I love data visualization.  If I didn’t love astronomy and explosions so much, I would probably be in the art form of visualizing data in fascinating ways.  Who knows? I may change my life’s work some day. A recent APOD takes the art to a new level.  By looking at time sensitive measurements of Gamma Rays from an incredible active galactic nucleus (AGN), we can get an idea of how a gamma ray burst comes at us from so far away, and what the difference is between the usual activity and a true burst of radiation. Each circle represents a...