How We Accidentally Discovered Gamma-Ray Bursts

Gamma-ray bursts are one of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy, but the mystery began on accident, thanks to the Cold War!

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[johndifrancisco]

I love how enthusiastic she always is. Keeps me interested.

[PaleGhost]

I'm just glad we discovered gamma ray bursts before we were wiped out by one. The mystery of it would've killed me!

[NewMessage]

Gamma-ray Bursts sounds like an off brand Halloween version of Gushers.

[realzachfluke]

Thanks a bundle, Caitlin! I love your videos on here. You can really tell how passionate you are about the same stuff most of us are too. Keep up the awesome work, alright?
🧡🔭

[adheeshb]

When the hulk has indigestion, you get gamma ray bursts 😉

[haroldhenderson]

Another discovery by that prolific researcher, Sera N Dipity! Her motto; "Look around, see something unexpected."
Jokes aside, good job on creating short, entertaining, factual content that explains difficult subjects.

[rincewindj]

Informative & interesting, love it

[RangerRuby]

It is so funny and ironic that a lot of cool discoveries were on accident! I am not saying it's bad. This video is proof it's awesome!

[NewMessage]

Do you want Space Hulks? Because this is how you get Space Hulks.

[hkoizumi]

I wonder how two black holes colliding looks like. Two infinities merging must be amazing.

[thenewfoundpainter]

Does anyone have a link to the longer video about how we discovered them

[AJigsawnHalo]

Afterglow is one of my favorite bands.

[nicolaiveliki]

I think PBS Eons covered what happened when Earth was struck by a GRB from within our Galaxy a few hundred million years ago. Or was it "it's ok to be smart"?

[huldu]

I'll keep an eye out, something tells me I'm going to live forever.

[qazhr]

I'm confused now crash course astronomy talked with with more certainty about information about gamma-ray burst then scishow space here. did something change or did scishow space not check that episode?

[kamiboy]

If a cold war netted such wonderful discoveries just imagine what a hot war would bring.

[KoyalAlkor]

Let's hope they never hit Earth... otherwise we all would turn green and angry.

[rowluk]

Thumbnail looks like a unit of a q-tip

[nafrost]

You said that the afterglow of a GRB would be in X ray and visible light, what about ultraviolet light?

[jonathanjollimore]

Tracking jam? maybe true "empty" space can only fit so much?