Unprecedented Energy Explosion: Scientists Astounded by Intense Gamma Rays from Dead Star

A “dead” star caused Earth to experience an energy explosion so powerful that scientists cannot fully explain it.

Scientists say that they were able to observe intense gamma rays using a large system of telescopes in Namibia. These rays originate from the pulsar known as the Vela Pulsar, about 1,000 light-years from Earth. Pulsars are the remains of a massive star that exploded. An estimated 10,000 years ago in the form of a supernova, then it collapsed.

According to the Daily Mail, British astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the first to discover a pulsar in 1967, but this study represents the highest energy rays from a pulsar to date.