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looking for a new vacation spot

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I've heard that gamma-ray bursts are

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no oh no no no no no no no I I was just

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no no they're far too dangerous

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so you're really going to go

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then you need to know a few things first

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a gamma-ray burst is a giant burrs

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of gamma rays

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the highest energy form of life they

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mostly come from either two neutron

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stars crashing together or a massive

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star collapsing in on itself both likely

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form black holes that blast out a pair

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of cones of super fast super hot

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material these Jets emit the gamma rays

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that give gamma-ray bursts their name

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if you're in the path of that cone even

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very very far away you see a gamma ray

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burst not in the cone no gamma-ray burst

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but the show isn't over yet as that cone

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Rams into the stuff around it there's

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another display across the whole range

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of light from radio waves to gamma rays

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well then there's other possible light

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shows too the the Supernova from the

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collapsing star or the kill Anova from

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the murderer you get the idea it's a

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brilliant display

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now gamma ray bursts may be the greatest

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show in town but knowing when and where

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to look can be tricky over at Earth

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they're also known as

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glarbacks209d depending on where you're

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from gamma ray detectors monitor the

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whole Sky to find these unpredictable

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events but if you want to visit one

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you'll need to find it before that blast

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of gamma rays first you mean to decide

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which type you want to see the initial

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burst from the crashing Stars last is

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just a couple of seconds or less while

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the collapsing star can have a burst

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lasting minutes

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but timing your visit to the collapsing

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star might be a problem unless you're

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willing to wait the long time like

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really long

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we know of quite a few stars that could

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collapse soon but that could mean a day

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like year a million years or more

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predicting when the stars will crash is

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a bit easier if you're willing to do a

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little homework

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just find a close pair of orbiting

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neutron stars watch them for a few

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orbits add some math and you can predict

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when they'll crash

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now before you run off make sure you

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have what you need to keep yourself from

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getting blasted by those gamma rays

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fur the glarback's 29d has an atmosphere

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that Shields the planet and its

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inhabitants from gamma rays

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and you'll need to be able to detect

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light in all its forms if you want to

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see the full show

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of course all of this doesn't account

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for the fact that gamma-ray bursts don't

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happen nearby the closest so far is over

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a hundred million light years away and

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most are billions

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so you'll need to find a Galaxy where

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this is more likely

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but it looks like you've worked all of