solar System & beyond (perhaps?) with their scope - would be quite helpful. Thank you.

[@paulpopielski5261]

Thank you very much. I learn a lot but it makes me wonder how little we really know.

[@jimphillippi616]

What needs to be known is whether any neutrinos were detected BEFORE the GRB arrived. If so, it strongly suggests pair instability. We should REALLY try our best to see if there are detected neutrinos associated with all supernovae that we see. We can even go back in data (since IceCube started) and see if there are any.😉

[@billshiff2060]

I see Anton and I click "like". How come?

[@V8.77]

That BOAT really was the GOAT. Lol.

[@someguy-k2h]

So cool. It's amazing that this is the first time I hear how incredibly powerful GRB221009A was. I remember hearing that some detectors were blinded, but this actually affected our atmosphere from 2.4Gly away. Mind boggling. There fixed it.

[@Wooxy117]

BOAT the goat

[@trebell885]

Science & biology just got home work 2do. Good luck 2@ll in there fields 🌏🌍 & thank you 4@ll updates🔔

[@Mavrik9000]

Does this have a specific name like a pulsar-nova or super-pulse-nova?

[@kyaaahmylove]

Fantastic and scary discovery/revelation. Thanks Anton for the video 👍

[@shazdshadow]

I slept through it just fine 💤 😹💤

[@sgramstrup]

If it took 7 minutes, shouldn't the beam be crossing over our galaxy and pass by the Earth pretty quickly ? Otherwise, it _could've_ been a short burst with a wide front passing Earth, so it's the wide front that takes 7 minutes to pass us ? Not sure I grasp the factors in such a calculation.

[@MatthewSereysothea-hf1js]

The increasing probability of a Carrington Event bothers Me... I have an entire channel of new things to worry about. Thank You Anton. Cheers!

[@Arational]

Imagine the number of super heroes that could be created.

[@slevinkelevra5540]

first thing I thought

[@thehellyousay]

🤦‍♂️ As a species, were doomed ...

[@ChefVegan]

Anton! ❤

[@konradcomrade4845]

looks like Earth was a Bull's Eye target of GRB_221009A

[@Shazam999]

I think this was the event that tripped my UPS at work last year.

[@some_haqr]

I hope everything is ok Anton 🙏❤️

[@ihavefunnyF33T]

Sorry are we seeing this in real time? It's not an event that's happened 5.2 billion years ago? I'm missing something Great update, thanks brotherman for another good video

[@stargazer5784]

At a distance of 2.4 billion lightyears, it happened that long ago. Something that happened 2.4 billion years ago is effecting the planet today in real time.

[@ihavefunnyF33T]

@@stargazer5784 thanks boss

[@Nefertiti0403]

That’s beyond serious

[@movax20h]

Scary indeed. Crazy too.

[@jeanyvesangers3885]

For the first time space scare me,beautiful but …..

[@justinbell7309]

I said this the last time you made a video about this, but that is terrifying.

[@bellsTheorem1138]

The light would have reached Earth about 20.5 hours after being detected by Voyager 1, not 2 days. Unless gamma rays and x-rays travel slower than lightspeed. V1 is 20.5 light hours from Earth.

[@ThePowerLover]

V1 is currently 23 light hours from Earth.

[@letmewatchmyshows]

We’re so lucky to get the data and to experience the jet from so far away

[@ALPHONSE2501]

Is it mean the red aurora borealis reported two weeks ago may caused by this GRB event?

[@vask3863]

I have the same question. I hope we will see a video about it.

[@davidh.4944]

Aurorae are caused by ionizing (particle) radiation from solar eruptions, funneled down into the atmosphere by our geomagnetic field, not electromagnetic (light) radiation from GRBs. Also, this specific GRB happened over a year ago.

[@Corrieography]

6:55 that is a b s o l u t e l y INSANE

[@johne7100]

[@JoeKozak]

How is that possible if it allegedly occurred in the distant past?

[@zacrintoul]

Because when talking about space, distance is time, and time is distance. Relatively speaking that is.

[@zacrintoul]

12 light years is the distance light takes to travel over 12 years. And literally means that a signal from 12 light years away was actually produced 12 years ago. Once you start getting into billions of light years it is a little different since the expansion of the universe has to be worked into the equation.

[@AlkisGD]

If lightning strikes 1,000 meters from where you're standing, the light will reach you almost instantly but the sound will arrive almost three seconds later. In this case the distance is so great, that even light took 2,500,000,000 years to get here (or not, because the universe itself is expanding, but let's not worry about that for now). So, what's terrifying is that the explosion was so powerful, it affected us despite the mind-boggling distance. Sidenote: the supernova spat out mass equivalent to 11 solar masses in 7 minutes. Our sun, 1 solar mass, accounts for 99.98% of the mass in the solar system. In other words, all of the planets, moons, asteroids, etc. in our solar system are 0.02% of its mass. Just to put some perspective on "11 solar masses". (And let's not think about black holes with billions of solar masses' worth of mass...)

[@thehellyousay]

@@AlkisGD ooooh, I like thinking about black holes. I like thinking I'm glad we're a long way away from one.

[@somerandomperson6511]

If someone from 300 yards away fires an arrow at you, it hits you after they fired it, you are hit by the arrow because someone loosed it from their bow a moment earlier. This is just the same thing except it was from a few billion light hears away and the arrow that was fired just hit us now (a year ago but still)

[@ChaoticanarchyX]

All Hail Vger for detecting it first & giving us 2 days to prepare!

[@pluffer241]

Earth had to be in the right place, at the right time for this 2.5b ly distant event to hit the planet. That's so precise.

[@rogerdudra178]

Let's hope that this kind of event stays distant.

[@kimblecheat]

Happened such a long time ago too.

[@osmosisjones4912]

Past mass extinction events

[@ThunderZephyr_]

6:16 What is the nebula at that second?

[@ThatOpalGuy]

pretty cool, anton. thanks

[@pawelkarpinski7961]

Are there estimates of radius of this jet when it reached Earth/Solar System?

[@pawelkarpinski7961]

And the lenght of the jet?

[@movax20h]

I don't known, but from pictures diameter of about 3000 light years maybe. Length I have no idea. Could be shorter, could be longer. Depending how you look at it.

[@pawelkarpinski7961]

@@movax20h Thank you! Could you provide reference for pictures you mentioned?

[@zucottimanicotti7112]

The pinpoint accuracy of this GRB hitting Earth is like a sharpshooter firing a BB sized projectile into space and directly hitting a target the size of a grain of rice on Proxima B.