Paris: Powerful radiation from a dead star hundreds of light-years away in space hit Earth. These rays are so powerful that scientists are unable to fully explain them.
These gamma rays, observed by a vast system of telescopes installed in Namibia, are so intense that they could burn humans like chips if they were exposed to them.
These rays were emitted from the Vela pulsar, about 1000 light-years away from Earth. Pulsars are the remnants of massive stars that exploded as supernovae about 10,000 years ago and then collapsed in on themselves.
According to the author of the study, Archie Jannati Attai, from the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory in France, these rays do not mean that extraterrestrial beings are trying to contact us. It’s true that when these pulsars were first discovered in 1967, their sources were named LGM1 and LGM2 in reference to extraterrestrials, but that was a bit of a joke.
“We know that pulsars are remnants of massive stars and there is no need for aliens to produce such signals,” he said.
