Sep 29 1998
From The Space Library
NASA announced that an intense wave of gamma rays, emanating from a magnetar 20,000 light-years away from Earth, had struck Earth's atmosphere on 27 August. Stanford University professor Umran Inan remarked that the occurrence, which had a measurable effect on Earth, was extremely rare, since the event occurred outside the solar system. The radiation wave was "so powerful that it blasted sensitive detectors to maximum or off scale on at least seven scientific spacecraft in Earth-orbit and around the solar system."
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