00:04When stars collide, it's not something you want to be in close proximity to.
00:07But when viewed from a telescope, yeah, they can be pretty cool.
00:10And last November, the Octocama Large Millimeter Submillimeter Array
00:14caught a neutron star crashing into another on camera.
00:17This is the moment, caught in glorious green radio light frequencies
00:20or what are actually short-duration gamma-ray bursts.
00:23And the light you're seeing here has traveled between 6 and 9 billion light years to reach your eyes.
00:28Science Alert reports it's one of the most energetic ever recorded
00:31and it's providing scientists with opportunities to study these types of events like never before.
00:36That's because these occurrences, which are vastly far away,
00:39appear too faint to be picked up by conventional telescopes like Hubble,
00:42which according to the physicists studying the phenomenon,
00:45they found that it was much further than they even thought,
00:47meaning it must have also been a much bigger event as well.
00:50With the researchers writing, quote,
00:52that in turn means that this short-duration gamma-ray burst is even more powerful than we first thought,
00:57making it one of the most luminous and energetic on record.
