12 Terrifying Things Scientists Believe Are Lurking in Deep Space
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On 27 December , 2004, a pulse of energy originating from fifty thousand light-years away struck Earth's upper atmosphere. In only zero point two seconds, it released a massive amount of energy totaling ten to the power of thirty-nine Joules—a figure greater than the total energy our Sun emits in two hundred and fifty thousand years combined. The origin of this pulse was a dead star, a magnetar named SGR eighteen-zero-six dash twenty, located in the constellation Sagittarius.
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12 Terrifying Things Scientists Believe Are Lurking in Deep Space
New Cosmic Explorer
12,031 views
On 27 December , 2004, a pulse of energy originating from fifty thousand light-years away struck Earth's upper atmosphere. In only zero point two seconds, it released a massive amount of energy totaling ten to the power of thirty-nine Joules—a figure greater than the total energy our Sun emits in two hundred and fifty thousand years combined. The origin of this pulse was a dead star, a magnetar named SGR eighteen-zero-six dash twenty, located in the constellation Sagittarius.