On October 9, 2022, telescopes in space picked up a jet of high-energy photons careering through the cosmos toward Earth, evidence of a supernova exploding...
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In a spectacle on October 9, 2022, Earth's protective ozone layer faced an assault when telescopes detected the aftermath of a record-breaking supernova explosion 1.9bln light-years away.
Dubbed the "brightest of all time," or the BOAT, a gamma-ray burst detected in 2022 continues to astound astronomers, revealing severe effects in Earth's atmosphere.