From: "David Saum" <DSaum
References: <20060422101140.BB25A233
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:59:04 -0400

20 April 2006

Do you lie awake at night worrying that life on Earth might one day be 
destroyed by a blast of gamma radiation from space? Then don't, because a 
team of astronomers in the US has calculated that the probability of such an 
event occurring in our galaxy is virtually zero. Krzysztof Stanek and 
a large spiral galaxy that contains lots of heavy elements 

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/4/9

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