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Gamma-ray burst is one of the brightest in decades

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GRB 260310A, observed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on 10 March 2026, released roughly one billion years' worth of solar energy through a pencil-thin jet and ranks among the brightest gamma-ray bursts recorded in the past 20 years, with visible and X-ray brightness in the top one percent.

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