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Season 2017 · Episode 45

Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst

0.014mDecember 20, 2017

Find out about the last time and the next time the Earth will be hit by a Gamma-ray Burst.

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Episode 1How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
Episode 2The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
Episode 3The Phantom Singularity
Episode 4Why Quasars are so Awesome
Episode 5The Geometry of Causality
Episode 6Telescopes of Tomorrow
Episode 7The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
Episode 8The Treasures of Trappist-1
Episode 9The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
Episode 10Time Crystals!
Episode 11Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
Episode 12How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
Episode 13Telescopes on the Moon
Episode 14The Oh My God Particle
Episode 15Are You a Boltzmann Brain?
Episode 16Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?
Episode 17The Great American Eclipse
Episode 18Martian Evolution
Episode 19The Fate of the First Stars
Episode 20Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!
Episode 21Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
Episode 22The First Quantum Field Theory
Episode 23Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
Episode 24Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
Episode 25The Real Star Wars
Episode 26The Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
Episode 27Dark Flow
Episode 28The One-Electron Universe
Episode 29Extraterrestrial Superstorms
Episode 30First Detection of Life
Episode 31White Holes
Episode 32Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
Episode 33The Future of Space Telescope
Episode 34Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?
Episode 35When Quasars Collide STJC
Episode 36Absolute Cold
Episode 37The Nature of Nothing
Episode 38The Missing Mass Mystery
Episode 39The Vacuum Catastrophe
Episode 40Zero-Point Energy Demystified
Episode 41Suicide Space Robots
Episode 42Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer
Episode 43Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series
Episode 44The Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
Episode 45Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst