Pulsar surprises astronomers with record-breaking gamma-rays

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The well-known Vela Pulsar just smashed a record for the highest-energy radiation ever detected from one of these highly magnetized spinning neutron stars.

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[LemmyCaution]

Now I'm really confused. It's been my understanding that any gamma ray bursts originating within 1,000 light years of earth would decimate our atmosphere and end life as we know it on our planet. How then could the Vela Pulsar, situated at that very distance (of 1,000 light years) from earth, emit the most powerful GRBs ever recorded and not do us or our planet any damage? Is it perhaps something about the direction of these most powerful of all measured bursts that makes the difference?