Got sunblock?

[unixronin]

Then again, don't bother.  If you were anywhere near GRB080319B (astronomically speaking), sunblock was probably moot.  Astronomers picked it up yesterday; it's the brightest gamma-ray burster (in visible light) ever detected, 7.5 billion light years away (more than halfway to the edge of the visible Universe), yet so bright that if you'd been looking in the right direction when it went off, you could have seen it with unaided eyes.  To put it into perspective, as Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy Blog did, in the few seconds duration of a gamma-ray burster event, it emits more energy than our Sun will produce in its entire ten-billion-year stellar lifetime.

(Pointer kudos to james_nicoll)

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Yup. Which is exactly why they freak me out.