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Sun blasts out highest-energy radiation ever recorded
Sun blasts out highest-energy radiation ever recorded
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In a record-breaking discovery, scientists detected our very own sun emitting an extraordinary amount of gamma rays - wavelengths of light known to carry the most energy of any other wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum.