Critical Review In November of 1999 an article about cosmic cataclysms appeared in Time magazine. A cosmic cataclysm is also known as a gamma-ray burst. These gamma bursts can’t be seen with the naked eye and they release more energy than our sun releases in its whole lifetime. As of now, no one is really sure what’s causing these large blasts. Hopefully this will change as astrophysicists meet to discuss the blasts and as …showed first 75 words of 581 total…

…showed last 75 words of 581 total…our sun produces over its whole lifetime. Astronomers aren’t positive what causes the bursts what they seem to think it’s the result of two dead neutron stars colliding while orbiting each other. Satellites are going to be launched to hopefully give us more of an idea of what’s going on. These results could help us understand more about dead stars and they could help us understand many more things in the universe.