AFP is reporting today that NASA has discovered evidence of the largest ever gamma-ray burst. They share with us this NASA photo of the event:

burst

However, after just a bit of analysis, I differ with NASA over the source of this burst. NASA is saying that it comes from 12.2 billion light years from Earth. I think NASA was mistaken in their analysis because the image is actually an amalgam of three images previously published in Huffington Post. After deconvoluting the image above, I found this:

bohner outburst

The event actually took place in Washington, DC less than two years ago. An echo occurred recently and probably contributed to the error at NASA. Give them a break, they’re only human and it’s very easy to see how they could think this came from billions of light-years away.